Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-06

carriage drive last week to Peru, Lon
donderry Jamaica and Wndham for
visit to friends in those towns.
Miss Bessie Dutton spent week ago
Sunday with Miss Lula Butler of East
jamaica and last Sunday Miss Sadie
Holden, another classmate, was Miss But
lers guest
All we have heard speak of the
Valley Fair were much pleased with it.
Fifty-four attended It from this place.
We are sure the weather was all that could
be desired
1t is expected that James Coarser Of
Wardsboro will buy the Mccoy place.
He has been down twice to look IL over
and it was his conclusion to buy the last
time he was here.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Il. L. Hastings
welcomed her niece Miss Helen Starr Of
Chicago, who came from Byrdcliffe in the
Catskills. summer school for artists,
where Miss Starr has been doing private
kindergarten work during the summer.
A newspaper clipping informs us that
| Guy Colburn, who received the Grand
Army scholarship from Rhode Island
which entities him to an income of $500
a year, has been appointed instructor in
| the Greek department Of Brown univer-
! sity.
Senator Redheld Proctor has sent his
| check for 800 for the gymnasium fund
! OF the seminary and this gift is much
! appreciated 1t is hoped the fund may be
| so increased that the gymnasium so much
| needed by Leland & Gray seminary may
! become a sure thing In the near future.
! NJ. w. Boutelle OF Providence. II. l.,
! visited his brother Don Boutelle, last
| week. Mr. Boutelle has worked at his
! trade as a painter in Providence 80 years,
! and has been in the employ Of the city
| government painting the municipal build
] A no iuna 10
Of a gang Of men employed by the city,
| TO oversee the work they do.
Rev. G. d. r. Meacham of Fair Haven
was in town a day or two last week on
| his way to Jamaica, where he was sent
| by the Vermont Baptist State convention
| to preach on Sunday. Sunday a meeting
was held after the services and a unan-
! imous vote was taken to have him come
to the Baptist church here as acting pas
| tor. Mr. Meacham was communicated
| with by telephone and replied that he
would be here to attend the Thursday
evening prayer meeting. and he will preach
here next Sunday.
Among the successful exhibitors at the
! Valley Fair bench show last week was
| r. /. Holbrook, who won first and two
| seconds with his seven months old Pointer
! bitch, Juno by lmperator ex Senators
| Dot by the great field champion Senator
p ex Topsys Maid, Imperator being by
| King Of Lynn, who was sire OF that grand
field trial and bench winner, Champion
Bessie Bang H. Juno possesses quite some
| quality and even at this age had no
trouble In disposing Of such ordinary quail
| ~ as was found in Pearl Pointer. This
! puppy. as well as her dam, was bred by
her owner. who has a kennel OF some OF
the best combined field trial and bench
show bred Pointers in America. F. d.
| Reed won one first. one third and a
reserve with his Pointer dog, Eli X.
+. b. Lawrence won two firsts and one
second with his English Setter, Maple
hurst Chief by Champion Highland Fleet
eX Alberts Bonnie. one OF the greatest
| producing brood bitches that ever lived
yet all OF her progeny were not first prize
! winners, though among her produce were
the combined field trial and bench show
winners Evans Pride and Alberts
Patch and the bench winners Cincin-
natus Patch. Maplehurst Brockel. Jack
Daisy, Duke. Maplchurst Chief. Duke OF
Maplehurst, Flush and Blaze. all whelped
before she was sold to go TO Iowa, where
she is still proving her worth as a matron
-Four hrsts, three seconds. one third and
reserve would be considered fair win
ming for three Townshend dogs.