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

tel in Maine as head waiter He is at the
same hotel where Arthur Dascomb is en-
ployed.
n. w. Smith, who graduated this year
from Yale, returned here Saturday from
Chautauqua, Y. Y, where he has been the
past six weeks very i'll with typhoid fever.
lie is still weak and has lost considerable
flesh, but is gaining again rapidly. He
thinks the disease was contracted previous
to leaving New Haven.
The Atlanta University Male quartet
will give an entertainment of considerable
merit Monday evening, Sept. I, in the Con-
gregational church. They are on their
way South after very successful season
spent at the White Mountains and among
the Maine summer resorts, raising funds
for the assistance of the university finances.
VIM. A. Hall has purchased a 25-horse
power electric motor with which to run his
new paint mill which is being completed
near the Westminster Paper company's
mill, and which is to be a valuable addition
to the business of our place. The wires to
connect the motor with the dynamos have
have been run this week. When this in
dustry is started it is expected it will en-
ploy from 10 to 20 men all the time.
f. c. Winnewisser has been yesterday
and today moving from his old store in
Barry block into the store across the street
recently vacated by the New York Racket.
The store has been painted and refurnished
so Mr.. Winnewisser will have one of the
best arranged news stands in Vermont.
II. c. Richardson, the shoe dealer, has
been intending to take the store in Barry's
block but it is doubtful now if he occupies
it.
The temperance and good citizenship COM
mittee of the Congregational Christian En-
deavOr society was very happy in secur-
ing the services of II. j. Gillette, city mis-
sionary at Hartford, Conn, to give an ad-
dress last Friday evening. Mr.. Gillette
was very entertaining as well as instruc-
tive. The committee is to be congratulated,
not only on securing this admirable speak
er, but upon the good work which it is do.
ing as a whole
A lively runaway occurred in the square
Monday when W. b. Glynn's grocery team
loaded with eggs, melons, ETC., started on
Bridge street and spilled the contents of
the wagon all the way into the square,
bringing up finally in front of Wales's dry
goods store. A team standing in front of
the store, in which was sitting Mrs. Aus
tin of Saxtons River and her young child,
had narrow escape from being demolsh-
ed as the runaway team was stopped by
Mr.. Austin and another man within very
few feet of it.
The Fall Mountain Paper company have
expended about $4,000 in the past year in
extra precautions for the prevention of fires
in their different mills, and they figure the
saving to them in decreased insurance rates
will equal this amount in only four years.
They look at the matter differently from
many business firms in Vermont, who are
unwilling to carry out the suggestions for
modern appliances in preventing fires, but
who prefer to pay added rates, and the
property burning much more frequently
leaves a loss to insurance companies, even
at rates that seem exorbitantly high. The
mills here are fully equipped with every
known appliance which is approved by in
surance companies for their protection,
and these devices are changed from year to
year as new Improvements are made.
Among them are sprinklers, pumps of all
kinds, automatic alarms, etc.