Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-12

Mr.. Billings shipped to Germany on
Tuesday from Suffer Brothers Brattle-
boro warehouse, 80 cases of Connecticut
river tobacco. 1t was grown in Walpole.
Miss Mary Gordon of Portland, Conn,
has been elected to the vacant position in
the High school. Miss Gordon is a gradu.
ate of Mount Holyoke college and comes
highly recommended. She will have charge
of the English work, beginning next Mon
day.
Fisk g. Rogers, formerly clerk and man.
ager of the George E. Lyons Granite COM
pany, has been appointed superintendent
OF the Woodbury. (Vt) Granite company.
The Woodbury. company is putting in one
of the finest granite plants in the country
and is preparing to do an extensive bust
ness.
William Barry, who will be remembered
as clerk in the drug store of Henry c..
Willard ID years ago, is one of the leading
performers in the Rice Comedians, which
appeared at Bellows Falls this week, Mr..
Barry was a member of the local "Star
Minstrels" which gave several excellent
entertainments here and in nearby towns.
The Christian Endeavor society of the
Congregational church elected these Of
hcers Sunday evening: President, Miss
Helen Fletcher; vice president, Miss En-
ma Gregg; corresponding secretary, Miss
Florence Fits; recording secretary, Miss
l.. q. Park; treasurer, Mrs. L. K. Hol-
den, and the various committees with
these chairmen: prayer meeting, Miss
Edith Stolte; lookout, Miss Lena Crosier:
missionary, G. H. Thompson; social and
calling, Mrs. Fred L. Smith; flower, Miss
Grace Emerson.
The March number of Wilson's Photo
graphic magazine, published in New York
devotes one full page to the reproduction
in half-tone, of photographs by John c..
Howe, showing six poses of Mary Howe in
the mad scene of the opera "Lucia." On
another page the pictures are referred to
in the following complimentary paragraph:
1.-THE six poses of Mary Howe, delineating
the dramatic changes in the mad scene
from the opera Lucia came to us from
Mr.. John c. Howe of Brattleboro, Vt, a
brother of this fair singer, whose fame is
matter of national pride. In conception,
composition and treatment each pose does
credit to the photographer and his sympa-
thetic subject"
James G. Fraser, 63, died at 5 Canal
street Saturday night of a complication of
diseases. He was born in Chicopee, Mass,
in May, 1884, and lived there Is years, dur
ing which time his father died. He then
went to East Dorset, this state, where he
became connected with the East Dorset
marble quarrles. In 1850 ne married Miss
Rhoda E. Brophy, and ten years afterward
moved to Londonderry, where he carried
on a farm. In March, $780, he came to
Brattleboro and has since lived on Frost
and Canal streets, and has had no partic-
ular business His last illness was of
about three months duration, although
he had been in i'll health for two years or
over. Funeral services were held at the
house Monday afternoon, Rev. A. j. Hough
officiating. The body was taken to Lon
donderry for burial. Mr.. Fraser leaves a
widow and four children, Edward A., of
Worcester, Mass, d. H., of Middetown,
Conn.,, and Jennie M. and Alton II. of
Brattleboro. The latter is employed in the
Boston & Maine freight office. Mr.. Fraser
enlisted in the army in September, 1861,
and served for three years in Company G
of the 1st Vermont Cavalry. AT the end
of that time he was wounded in the back |
of the head by the explosion of shell and |
was taken prisoner. He spent four months |
in rebel prison on Bell Island Va, and |
was confined in hospital for the next |
seven months when he was discharged.