Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-05-22

Expert BrasOr has added a shed to his
place on Pond street.
The Brattleboro Rifle club hold their
spring shoot in Vernon to morrow.
The night lunch wagon has again changed
hands. 1t is now run by Michael Lillis.
The railroad station is being renovated
and painted inside. The work is in charge
of d. G. O'Neil.
The barn and woodshed on the Watson
French place at North Hinsdale were
burned down Sunday night
The Brattleboro drum corps will play in
Putney instead of Jamaica Memorial day.
1t had invitations from both places.
The Athletic club, which has had its
headquarters at the old Wheel club rooms,
has disbanded and vacated the rooms.
An immense crowd thronged Angeles
store at his opening Saturday night
Nearly 1000 people were treated to soda
water.
Ralph Chamberlain announces his open
ing ball to take place at the Vernon House
next Friday night. Leitsinger's orchestra
will furnish music.
Electric car No. was derailed for an
hour at the Pine street corner Wednesday
night. An insufficient amount of oil on
Jne track was Jne cause.
E. S. Morse has retired from the real
estate firm of Morse & Edgett. The firm
name will hereafter be S. w. Edgett IL
Co., the Go" being A. E. Fletcher.
E. A. Tyler and Chauncey Knapp
brought in, Tuesday noon, good string of
25 trout which weighed five pounds and
half. They got them in "several brooks"
The annual meeting of the Brattleboro
q Whitehall railroad company will be held
Friday, May 20. By an inadvertence the
meeting was originally called for May 80,
Memorial day.
The Congregational ladies will hold their
annual fair and strawberry festival in their
chapel and parlors June %. There will
be the usual attractions and an entertain
ment in the evening.
A north-bound freight train of about so
cars and two engines broke apart Friday
near the water house, the advancing sec
ton going out of sight around the bend be-
fore the accident was discovered.
Constable Harmon shot a vicious dog
Tuesday. Twenty or more sheep have
been killed the past week by dogs and as
this dog apparently had no owner, it was
ordered shot by DR.. Webster, chairman of
the board of selectmen.
Twenty-six students of the Vermont
Academy graduating class drove down
yesterday and were photographed at
Wyatt's. Dinner was served at the Brooks
House. The remaining members of the
class will come down later.
E. L. Hildreth received yesterday a
sample package of five of the red-meated
Willoughby lake longe, weighing Is pounds.
FThay htr IflY,,op &C 10
well-famed Willoughby House, where the
Phoenix contingent have often been sum
mer guests.
A portion of the Royal Wood farm in
the south part of the town has been laid
out into building lots which have been
put in charge of S. w. Edgett & Co. for
sale. Several new streets have also been
laid out and will be given names at the
proper time.
A "forty-hours' devotion" was held at
the Roman Catholic church, beginning
Monday morning at o'clock and ending
Wednesday morning. The Rev. Father
Cunningham was assisted in these services
by Fathers Reynolds of Bellows Falls,
Gaffney of Rutland, Houlihan of Ludlow,
and Carmody Of Bristol.
Andrew Jackson is still in town solicit
ing for the orphans home and home for poor
churches which he hopes to erect at Mag
nolia, S. c. Contributions may be sent
to 50 Elliot street. Mr.. Jackson will also
try to obtain three organs for the colored
children of Magnolia. This is his last trip
North. He will return South next autumn
and begin work on the home.
Deacon and Mrs. A. A. Stearns were
pleasantly surprised Wednesday evening
by - of their Clark street friends, who
called to celebrate with them their golden
wedding anniversary. After hearty con-
CALCULATIONS had been rendered Mr. and
Mrs. Stearns were presented a gold sugar
spoon to represent the good will of the
neighbors and serve as a souvenir of the
occasion.
The state board of railroad commission
ers, who are now making their annual in
spection of the railroads, came down over
the Vermont Valley road Tuesday night,
spending the night at the Brooks House.
Wednesday morning at s o'clock they left
by special train to go up over the Pas
sumpsic division to Newport They were
accompanied by F. C. Smith of st. Adams,
clerk of the board, and Superintendent Fol
som of Lyndonville. The inspection of
the Brattleboro Il Whitehall road will be
left until later in the season.
DR.. Holton met Gov. Bob" TAYLOR of
Tennessee on a railroad train while on his
recent trip to Atlanta, and had an inter
esting conversation with him. He found
him distinctly type and character"
in personal appearance, in gesture, and
manner of speech. Speaking of the Joint
debate canvass which he and his brother |
made for the governship of Tennessee a |
few years ago, he said: "We gave each |
other some pretty hard talk, but it didn't |
destroy our brotherly feeling; we slept in |
the same bed every night" He is an ar |
dent free silver man and said that the |
Democratic party would declare for free |
silver at Chicago. When asked by DIR. |
Holton, what if the sound money men
should bolt?' he said, "Let them bolt"
Asked still further, "What if the gold
standard men should carry the day-would
you bot?' Gov. "Bob" answered with
peculiar and impressive fervor: "Dr. Hol-
ton, am Democrat; / had rather see a
gold-bug Democrat elected president than
a free-silver Republican"
The fishing and camping-out trip upon
which James Menzies starts next Thurs
day promises to be one of the longest and
most interesting of its kind which any
Brattleboro sportsman has ever undertaken.
The general plan was suggested to him by
,he vice president and general manager of
,he Bangor IL Aroostook railroad, who
himself spent several weeks of last summer
n the wilderness of northern Maine.
Starting with his guide from Greenville, at
he foot of Moosehead lake, the course will
lie through the lake to the extreme upper
md and thence by the carry to the west
branch of the PenobscOt, the course of
which will be followed for 100 miles through