Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-01-09


Rev. Oscar r. Koch. OF Iowa, is thu
new pastor Of the Swedish Congrega
tional church.
Second Lieutenant Dunklee has re
signed his Office in Company |. bu
no order has been received yet for al
election to fill the vacancy.
Brattleboro lodge, No. l02, f. anC
\. NJ. worked the third degree at
special meeting Wednesday evening
The lodge will work this degree mex
Wednesday and Thursday evenings
ST Michael's parochial school open
ed Monday after the holiday vacation
Rev Father Cunningham hopes tC
keep the schOOlrooms warm, but if not
he will close them later.
Sergeant w. N Batchelder was
elected clerk and treasurer of Com
pany | at a meeting Of the company
last evening. The regular weekly
school for non-commissioned officers
will begin next week
The annual meeting of the Valley
Fair directors. which has usually been
held the third week in January, will
be postponed several weeks this year
owing to the illness of George w
Pierce. vice president and acting
president
Fort Drummer Royal Arch Chapter
held special meeting yesterday af-
ternoon and a regular meeting in the
evening, with supper at 6 o'clock
Three degrees were conferred in the
afternoon and one in the evening. on
three candidates. Members from Put
ney and Guilford were present.
Thomas VIM, who is employed in
Holden & Martins shop on Flat
street, had one rib broken about 4
O'Clock yesterday. He was standing
near the sidewalk at the east end of
the shop when a runaway team owned
by Lucius Adams came around the
corner from the street in the rear of
the shop and ran into him The
pole struck him in the side and knock.
ed him down.
A change of more or less import
ance has been made in the manage
ment of the Central Vermont Rail.
road company, although it has not
been officially announced. Superin-
tendent Soule, who has been super
intendent from st. Johns, Quebec. to
New London, Conn. is now superinten-
dent only from St Johns to White
River Junction, the road from White
River Junction to New London being
in charge of Assistant Superintendent
Nash.
An unexpectedly large audience
greeted the Fisk Jubilee singers in the
Congregational church Monday even
ing, the floor of the church being filled
to the doors To have such a large
audience present was gratifying not
only to the singers, but to the Fessen-
den Helping Hand society, under
whose auspices the singers came.
Ihree-fourths of the proceeds of the
concert will go to the support of Fisk
University, Nashville, Tenn. The
company consists of nine voices, all
well trained. and their work is har-
monious and is executed with finish
which puts them ahead of any com
pany who ever represented the uni
versity. Many of their songs were
characteristic folk-sOngs of their race
but some of them were of modern
structure and in their rendering was
evinced Il marked degree of intelli-
gence. The personal appearance of
the young people left an excellent i'm
preston and bore testimony to a de.
gree that nothing else could of the re-
lining and upbuilding influence of Fisk
University
Another recreation evening" of the
BrattleborO WOman's club was greatly
enjoyed by the club members and
their friends on Wednesday evening,
when j. l.. Harbour of Boston lectured
upon the new beatitude Blessed be
Humor' in the Brooks House par |
lOr. Mr.. Harbour. who is widely
known as a member Of the editorial |
star OF the Youths Companion and as |
writer, is also making for himself |
good place upon the lecture plat |
form. In his opening sentences he |
put his audience in good humor, and |
while he modestiy disclaimed any |
right TO the title "humorist." he |
proved himself the next best thing
a man who knows humor when he
sees 1t, aud can make others see il.
TOO. HIS lecture was made up large, |
ly OF bits of humOr picked up in his
varied experience as reporter, school
teacher, pfOspectOr. manuscript read
er, etc, and closed with a selection
from his own writings, which has
mad wide use by pnhlic readers. 1t
was a well satisfied audience that dis
persed after two hours of fun and
laughter