Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-17

The free kindergarten viii close today
for a vacation.
Rev. w. S. Turner of Chester will
preach in the Universalist church next
Sunday.
The Pilgrim Fathers will give a sugar
supper I'm Grand Army hail next Friday
evening. March "a.
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are
the spring Ember days observed by the
Roman Catholic church.
Today, Friday, is ST. Patricks day.
Mass was celebrated at 8 o'clock in st.
Michaers Roman Catholic church.
The program for the next Grange
meeting, on March 22. will be prepared
by Mrs. Lois Clark and Mrs. Mary Cur
rier.
b. Mancini, the shoemaker whose shop
is under Donnell & Davls's store, has
bought Mrs. Mary Maguire's house on
Reed street.
The isolation building at the Brattle-
boro Memorial hospital has been opened
there being one or two patients i'll with
measles who desired admission.
Mrs Lucia Il. whitcomb SO, wife Of
David Whitcomb, whose funeral was held
In Swanzey, N. H., Sunday, was a sister
of Herman Cook Of Brattleboro.
E. p. Squires of Guilford is moving his
steam mill to w. G. Doolittle's farm in
Vernon. He has several hundred thou
sand feet of lumber to saw for Mr.. Doc
little
game between the independents and
the Home Culture club of Northampton
Will be played in Festival hall the first
open date after next week for the BEN
eft of the First Regiment band.
The barn built on Daniel Manning's land
by Fred Waite Is years ago for use when
he was teaming and running the Prescott
saw mill collapsed Saturday, the founda =
tion having rotten out 1t was 100 feet
long.
Michael Lynch was arrested yesterday
by Chief-of- Police Hall for intoxication.
He pleaded guilty before Justice Newton
this morning and his father, Thomas
Lynch. paid his fine, which was IS and
costs.
OF all the Bennett & Moulton COM
panies, and there are six on the road, the
one which will come to the Auditorium
every night next week, Is the largest
numbering 20 people, with their own
orchestra.
The ladies' of the Methodist society will
hold sale of baked beans. brown bread
and other foods Saturday, March %, from
two to six O'Clock. 1t will be held in the
room formerly occupied by DIR. Lynch In
the Retting block
| The next regular meeting of Fort Dunn
mer colony, United order of Pilgrim
| Fathers, will be held at Grand Army hall
| Monday evening. March 90 Several can
dldates will be initiated. Every member
| is requested to be present.
The companies Of the First Vermont
| regiment will be inspected next month by
| Capt George w. Kirkpatrick of the 18th
| United States cavalry, who is stationed
| at Fort Ethan Allen. The date for his
| visit to Company is April q.
Health Officer Henry Tucker says that
| during the past eight days he has quar-
| antined So cases of measles. and that dur
| ing the past few weeks not less than l5C
cases have appeared. He says that
another crop" may be expected about
next week.
II. II. johnson, electrician, who was
| employed by the Vaughan & Sargent
! Electric company, has opened a shop a,
| his home on Myrtle street for a general
electrical business. He intends to have
a shop near Main street as soon as he car
| find a suitable location.
| The annual social of st. Michael's
| Roman Catholic parish will be held this
| evening in Festival hall. 1t is expected
that Rev. Father Mccoy OF Chicopee vii
deliver an address at s o'clock. All are
cordially Invited to attend. Refreshments
and fancy articles will be sold.
The athletic exhibition in the. Auditor
| ium last evening by the Y. NJ. c. A
| physical classes was successful, but was
| losing venture financially. The boys
| showed good form under the direction OF
Eldridge Cundiff. instructor. and did ex-
| cellent work. The attendance was small
\ quiet wedding was celebrated We'd
| nesday evening at the home Of the bride
| at Elm street when Margaret Corinne
| Niles was married to Herbert Walker
! Cottrell OF Louisville. Ky, the ceremony
being performed by Rev f. Q. S. Osgood
| The bride wore a brown cloth gown and
carried white carnations. Only members
OF the family were present.
! Eugene Frost, 81, one of Brattleboro's
| old-time business men, died this. morning
at his home in Frost building at the
| corner of Main and Flat streets, which
| he owned. He had been in i'll health
several years with sciatic rheumatism
and a variety Of ailments, Mr.. Frost was
| born on Flat street in November 1923
and was a son of James and Elizabeth
| Stewart Frost He was the last survivor
of his fathers family. For many years
he carried on the home place and looked
after his fathers property interests, and
also was a member of the firm of Frost
& White, ice dealers, from which he re-
tired several years ago. He never mar
ried and always lived a quiet home life
but he was honorable in his business deal
ings and was a respected citizen. For
merly he was a member of Steamer COM
pany No. 4. He leaves several nephews
and nieces, among them Wells Frost, e.