Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-11-15

Beauseant Commandery will confer
the knights of Malta and Red Cross
degrees tonight.
Beginning tomorrow the head
quarters of Company I in Ullery
building will be open every evening
and every Saturday afternoon.
District Deputy Wheeler of Bellows
Falls rehearsed the work of the de-
grees with the officers of the Masonic
lodges of the Sth district at Masonic
hall here Tuesday.
The ladies of the First Baptist
church will hold reception in the
chapel next Monday evening from
1870 to 10 o'clock to members of the
church and congregation.
Rev. r. F. Lowe preached in the
Methodist church in Keene last Sud
day in exchange with the pastor, Rev.
DR.. Durrell, and also led the afternoon
Y. M. G. A. meeting in that city.
The assignment of the supreme
court judges for the coming year
shows that Judge Rowell will preside
over the March term of the Windham
county court, and Judge Tyler over
the September term.
The season of grand opera in Eng
fish will begin at music hall in the
exposition building in St. Louis next
week. The company is a strong one
including William Schuster and his
wife Gamma LiChter).
There was slight fall of snow dur
ing Saturday night, just enough to
make the ground white. On the
Marlboro hills the fall was heavy
enough so that it could be seen from
Brattleboro for two days.
Henry H. Homer of Brattleboro has
taken a position as engineer on a
western railroad and has gone to
Fort Wayne, Ind Mr. Horner re-
Gently married Mary E., daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Pagan of Am
| herst, Mass.
The Chinese hearings which were
begun Friday in the office of Water
man & Martin were concluded that
day and 10 Cinnamon were taken on
the evening train to Newfane where
they are being kept in Jail pending
decisions by Judge Wheeler. There
are now about 80 Cinnamon in the
Jail.
Hiland Taft Boutelle, 60, who died
in Springfield Vt, recently was born
in Townshend learned the machin-
lists trade in Springfield, then spent
several years in Brattleboro, return
ing to Springfield, where he was en-
ployed 81 years by Gilman e Towns
bend, afterward Gilman & Son. He
is survived by a wife and two daugh-
tiers.
Clinton Barnum Seeley and Wilson
Marshall, two young men well known
in Brattleboro through their visits
here, will soon build in Bridgeport,
Conn, an elegant theatre with a seat
ing capacity of POO. 1t will be known
as Smiths Colonial theatre and will
be similar in design to the Colonial
| theatre in Boston. McElfatrick &
Sons of New York, who designed the
Brattleboro Auditorium, are preparing
the plans.
Francis Truth, the divine healer,
| filed petition in bankruptcy with the
clerk of the federal court in Concord,
| N. H., this week, registering from
Keene, his home, and giving his liza
bilities as 1904 and assets 5000.
lent use of the mails in Boston Truth
has cut a figure as healer in Jack.
sonville, Fla, and Denver. Two
years ago Truth went through bank
ruptcy under the name of w. A.
Bemis, the cognomen by which he
was known when a laundryman in
Bratleboro.
j. A. Dummett, state secretary of
| New Hampshire, will speak at the
Y. NJ. G. A. meeting Sunday after
noon. Mr. Dummett is a Pennsyl-
vania man whose first association ex-
! perience began in Plttsburg in 1879.
| He graduated from a Michigan col
| lege and became general secretary in
| Lincoln, Neb., and in 1890 became
travelling secretary for the Pacific
| Northwest. He was assistant state
| secretary in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island before going to New Hamp-
shire. Mr.. Dummett will preach for
| Rev. Mr. Wood in the Baptist church
in West Brattleboro Sunday morning.
The union evangelist service Sun
day evening was held in the Congre-
! gational church and the sermon was
| by Rev. j. NJ. Durrell, D. D., of Keene.
| There was a large attendance, both
| the main audience room and the gal
| leries being filled. The regular
| church quartet was present and sang
| an anthem, the congregational sing
| ing was led by l.. w, Hawley. a
| cOrnet solo by Carl Leitsinger and a
| bass solo by George Adams We're
| pleasantly rendered and special or
! gan music was played by organist F.
/ c. Leitsinger. DR.. Durrell's subject
/ was a passage from Matthew. What
/ Think we of Christi" The only sat
isfactory portrait of Christ in exist
ence is not a color portrait, but a
| word portrait painted by Matthew,
| Mark, Luke and John. DR.. Durrell
! urged the people to become acquaint-
| ed with the portrait by reading those
| books, not for a few moments at a
time, but for two hours a day until
! the reading is complete, and then
there will be no difficulty in answer
ing the question, What Think Ye of
Christi" A brief aftermeeting was
held in the vestry.
Prof. Charles A. Bacon of Boston,
, one of the best known professors of
/ Beloit college, died Wednesday of last
week of septic poisoning as the re-
suit of fracturing his leg while turn
! ing in bed. He had been physically
helpless for six years, but had taught
/ his classes. AS professor of
astronomy he acquired a wide repu-
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