Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-18
THE VERMONT PHOENIX, BRA11

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Shepardson closed his bicycle store on
he north side of the square Tuesday. NOV
ing the stock to his Henry street store for
the winter. The store in ID. Toma'
block has not been rented yet.
Among the medical fraternity who al
tended the annual meeting Of the Vermont
Medical society at Burlington last week
were Drs. I. L. Campbell, Z. 5. Allbee,
&. II. Gorham and J. ;. Hill.
Mount Kilburn Wheel club held open
house Tuesday evening. it being ladies'
night. Fourteen tables of whist were kept
running, and an enjoyable musical pro-
gram was given during the evening.
The annual inspection and parade Of the
fire department is 10 occur today with the
usual program-parade. inspection, races
and exhibition tests. followed in the even
ing by a concert and dance in Union hall.
Mrs A. H. Webb Of Montpelier, nee
Barry. has been chosen a delegate from
Vermont TO the national convention of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society,
which is to be held soon at Columbus,
Ohio.
Jas. p Cray. proprietor of the billiard
rooms in the second story OF Cray's block,
4
United States court 10 the charge of sell
Ing liquor without license, and was fined
S2j and costs.
The brick walls Of the addition TO the
Vermont Farm Machine company's build
ing were completed this week to the roof
above the third story and the windows are
being put in. The machinery will be in
place in few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Barber have been
spending the most of the past week in New
York. Will E. Bowtell took Mr.. BARRIERS
place in the choir of the Congregational
church Sunday, and Miss Gertrude Hayes
that of Miss SAWYER, who is TO be absent
some weeks.
Last week. Rev. Mr.. Randall of Meriden,
Conn. a former classmate Of Rev. Nj.
Sanford, came here accompanied by his
wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford joined them
in a very enjoyable carriage drive Of some
days through the southern part Of New
Hampshire.
A party of 80 Masons went to Chester
Friday evening and back on the night train,
the occasion being the working of the third
degree by the Chester lodge, and banquet
to close the exercises. All report royal
good time. and that they were handsomely
Many old friends have this week well
coined Clint Hatch, formerly a we'll
known and popular young man employed
by Osgoud d Barker here. he has been
away three or four years, and will perhaps
make this his home again, He was &C
by Mrs. Hatch.
Messrs. Blakeley Il Brosnahan are the
local managers of the spectacular drama
Fabric Romani, or the Vendetta" which
is 10 be here Saturday evening. Ii is to be
by a series Of 20 living pictures.
and they claim the whole Of the entertain
ment is OF high class, and will be enjoy
ed by all.
Shubael H. Randall of Newtonvllle,
Mass. greeted old friends here Wednesday.
He spent portion Of last summer al Al
stead. where his son Henry is boarding at
the hotel He has bought village dwell
ing in Alstead TO which Mr.. Randall will
come for a summer home. and was on his
way there Wednesday TO get il in readiness
for the winter.
Frank II. Brown has the past week
m oTed his steam yacht up from the Charles
river in Needham, Mass. where he used it
last season. Ii is 25-foot boat, some
what larger than either Of the others on the
river. He is not to launch it this year, but
expects TO have it ready for use next year.
He has il stored al his residence on Henry
street.
George o. Guild, administrator Of the
estate Of the late Margaret Hubbard, asks
the permission of the probate court for au-
thority to sell all the real estate Of Mrs.
Hubbard which consists Of a number Of
d dwellings and tenements on Rockingham
street. The consent of all the heirs hay
ing been obtained, it will probably be put
upon the market in a short time.
Fourteen members of Canton Skitche-
waug, l. o. o. F., went to Rutland Mon
day afternoon, under command of Capt. Z.
L. Howard, 10 take part in drill of their
battalion which occurred there. They re-
turned the next morning, affirming that
Bellows Falls money was not current up
there, the Rutland members of the order
them as their guests and acting
accordingly.
The county commissioner has recon-
mended to the selectmen of our town the
propriety of increasing the salary Of the
liquor agent from 500 to $500 per annum,
which has been done, and the rental of the
rooms in opera house block, occupied by
the agency, has been advanced from 500
to 5000 per year. II is evident that the
state will not be much richer this year from
the profits in excess of ten per cent.
The young people of the Universalist
church are discussing the repetition OF
their play "a Fisherman's Luck at Put
ney, some evening week after next, but the
date has not been decided upon. An effort
is being made by our people TO get them TO
repeat ii here, and paper IS being circu-
lated TO guarantee expenses. We think
from the expressions of those who heard it
before, there would be no trouble in get
ting a good paying house, as all were more
than pleased and il is thus well advertised.
When the electric lights were first placed
in dwellings the Fall Mountain Paper COM
pany procured the chandeliers and other
fixtures for their customers, but this has
now been discontinued and they are being
procured By Allbee d Rabbit, who are pre-
pared TO make prices upon all kinds of in
side fixtures. The Fall Mountain Paper
is still doing the plain wiring of
the buildings, ready for the fixtures, with
out charge 10 the customers, and have
eleven men at work in this department
An insurance inspector from the Mill
Mutual companies has been in town por-
ton of the week, very critically examining
the fire appliances available about our mills.
These companies have nearly two million
dollars at risk under the hill, and rely upon
the excellent equipment for protection to
prevent a serious loss 10 them. Their re-
cent loss of over a million dollars at Warren,
R. l., has taught them serious lesson and
the necessity of good working fire-ighting
ltansils All the annaralns of the mills