Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-02-20

The Woman's Relief corps will serve
clam chowder supper at Grand Army
hall Friday evening. March 6.
st. Michaers court. Catholic Order
Of Forestcrs, will hold a ladies' night
next Tuesday evening in Red Mems
hall
Next Wednesday will be Ash We'd
uesday Mass will be celebrated at
st. Michaers Roman Catholic church
at o'clock.
The Ladies' Catholic Benevolent as
ISOLATION will meet at the home of Miss
Margaret Moran on Frost place Mon
day evening.
The February term of the United
States District and Circuit courts will
open at Burlington next Tuesday,
Judge Wheeler presiding
Fifteen patients in charge of DR.. c.
G.. Andrews and five attendants were
transferred from the asylum at Water
bury to the Brattleboro Retreat yester-
day.
Valentine sociables were held Sat
urday. by Misses Ella and Ida Waite
and Miss nary Crowell, and by Mrs. l..
f. Holden. Mrs. f. w. Gibson and Miss
Emma Dutton.
The Twentieth Century Whist club
will be entertained Tuesday evening
by Miss Nellie Griffin of Birge street.
This will be ,le last meeting of the
club until after Lent.
Some of the sharpest weather of the
winter has come this week. beginning
with a heavy fall of snow Monday and
Tuesday The thermometer has been
below zero the past three mornings.
This morning the figures reported were
10 to Is degrees below zero.
The snow storm early in the week
did not interfere with the running of
trains except the one from the North
at 432. This train was about an hour
and a half late on three successive
afternoons The narrow gauge mail
train did not run Wednesday after
noon. the locomotive being in use in
removing drifts.
A hearing in the case of John Taft
against Nelson Evans was held before
Justice Merrfield yesterday. The
suit was to recover $50, claimed as the
balance due on a book account which
had been running since 1896. II. G..
Barber appeared for the plaintiff and
\. F. Schwenk for the defendant. De
cision was reserved.
The annual district meeting of the
eighth Masonic district will be held
at Bellows Falls Thursday Feb. 26.
Golden Rule lodge. No. 30 of Putney.
will work the first degree i'm the after
noon and Brattleboro lodge. No. l02.
will work the third degree in tho even
ing. \ special train will leave Brat
tlehOrO at / p. m. rcturnirI after the
meeting. Special tickets viii be good
on all trains going north that day and
only such tickets will be accepted on
the special train returning. Tickets
may be procured of ID. COwleS Wcdnes-
day and Thursday of next week and on
the train which viii leave here at
o'clock. \ large delegation from here
will attend the meetings.
At recent session of the probate
court Alton T. Robbins was appointed
administrator of the Abbey z. Rob
bins estate, the account for final set
Element of the estate of Helen +.
Shepardson was rendered and accept
ed: Mansel II Bush was appointed
administrator OF the estate of Edith
+. Lee of Vernon: John f. Gale was
appointed guardian of Annis II.
Weatherhead of Guilford; c. w Puff
fer, administrator presented his final
account of the estate of Andrew F.
Wilder. which was allowed; Charles
:. Chase was appointed administra-
tor of the estate of Addic X. Brigham
of Boston: Cassie +. Reed presented
the final account of the estate Of
Charles F. Reed of Dover, which was
allowed and distribution ordered:
George A. Boyden presented the final
account of the estate of the late John
L. Ray, which was accepted and al
lowed.
Mrs. Sophia Haskins ~. was found
dead in her room at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. II. NJ. Houghton of
Frost street, Wednesday morning
The physician who was summoned
said probably she died before mid
night. Death was due to heart dis
ease. Mrs. Haskins had been in i'll
health some time. She wa born in
Dover Jan. 80, 1924, and was daugh-
ter of DR.. Jedediah Esterbrook She
was the last survivor of - children.
She was married to Luther Haskins
of Dover an. they came to Brattle-
boro to live 10 years ago. Mr. Haskins
died in 1891. For the past II years
Mrs. Haskins lived with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. HOughton. She had six
children, three of whom survive Mrs.
Houghton and Mrs. c. f. Gould of
Brattleboro and Kimball l.. Haskns
of Greenfield. The funeral will be
held at the house at $50 o'clock to-
day. Rev. f. w. Lewis officiating.
The body will be placed in the tomb
in Prospect Hill cemetery and will be
taken to Dover in the spring for bur
ial. Mrs. Haskins was a member of
the Methodist church.
Alleged Assault with Intent to Kill.