Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-11-24


TO his house on Green street.
g. E. Gilman arrived Sunday night
with a carload Of horses from Indiana.
The Y. M. G. A. reception committee
will give its first reception of this season
on Wednesday evening of next week in
the rooms. 1t will be public Refresh
ments will be served.
The Vaughan & Sargent Electrical COM
pany has finished wiring the office and fac
tories of the S. A. Smith company for
electric lights and they have been at work
on the new house of Lucius Adams this
week. They will wire c. o. Robbins's
new house soon.
Lewis Morrison's "Faust" is this sea-
son again taking the lead as a spectacular
dramatic production. The play is staged
In more elaborate manner than ever be-
fore and in its new makeup Is little short
of perfection. The presentation In Brat
tleboro will take place Dec I.
Idella Hescock has been appointed
guardian of George W., Minnie E., and
Florence j., children of the late Warren
A. Hescock. George e. Ware of Brook
line has been appointed administrator of
the estate of Chrlstiana b. Holden of
Grand Lake, Col, having real estate in
this probate district
Col. Estey has issued an order directing
that all armories in the state be consider
ed as company barracks. This will mean
the destruction of the old club room gov
eminent in the armories and the placing
of all the authority in the hands of the
officers. Every member of the company
will be considered a soldier while he is in
the armOry, and will be subject to all the
regular army barracks regulations. The
colonel of the regiment will have complete
control of the barracks of every company.
Lawyer Frank Stowe, whose desk Is in
the county clerks office in Crosby block,
has rented the room formerly occupied by
LaFleche Brothers on the other side of the
hall. j. G. Ullery has moved his publish
ing business from Crosby block to his new
building. G. +. Thompson has rented the
smaller room which Mr.. Ullery occupied
before moving and Lawyer G. G. Fits has
rented the room now occupied by Mr..
Thompson and will occupy it as business
office, retaining his present office for con-
sulting room.
The Fessenden Helping Hand society
has engaged Miss McCobb of Portland for
the first week in December. She will pre-
sent "Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works. in Grange
hall. The Boston journal says: "Too
much praise cannot be given Miss Mary
Selden McCobb who impersonated Mrs.
farley. Miss McCobb is a resident of
Portland. She first took up Mrs farley
as pastime, and later, being successful
beyond measure, took up the pantomime
as profession. She has acted the part in
all of the more important cities of the
eastern states. BY her droll humor and
clever local hits, she gained still another
triumph last night"
There was a hearing before Justice Mer-
rifield Monday in the suit of John B. Man
ley against A. G. Fellows of Brookline, II.
&. Barber appearing for the plaintiff and
j. l.. Martin for the defendant. The
plaintiff charged the defendant with dis
posing Of bicycle upon which he held
lien note. The defendant claimed tina 1.-THE
note had been paid by cash, by orders
given upon A. M. Mortified of Williams
vile and by commissions due him from
the plaintiff for disposing of other bicycles
The plaintiff denied ever having agreed to
pay commissions TO the defendant and
claimed that the note had not been paid
into about $50. The trial of the case last
ed nearly all day and was then continued
to tomorrow.
r. j. Waters, a native of Halifax, has
been visiting the scenes of his boyhood.
He was educated at Deerheld, Mass, where
he lived with his sister, and in Richfeld,
N. Y, and Shelburne, Mass. He taught
school in Claremont, and then went TO
Chicago, where he was admitted to the bar
He was one of the men instrumental In
building up Redlands, Calf, and was pres
ident Of large water company there. He
now has large business interests in Southern
California, and lives in Los Angeles. He
was elected to Congress a year ago, and
on this trip is accompanied by his family,
who will spend the winter in Washington.
Mr.. Waters has two sisters living in Green
field, Mass, Mrs. Stephen Chapman and
Mrs. A. A. Alexander.
Large half tone portraits of Anna Lich-
Ter (Mrs. William Schuster) appeared re-
Gently as frontispiece of the Dramatic
Review and Town Talk of San Fran /
CISCO Music and Drama also publishes |
her picture above the heading 1.-THE popu-
lar young soprano who is great favoTite |
with TiVoli audiences" The San Fran |
cisco Call, in recent notice of "The Bohe- |
milan Girl, says: "There isn't a man of |
all the Tivoli many who is a more all. |
around satisfactory singer than Mr.. |
Schuster. he can be adapted to any oc- |
casion, being as grand as he is comic, and |
as comic as he is grand. he has a good |
voice, a good presence, and the only dan
ger is that he may prove too good to last"
The Musical Courier of last week con-
tained the following: 1.-THE death of Mrs.
Orrin A. Kimball is a sad piece of news to |
chronicle, especially as it came very sud
denly. Orrin A. Kimball, of the Emerson
Piano company, was suddenly recalled |
from Old Fort, S. c., where he had gone
70 recuperate after severe illness, by the |
death of his wife, which occurred yester.
lay at p. NJ. Mr.. Kimball arrived in |
Boston at A. NJ, just before the demise.
Mrs. Kimball was Miss Helen NJ. Butler,
born in Brattleboro, VT, Nov. 20, 1884
She had been i'll for some time, but not so
as to give cause for alarm. The
funeral will occur tomorrow" The fu-
neral of Mrs. Kimball was held at Boston
Nov. 10. The burial was in the Forest
Hills cemetery. The summer home of the
Aimball family is at North Hinsdale two
niles from Brattleboro, on the direct road
o Hinsdale.
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