Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-03

A deer was seen Sunday a mile this
side Of SpoffJrd lake.
Anglers who visit streams in nearby
Massachusetts, towns should remember
that the trout fishing season there closed
Aug 1.
The street railroad company began run
ming the electric cars Wednesday with
power developed at the company's factory
iu Centreville.
Work was begun this week on the co.
tage which Warren Wheeler Of Boston will
erect on the site OF the one which was
burned at Spofford lake.
A picked up base ball team from Brattle-
| boro played a nine from DummeIstOn Sat
urday at the latter place. The score was
| II to II in favor Of the visitors.
The Lyons Granite company is shipping
over 1000 tons Of granite from the West
! Dummerston quarry to ClaremOnt, y. H.,
to be used in the construction OF the Sulli-
van Machine company's building.
The next meeting Of the Brattleboro
Bird club will be held at Lindenburst, with
Mrs. Geo. Z. Crowell, next Monday even
ing at 730. The badges may be obtained
at the meeting or Of the secretary, at any
time.
A. V. Mays agency has sold for Holden
/ * Martin their Esteyville house known as
the Lysander Lord place TO Charles Z.
| Downer. Mr.. and Mrs Downer's increas-
ing trade requires more room, and this
! place is bought for a home. Mr.. and Mrs.
Downer will occupy the place as soon as
possible.
Meetings of the board Of agriculture
| will be held during the week Aug. 1918
| follpws. RradforI Monde Drafta-
! bury, Tuesday; Brandon, Wednesday;
| Ludlow, Thursday; Wilmington, Friday
| Chester, Saturday. National Master Aaron
Jones Of Indiana and John Gould Of Ohio
will assist the board.
About 80 members Of the Woman's Re
lief corps, the Grand Army post and their
families attended the picnic in Brookside
park Saturday. They rode to the park on
the electric cars about 3 O'Clock and re-
turned about o'clock. Supper was serv-
ed, meanwhile, on the basket plan, and
social visits were enjoyed.
Miss May Spear gave pleasant musical
at her home on Washington street Satur-
day evening. Those who participated in
the musical numbers were Miss Hattie
Young, Miss Helen Reyes, Miss Katherine
Guiheen, Miss Spear, James Fred Morse
and Arthur Hyde. There we're several
readings by Mrs. Cora Robinson. Refresh
ments were served.
Pedestranism is not entirely lost facul-
ty in these days of bicycles, motor cycles
and automobiles, as was demonstrated
Friday when d. Stolte, jr., and T. A. W.
Field of Bangor, Maine, walked from this
village to Spofford lake, distance OF over
nine miles, in one hour and 40 minutes.
This was remarkably good time, consider
ing that they did not run step during the
entire trip. Toward evening they return
ed from the lake in exactly the same time
as on the morning trip, but this time they
ran down the hills.
Z. p Draper of Canandaigua, n. Y,
passed through here Monday in a canoe on
his way to Holyoke. Mr.. Draper started
from Canandaigua June and has jour
neyed nearly 500 miles by water. He
went up the Seneca river, across Lake
Oneida and through the Adirondacks TO
Plattsburg; thence up the Richilieu river,
down the St. Francis and across Lake
Memphremagog TO Newport, From New
port he went by rail short distance be-
low st. Johnsbury. During the first month
he had q companion, but has since been
alone.
|
| Hugh NJ. Adams estate, brought to recover
the amount OF second mortgage for $2700
on Mr.. Adams's livery teams and equip
ment;, has been settled, the estate paying
Mr.. MiGer the full amount of the mort.
gage. The mortgage was executed two
years after a mortgage to H. P. Smith, but
there had been so many changes in the
stock that 1t amounted practically TO first
mortgage. A hearing in the matter was
held before commissioners last winter,
! when decision was rendered in favor of
Mr.. Miner, from which decision an appeal
was taken to the county court.
Ernest Seton-Thompson, "the man who
knows wild animals" has been engaged TO
| deliver a lecture in Brattleboro under the
auspices of the Y. NJ. G. A. He was Sc
cured through the agency of Major j. b.
| Pond, the well-known manager, who says
Mr.. Thompson is the greatest platform
success in 20 years, with the exception of
Henry NJ. Stanley and Rev. John Watson
| Uan MacLaren). Mr.. Thompson is now
speaking twice day in order to comply
with the demand for his services. Every
! where crowded houses welcome him. All
of his writings and drawings descriptive
of the personality of wild animals are en-
HANGED many fold by his inimitable de-
| SCIlpllOuS lTOuu MS OHn llpS' IL 10 stluOm
that an author-artist is gifted with the
ability to entertain upon the lecture plat
form, but Ernest Seton Thompson is as
clever with his voice as with his pen and
pencil.
The old ash tree which for many years
has shaded the balcony in the rear of
Young & Knowlton's store toppled over
Friday afternoon as though 1t had become
exhausted through well doing. Its roots
had entirely rotted of except one small
one, and the wonder is how this root could
have kept the tree standing and have
nourished the large trunk as long as II did.
1t has been noticed during the present
summer that the leaves were whitening,
but the trunk is apparently sound The
tree fell at 5:45 O'Clock, just as the north.
bound trains on the Boston & Maine and
Brattleboro & Whitehall railroads were
about to leave the depot, and 1t extended
to the river bank, blocking all the tracks.
A gang of men was set at work at once
and the tracks were cleared in about 20
minutes By the fall large number of
electric wires were broken and one pole was
pulled over.
Mary Wnkins's Cats.
"Some Literary Cats" is the title of an
| Interesting article nv Halan NJ Winslou,