Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-12-01

through here yesterday.
The New England auxiliary will meet
this, Friday, evening with Mrs. a. j.
Bracket on Clark street.
A delegation of 20 knights of Co
lumbus went to Keene yesterday to wit
ness the eXemplifcation of the third de-
gree.
Pocahontas council will hold the next
dance of the series in Red Mems hall
Saturday evening, The committee has
provided new decorations, and new
electrical effects and good music will be
furnished.
Alonzo II. Charhberlin, formerly of
Townshend, and Eva Viola Beebe, for
merly of Winhali. were married at Lin
denhurst Wednesday by Rev X. NJ
Houghton. They started for Springfield,
Worcester and Boston on wedding
trip.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed this week In the office of the Sec
rotary of state by the Chace & Hartman
company, a New Jersey corporation, and |
the Connecticut River Transmission COM
pany, a Massachusetts corporation, to |
develop water powers. generate electric |
ity, etc. Harold Il. whitney Is named |
as the person on whom papers may be |
served These companies may wish to
do business i'm Vermont and as they |
were foreign corporations it was neces-
sary for them to file articles of incor-
poration in this state.
THE Indians of New Mexico and
Arizona" will be the subject of the stere-
opticon lecture in the Universaist church
Sunday evening at o'clock. This lee
ture, entirely different from any which
have been given, as the name indicates,
| will be very interesting. The views are
| photographs taken from life and consti-
| tute a part of the uneXcelled collection
of Prof F. I. Monsen, who lived with
| and studied the Indians of the southwest
| IL years There are no duplicates to be
| found because the views are the best to
| be had. The slides will give a vivid and
| graphic idea of Indian life, dealing with
the people, their costumes and customs,
| their homes, the Pueblos, and their in
| dustries, farming, pottery, basket and
| blanket making. Besides picturing the
| life of the Indians there are many views,
| unsurpassed for beauty and coloring, of
the weird and fantastic landscape in
| Arizona, especially the red sandstone
| cliffs. All the slides are colored and ma
| ture is pictured in her various moods.
| There will be special music.
Audiences of fair size for Thanksgiv-
ing attended the matinee and night per-
| formances of THE Habitant" in the
Auditorium yesterday afternoon and
evening and were well pleased with the
work of Daniel Ryan and his company,
THE Habitant or the Lure of the Black
|
French Canadian play of the woods and
tells of the infatuation of a Yankee
| from New York for the daughter of
Joe Laplante, L'Habitant. his elopement
with her and the fathers search of 20
years for the scoundre The part of
| Joe Laplante was taken by Daniel Ry-
| an and his acting and dialect were in
| tensely interesting. Pierre Pelletier
played the double role of Alex Devanne,
the villain, and Alex Devanne, jr, Karl
| L. Way appeared as Napoleon, habi-
tant youth George Fisher as Grand
pere, Mabel Frost as Virginia, Joes
daughter. and Ada Wadsworth as
Pierre. The company gave good sup
port. Tonight's bill is Uncle John"
and tomorrow night Her Husbands
Friend" will be presented.
An entertainment showing unusual
talent was enjoyed by a large audience
in the Congregational church last even
ing when Miss Gertrude Devine and Miss
Annie Warner Baker, the Merry Makers,
presented the program Miss Devine in
a rich mezzo- soprano voice and playing
her own accompaniment, rendered many
pleasing solos, among them one in Italian
| and one in which she initiated the cello
and violin. She also gave other im-
tations. Miss Baker created much
amusement with her shadowgraph and
magic work and showed talent in her
cartoon drawings. The clay modelling
| by MISS BAKER IN making lnuldH IdCeS
clowns and other human features was
work of art An especially pleasing part
of the program were numbers in which
both young women took part, Miss Baker
wing the picture while Miss Devine
| played and sang Home, Sweet Home
The entertainment was the second in the
course under the auspices of the young
women of the Baptist and Congregation
al churches. The next in the course will
be an illustrated lecture on China by
Lieut.. Charles F. Cannon and will be
given in the Congregational church Dec.
a.
Mrs. Mary Mather Winchester 50, wife
I of Hiram C. Winchester, a retired car
penter, died in her home on Western
} avenue early yesterday morning, follow
ing an illness of 10 days with grip. Mrs.
Winchester was born in Marlboro. June
l6, 1912, and was a daughter of Luke Y,
: and Eunce (Mather) Hgley. She at
: tended the schools of Marlboro and Will
l mington and later taught in the Whining
f ton schools a short time. She was mar
ried to Hiram c. Winchester of Marlboro
Dec 6. 1865, and following their maria ge
they lived in Marlboro Colrain and Shell
burne Falls. They moved to Brattleboro
in 1873 into the house on Western avenue
5 now occupied by the family Mrs. Win
chester attended the First Congrega tional
3 church in West Brattleboro up to short
time ago. She was a devoted wife and
t mother, loved by a wide circle of friends.
; She was a neighbor in the best sense of
I the term, always striving to smooth the
r pathways of others. She leaves. besides
her husband, two daughters, Mrs w. w.
, Holden of Athol and Miss Sadie E Win
chester teacher of grade four in the Main
street school, one son, Ernest Winchester
of West Brattleboro, one brother, Charles
e Higley of West Brattleboro, and three
= grandchildren, Blanche Holton and Rus
. sell Holton of Athol and Doris Winchester
g of West Brattleboro. The funeral will be
4 held in the home tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock, Rev. +. j. Lewis officiating,
and the burial will take place in Meeting
g House Hill cemetery