Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-08-17

GROVE springs, OpOHOTu lake, tne evening
of the oath, to which Brattleboro people are
cordially invited. Music will be furnished
by the Philharmonic orchestra
George W. Pierce has invited Protective
grange to his home Tuesday, the 21st, to
basket picnic, including clam bake and
general good time Members whose names
have been entered but who have not taken
the degree are especially invited.
The New England Telephone company
is about to run new metallic circuits of
copper from Keene to Brattleboro, and
from Keene to Gardner, Mass. At BratN
tleboro the line will connect with the cop
per circuits of the Connecticut valley and
at Gardner with the copper circuits to Bos-
ton, Worcester, Providence, Lowell, etc.
GIN. Leete, the chairman of the direct
ors of the Claremont music festival, was
in Brattleboro last week to confer with
Jules Jordan of Providence, the noted
conductor. Mr.. Jordan will not only be
the conductor at the festival, but will spend
some time in directing the chorus. Geo.
A. Briggs, formerly of Brattleboro, is one
of the directors of the festival.
William Mcclellan, whose death was re-
corded last week by our Wilmington cor
respondent, is we'll remembered in Brattle-
boro, having formerly been an employe of
the Estey Organ company. He was mar
ried in this town to Miss Nellie Bowker,
who survives him, with one daughter
Mr.. Mcclellan went to Wilmington IL years
ago, and for several years has been one of
the proprietors of the Vermont House.
Sylvanus Wood, the veteran solicitor of
the American Express company at Fitch
burg, Mass, died in that city Sunday. Mr..
Wood was one of the oldest of the few re-
naming men who were stage drivers before
the era of railroads. He was born in En-
field 50 years ago, and after being team
ster between that place and Springfield be-
gan work as stage driver between Brat
tleboro and Fitchburg. He had been con-
nected with the express business at Fitch
burg since the completion of the Fitchburg
railroad in 1945.
Gov. Fuller was one of the speakers at
the meeting of the Franklin county road
commissioners association at Enosbnrgh
Falls last week Thursday, and on Friday
gave the principal address before the
Chittenden County Road Commissioners
association at Burlington. The address
was illustrated by crayon drawings. Gov.
Fuller described New Jersey roads and
those of other states that he thought
Vermont would do well to pattern aft
err. He thought large portion of. the
money expended on roads was wasted.
A rousing Republican rally will be held
just before the state election, September A.
j. L. Martin, George S. Dowley, c. C..
Fits, S. B. Emerson, c. Ii. Thompson and
H. D. Hclton have been appointed COM
mittee to make the arrangements. A
speaker of national reputation will be en-
gagged, probably Henry Cabot Lodge,
Thomas b. Reed, Gov. Greenhalge of
Massachusetts, or ex Congressman Dalzell
of Pennsylvania. 1t is expected that the
rally will take the form of an outdoor after
noon meeting, so that the people from the
adjoining towns may be given a good op-
portunity to hear the speech.
Rudyard Kipllng's seven words for 81,
said to be the highest price paid any liter
airy man of our times, reads very small in
comparison with what was paid Judge
Paxton for literary article, says the
Springfield Republican. Until Mcleod
came on the scene the Reading railroad had
used an old sign at the crossings, "Beware
of the Engines and Cars" with mass of
further instructions in small print. In
some suits for damages it was claimed that
the warnings were not clear. Mcleod
admirable notice, Railroad crossing
Stop, Look and Listenr' For this little
composition he received the modest sum of
S47S0, or over $79666 a word. When il
comes to emoluments the poets are not in
it with the lawyers.
An order has recently been entered in
the United States circuit court at Boston
dismissing the case of the Overman Wheel
company and the Pope Manufacturing
company against the Reed & Curtis Ma
chine screw company of Worcester for al
legged infringement of what is known as the
Overman pedal patent, of which the two
plaintiff companies claimed exclusive own
ership. A considerable amount of expert
testimony has been taken in the case as to
the validity of the patent, and as the suit
has resulted favorably for the defendants,
the complalnants will not recover any costs
or damages, and the Reed & Curtis COM
pany will be left free to continue the man
ufacture of the form of pedal which it has
heretofore placed upon the market
Mrs. Robert Burnett and children, wffU
have been spending several weeks at The
HemlOcks, were Joined Saturday night by
Mr.. Burnett, who intended to spend week
here with his family. Mr.. Burnett left his
father well at Southboro that afternoon.
few hours after the sons departure the
father, DIR. Joseph Burnett, was fatally in
jured at Marlboro, Mass, where he was
thrown from his carriage. He was taken
to Southboro, where his death occurred.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Burnett, on being in
formed of the accident by telegram, left
at once for Southboro DR.. Joseph Bur
nett was born at Southboro in 1920, and at
an early age established the perfumery and
high standard extract manufacturing bust
ness in which he made a fortune. He had
been president of the Boston Druggists as
ISOLATION and held many other offices of
honor. He was pioneer breeder in high
bred stock and established the we'll known
Deerfoot farm, covering hundreds of acres,
at Southboro. Mr.. Burnett's wife, who
was Josephine Gutter of Boston, survives
him, with IL children, nearly all of whom
are men and women of prominence. One
son is ex-Congressman Edward Burnett.
Robert Burnett is treasurer of the Deerfoot
farm corporation.
Mrs. Clarinda Gould Chamberlain, who
died in Scion, Ohio, August 5, was the
daughter of Thomas and Deborah Gould,
and was born In Guilford in 1908. She
lived in that town until 1887, when she
moved to Twinsburgh, Ohio, where she
was soon married to Hiram Chamberlain,
who was really one of the first settlers of
the Western Reserve, being the first white
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