Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-23

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at Festival hall next Thursday afternoon
ane evening" supper being served from to
5.
DR.. George 5. Foster of Putney has been
appointed one of the examining surgeons
Of the pension board which meets in Brat
tleboro to succeed Dr. White of Williams
vile, whose term Of Office has expired. The
examining surgeons are now Drs. Gray,
Conland and Foster.
The house of Christian F. Schuster of
Greenfield, Mass, formerly of Brattleboro,
was badly damaged by fire and water last
Friday. The fire was discovered by Mr..
Schuster between the brick work and cell
ing near the chimney. The fire depart
ment was called out and the house was
flooded from garrett to cellar. Bedding,
wall paper, carpets, clothing, books and
various articles were drenched. The loss
| is partially covered by insurance.
Secretary G. c. Averil of the Vermont
Live Stock company received, Saturday,
the report of the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the company which was
| held at the office of Il. S. Van Tassell at
| Cheyenne, Wyo., July -, for the election
| of a board of trustees. The board consists
of d. 5. Pratt, f. G. Crosby, +. w. Childs,
j. Henry Pratt, II. ID. Holton and G.. G.
Averill of Brattleboro, Louis f. Carr of
Springfield, Mass, and John d. Stevens,
the manager of the company.
George f. Pouter A., died ia Denver,
Colo, of consumption Monday Mr.. Poul-
ter formerly lived in Brattleboro, and was
employed by the Estey Organ company.
He has been piano and organ agent in
Greenfield the past 10 or 10 years. His
only son died of consumption about year
ago. Mr.. Poulter has been in poor health
for year and he and his wife left for Den
yer only a week before he died. He is
survived by the wife and one daughter,
Mrs. F. D. Roudenbush Of Greenfield. The
body will be brought East for burial.
Unless some special arrangement is
made it is no. likely that Brattleboro will
be given this year the privilege which was
enjoyed last summer of sending out a mail
pouch on the south bound train Sunday
afternoons. Assistant Postmaster Wilcox,
who has been trying to secure the privilege
again, has received word from the Boston
superintendent of the railway mail service
that as the Sunday afternoon train is a
private one, is not listed on the regular
time card and is not supposed to carry
passengers it cannot be obliged to carry
mail.
The trustees of the Brooks memora
fund have bought for the Brooks free H.
brary work entitled "a Library of the
Worlds Best Literature" published by X
: S. Peae and j. A. Hill of New York. The
Library is in 30 octave volumes richly
embellshed with numerous full-page ant
vignette portraits of authors, and has beer
many months in preparation under tn,
A editorial supervision Of Charles Dudley
p Warner, editor-n-chief, Hamilton w. Ma
bic, Geo. II. Warner Lucia Gilbert Run
kle, and large corps of skilfu assistants
directed by an advisory council of scholars
from our leading universities. 1t cover
the entire field of letters, ancient anC
! modern, and is the only publication of it
kind ever attempted. The first 10 volume
have been received, and the other 20 vii
be forwarded as soon as published.
The sacred concert and praise service a
the Congregational church last Sunda,
D evening was especially fine and attracted
an audience which filled every seat in tn
church besides 80 or more chairs which
were placed in the centre isle The Con
! gregational and Baptist churches unitet
: in the service, the music being entrel,
from Gaurs "Holy City, which was sun!
, last fall by the Choral Union. The regu
3 lar quartet was assisted by Mrs. Hubbard
Mrs. Eric Landry, l.. w. Hawley and +
II. Brasor, and there were solos by Mrs
Hubbard, Miss Gregg, Mr.. Brasor and Z
H. Miller, Miss Gregg singing the sol
which Miss Marion Minor sang at tn
Choral Union concert. Lucien Howe wa
the organist. Miss Sarah Mcdonald as
sisted with the harp in the accompaniment
o to Mr. Miller's and Mr.. Brasor's solos an
=. the effect was greatly enjoyed. Between
the musical selections were short scriptur
readings by Rev. Mr.. Day and Rev. MI
Temple and a five minutes talk on esprit
n ual Vision by Rev. Mr.. Temple.
Vaughan d Burnett is the name O
the new jewelry firm which makes it
first bow to the public today through
. the advertising columns of The PhuniX
The members are well known to Brattlebor
people, who will wish them success il
their new venture and who will undoubt
4 eddy give them the share of patron
: age which they deserve. They are F. X
u Vaughan, for the past nine years will
r Randall IL Clapp, and F. l.. Burnett, TO
E the past Ii years in the tuning depart
I ment of the Estey Organ works. Messrs
Vaughan Il Burnett have bought tn
stock and fixtures of the firm of Jordan d
Van Doom and have placed George S
Foster in charge until next Thursday
: when they will take possession personally
: Mr. Foster and James Dunlevy will re
main in the store for the present, TIN
latter, probably permanently. The new
firm will increase the present stock o
goods in every department except bicycles
and these are being closed out at a Low
figure. Mr.. Vaughan is an expert jeweler
and having had - years experience know
all branches of the business thoroughly
: They are few young men in town who ar,
more widely and favorably known thar
Vaughan IL Burnett, and this fact ough
to be alarge factor in their future success
Working for His Old Opponent.
Ex-Congressman Curtis of New York
would like to be appointed government
director of the Pacific railroads Hearin!
of this, Colonel William Lamb of Norfolk
who is chairman of the Republican stat,
committee of Virginia, voluntarily wen
to see President Mckinley and make
strong appeal in General Curtis's behalf
and thereby hangs a pleasant tale. Colo
mel Lamb was the Confederate commander
of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, when i
was assaulted and captured by the Terry
Porter expedition sent against it in Jan
uary, 1865, after General Butler had mad,
what General Grant called "a gross anC
culpable failure" in the preceding Decem
Der. General Curtis's brigade made The
final and successful assault. Colone
Lamb gave President Mckinley a graphic
account of this assault, in the course o.
which he said: "rhe fall of Fort Fisher