Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-26
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

| Eighteen went 10 ENJOY the outing.
Announcement was made this rnornint
| that the last excursion to Watch Hill ant
| Block Island would be held Saturday
| Aug ). Announcement was also made OF
reduced ticket rates to the Old Home
week celebration in Boston next week
The fire department was called our
again Sunday afternoon to extinguish tn,
| i1re which destroyed Stuart Pratts barr
| last week Wednesday afternoon. The
| DIG pile OF new hay smouldered from
! wednesday night until Sunday when II
| blazed up again Several men with hand
| chemicals were first sent up to extinguist
| the hre' but finally the steamer was
called to drown it out
| w. D. Lenihan moved into his new bar
| Der shop in the Ullery building Yesterday
| ana received large number Of his friends
| ana patrons in the handsomely finished
| new quarters. The shop includes the on =
| tlre store formerly occupied by Z. ]. Fen
| Ton and is fitted up with the most mod
ern appliances including six Koch's hy-
draullc barber chairs with sanitary bead
rests and a towel sterilizer, the first ono
IN town. In one window he displays a
complete line Of barber supplies and in
side is case for the sale of ciFars
Henry Belanger has installed a four chair
bootblacking stand on the south side Of
the shop and uses the south window for a
display Of his goods.
John c. Pellet. who is doing the work
pI ,I reouiidlng and remodelling the b. D.
Harris house for George c. Averiu its
present owner, expects to have that work
so far along the coming week that he
can begin work upon the changes on the
second floor Of the Vermont National hank
ouhdlng' which have already been spoken
or The main work will be to build a
brick fireproof vault above the bank vauIt
lie
as n foundation. This vault will have two
compartments; one to contain the probate
records Of the Marlboro district and the
other for the use Of c. c. Fits Mr.
Fltts rents the whole floor and will sub
Iet the rear room for an Office for the
probate court His own Offices will be
htted up in the front and corner rooms.
Prof. ~ Mkt Of the Hokkido govern
ment stock farm connected with the ag-
ricutural college in Sapora. Japan. was
IN town early in the week visiting F. L.
Houghton. Prof. Mkt came to America
in April to buy pure bred cattle for tho
agricultural college and on his arrival
wrote Mr Houghton as secretary Of
the Holstein- F'riesian association of
America for advice as to where 70 So
cure them. Through Mr.. Houghton's
help he was able to buy some fine Hol-
stein stock in the United States and some
Shorthorns and Ayrshires in Canada. He
visited Mr.. Houghton to thank him for
ms assistance and was shown the offices
and methods Of keeping the records of the
Holstein- -Fresian association. He went
from here to Amherst where he visited
Prof. William p. Brooks
The ashes Of the late Henry X. Field of
san Francisco, formerly of Brattleboro
were Inferred in the family lot in Pros
pect Hill cemetery Tuesday. His son.
charles k. Field, and Mr.. Hotaling. per-
sonal friend, came from Californa with
the ashes arriving Saturday. From sat
urday until Tuesday they were guests at
Hilcrest on Monday Mrs II. c. Will
lard, sister Of Henry X Field. her son
David Willard, Mr.. Hotaling and Charles
Il. Field, went to Newfaue to visit scenes
which We're so familiar to the Field fam
lily in days gone by Ii is no surprise 10
Bratteboro friends to know that Mrs.
tield has received a great number Of
letters from many places since her hus-
band's 5 death, the writer's Of which said
they felt that they had lost their best
friend and expressed heartfelt sorrow
at his death
The latest kick" on the West River
division Of the Central Vermont railroad
Is against the recently established prac-
uce of shipping calves to market in the
mail car. Farmers in the West River
valley find it more convenient to send
calves 10 BratlebOrO by train for re-
shipment on the cattle train leaving here
each Monday, than to bring them in by
team. The rear compartment of the mail
car has been made into a pen and each
Monday morning from one to five calves
make the trip to Brattleboro in it, In
hot weather the odor is not altogether
pleasing and the passengers who ride in
the smoking compartment at the other
end of the car not only object on their
own account but they wonder how the
postal clerk who is compelled to ride clo-
ser TO the animals Is able to stand it. 1t
is understood that If the practice con-
tinues the attention of the postal author
tiles will be called to it,
Brattleboro has been ENJOYING a period
of almost entire absence of contagious
disease. At no time in recent years have
so few cases been reported to the board of
health as in the past two months In
that time the only cases reported were
one of diphtheria, and one of whooping
cough which was probably mistake as
the child was all over the attack in a few
days. Commonly there is considerable
illness among children in sulamer but the
doctors say that they have very few
calls for childish ills this season. This
speaks well for the milk supply of the
town as disease of young children is a
pretty sure indication of its poor quality.
There have been very few deaths in the
town the past three months and taking
everything into consideration this may
well be called one of the most healthful
summers so far that Brattleboro has ever
known.
large number of the parishioners of
st. Michael's Episcopal church gathered
in the home of Congressman Kittredge
Haskins last night for an informal recep-
tion to Rev. Enoch Thompson of Wash
ington, D. c. who is Serving the church
temporarily as rector The evening was
spent pleasantly with music by Leitsing-
er's orchestra and songs by Alfred S.
Thompson and Mrs. Ralph Pettee, The
gathering was for the purpose Of making
Mr.. Thompson feel at home with the
church people and bringing them in closer
touch with him individually. He is serv-
ing the church until Rev. W. ]. Hamil-
ton of Delaware City, Del, is able to be-
gin work here. Mr. Hamilton accepted
a call to become rector of the church in
the spring but has been prevented from
taking up the work here by a serious
throat trouble.