The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-11
so Years Ago
Happenings of December, 1870.
Taken from the Files Of
The Phoenix .

The interior of the Baptist church is
now nearly completed and the ceremO-
MES of dedication will take place Nednes-
day. Dec. 2S.
The thirteenth annual ball of the
Fountain Engine Co, No. t is to take
place on the evening of Dee. 80. The
Fountains always get up a good bali and
all attending may feel assured of spend
ing an enjoyable evening.
The Sabbath school concert at the
Baptist church last Sunday evening was
fully attended and the character of the
exercises reflected great credit upon su-
pcrintendent and teachers. The school
mt the present time has an average at
tendance of 244 pupils.
A drunken freshman. hailing from
Putney. undertook, to cross the railroad
bridge over the Milestone brook last
Wednesday afternoon and fell through.
Fortunately he struck in the mud ON
the shore and his injuries, if he received
any, were neutralized by the balm of in
toXication.
A large counterfeiting establishment
was broken up in New York December
10 and the proprietors arrested. Among
5000 applicants for counterfeit money
whose names We're found on their books,
was one j. Splein' of this place. The
average receipts OF the firm were about
$500 a day. ,
A boy eleven years of age. son of My
ron Corbett of this village. was seriously
injured last Saturday while Sliding on
the sidewalk at the upper end of High
street, by his Sled running into q fence.
One or two of his ribs were fractured
causing internal injuries. lie IS said to
be i'm a fair way to recover.
The boys of the Grand Army have
arranged to give a dramatic entcrtain-I
ment at The Town hall on the evenings
of Dee. 18th and 10Th. The play IS en-
titled. The Old Flag. or the Spy of New
bern. 1t will lie followed by a farce en-!
titled, Change of Base. From the cast
of characters and the popular nature of
the entertainment We run no risk in pre-
dieting for the boys a grand success.
Although the year 1870 has been 81
poor one in general business activity, our
carpenters and masons have not been
idle. Sixteen dwelling houses have been
erected within the limits of the village,
at an approximate cost of $4,000, while
the amount invested in workshops, buSI-
ness blocks and public buildings Will
swell the outlay to about 100000. This
does not include the cost of land nor the
amount expended in repairs which
amounts to no ineOnsiderable sum.
O.
4 petition has been presented to the
selectmen for a new street, to connect
Western avenue with the west end of
Elliot street and such a street will prob
ably be built at an early day. The pro
posed street will be Il great accOmoda-
tion to wOrkmen and others living in the
direction of Centeryille and the cost Will
not be heavy. .~
prohabIv not less than 500 persons
were present at the temperance meeting
at the Town hall last Sunday evening
and 81 names were added to the pledge.
1t is gratifying to note that many of
those who nave joined this association
are persons belonging to the class known
as mderate drinkers while notable exam
pies Of those to whom the immoderate
use of Intoxicating liquors had become
a fixed habit are not wanting.
Mr.. Addison Brooks of Vernon has
within the past three weeks, shot and
killed nine foxes. one at a time, by FIR
ing ten shots only.
The Phoenix now has bonatide sub
scribers in every town i'll Wlndham
county with the exception of Athens and
Stratton. As a reader of the Phoenix,
[,ewfane is the banner town outside Of
Brattleboro, 147 copies being required to
furnish mental food for its hungry fam
lies. BrattleborO itself absorbs nearly
500 copies and the number is constantly
increasing.