Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-08-23
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

The body of George Halves Of Ches-
terrified was brought to Brattleboro
Tuesday for burial in Prospect Hill
cemetery.
The Brattleboro Hosiery and Hins-
dale base ball teams have a game
scheduled for tomorrow afternoon on
the island grounds.
Protective Grange Sewing circle will
hold a meeting next Wednesday after
noon in Grange hall. All members
are requested to be present.
The Howard club of Fitchburg en-
tertained several Brattleboro people at |
the Broad Brook House in Guilford |
Monday night. An exhibition of club |
swinging and clog dancing was given |
by Doherty Brothers. Members of the |
Howard club were on a carriage drive |
! from Fitchburg to Lake Dunmore.
The showers of Tuesday and We'd |
nesday afternoons were the heaviest
! of the season. The storm of Wednes-
day was local, no rain falling on Ames
! Hill, in Putney, nor south of the Broad
| Brook bridge. The storm was par
ticularly severe a short distance this
side of Ames Hill, and the roads were
washed badly
The patrons Of the Brattleboro
! creamery will hold a basket picnic on
the fair grounds Saturday, August 81,
| at 10 o'clock a. m. At 100 p. m. eXer-
cises will be held, including an ad-
dress by Prof. ]. L. Hills, director OF
the Vermont experiment station. All
patrons of the creamery are invited to
be present with their families.
Landlord T. Frank Turner's valu-
able driving horse died Monday from
a disease known scientifically as pur-
pura hRmoragica. which causes
swelling of different parts of the body
The nostrils and jaws of Mr.. Turner's
horse were swollen badly. The life
of the animal was prolonged three or
four days by placing a tube in the
throat
Guiheen, who was with the Bangor
team early in the season. is now play
ing with the Newport, n. H., team.
over there he is the star man, and en-
ioying a good fat salary. Guiheen is
capable of playing ball in any team in
: the New England league. and there are
b, few managers who would not snap at a
chance to sign him. Manchester, n.
H., Union, Aug. 16.
Col. and Mrs H. S. Greenleaf OF
Rochester. n. Y. visited in Brattle'
boro early in the week. Col. Green
leaf came to Hatfield. Mass. last week
to attend the annual reunion of the
sgd Massachusetts, regiment which he
commanded in the civil war. Col
Greenleaf, who is native of Guilford
/ had not visited in this section in the
L. past . or 10 years.
, Burnham was the winner of the 2.1$
class pace for a purse Of $500 al
Westfield. Mass. Friday. There were
- nine starters. Burnham took the frs
two heats in 21Gh and 2.14h. The
next two went to Birch Bud in 2.17A
:, and 2172i. In these heats Burnhan
was sixth and fourth respectively
Burnham finally landed first money b!
= taking the last heat in 2.20A.
Traffic on the railroads was badl,
,e delayed Friday owing to a freigh
S. wreck near White River Junction
Two locomotives collided one wa
,r thrown into the ditch and the othe
$. had the pilot smashed, and two car
attached were demolished. A rea
N end collision took place near Yves
r. Hartford. One locomotive was dis
abled and the caboose demolished.
to A new sidewalk has been laid tn
a. entire length of the Washington stree
hill. Another concrete walk is bein
ne built on the south side of Pine stree
r. from the Roman Catholic cemetery
South Main street. The work of pu
g. ting the Canal street sidewalk int
ne condition will begin next week. Al
other important change on Cana
st street will be the lowering of tn
IN street car rails.
r. Cards are out for the marriage 3
ay Mortified. Mass, September Sd {
Miss May Coleman, daughter of NJ
~ and Mrs. James Coleman, and Jane
ks w. Archibald. Both young peopl
have many friends in Brattlebor,
- Miss Coleman formerly lived here g
IL ing to Mortified with her parents
few years ago. Mr.. Archibald is
,o Hinsdale boy, who was formerly
-, member of the firm of Stearns
*. Archibald of Mortified. He is no
- engaged in the clothing business
Ludlow.
IT. The case of Caroline L. DowI
against John Barrett and others we
mt heard Saturday in the office of Ha
OF kins & Schwenk. before A. E. Gu
yer worth of South Londonderry, as speci
lss determined is whether Mr.. Barrett
ey entitled to redeem certain premises {
," which foreclosure has been made, viii
no degree against him, he claiming g
ol interest in the premises on the grouI
Ia of having bought the standing timbe
Mrs. Cora M. Lawton, 46, sister-i
an law of DR.. S. e. Lawton, died at one
es. the Brattleboro Retreat cottages We
his terday of chronic articular rheum
tism after an illness of three year
,ar She was a native of birmingham, Mas
raj and was widow of Ralph B. Lawto
ol who died a year ago. She leaves tv
children in Brattleboro. The funer
Is will be held at 2.30 o'clock tomorro'
IN Rev. N. A. Wood of West Brattlebo
sit officiating, and the burial will be
no Morningside cemetery.
Brattleboro Y. NJ. G. A. was beat,
mo 5 to 4 at Winchester Saturday. II
nay Winchester Star describes the gan
lea as clean, and as played by 10 ge
tlemanly ball players. The Brattl
,ou boro boys came to play ball, not
ain ain kick and scrap, although they sho,
tie their heads at some of the decisions
es- the umpire" Brattleboro had a go
chance to score in the ninth. The fir
AN man up hit safely, but was out on
N charn double O1aV The third mi