St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-12-26
STATE Personal NE WIS.
BratfIeboro's Sonestress.

The many friends of Lucian and
Miss Mary Howe will be pleased to
learn that they were expected to ar
rive in New York from Paris last Sat
urday. During their stay in Paris
MIR. Howe has been improving his
voice under M. Trebadello, while
taking organ and composition with
the celebrated Guillemeth, With graft
flying results. Miss Howe has been
with Nine Marchesi, the renowned
teacher of Italian opera. She pre-
diets a great future for the young
singer. Miss Howe has added to her
repOrtory of La SOmnambula,"
lie Barber" and Lucia" which
she sang in Berlin last year, the
operas of ''Lackmi,' Faust" and
Romeo and Juliet" beside preparing
herself for concert work. She returns
to consider flattering proposition
from q prominent American manager
She is in the best of health, and those
who have heard her sing in Paris say
she has greatly improved under re
cent instruction.
Col. George w. Hooker of Brattle-
South ROyaltOn Memorial day.
Ex-Governor Farnham has been
elected president of the New England
company which has invested heavily
in coal and iron lands in Dade county,
Ca, and he expects to go there with
his family the first of next month to
spend the winter.
The Bellows Falls Times pays a
deserving tribute to Vermonter
when it says: Col. Albert Clarke,
who is always a Vermonter though
for the good of Massachusetts trans
planted to that state, is president of
Wellesley Club, a social dining club
composed of residents of that beauti-
full town of culture and refinement"
In 1884 Henry Ward Beecher
wrote of Oliver johnson, the old-time
abolitionist, Il rank MIR. Johnson
among the best men that our time
has produced, the men who have
enriched the world, and of whom the
world was not worthy He belongs
to the band-afmost gone-of those
who fought the battle of liberty and
who have lived to see the victory
Eldin ] Hartshorn of Iowa, a for
mer law student of Dunton and Yea
zey's in Rutland. and once assistant
clerk of the Vermont Legislature, has
been appointed to be cashier of the
sergeant alarms office of the house
of congress in place of the defaulter
Silcott Mr. Hartshorn has given a
bond of 500. 900 for the performance
l. 4 L 4 III 1
hall.
Mrs Lucy Wood, of Barre, aged
1O4 years, the oldest lady in that
section, whose husband, John Wood,
was in the war of 1912, applied for
pension some time ago, has been
rejected because her husband was a
teamster. Her maiden name was
Lucy Whitney. They were married
at Milford, Mass, in February, 1903,
and he died in Barre March "a, 1857.
Mrs. Wood is very smart for her age,
ing holders with her name and age
thereon, which she sells for 10 cents
each.
Mrs. David J. Brewer, wife of the
newly appointed associate justice of
the supreme bench, is a Burlington
girl, the youngest daughter of the
late Hiram Landon. As Miss Louise
X. Landon she left that city some
years ago and went to live with her
sister, Mrs S. D. Woods, who resided
at Leavenworth, Kansas. 1t was
there that Judge Brewer, then
clerk in a Leavenworth law office,
- o.
1861. Judge Brewer has frequently
visited Burlington, where he has
friends and acquaintance