Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-05-17

The third number of "The Quill' is due
next Monday, May 20.
Rev. A. A. Blair will occupy the Univer-
salist pulpit next Sunday.
Mrs. E. r. Robertson of Bellows Falls is
visiting at A. G. Hooker's.
Miss Myrtle Tubbs of Mittineague, Mass,
has been spending few days with her sis
ter, Miss Agnes.
The w. G. T. U. ice water barrel was
put in it's accustomed place at the corner
of the town hall on Wednesday.
Charles Stearns has gone to East North
field, Mass, for short stay, where he viii
assist in Aldrich's meat market.
Hope Chautauqua circle meets next Mon
day evening with Miss X. A. Cunning
ham. Subject, Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Connie Murphy left Monday for Augusta
Maine, where he will join the New Bed
lords, with whom ne has signed Tor the
season.
Rev. E. S. Gould of Athol, Mass,
preached in the Congregational church last
Sunday in exchange with Rev. Stephen
Smith.
Mrs. Bourne Spooner went Wednesday
to Ashby, Mass, with the body of her hus-
band for interment. Miss Lucy SpOoner
accompanied her.
Levi j. Smith appeared on the street
this week with a handsome new milk
wagon, with "Hickory Hill farm in gilt
letters on the top.
Herman Hildreth of New York, son of
Levi G. Hildreth of Monticello, Iowa, is
visiting his aunt Mrs. Bradford Britton,
who is seriously i'll.
of Pine Grove
cemetery association will be held in the
town hall tomorrow evening 1t is hoped
there will be good attendance.
The entertainment and dance given by
Unity lodge, 1. o. O. F., assisted by Queen
Esther Rebekah lodge was quite success.
The net receipts were about $50
<enas Britton of Westmoreland is travel
in the interests of our local carriage
manufacturer NJ. S. Leach Mr.. Leach
reports business driving, and is employing
ten men in his shop.
At the adjourned town meeting Tuesday
evening il was voted to borrow $4,000 to
erect an electric light plant. The matter
in regard to bridge connecting Vernon
and Hinsdale was indefinitely postponed.
The cold weather of the first of this week
was quite severely felt here, there being a
heavy frost Monday night, which damaged
the fruit trees and strawberry plants con
siderably. Water froze one-eighth OF an
inch thick in some places.
Comrade F. H. Buffum delivered his
lecture 'Patriotic instruction lin the toWI
hall Wednesday evening for the benefit OF
Sheridan post. The entertainment opened
with piano solo by Miss Helen Lewis
and song by Miss Gertrude Leach, CLOS
ing with song by Geo. A. Holland.
The annual meeting of the Sunday schoo
of the Congregational church was held las
Sunday NJ. S. Leach and G. A. Robert
son were reelected superintendent and as
sstant superintendent, Mrs S. A. Esten !
secretary and treasurer, and A. e. DIX, IL
brarian. The financial showing for tn
past year was better than the year previous
with a larger average attendance.
Mrs. Caroline Streeter, who died /
Bernardston, Mass, May 9, at the age
SO years, will be remembered by the oldt
residents of this town as the eldest daugl
ter of the late Thomas and Anna Butte
of this place. OF her II brothers and sl'
tiers only two survive-.-Mrs. Mary Goo
enough and Mrs. Vethana Hastings, BOT
of North Hinsdale. Mrs. Streeter ais
leaves two sons and two daughters. H'
husband died years ago. Mrs. StreeI'
lived in this town until her marriage toe
place, and then in Bernardston.