Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-08-08
DUNN

There will be a Republican caucus
Saturday evening, August f6, at 7.45
o'clock.
The display of flowers in church
last Sunday was made very attrac-
tive by the addition of a mammoth
hydrangea, belonging to Mrs. Leavitt
Stark. On it were 20 or more radi-
ant cymes of flowers nearly as large
as footballs.
The justice trial of the state against
P. W. Manley for allowing his sheep
to run at large in the highway, con-
trary to law, occupied whole days
time last Saturday. The verdict was
in favor of plaintiff The fine i'm
posed was Sc and the costs amounted
to $12.04. The defendant moved an
arrest of judgment for defect of COM
plant, but the motion was overruled
and appeal was allowed.
The arrangements for the celebra-
ton of Old Home Week in this place
are as follows: On Sunday there will
be special services in the Congrega-
tional church. On Friday, Aug. 18th,
the people will meet on the common
at 1890, each one with large basket
of good things to share with his neigh
Dor. At 2.30 the Hon. Kittridge
f1dSkl0S Will ueDNeT al duuTeSS. lie
First Regiment band of Brattleboro
has been engaged to play in the after
noon.
Thomas N. Reed lost valuable COW
during the electric storm on Monday
afternoon. She was killed by light
ming on low ground, only a few rods
from a steep side hill covered with
trees. Several other COWS were in
the same pasture. She was an indi-
vidual COW, and consequently Mr..
Reeds supply of milk and butter was
instantly cut off. No rain fell in the
locality where the COW was killed, al
though a heavy shower passed one
mile below Dummerston Centre, and
much rain fell in Brattleboro. On
Sunday night when George Person was
after the cows, he saw large lynx
in the same pasture, and on Monday
night, when the boy who usually goes
for the COWS, found Mr.. Reeds COW
missing, he naturally inferred that the
lynx had made trouble.
In the celebration of Old Home
Week, the committee will combine
their efforts and attraction in one day,
which will be the 18th of August. 1t
would be we'll to remember on that
occasion that Dummerston was $50
years old. on the 9Th day of last jan
uary. E. L. Hildreth & Co. of Brat
tleboro published recently very in
teresting book, written as a remem-
berancer of those early times in Dunn
merston, entitled History of Captain
John Kathan, the First Settler of Dunn
merston, VT, and his Associates"
which volume naturally takes the
form of narrative pages that it might
be interesting to read as well as
valuable for reference. The printing
and the binding are first-class work,
and the book is finely illustrated. The
edition was limited to 225 copies, more
than half of which were taken by
persons in New York. The book
contains the local history of those
times, as we'll as brief genealogy of
the Kathan families. Copies may
still be bought of the publisher or of
the writer of the book in Dummers-
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. L. d. Cassard and daugh-
ter of Baltimore, Md, are spending sew
eral weeks with Mrs. Oscar Dix.
There will be local option rally in the
vestry at Dummerston Centre Monday
evening, August II, at s o'clock. The is
sues of the state campaign win be dis
cussed. j. c. Jones of Rutland and
Hon. Cyrus Jennings of Hubbardton will
he he