Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-09-20

Brattleboro will be in it for fair
next week.
Miss Blanche Laughton will open
dressmaking rooms on the third floor
of Pratt block, Main street, next Mon
day.
Luke Weatherhead has sold the
house in West Brattleboro which he
bought recently of Mrs. Helen s. Mil
Ter to Miss Emerett Weatherhead.
D. A. Fay has sold his house on the
Clark road to Martin and Annie Burke
and John s. Flood Mr.. Fay will go
to California at an early date.
w. r. Geddis, administrator, has sold
the brick tenement house on Green
street, owned by the William Geddis
estate, to Mrs. Helen L. S. Miller of
West Brattleboro.
The members of the ladies' associa-
ton of the Congregational church met
in their parloTs yesterday for their
annual business, but adjourned out Of
respect to the memory of the late
President Mckinley.
Leitsinger's orchestra, Clint Dugan,
leader, has been engaged to play for
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| Wednesday evening the first night of
the fair. The street railroad company
will run extra cars.
The will of Mrs Lydia NJ. Reed, for
merly of Brattleboro who died at Lake
| Pleasant, has been filed in the probate
| court in Greenfield. The property is
| given to her daughter Hattie M. r.
Connick, who now lives at Lake
| Pleasant.
G. M. Pierce is administrator of the
estate of the late E. F. Brown of Athol.
[ Mr.. Browns grandchildren, Miss Flor
ence Brown of Brattleboro and Clar-
ence Brown of Boston are the heirs to
the property, which consists of $500
real and $4,000 personal estate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward E. Rivers of
116 Elliot street were given a pleas
ant surprise Monday evening, the oc-
casion being the 10th anniversary of
their marriage. The party was ar
ranged by Mrs. F. A Woodbury. and
Mrs. w. A. Belden and was attended
by about 40 neighbors and friends
Several gifts were presented. includ-
ing a handsome clock from members
of the fire department, of which Mr.
Rivers is a member.
This is the facetious way in which the
Hinsdale correspondent of the Spring
field Sunday Republican states that
the brewery proprietors paid a fine
During the week Officers Metcalf and
Packard called upon the Island brew
cry, and as a consequence the ubiquit
Gus Tom" Cummings, who poses as a
sort of figurehead for that temple OF
Bacchus, called upon Judge Howe yes
terday with the customary S6222 for
zone subsequent offense.'
A billy goat was responsible for a
runaway on Prospect Hill Saturday
One of G. e. Gilmans teams was back
ed up to the Putnam house on Pros
pect street and the wagon was partly
loaded with furniture, owned by a fam
lily who were moving, when the goat
appeared around a corner and the
horses started southwark toward the
house occupied by Mary Putnam. One
of the horses fell, which stopped the
runaway. but not until several articles
of furniture had ratified off the wagon
and been broken.
George B. Kenney of Guilford was
arrested Wednesday of last week al
street in Hinsdale, where a disturb
ance was being made A companion
was also taken into custody by Consta
BILE Kinds and officer Metcalf, but
when he was given permission to &c
back and get his hat he jumped
through a window and escaped leav
ing a horse and carriage. Kenney, or
being brought before Judge Howe II
the Hinsdale police court, was fined 81
and costs for intoxication and disor
derby conduct, the total amount palt
being $7,39,
The Maine Farmer has the following
to say about the comparative value o.
straight-out exhibits and of stage at
fractions at agricultural fairs: "ThC
Vermont fair officials, Brattleboro, VT.
are putting their money into straight
out tests and exhibits with the promise
of competition from every quarter
Why isn't this as valuable as diving
horses and cheap vaudeville shows
In the competitive dairy test the in
dividual cow premiums are $25 and $1I
and for the six COW test $50 and $25
open to any cow of any breed owned
in the United States. Entries close
Sept. 23d. and cows must be on the
| SIOuHuS 10 De HlllhGu ny the committed
the oath No COW will be awarded
premium which does not produce one
and one quarter pounds of butter il
"a hours. This sort of premiums will
attract exhibitors
The Criterion club of Boston will
play again at the Auditorium the las
of October, presenting two of the fines
plays in it's repertoire, The Circu!
Rider and a Pair of Spectacles. Tit
first play is one of the best one ac
comedies ever written and was owned
by Rosina Vokes and after her dealt
was secured by the club. 1t is no
published and the club have to pay {
royalty on each performance. Thi!
will be the clubs 25th presentation o
this play. The second play is in three
acts and was introduced into thl!
country by the English actor, JOIN
Hare. 1t is now a standard play an(
considered by the best judges one o
the most beautiful plays in the Eng
lish language. The club has given thi:
comedy 16 times. Samuel Oliver who
made such hit as Junius Brutus Han
in A Night Off, will appear in botf
plays and six of the members of the
club who had parts in A Night Of will
be in the cast.
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