Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-08-16

over 1900 fares were taken on the cleo
trio road yesterday.
Two carloads of Bailey clothes reels were
shipped one day recently.
There will be a masquerade hop at Pine |
Grove Springs this evening.
One of the patients at the Retreat wan
dered away Monday, but was found during
the night at Marlboro.
There will be a dance at Central Park in
Vernon this evening, the Philharmonic or
chestra furnishing music.
The cucumber crop is showing up well,
100000 having been received by the Brat
tleboro Jelly company on Tuesday.
The Brattleboro Jelly company has the
contract for furnishing the hospital for the
insane at Washington, d. c., with apple
jelly and apple butter.
The Methodist ladies and the Epworth
league served an excellent supper at grange
hall last evening There was a good at
tendance, the receipts being about S3j.
Washington dispatches state that the
following allowances for clerk hire have
been made at post-offices. Bratteboro,
S264S; Keene, n H., S2j24: Montpe-
lier, S2724 st, Adams, S2200; Greenfield,
! S2400.
Samuel S. Hunt had driven only short
/ distance from the Smith & Co. factory
! Friday noon when one wheel of his car
riage fell, the result of a nut working off.
Mr.. Hunt was thrown out and his shout
der dislocated.
Mr. and Mrs F. J. Holman went Wed
nesday to Barre, Mass. After visit there
Mr. Holman will return to Brattleboro for
few days, after which they will leave for
Spokane, Washington, where Mr.. Holman
will remain for several months at least,
handling the business of the Vermont
Loan " Trust company at that point with
Mr. Sherman.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. p. Shepardson have re-
turned FROM weeks stay at the early home
of Eliza Ballou, the mother of President
Garfield, at Richmond, y. H., now owned
and occupied by II. G. Shepardson In
1874 Mrs. Garfield and her son, Gen James
A. Garfield, visited the old place. She was
then % years old. She remembered with
remarkable distinctness many of the things
in and around the old homestead. She
lived in this house six years.
An important real estate deal has been
made through the agency OF II. II. Arnold
of the firm of Frale ~ Arnold of Brook
Ign, y. Y, and the local agency OF A. V.
may YAK hIuSe Iarlh III Dummerston,
known as the DI. Sholes place, and lately
owned 10y \. G.. HOughtalng of Nineland,
~ o. mas been exchanged Tor valuable
brooklyn properly owned by Paul Koch OF
lha' cll!' MI hoch takes possession OF
YAK h'use at once having bought the en-
tire personal property.
The Boston Globe has an extended &C
count of successful party and festival
given in Cambridge, Mass. under the
management OF MISS hate !. Austin, at
"hlth SIuoO was cleared The proceeds
are 10 sthd the rather Matthews pioneer
corps OF the church OF the Sacred Heart
10 the national convention OF the Catholic
iotaI Abstinence society IN Philadelphia.
MISS austin who lived here about 10 years
ago ana who mas often visited here, IS the
SISTER OF l uomas y. AUSTIN, OF the local
= posl-olnct force. Miss Austin is the presl-
deht OF the women temperance society OF
the church.
= The program for the semi-annual meet.
ing of the county Christian Fndeavol
union, which is to be held at Townshent
, next Thursday afternoon and evening
, promises some interesting features. Tn,
first session, at O'Clock r. NJ, will oper
/ with a praise and conservation service
followed by the roll call of the societir,
and the presidents hour. after which Their,
( will be a short report of the Boston con.
vention, and an hour devoted to Idea.