Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-16
THE VERMONT PHOENIX. BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY JUN"

! The Episcopal church is being equipped
with electric lights to take the place OF
| the gas lights now used
f. Il. Thayer has been engaged to put
steel ceiling on the grand jury room in the
courthouse at Newfane.
President F. J. Holman will be at the
Office of the Vermont Loan Il Trust com
pany next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The late j. A. Alexander of Guilford
was insured in the New York Life Insur-
ance company for $1,000 through A. w.
Chlds ~ Co.
A w. Childs e Co. have paid George
II. Phillips of Putney 500 for the loss of
colt, and +. II. Gassett of Putney S2j
for damage to barn by the lightning dur
ing last weeks storm.
The reception for the little ones of the
Centre church parish, which was postponed
from Wednesday on account of the rain
and dampness, will be held tomorrow
Saturday afternoon at p. NJ, on the
Congregational parsonage lawn.
Owing to a washout on the Fitchburg
railroad near Fitzwilliam a Fitchburg pas
senger train came down on the Vermont
side yesterday afternoon, passing through
Brattleboro about l o'clock. II was fol-
lowed several hours later by one or two
hog trains.
&. z. ellison announces an important
sale at his Elliot street horse mart for
Wednesday, July 81, when 20 horses, -
sets of harness, four new Concord wagons
and two top carriages will be sold. The
horses are consigned by some of the best
buyers in the state and all are pledged for
absolute sale. Mr.. ellison is now running
a livery stable, with - good teams.
\, Il, n
River Lumber company were drowned in
the river north of Westmoreland Friday.
They were being sent down the river on a
log raft which coided in the fog with a
log jam and was wrecked Most of the
bodies were recovered where the accident
I happened, but one or two tioated down to
the rocks at the Putney ferry. They were
valued at nearly 5000 each.
Three of the treste supports to the new
narrow gauge iron bridge which is being
put in at West Dummerston were washed
, away Tuesday noon by the high water, al
} lowing the south end of the bridge to set
tie several inches. 1t was considered I'M
safe to run the engine over it so one car
was pushed across by hand that there
might be a full train on each side, and pas
sengers have since been transferred around
the bridge.
In response to repeated requests the First
Regiment band gave the larger part OF the
program announced for Wednesday even
, ing after the shower had passed. 1t was
characterized by those who heard it as the
r best of the season, no doubt because of the
, quiet of the street which allowed the finer
effects to be heard. The band will give
their seventh concert next Wednesday
evening with the same program as an
nounced for this week.
Mrs. f. b. Stetson of Somerville, Mass,
and Mrs. Louis Sperry and daughter Mary,
5 of Hartford, Conn, are the guests of Mrs.
= W. p Jones. Mrs, Sperry is the wife of
, ex-Congressman Sperry. Mrs Sperry is a
| member of the class OF '63, Glenwood
Classical seminary, and plans are being
made for reunion July 2,of pupils of that
class and teachers. Mrs Abbe Colby, a
= worker for the American board of Foreign
= missions, who is stationed at Osaka, Japan
e is one of those who will be present. The
f visitors for the reunion are to be guests of
4 Mrs. Jones and Mrs. =. Starr, the latter S
2 daughter, Mrs. Cressy of Hartford, being
4 one of the members Of the class.
r The trustees of the Brooks Free library
d have bought this week valuable set OF
t four volumes entitled "The New England
e States" compiled by William T. Davis
d and published by d. II. Hurd d Co. OF
Boston. They are substantially bound
h and comprise 2600 pages of we'll written
: matter upon the different branches of sci
/ ence, manufacturing, etc, as carried on in
A the New England states. The articles re-
d lating TO Vermont are upon its Consttu.
n tional History, John w. Rowell, Ii. d.
t Judicial History, Hon. X. S. Taft; Edu,
s cational History, Prof. j. Z. Goodrich
il History of Medical and Surgical Practice
e A. p. Grinnell, A. NJ, NJ. D., and II. Ed
y win Lewis, NJ. D.; Banking Interests, w
r p Dillingham;; History of Insurance, 10.
= seph A. DeBoer; Vermont Marble, +. V
e n. Harwood; Burlington d Winooski Val
It ley, c. 5. Lord; Leading Manufactures in
Southern Vermont, f. V. n. Harwood
The Fairbanks Scale Industry, Rev. Ed
- ward T. Fairbanks, d. d. The chapter
8 upon "Leading Manufactures in Southern
- Vermont" is subdivided into paragraphs,
y each town being considered separately
4 Under the head of Brattleboro is given &
\ history of the Estey Organ works. The
work also comprises biographical sketche,
- and portraits of leading men in each state
!, those in Vermont being Frederick Billings
: Silas l.. Griffith, T. w. Park, j. G. Nc
y Cullough, f. c. Kennedy, Willard Crane
. and Olin Scott.
# sunday school Rally.
/ The district Sunday school union, com
s posed of Methodist, Baptist, and Congre
Il gational churches in Brattleboro, Yves
Brattleboro, Marlboro, Guilford DUN
i merston, and Putney, will hold rally mex
IS Wednesday, July u, at the Union church
= in Guilford, Rev. G.. p. Emery pastor