Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-28

lteN. Ut. ". W, InllllpS OF kuJland VIII
occupy the pulpit at the Congregational
church Sunday.
The clam bake at Siverdale, Spofford
lake, on Wednesday, was very successful
affair, AMI about 800 people partook of the
feast.
Three tally-ho loads of young people
went to Marlboro Wednesday TO attend
the semi-annual meeting of the county
Christian Endeavor union.
/ The utility of the new engine and gen
orator was demonstrated Wednesday even
ing, when six full cars were run over the
electric road, and there was still surplus
power
Cheerful Asy Charles Miners new fast
trotter, made a mile in 2:1S on the Valley
Fair ground track Monday, under the
guidance of w. ii. Minor. The horse
broke once during the mile. Horsemen
consider this showing as good as 2:10 at
Mystic
w. f. Richardson & Co. are arranging
for steam apparatus for heating Market
block. Crosby IL Co. have changed the
boilers in Harmony block to low pressure
for heating purposes, and have bought a
new Knowles pump to return the water to
the boilers.
A. NJ. Shepard, member of the Meri-
den, Conn.,, bicycle club, arrived in Brat
tleboro Monday afternoon before 4 o'clock,
having ridden from Merlden during the
day, distance OF 100 miles. Mr.. Shepard
rides an Is pound Stearns wheel, 80 gear,
and he says that during his entire ride he
| did not dismount because of a hill He
left here Tuesday to ride to Bradford that
day.
| VIM. LAWN has declined several excel.
lent offers to remain in Europe the COM
ing season, and will engage in oratorio,
concert and recital work in this country,
under the management of the Hirschberg
musical bureau of SO West Fifteenth street,
| New York city. Several important APP
pearances have already been booked. Mr..
and Mrs. LAWN gave a recital at Manches-
ter, this state, Wednesday evening. They
will sing in Greenfield Sept. 10, and in
North Adams Sept. IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. S. Chase, Mrs. E. II.
| Putnam, Mrs. A. Starkey, Mrs. Harry
Rowe, and Mrs. Archer will leave to-mor-
row TO join the Vermont delegation for the
national encampment of the Grand Army
at st. Paul. Mrs. Chase will leave the
other Brattleboro people at Chicago, and
will 60 to the home of her brother in Bel
| videre, Ill. Mr. Chase will Join her there
after the encampment and they will re-
main for visit of twG or three weeks.
JGilus whitney Will go to St. Paul, but
VIII make the trip in company with COM
rades fr9lh Fitchburg, Mass.
lie Newport Express has sounded its
/ trumpet for the next speaker of the Yer
mont house of representatives as follows
'BrattleborO has nominated Mr.. Kittredge
Haskins; Montpelier, William A. Lord,
Esq, and MorIistown Geo. NJ. Powers for
| representatives to the general assembly
If elected, they will be candidates for
speaker. The best man for the place at
this time is Col. Haskins. He has a bril-
liant war record, is an able lawyer, and a
model presiding officer with pleasing ad-
dress and has host of friends throughout
the state who would like to see him elected
to that honorable position. He represent
ed Brattleboro in the house in 1872. and
Windham county in the senate in 1892, is
in the prime of life and will make, if elect
ed, speaker that every Vermonter will be
proud of"
Prof. j. L. Hills, director of the Yer
mont experiment station, has consented to
eXemplify the Babcock test in the dairy de-
partment both days of the Valley Fair,
September 30 and October |. Persons de-
string to have whole milk, skinned milk
or buttermilk tested with view TO ascer-
tanning the value of butter fat NAV do so
without charge. The prizes in the dairy
department aggregate $500. For the com
petitive test of dairy cows Sl55 will be Civ
en-. To the cow producing the largest
amount ofmilk in "a hours the prize is S25,
second prize $l5, and for butter production
there are equal prizes. For the herd of six
cows producing the largest amount of but
ter the first prize is $50, second S25, but all
the herd must be owned by one man. There
are large prizes for dairy butter and cheese
and several special prizes. G.. w. Pierce
is superintendent of this department.
The Estey Guard and Pulley Battery
reached Brattleboro Saturday afternoon
about q o'clock They left Burlington
about II o'clock on a special train which
also carried the Brandon, Rutland and
Bennington companies. The Estey Guard
boys were jubilant over winning the CEN
tennial trophy. They shot on Tuesday
when heavy rain was falling Fred
Greasy led the company in shooting with
% out of a possible %. The highest
score made in competition was %, by
member of the Mortified company. The
grounds at Burlington were inadequate
for the purposes of muster. They were
not only much too small and very uneven,
but after the storms the clay soil was a
mass of mud where it was not covered
with water. Col. G.. II. Bond was the
only officer who received badge for 25
years of service, although members of the
Estey Guard and Fuller Batter received
them for shorter terms, as announced last
week.
One of the saddest accidents in the his
tory of sport in Maine occurred last Satur-
day when Charles Potter, guide, was &C
cidentally shot and killed by Charles Theo-
dore Russell, nephew of the late ex- Gov.
Russell OF Massachusetts. Potter was the
guide for Chauncey Knapp and the late
Edward A. Tyler when they were in the
Maine woods last October, and is said to
have been one of the best guides in Maine,
especially as regards his habits. The
shooting occurred on the east branch of
the Penobscot river, two miles north of
Grindstone station on the line of the Ban
gor and Aroostook railroad. Mr.. Potter
had just pitched the tent on the river bank
and stepped into the woods, few rods dis
tant to collect some pine boughs for bed
Russell, who was standing near the tent,
heard noise in the woods and saw an OBJ
ject moving. Surprising the object to be a
bear, he got his rifle and fired, killing Pot
ter. This was Russell's first season in the
woods.
Rev. Theodore j. Clark, for many years
a Congregational minister in western Mas
sachusetts, died Sunday at the home of his
son-in-law, Eugene Adams, 81 Osgood
street, Springfield, Mass. Mr.. Clark was
born in Northampton 81 years ago, and was