Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-04-12
BRATTLEBORO.

The Valley Fair association will offer
purses of $3.50 in races for the 2:22, 2:29
and 2:40 classes July I.
The Calvin Weld property beyond the
Retreat will be sold at auction Tuesday,
the 10th, at p. NJ.
The Bradley greenhouses are very sug-
gestive of the Easter season this week.
Mr.. McGillivray has been remarkably sue
cessful in growing the Harrisii or Ber-
muda lilies and has some 1900 blooms of
great beauty and perfectness.
F. H. Wheeler, now in his seth year.
was on the street yesterday morning for
the first time after his tedious and for a
long time critical illness of five months.
1t is safe to presume that his Spring street
garden will begin to thrive at the earliest
moment the weather permits.
Rev. T. B. Leavitt preached in the First
Parish church, Cambridge, Mass, last
Sunday, occupying the pulpit of Rev. S.
NJ. Crothers, who, in turn, preached for
Felix Adler, the founder of the Society of
Ethical Culture in New York city. Mr.
Leavitt's pulpit was supplied by Mr.
Porter of the Harvard divinity school.
The selectmen have accepted the propo-
sition of the bailiffs in relation to the use
of the town horses by the fire department.
The town will receive 500 year beside
the use of the stables at the engine house.
Arrangements will be made with j. A.
Taylor so that his teams will be used for
day fires when the town teams are at work
at distance from the engine houses.
A fireess fire on Sunday afternoon
about $3.50 caused an alarm from box SO.
calling out the fire department. The alarm
was rung in by someone who saw smoke
pouring out of the building occupied by the
Brattleboro Jelly Company and other con-
Germs. The fireman usually draws out the
fire Saturday night and Sunday morning
places his kindlings ready for an early
start Monday morning. Probably some
Goals were left last Sunday that tgnited the
kindlings and the drafts all being tightly
closed the building was filled with smoke
When the alarm was rung in Mr.. Blair,
who had been sent for, was in the building
attending to the furnace.
The heavy rains of Monday and Tues
day, with the warmest weather in seven
months, carried off the snow rapidly, and
although the Milestone and other streams
were at high pitch the danger point was
not reached. The roads were quilted in
some places, the washout on Chase street
being particularly bad. The rains extended
to the headwaters of the Connecticut, and
opposite Brattleboro the river rose with
astonishing rapidity. The ice came down
from Bellows Falls Tuesday night, filling
the channel of the river completely for
more than two hours and presenting fine
spectacle as it went grinding and rushing
past with the swift current. The water
had overlooked the Retreat meadows, the
north part of the island opposite the village
and the depression in the east side of the
island on Wednesday morning. The base
ments of the barns on the island were
flooded to depth of five feet, and Mr. Tay-
lor and his employees had an interesting
experience in lassooing and elevating to
safe quarters the pigs whose pen had been
converted into miniature lake. The Con-
necticut fell two or three feet during We'd
nesday night The washout on the New
London railroad track, and the effect of
the high water at Wilmington, Putney and
Bellows Falls, and elsewhere, are told in
other columns.