Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

large the scope of its product, boiling
the cider and making cider jelly.
Supt. Holton of the electric road
has been endeavoring the past two
weeks to construct dam at Barber's
park so as to form a pond for ice
skating. He has had a gang of men
with teams at work, and supposed his
work done a week or more ago, but
upon attempting to fill the pond last
week the dam broke away, and he has
had to reconstruct it. 1t has now been
filled successfully and if the weather
holds cold ice skating will be the fad
in sports within a day or two.
John w. Beumond recently brought
suit against the Rutland railroad for
the value of four calves killed by one
of their trains. A trial was had Mon
day in the office of Chas. H. Robb.
who was attorney for Mr.. Buemond.
A verdict for $50 and costs was given
by Justice G. H. Williams, and the
railroad, as usual appealed" The
road was represented by f. H. Button
of Middlebury. The evidence tended
to show the fence to have been de-
fective, which made the accident pos
sible.
Many farmers hereabouts became
discouraged at the low prices of ap-
pies the first of the season, and either
sold their first class fruit at the pre-
vailing price of rs cents per barrel
or did not gather it at all. Those
who did gather apples and stored
them are now offered from S1.50 to
81 per barrel. One prominent fruit
raiser of this vicinity sold his entire
crop of $50 barrels of number one
and two mixed a few weeks ago for
81 per barrel, which if held until now
would be worth at least $3.50.
Mrs. Henry G. Harlow of Keene is
| spending a week in town with Mrs.
| Helen B. Jackson and other friends.
At last a soldiers monument for
the town of Rockingham will be
| erected, or rather a monument upon
the Grand Army lot in Oak Hill Gem
| etery, where rest a number of mem
bers of the organization, who have no
| lots elsewhere. The contract has
| been given to d. NJ. Thayer of our
village, and contemplates a Barre
granite monument surmounted by a
bronze soldier. The design indicates
memorial which will be of credit to
the soldiers past and present.
Mrs. Edward G. Osgood is holding
her second annual exhibition and sale
of water colors, at Pierces pharmacy
this week. Large numbers have Wis
tied the exhibition. and the sales
have been good thus far. Mrs. Os-
good is an artist of no mean ability,
and Bellows Falls people count them
selves fortunate in having her among
them and in having this opportunity
to see and purchase paintings of such
merit. The collection comprises
about the same number of paintings
as last year, but as a whole the work
manship is better. The larger num-
Der are views taken in Annisquam,
Mass, which place is considered a
painters paradise. The Entrance to
East Gloucester Harbor" is consid-
cred, possibly, the best picture from
an artistic standpoint, though where
all are so good it is hard to specify
the best. May in Westminster, -
May in Langdon," Path to the
Meadow" and The Turn in the
Road" in Little Egypt" THE Swim
ming Pool" THE Four Pines" White
Birches Little Egypt" up the vii.
son Brook" and Down the Wilson
Brook" Mrs. Osgood decided yester
day to hold a sale of her paintings in
Brattleboro Wednesday and Thursday
of next week.