Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-10-22
PHGNIX BRATTLEBORO
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Ed Crosby is visiting friends at Brad
ford, this state.
J. NJ. Gilbert made business trip to
Boston last week.
Miss Lou Sanderson of Putney is visiting
al w. L Wheelpr's
Merchant G. e. Park is spending the
week in the Boston markets.
Albert u. Sherman is in Boston this
week buying goods for o. l.. Sherman.
Several of our farmers are enlarging
their herds Ct cows and putting in separat-
Ors.
Miss Kate McMulkin of Neponset,
Mass, is visiting her niece, Mrs. Harry
Boyd.
The 10, al apple crop is larger than ex-
pecled amt is bringing to some of our farm
ers snug sums of money.
Luclau SleIman has employment in the
large dry goods house Of Wakelln & Nc
Austin at Hol, ote, Mass.
Mrs. Alanson Miles has returned home
after visit of three months in New York,
Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Mrs. Minnie Emory and child of Grand
Rapids, Mich, recently arrived at A. E.
Halladay's, where they will spend the
winter.
The local chair stock men are rushed
with orders and find the quota of cars al
lotted to this place hardly sufficient for
their needs.
John Ellis of Meadville, Pa, and Mr..
and Mrs. Hooker Ellis of Thompson,
Conn ,Grecenty visited their sister, Mrs.
William Day.
Several deer have recently been seen in
this vicinity. They seem to be animals of
discretion, showing themselves only to
non-combatants The local sportsmen say
that il would be useless for hunters from
other places to come here with the expecta-
ton of making a capture.
Rev. A. A. Estabrook will preach on
Dummerston Hill Sunday morning, occu-
pying his Williamsville pulpit in the eve
| ming. At the Universalist church the
Young Peoples Christian union will con-
slider the subject "Sowing and Reapng,"
under the leadership of K. p Wheeler.
The schools of Newfane have been in
vted to meet at the schoolhouse in Will
Evansville, Wednesday, Oct. 81, at o'clock
p. NJ. Exercises In speaking, singing, etc.
may be expected There will also be class
recitations in oral arithmetic and reading
conducted by Mrs E. A. Kenyon of Will
Evansville; grammar-anolysis and parsing
by F. E Head of Newfane; reading and
hygiene, Mrs A. c. B. Lamb; primary
reading, Mrs. S. G Brown of Newfane; a
paper, "A Teachers Influence In and Out
of School," f. E. lie I'D. Specimens of
writing from all the schools will be on ex
hibition. 1t is hoped that all the schools
will respond as far as possible, and that all
interested in our school work will favor us
with their attendance.
The auction sale of 1895 magazines BY
| the Wiliamsvile book club will be held at
the house of the president and manager,
Mrs. George w. Dickinson, Monday eve
ming at 1880 The list consists of The
Forum, The Review of Reviews, Century,
| Cosmopolitan, McClure's, Munsey's, Pet
erson's and The Ladies' Home Journal.
The members of the club, who are all quite
busy people, after digesting their magazines
and local and daily papers have but little
time left for ancient history and the class
| les. They are not given TO criticism aud
do not pretend to know how TO run mag
azine, but do feel competent to suggest
that Washington, Lincoln and Grant be
given little rest, and that few of the
newly discovered, unpublished pictures of
these honored men be kept for the bene
fit of 1898 magazine readers.
The people Of the West River valley ap,
preciate the efficient postal service which
they have had the past two or three years,
aud have only good wishes for Postal Clerk
II. G. Reed, who leaves the BrattleborC
and South Londonderry run this week to
take the better one from Burlington Ia
Cambridge Junction. In the matter OF
salary Mr.. Reed leaves $3.50 per year tC
take $1,000, while his run is increased from
~ miles per day to 140. The salary or
the best runs is $3.50 to $500 per year
These positions although much sought fol
are very difficult to obtain. They are only
reached by men under 80 years of age vii
a rigorous civil service examination anC
then often after long waiting. OF the A.
men who passed examination with Mr.
Reed only two received appointments with
in year. The examination has to be re
peated once year or the candidate i
dropped from the list.