Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-11-04


Conn, in the employ of the Wilcox a White
organ company.
The M. e. Sunday school will have
harvest concert next Sunday evening at
o'clock in the audience room of the church.
The subject of Rev. Mr. Green's dis
course next Sunday evening at the Unitarian
church will be "Athanasius and the Emperors."
Hour Of service, o'clock.
Patents recently granted to Vermonters
are To L. X. Fuller of Brattloboro, for reed
organ stop -action, and to II. O. White Of No.
Bennington for portable writing desk
Along with his usual full stock in all de-
partments Ray has some November specialties
which are enumerated in his new advertise
meut this week.
The Litta concert company are to give us
the best opera which has yet been put upon
our local stage, on the evening Of the 18th
inst. Particulars in amusement column.
The original Norfolk Jubilee singers will
sing in Crosby hall next Friday evening
They were here year ago last June and gave
much pleasure TO large audience.
There will be a vesper service in the Uni
versalst church next Sunday at p. N. The
pastor, Rev. L. W. Whitney, will speak upon
Thomas the Doubter."
Did you notice that Wsntastiquet had on
nh NlnltE thD lulh II was the
first appearance" Of the season. How cold
il must be in London where they had q snow
storm last week
Mr.. L. NJ. Price, receiver of the First
National Bank OF Brattleboro, has been ap.
pointed assistant receiver Of the broken Me-
chanics' bank Of Newark, n j. Mr.. Prices
home is in Newark.
1t is a query in the minds Of many PEG.
pie whether, in the light of the Newark rev.
Citations, Waite will not be Just shade sub
dued in his appearance the next time he takes
a fortnights vacation in Brattleboro.
Main street residents are beginning to
wonder whether the selectmen mean to set
the granite curbing which has encountered
the street so long on the east side, before
winter comes. A foot of frost in the ground
wouldn't help the job any.
The first of winter series of sociables
to be given by the ladies of the Unitarian so.
ciety was held at the residence of o. J. Pratt
ON Tuesday evening. 1t was largely attend
ed aud was one Of the pleasantest parties Of
the kind which the society has ever held.
DR. j. E. Prescott, the well known Cd.
tician, is still at the Brooks House attending
to his many patrons. Owing TO other en-
gagements he eau remain only few days
longer, and all who wish his services should
consult him at once.
The Fort Drummer rife club elected the
following officers at their annual meeting on
Tuesday evening; President, L. X. Fuller
vice president, L. II. Putnam secretary,
w. II. Chids treasurer, Oscar Marshall
executive committee, G.. b. Reed, A. 4. Nc
Clure, A. W. Nichols; range committee,
Rob't Daley, A. S. Nichols and Arthur Knight.
The Windham County Association of
Congregational Clergymen meets next Tues
day and Wednesday with the pastor of the
Congregational church Of this place. There
will be a public preaching service in the
church Tuesday evening at 7.3O, when a ser
mon will be delivered by one of the associs-
TONS abest men. The public is cordially
invited and, it is hoped, will generously re-
spond by attending this service.
A new and much needed lamp post and
lantern has been put in at the further end of
Walnut street where it lights the dark turn
up on TO Tyler street and the Terrace.
great improvement has been made in the
lighting Of Main street by moving the lamp
post which formerly stood at Mr.. ClApps
gate down 10 the Episcopal church and town
hall corner, and putting in q new and addi-
tional post TO light the crossing in front Of
the Congregational church.
We learn that Dr. Chas. W. Drew, re-
Gently with DR.. Holton as assistant, has SET
tied in Minneapolis, Mimi, where there is an
excellent prospect that in due time he will Sc
cure a successful practice. DIR. Drew has
been appointed Adjunct Professor Of Chem
istry in the Minnesota college hospital, an in
stitution recently established in Minnesota
under the most favorable auspices. Many
Brattleboro friends will be glad to learn Of
the doctors excellent prospects.
Mr. Chas. II. Smith, for several years
past teller of the Vermont National bank,
left, with his family on Wednesday after
noon, for his new residence and position in
Minnesota. Mr.. Smith is one OF the staunch,
reliable young Dlen whom everybody hates to
lose from town, and he carries with him
thousands of good wishes The bank of
which he is to be cashier has not yet opened
for business, but will do so in course of this
month. The large safe used by the Peoples
Bank in its old location was bought by Mr..
Smith for his new bank aud shipped to Min
nesota with his personal goods.
One of the French visitors, returned
from Yorktown, is reported as letting his wit
get the better of his politeness and saying
that he is no longer surprised that Corn wallis
surrendered to an inferior force at that place.
He thinks he would have done that or any
thing else in reason to have got out of the
town.-N. y. Tribune
We know of lots of Vermonters who "let
their wit get the better of their politeness" in
Just the same way, but that didn't prevent
their having good time at Yorktown, all the
same
In the removal of Mr.. John W. Frost and
family to Peoria, ILL.,, Brattleboro loses some
of her best known and most esteemed resi-
dents. native of this town, Mr.. Frosts
whole life has been identified with Brattle-
bOro and its interests. His business career
has been a long and honorable one and he
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sibility. The family have held high social
position and they will be greatly missed from
our community. The removal is ocoasioned
by Mr. Frost's new business relations, he hav-
ing recently become interested in the grain
commission business in Peoria, where one of
his daughters, Mrs. w. II. Minor, has resided
since her marriage several years since.
The quadrennial catalogue of Leland &
Gray Seminary, at Townshend, which has Just
been issued from the press of Selleck d
Davis shows that school to be in a steadily
fourishing condition. Since the present prin-
oipal, Prof. @. @. Boynton, went there in the
spring of 1876, the school has had total of
9iS pupils At Mr.. Boynton's first term the
number was only "a at the spring term of
the present year it was II. The number at
the fall term, now near its close, is 90, the
largest number of adult pupils at any term
under the present management. Mr.. BOyn-
ton is a man thoroughly in earnest in his
work, and is giving his best energies to the
building up of his school. We are glad to see
SO many evidences of hissuccess.
The following item is from Chicago pa
per of last Monday
GREAT BEND, Kas., Oct 30.-Col George W. Hooker
of Vermont the assistant secretary of the Republican
national committee, and prominently known through
out the United States, has communicated to an init
mate friend now here that he will be candidate for
election to the ONCE Of sergeant-atarms Of the next
United States House Of Representatives to succeed
the present Democratic incumbent, John @. Thomp-
sou Of Ohio.
There is no doubt that the position named
is one that Col. Hooker would fill admirably,
and we are sure that all his Vermont friends
would be glad to see him elected to it.
The Star Minstrels, assisted by the Opera