Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-02-28

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Frohman company.
The Brattleboro Hosiery company
met Wednesday and declared its an
nual dividend of four per cent.
Whist was played at five tables at
the Vermont Wheel club rooms Tues
day evening. The prizes were won
by w. II. Perry and Il. f. Perry with
scores of 80 and 81 respectively.
The basket ball game between Brat
tleborO Y. NJ. c. A. and Norwich Uni
versity. scheduled for last evening
was cancelled. The association sec
ond team will play at Turner'S Falls
March 10.
The winter term of the Brattleboro
Private school closed today. After a
vacation of two weeks it will reopen
Monday. March II. This school is
especially well adapted for those wish
ing to take strictly business or cleo
tive course.
The Brattleboro Woman's club will
hold a meeting March from 4 to 6
o'clock at the Baptist chapel. The Art
of Music is the subject. and a paper
on the Life of Verdi, the composer.
will be given by Miss Newton and
readings will be given by Mrs Hamil-
ton and Miss Stockwell.
The ten clock train over the New
London road Saturday night was de-
layed by snow so that it did not reach
Brattleboro until o'clock Sunday
morning The 5.45 train over the
Boston & Maine road Friday night
was an hour and a half late missing
connection with the narrow gauge.
Herbert Hutchings, a brakeman on
a New London freight train, fell from
a freight car in Vernon early Wednes-
day evening. fracturing the right leg
a few inches above the ankle and
! spraining the left ankle. He was
/ brought to Brattleboro on the 1910
passenger train and is now at the
| Brooks House.
About 100 Red Men. including
about 40 visitors from out of town.
are expected to witness the eXaltation
of six warriors to the chiefs degree
this evening A large contingent will
take the trail from Claremont to the
hunting ground and others are eX-
| pected to come here from Hinsdale
and Bellows Falls
The Tuxedo trio of Boston has been
engaged by the Vermont Wheel club
| to furnish the entertainment at the
| clubs ladies' night next Tuesday. The
trio is now in its 18th season and has
played to the finest clubs in this coun-
| try. It's repertoire includes classical
popular and descriptive music of va
| riety to suit all tastes. 1t is made up
as follows: d. Francis Ramseyer sub
bass guitar; E. G.. Voors. mandolin;
Burt c. Reese, violin.
A joint session of the Brattleboro
Woman's club will be held at the
| Brooks House parlors Friday evening,
| Feb. %, at $50 o'clock. Members
of the club and their friends will be
the guests of Miss Gordon. There
will be lecture upon civil Service
Reform" by Miss Helen A. Whittier.
Miss Whittier is president of the Mas
sachusetts state federation of Won
ans clubs. and is an interesting speak
er. All interested in the subject are
cordially invited to be present.
The body of Miss Grace Davis, who
died in Northampton last Friday morn
ing after an operation for appendicitis,
was brought to Brattleboro Friday
/ llSuJ ne luHtIdl NdS uclu at
o'clock Sunday at the home of Miss
Davis's father, Fred Davis of High
street. Rev. F. E. Marble of the Bap-
fist church officiating. The singing
was by Frank II. Brasor. The body was
placed in the mausoleum in Morn
ingside cemetery. the bearers being
Frank Mickey, Walter Timson, Chris
TOPPER McCourt and William Corey.
a delightfully."- informal affair was
the tea given by Mrs. f. II. Putnam to
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton Saturday, Feb. 90. from to 5
o'clock. The parlors were gay with
American flags. The dining room was
I tastefully arranged daffodils forming
the chief decoration. The table was
presided over by Mrs. C. F. Bingham
and Mrs. w. H. Corser, and dainty re-
fershments We're served by Misses
Thorn, Allen, Knight and Mrs. Louise
| Hackley. Mrs. f. r. Pratt entertained
the ladies by reading two Canadian
dialect poems. About 40 ladies were
present.
Cyrus Miner of Gulford and his
brindle COW were the "cynosure of all
eyes on Main street Saturday as well
as the targets for the jeers and snow
balls of crowd of small boys. Miner
tried to sell the COW by auction on the
street. A crowd gathered and the sale
began. The COW was bid off several
times, but the highest bidders refused
each time to take possession of the
animal. The boys began firing snow
balls and for time Miner was beside
/ himself" until finally Mayor Blodgett
ordered Miner to take the COW off the
street. On reaching the Main street
bridge Miner sold the COW for SIS and
a revolver.
The case of the A. Storrs e Bement
company, George H. Morrill, & com
pany and the American Press associa-
ton against the Reformer Publishing
company, the concern which formerly
published the Reformer, has been set
tied. This was a petition to have the
Reformer Publishing company adjudg-
ed bankrupt. The case was to have
/ been heard at the present session of
the United States district court in
Burlington Counsel for the Reformer
Publishing company states that the
terms of settlement practically were
| on the basis of what the company
claimed to be owing the petitioners
before the petition was brought.
Hundreds of people throughout
southern Vermont and elsewhere have
kindly memory for Mrs. Juliette
Morgan, So whose death took place
in Brattleboro Tuesday. Mrs. Morgan
was born in New York city, but came