Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-10-27

St. Cecelia's Altar society will give a
Halloween party in Red Mems hall Tues
day, Oct 81. Everybody is invited.
At the Methodist church last Sunday
one was received into full membership, two
on probation and three were baptized.
G. II. Shepardson recently had two
sound apples over two years old given him
by his brother, N. II. Shepardson of Hall
fax.
e. b. Bssell has begun the erection of a
twO-tenement house on the lot on Wash
ingtOn street which he bought recently of
Mr.. Lawton.
Letsinger's orchestra will furnish music
for the reception TO be given by the Am
herst club TO President aud Mrs. Harris at
Amherst, Nov. /.
A delegation of AZ Odd Fellows went to
Bellows Falls yesterday to attend the dis
trict meeting held there, returning OH the
early train this morning
Fred b. Stevens, postal clerk between
here and South Londonderry, will ex-
change places with Harry f. Nelson, who
is transfer clerk at Essex Junction. Mr..
Nelson will come here Monday.
Deputy Sheriff Mcclure arrested Harry
w Welch and Rosy Marshall, both of
Winchendon, about 2:30 o'clock this
morning in the Vernon hotel. A hearing
is being held today, Welch being charged
with rape.
Two Cinnamon were ordered deported
and five were discharged at the hearings in
Burlington last week. All Of the cases
had been previously tried, but were con
tinued at the request of United States
District Attorney Martin.
A telegram received in Brattleboro this
morning states that Z. w. Gibson, X. c.
Bacon and +. II. Spaulding, students in
the office of Waterman &c Martin, have
successfully passed the examination at
| Montpelier for admission to the Vermont
bar.
The next entertainment In the Y. NJ. G.
A. star course will be given in the Audi
forum Tuesday evening, Nov. 8, when
Edward II. Frye, the monolOgist, will i'm
personate David Harum." Tickets will
| go on sale at the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms next
Wednesday. Mr.. Frye is engaged to pre-
sent this sketch for p consecutive weeks
l.. o. Thayer of Townshend, whose
death is reported in the Townshend cor
respondence in this paper, was an uncle OF
Policeman +. X. Thayer. He was en-
ployed by the Brattleboro Retreat for Is
[ years, and Mrs. Thayer was also employed
there several years. f. Il. Thayer went
to Townshend today to attend the funeral
Lucus w. Adams has sold his house OF
Oak street to George r. Moseley of Yer
non, the transaction being made through
Bailey's agency Mr.. Adams will NOV,
into his new house on Spruce street abou
Nov. 10 Mr.. Bailey has also sold a stocl
farm Of 200 acres in South Deerfed
Mass, known as the Cephas Cleary place
to A. l.. Houghton Of Leominster, Mass.
News has been received here o. the mar
riage in Wellsvile, n. Y. of Miss Marion
O'Connor 10 Postmaster Frank W. Hgrin,
of that place, the ceremony being per
formed Oct. 10, at the church of the I'm
maculate Conception by the Rev. l.. A
Smith. Mrs. Higgins is pleasantly re
membered here by many friends, having
visited here several times with her aunt
Mrs. James Grady.
The chestnut crop this year has beef
enormous. The price of chestnuts, as
result, has been lower than was eve
known before, so low in fact, that it hai
not paid to handle them, and many grocer
throughout New England are not bother
ing with them. The Grange store ha
sold 236 pecks of chestnuts this year, ant
the manager Is not certain whether tn
store will get its money back or not. Tn
price of chestnuts in Boston this year {
$3.50 a bushel, where they have formerl,
brought from $3.50 to So at the lowest,