Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-13

A rare and beautiful sight was the rain
bow which was seen at o 30 p. NJ. Sunday
! evening.
About 250O Russian Jews have passed
through Brattleboro in the past three
weeks on their way to New York CITY,
The Armour Packing company of Kan
sas City has a representative at Freeman
Scott's, who is serving Armour's canned
goods free.
A Swedish school was opened in Centre
| vile Monday in charge Of j. Hulteen, who
has recently come to Brattleboro from Au.
gustana college and theological seminary
at Rock Island, ILL.,, to supply the pulpit of
the Swedish Lutheran church. There are
about 30 pupils.
Local horsemen are arranging for an
! ''oat race at the Valley Fair ground
about the 20th. They propose to have one
| genuine test of speed between several
horses threatened with speed, and also
| slow race, in which the animals will be
kept at a trot, but the prize will go to the
last fnisher
Lieut. w. N. Batchelder, of the 10th
| United States Volunteer regiment, who is
registered as a law student in the office Of
! Waterman ~ Martin, has been sent home
! from the Philippines on account of illness
and is to be cared for at the government
hospital in Washington. Lieutenant
Batchelder was overcome by heat in May.
! His home is in Chester, and he is a nephew
of NJ. d. Batchelder of this town.
All voters of school district No. 2 are
urged to attend the annual school meeting,
to be held in the High school building
next Tuesday evening, July II, at 8
o'clock. A member of the school board is
to be elected, and there is the usual bust
ness to transact. The school district
meeting is gathering of great importance,
at which action is taken providing for the
expenditure of some S24 900 annually.
The Brattleboro delegation to the Repub-
lican county convention at Newfane in
cluded j. L. Martin, +. w. Gibson, o.
Prescott, e. A. Lord, G. G. Fits, w. L.
Walker, G. d. Whitman, Geo. w. Hooker,
f, E. Howard, d. A. Young, Geo. W.
Pierce, W. K. Hubbard, A. +. Schwenk,
S. S. Hunt, Il. F. Jordan, l.. F. Adams,
H. F. Brooks, IL. G.. Barber, c. l.. Stick.
ney, Denison Cowles, f. ID. Morris, H f.
Taylor, Perley Holmes.
A definite order has not vet been re.
ceived for the establishment of the two
new rural delivery routes-one in West
Brattleboro and one in Gulford. Post
master Webster received on Wednesday a
letter of inquiry from f. II. Hathaway,
special agent in charge of the Eastern di-
vision, rural free delivery, asking for some
further information before making a final
recommendation to the department at
Washington. The letter contains no I'M
favorable intimation in regard to the pro.
posed extension.
j. G.. Stafford found a fox in his hen
house early Wednesday morning. Rey-
nard retreated hastily, and Mr.. Stafford
found on examination that % fine, Young
chickens were lying dead on the floor, while
appearances indicated that several others
had been devoured. Mr.. Stafford called
his boys, and his elder son, Leslie, seized
shot gun and followed the fox out into
the field, finally bringing the animal down
by well directed shot. His prize proved
to be an unusually large, fine specimen of
a male fox.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cochburn of
Hampton Falls, n. H., have issued invi-
tations to the marriage of their daughter,
Margarget Jane Cochburn, and DR.. Joseph
Greeley Parsons, which will take place in
the Congregational church in Hampton
Falls next Thursday afternoon. DR.. Par
sons has number of friends in Brattle-
boro, having been a member of the High
school class of 1892. He was graduated
from the medical department of the Uni |
versity of Minnesota, and is now practic- |
ing in Brookings, S. d.