Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-01-05

The annual parish meeting and supper
of the Unitarian society will be held in
Wells hall next Tuesday evening. Supper
will be served at $3.50 o'clock.
A representative of the Wheeler e. Will
son Sewing Machine company is setting up
the new machines in the addition to the
overall factory occupied by Hooker, Corser
& Mitchell
Ella @. Esterbrook has been appointed
administrators, with the will annexed, of
the Laura A. Wetherell estate in place Of
o. D. Esterbrook, deceased, who was exec
utor of the will.
Cold weather has prevailed for week.
The official record showed q below zero
Tuesday morning, and 100 below yesterday
morning, with the mercury close to the
zero mark other mornings.
The suit of George NJ Ellis of Brattle-
boro against the Fltchburg Railroad COM
pany for $40, 900 damages will be argued
in Boston next week, G. G. Fits present
ing Elis's side of the case.
Five Centreville chickens, Matched last
May, and ERASED by hand" have been do
ing their best to break the New Year egg
market. Their product since October has
been Is dozen and four eggs.
Rev. w. f. Witter, New England dis
trct secretary of the Baptist Missionary
Union, and Rev. f. p. Haggard Of Assam,
India, gave an illustrated lecture in the
Baptist church Friday evening upon life
and Mission Work in India"
The Wolford Sheridan company, the
first TO present melodrama at popular
prices, will begin a weeks engagement at
the Auditorium the 18th. The list of plays
4 Al. -
presented by repertoire company.
Miss Annie Reding, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bartholomew Reding of South Yer
non, died in Boston, Tuesday of Bright's
disease. She was a niece OF James Mack
of Frost street. The funeral will be held
in the Roman Catholic church tomorrow
morning.
The January number Of the Art Inter
change has a handsome pen and ink cover
drawn by Paul Revere Henkel, Brattle-
| boro's promising young artist who is now
taking a course of study at the Art Stu.
dents leogue in New York city. The
heading on the first page of the magazine
is also the work of Mr.. Henkel.
The Y. NJ. G. A. basket ball team will play
| its third home game next Wednesday even
| ing with the Sheburne Falls, Mass, team.
Broderick and O'Hara, the best two men
on the Drury Academy team, have Joined
! the Sheburne Falls aggregation and with
| their assistance the team hopes TO make
the Brattleboro boys hustle to win.
! The officers of Fort hummer colony,
! Pilgrim Fathers, were installed Tuesday
/ evening by Deputy Supreme Governor Ad-
die NJ. Dix and Deputy Sergeant-at- Arms
! Mrs. K. j. Temple Of Hinsdale, y. II.
! An entertainment was furnished. consist
| ing of two piano solos by Horatio Smith. a
song and recitation by Mamie Hooker and
a recitation by May Hopkins. Remarks
were made by members Of the order, after
which banquet was served.
The final work on the Dickinson memo
rial in the Prospect Hill cemetery was done
| by G. II. Grant yesterday. The monu-
ment is Of fine quality granite, and is
about eight feet high. The face bears this
inscription: PLACED here in memory OF
! his mother, NJ. Jane Smead Dickinson, by
| Frederick Z. Dickinson, 1899" At the
base of the monument are large granite
! basins, which, in the spring will be sup.
| piled with water for public use in the Gem
etery.
The New York Tribune Of Yesterday
contained half-tone portrait and an ex
tended sketch of Mrs. Clara Louise Kel.
logg of Westfield. Mass, who has accumu,
lated large fortune by hand embroidery
Mrs. Kellogg visited in Brattleboro last fall
and made a large exhibit at the Valley
! Fair. There are over 200 embroiderers in
all parts of the United States who aid Mrs
Kellogg in her work. She makes her own
designs and goes to Europe every year fol
suggestions.
Covers will be laid for 500 people at the
Vermont Dairymen's banquet at the
Brooks House next Wednesday evening
Col. Hooker will preside and it is expected
that the following will respond to toasts
Gov. K. G. Smith, ex-Gov. Hoard of Wis
consin, Hon. c.. II. Warehouse Of New
Hampshire, II. II. Dean, b. S. A, of Can
ada, Hon. II. f. Alvord of Washington
d. c., Hon. Mason Stone, Hon. j. l.
Martin, Col. Kittredge Haskins and DR.
II. d. Holton.
A noticeable improvement in the lighting
of Green street has been made this week
and the street is now probably the best
lighted in town with the exception of MAR
street. The arc light near the residence OF
S. S. Hunt has been removed and three
incandescent lights have been substituted
at intervals so that the light is more evenly
distributed. Another incandescent lighI
will be put in soon, and the cost of the
four will be less than the cost of one arr
light. The bailiffs have maintained fol-
some time that incandescent lights could
be substituted for arc lights with advan
tage, and the change on Green street illus
trates the correctness of that theory
The review of the business of the New
York Life Insurance company's bushes,
for 1899 in another column shows remark
able growth for this old and reliable con
Germ. The company insured in the veal
100000 persons in the sum of 202 millor
dollars, an increase of $50, 900, 900 over the
business of 1898. The company has a to
tai OF 1000 million dollars of insurance il
force. The company has paid in the veal
Sll 100000 in death losses, S11 ,OO0, 900 OF
maturing policies, has loaned 81, 900, 900 tC
policy holders on the security of their poll
cies, and has paid to policy holders 81, $50,
600 in dividends This is said to be The
only company in the world which has com
piled with ali the insurance laws and regu
lations in the United States and Europe.
Sue to Recover $4,000.
A new development has appeared il