Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-09-04

IL. w ldWTbnCe was one Ol Ine 1uuBeS
at the Worcester fair this week.
Trainer Charles Parker is to have two
of Lindsley's horses of Mortified, to train.
The annual shoot of the National Rife
club has been held at the Vernon range
this week.
Many of the tobacco growers of the
county have harvested their crop and re-
port the quality as unusually good.
w. II. Minor and O. II. Ellis have been
at Waterbury, Conn, this week with the
trotters Cheerful Asy and King Bird.
Walter Crown and Morton Cressey went
fishing in Jacksonville last week and re-
turned with a 1-pound trout and 10 pick
ere.
There has been no essential change in
the condition of Rev. DIR. Walker during
the week. He is still unable to speak or
make any sign.
StIatton & Foster announce an oyster
supper to be given at Silverdale at 10
o'clock tomorrow night and a special tur
key dinner Sunday.
A young man named Cranston who
lived here few years ago is reported to
have had leg crushed by the cars near
Boston a few days ago.
from here to the reunion at Jamaica yes
terday. Upward of 100 tickets, besides
those for the band, were sold.
Stephen j. Mccall and Miss Lillian p.
Butler were quietly married at the Baptist
parsonage by Rev. l.. d. Temple at s
| o'clock Wednesday evening.
The Little SO store on Elliot street,
recently occupied by f. P. Hopkinson d
Son, has been rented to 7. A. Murphy who
will convert it into shoe store.
There will be a musical in the Brooks
House parlor Thursday evening from to
8 o'clock, after which there will be hop
in the dining room from to II o'clock.
The premium lists of the Valley Fair are
out, and may be had on application to the
secretary, c. L. Stckney, at the Peoples
bank. Many requests for the lists have
been received already.
Mrs. Harriet Brasor Pratt will give a
song recital in the auditorium on Friday
evening, Sept. 25. This will probably he
the only time that she will be heard in pub
lie before her return to Europe in October.
The switch on the electric railroad near
d. S. Pratts is being taken up. 1t will
probably be relaid at the corner of Canal
and Washington streets, as one is needed
there to accommodate the fair ground traf-
fic.
+. NJ. Angler is making several improve
ments in the Flat street blacksmith shop,
which he recently bought of O'Leary. The
inside is TO be sheathed up and painted,
and an awning will be placed in front of
the shop.
The First Regiment band will give their
thirteenth concert next Wednesday even
ing. The concert TO have been given at
West BrattlebOro last evening was post
poned on account OF the rain until next
Tuesday evening.
The Guy Brothers MINISTRIES gave an ex-
cellent performance to a crowded house at
the auditorium last Friday evening. There
was a great variety in the performance and
almost every number brought something
that was pleasing.
The Estey Guard voted last evening to
have a dance at the armory on the first
night Of the Valley Fair. This is the com.
mittee of arrangements: Sergeants Curtin
and Cressy, Corporal Dunklee, Privates
Whitney and Gould.
Mary Howe's next season in Germany
promises TO be very busy and brilliant
one, as she has already signed contracts to
appear as "starn in 80 operate perform
ances in various prominent cities. The
first ones begin the latter part of October.
The electric cars will run to the fair
ground tomorrow to carry passengers to
the picnic of the Protective grange, which
will be held in connection with the Wind
ham county Pomona grange. The details
Of the picnic will be substantially as an
I nounced last week.
Lansing Jacques. full blood Tuscarora
Indian, is canvassing Brattleboro for THE
life of Rev. DR.. A. j. Gordon" and "The
Christ of today" Mr.. Jacques is fitting
himself for missionary physician. He is
now trying to earn his scholastic expenses
by selling standard books.
f. Wales will open his dancing classes al
Grange hall, Sept. % and 20. The even
ing class for adults will be Friday at s
o'clock and the children's class will meet
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 There will be
a social every Saturday evening.
The orchestra pit at the auditorium ha:
been heightened to the full width of the
stage, the floor raised, and a handsom,
metal balustrade put in place of the
matched wood work. The pit is now Of
the same style as the ones in the leading
theatres of the country.
A select and fine quartet of colored sin
gers from Atlanta university, Georgia, will
give a concert in the Centre Congrega
tional church Wednesday evening, Sept.
Old-time negro plantation melodies will
instrumental accompaniment will be finely
rendered. No admission fee will be charged
but collection will be taken for the bene
tit of the university. Everybody is invited
The case of James d. Stowe, now o
Amherst, Mass, VS.. Dodge, Thompson q
Co. land counter suit have been heard the
past two days before Judge l.. NJ. Read o
Bellows Falls as referee. Waterman, Mar
tin 4 Hit and c. G. Fits appear TO
Dodge, Thompson & Co., and Col. Has
reference to the non-fulflment of a con
tract on lumber job in Dummerston.
Two Brattleboro boys began work a
physical instructors in Young Mems Chris
tian association gymnasiums September
Deidrich Stolte, who graduated from the
Springfield, Mass, training school last
June, left Saturday for Brooklyn, N. Y.
where he takes charge of the gymnasium
of the central branch association, and
Julius Mason, who also graduated in June
from the Springfield school, has gone t,
, Milwaukee to take charge of the gymna
SUM of the association there.
The story that Rollin Childs vent Il
, Stratton last week and delivered a free
silver speech an hour and 80 minutes long
/ with the result that the vote of the tow
stood SO Republican to 0 Democratic
proves to be cruel fiction. But the Re
publican ballot clerks had some fun will
/ the free-silver leader on election day
, | They say that when Mr. Childs entere,