Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-10-25
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The ladies of the Universalist So
ciety are planning to hold their annual
fair the first week in December.
The mes in H. R. Browns Connect
cut River farm have just "husked out"
between 700 and 500 baskets of hand
some and well-matured ears of dent
(Western) corn.
A. e. Atwood has issued a pocket
folder containing the corrected time
tables of the Brattleboro street rail
road, the Boston & Maine railroad and
the Central Vermont railroad. together
with the Brattleboro fire alarm signals
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Sunday School association will be held
in the Congregational church in Ver-
gennes Nov. 6, Z and s. l.. w. Hawley
of Brattleboro will be one of the
speakers on the afternoon of the
second day.
The Brattleboro House has been run
this week by e. j. Henkel, acting for
the mortgages of the furniture and
fixtures, o. H. Ellis and Charles
Henkel. Some definite arrangement
for closing or continuing the business
will be made in few days.
Bradstreet's Vermont representa-
tive at Burlington says in his weekly
business report: Manufacturing bust
ness is good at Brattleboro, retail
trade is active in general, although
the season is not advanced enough for
much increased demand in clothing
and dry goods; collections fairly
good"
The street letter boxes attached to
the old lamp posts, of which there are
16, will be removed next week by E.
L. Parker and attached to new posts
and to electric light posts where the
latter are available. The change is
necessitated by the sale of the lamp
posts by the village bailiffs.
The Congregationalist of Saturday
contained half-tone portrait of
President c. o. Day and an account
of his installation at Andover Theolog-
ical seminary, also a halftone por-
trait of Rev. Williston Walker, d. D.,
and an abstract from a paper given
by him at the meeting of the Ma
tional council
Rally Sunday was observed by the
Universalist Sunday school last Sun
day, the exercises being in charge of
the superintendent, Mrs. A. j. Currier.
The weather was ideal and there was
a large attendance. There was no
study period, the time being taken
up by interesting special music and
speaking by the younger pupils and
remarks by the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Mar
vim.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
society of the Sons of the American
Revolution will be held at the Brooks
House Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 10.
The business to come before the meet
ing is the submission of reports from
officers and committees, the election
of officers and delegates, and the con-
sideration of all other matters that
may properly come before the meet
ing. There will be no banquet.
A plan is being laid out by promin-
ent members of the medical profess
sion in Vermont looking to the organ
iZation of county medical societies, to
be connected with the state society.
1t is planned to include in the Wind
ham county society part of Windsor
county. The present membership
of the state society is about 1875, but it
is expected that this county reorgan-
lHdIlOu pldu Will lHCI6dSt the uleulDeI-
ship to about 800.
On account of the increase in the
amount of mail matter to be handled
at the postofIice on FRIDAYS Postmas-
ter Webster has found it necessary
to discontinue the business delivery
at $50 o'clock Friday mornings. as
otherwise the carriers would be oblig-
ed to exceed the limit of eight hours
of labor fixed by the government
The regulation is positive and pro
hibitive that no more than eight hours
work shall be done in any one day
A new carrier schedule will be in
stituted for the winter next week
The carriers will make their first col
lection in the morning on their way
to the Office and will begin their first
delivery at s o'clock instead of 100
Mail gathered in this collection will
go by the 7.50 train, and it is believed
that the service will be greatly i'm
proved by the change.