Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-06-30


Tuesday.
The Fuller Battery will have target
shoot at Centreville Saturday afternoon.
AT an auction sale in Boston Wednes-
day Vermont & Massachusetts railroad
stock sold for 1654.
Vesper service will be held at o'clock
Sunday evenings at the Baptist church
during July and August.
The annual picnic of the Universalist
Sunday school will be held at Central
Park, Vernon, next Thursday.
The bailiffs have instructed Chief-of-
Police Hall not to allow any fires or firing
on the streets until after Il o'clock Mon
day night.
About 20 members of the Swedish Luth-
eran church held lawn party on John
Strands grounds Friday evening. Re-
freshments were served and selections
were rendered by the choir.
Requiem high mass was celebrated in
st. Michaers Roman Catholic church by
Rev. Father Cunningham at 8 o'clock
Thursday morning for the repose of the
soul of the late Edmund j. Carey.
Members of the Unitarian Sunday
school and their friends, to the number of
about so, went on a picnic Wednesday to
the grove at Central Park, and for ali the
ram that fell part of the time, spent very
enjoyable day.
The school board met Saturday for the
abatement of taxes. Out of total of
over S24 900 the attachments and suspen-
sions amounted to SIP, the suspensions
being about one-half of this sum. Col
leotor Gordon has collected $37 out of the
S75 of suspensions last year.
Strattan d Foster will have special at
fractions at Silverdale the Fourth. The
HiDsdale brass band will be there through
out the day and there will be dancing both
afternoon and evening. A special turkey
dinner will be served and preparations
have been made to serve lunches at any
hour during the day.
The new uniforms for the First Regi-
ment band have arrived and will be worn
at the next band concert. The uniforms
are of dark green in color, with gilt braid
trimmings, and are the latest style, and
English Godfrey caps will be worn with
them. The Fitchburg and Boston Cadet
bands ordered similar uniforms at the same
time the BrattlebOro bands order was for
warded.
A special train of seven cars, packed
with Russian jew immigrants, passed
through here Wednesday from Montreal on
their way to New York. Conductor Spot
ford was in charge of the train from here
to New London. He had some delay in
returning, as a severe thunder shower
played havoc with the wires and made it
impossible for him to get his orders.
The Londonderry Sitter says: ave are
now favored with a closed mail from Brat.
tleboro every day at noon. This was
brought about upon petition of our bust
ness men," The pouch leaves Brattle-
boro on the O'Clock train in the morning,
and it contains all mail for South London
derry which is taken to the Bratteboro
post-office between the departure of the
$40 train and S o'clock p. NJ,
The official bulletin of the fourth inter
national Epworth League convention,
which is to be held in indianapolis July
20 to %, contains cut Of the official flag
of the convention designed by w. II. Ged-
dis of Brattleboro. Mr.. Gedds has three
men assisting him i'm canvassing the city
for the sale of flags. He has increased his
first order of 10000 to 10000 and he has
thus far canvassed in only the residential
part of the city,
Contrary to expectations the strawberry
crop, which the recent drouth threatened
to ruin, has thus far been large, and fine
berries have been selling as low as eight
cents a quart. w. l.. Walker of Dunn
merston, who has supplied the larger part
of the Brattleboro trade since native
strawberries appeared has picked over
200 bushels of berries from one acre of
ground this season and he expects to get
at least 80 bushels more before the end of
the season. The soil upon which Mr..
Walkers berries are grown is very fertile
and the plants are large, thus keeping the
ground more moist than could be done
with small plants. The berries, in con-
sequence, are very large and full.
C.. Fred Childs graduated from Yale
university this week, receiving the degree
of bachelor of science. He was one of the
seniors who, in recognition of "honOrs in
all studies" received the commencement
appointment of a dissertation. He was
one of the two students out of class of
over 100 who received honors in history,
in two years course, and he was one of
the ten honor men in political science and
law His father, w. II. Childs, spent
part of the week at New Haven, attending
the commencement exercises. G. Fred
Chllds was at the boat race at New Lon
don'yesterday. He will spend two weeks
at Long Branch with college friends, and
will return to Brattleboro about July Is.
He expects to start about August on his
trip around the world.