Historic events for Nov 21
A petition to the selectmen is now being circulated to have Mr. Crowell granted certain rights of occupation on Flat Street for the erection of his proposed new building, so that he may at once go on with the work without waiting for formal legal process before the courts.
The annual rush is on at the Estey factory and some of the departments are being run over time to keep up with the work.
Miss Mary Howe sang in Providence on Tuesday evening, in Washington last evening, and her date in Philadelphia is tomorrow evening, making for an unusually busy and exacting week. The date for her first appearance in New York city is fixed for next Tuesday.
L.R. Plummer will have an opening tomorrow of his new five and ten cent store in the rear of his main store at 33 Elliot street.
Mrs. Edward Crosby, who has been very critically ill with congestion of the kidneys since Thursday of last week, is still living at the hour of going to press, although the end has been almost hourly expected for several days past. Her constitutional endurance has proved to be very much greater than is usual in such cases.
Serious trouble has been encountered this week with the heating apparatus in the new school building, the furnaces failing to heat some of the rooms sufficiently to allow the children to be kept in them. The High school room warms without trouble, but in the recitation rooms on the second floor the temperature cannot be raised above 65 degrees.
The first article on the warrant for the annual village meeting is to see if the village will accept the amendment of the charter recently made by the legislature, changing the time of holding the annual meeting to the first Tuesday in May.
The town report for 1879 shows that it cost for streets and sidewalks in the village of Brattleboro, in 1878, about $5000, or, including bridges, the sum was about $6800.
All the little folks, and a good many “children of a larger growth,” will be delighted to learn that the veritable and genuine General and Mrs. Tom Thumb (nee Lavinia Warren), Major Newell, and a company of other little people will visit Brattleboro on Thanksgiving day, giving performances afternoon and evening.
Crosby hall was lighted up on Wednesday evening and thrown open for the inspection of all who cared to look in.
The call has been issued for the annual village meeting which occurs on Monday evening Dec. 1. Among the articles upon which voters will be called upon to act are the following: To see if the village will authorize the building of more reservoirs, and also authorize the payment of $500 toward the building of the new tomb at the cemetery.
The new chapel of the Congregational church was dedicated on Tuesday evening last, with appropriate exercises of a religious and social nature.
Our young friend Larkin G. Mead, Jr., is now at the seat of war, with the Vermont brigade, employed as an artist, taking officers, camps, regiments, brigades, or entire divisions as opportunity presents. A harmless way of doing it, to be sure, using as he does, only a pencil.
The following are the contents of the first box sent to the hospital by the Brattleboro Relief Society: 4 heavy woolen blankets, 2 do. comfortables, 1 heavy blanket shawl, 7 calico comfortables, 1 calico bedquilt, 1 cashmere dressing gown, 3 prs. pillow cases, 2 prs. sheets, 16 prs. cotton drawers, 6 short bed gowns, 9 long bed gowns, 50 prs woolen socks, 9 rolls bandages, 1 box lint, 3 packages Castile and Windsor soap, 1 box fine tooth combs, 2 pillows, 2 Bibles.
The third company of Vermont sharpshooters now recruiting in this village, is nearly full.
