The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-02-15
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The grange sewing society will
meet this afternoon. supper VIII DC
served at $50.
All the hello girls in the local ex
change will 90 to Newfane tomorrow
evening on slcighride. They VIII
have a supper and dance there
The next meeting of the Alliance
study class will he held in the unlta,
rian parsonage Monday evening AT i'So
clock. Subject, The Religion of scan
dinavia.
-Brattleboro chapter, d. A. r., will
observe Washington S birthday with
luncheon in the Brooks House. Tho
prorram will include selections by an
orchestra and responses to toasts.
Leo council, knights of Columbus,
held pleasant ladies night Monday
evening in grange hall. The evening
was spent in dancing and card playing
after which refreshments were served
State Highway Commissioners
Charles W. Gates will hold meetings IN
various parts of the state through
March and April. The county commis'
sioners will meet with Mr. Gates early
in March to organize for the season
The funeral of Landon II. Ballou,
which was held at his late residence on
Western avenue Friday afternoon, was
largely attended. Rev, Z. Q. 5. Us
oood ofIiciated. Walter 5. Stearns sang
three appropriate selections. The BODY
was placed in the Meeting house NIL
cemetery vault to await burial,
Reginald De Koven's music in the
new De Wolf Hopper comic opera,
Happvland, is said to be as sweetly
tuneful as the popular airs in FIna'
fore. Patience and The Mikado. The
General score is likened to the ringing
melody of the Gilbert Sullivan pieces.
Homer s songs are described as De
cidedly of the catchy element
The high school will be closed for
a week beginning Feb. % while the
senior class takes trip to Washing
ton. and will have another week va,
cation in the last of April and hrst OF
Nav. The remaining schools IN the
village district will have their regular
Faster vacation the last of March or
first of April.
$. Archer Gibson of New York
eity. the well known organist, was III
Brattleboro Monday evening to play
on a new pipe organ which the Estey
Organ company has recently completed
for the Mariners home in Snug har-
bor Mass, An audience of between 20
and 100 employees of the factory lis
tened to the recital which Mr., Gibson
gave.
The body of Mrs. Mary Draper
Phelps, who died in Warren, Mass, last
week Wednesday, was brought to Brat
tleboro Monday and placed in the
mausoleum in Morningside cemetery
Rev. Z. Q. S. Osgood ottieiated at the
committal service and the bearers were
G. w. Pierce. T. A. Aher, Harry Spauld-
ing and A. W. Roel, all of whom were
employees of the Retreat when Mrs
Phelps held a position as matron there'
The Congregational club met in the
Brooks House Tuesday evening a
bountiful dinner was disposed OF and
when the assembled company was
ready to listen TO lecture on the Evo-
mtiop of the Animal Kingdom by Fro
lessor Edward 5. Morse it was an,
nounced that Professor Il. S. Morse mad
been DELAYED at Greenfield and conse-
ouentlv would be unable to get here;
tn lecture was necessarily postponed
indefinitely.
Mrs. Fred W. Cousins died sudden
" Sunday evening at her home in Dor
chester. Mass. Her maiden name was
Moude NJ. Ramsdell and she was an
adopted daughter of W. a. Ramsdell!
formerly of Brattleboro but now OF
Los Angeles. Cal Besides husband
Mrs Cousins is survived by five SIS
ters; Mrs. Minnie Legate and Mrs
Lena Barret of Guilford Center, Mrs
Susie Lenoris of Green River, Mrs. Ger,
trude Streeter of Spofford, n. H., and
Mrs. Mabel Burroughs of New haven
Conn.
A special meeting of Fort DUN
mer CHAPTER. Royal Arch Masons, was
held in Masonic hall Tuesday after
noon and evening when the Mark, Fast,
Most Excellent and Royal Arch de-
orees were conferred on several canai-
dates. Visitors were present from WI
mington. Ansonia, Conn, and other
towns, District Deputy Grand Hlgh
Priest R. D. Locklin OIL Bellows falls
being among those to witness the WORK;
Part of the degrees were coniefreo
at the afternoon session and the lnltla'
tion was continued after the banquet,
which was served at $50.
Harry Royce Randall, son OF MI
and Mrs. o. E. Randall, and Miss Fran
ces Ivy Starke were married MONDAY
evening at 9 clock in the Baptist par
sonage by Rev. George b. Lawson
They left on the early train the follow
ing morning for a wedding trip OF ~
DAYS to Boston and New York, and on
their return will make their home with
the groom s parents at ~ OAK street.
Mr.. Randall is employed in the jewelry
store of Randall & Clapp where he has
worked for a number of years. The
bride has been employed as waitress in
Halls restaurant, coming here from
Gardner, Mass, a few years ago. The
news of Mr.. Randall s wedding was
surprise to his many friends.
Mrs. Emily L. Lyman, 90, wife OF
Arthur H. Lyman, well known clti-
zen of Athol, died at her home on Nam
street early Friday morning. Mrs. Ly-
mans health has been poor lor some
wears. but she has not been conhned
TO her home and was able to be around,
Of late she had not been as well ana
had been receiving treatment in a SAM,
tarium near Boston. She returned
home early last week and was taken
with severe attack of the grip, from
which she did not rally in her weak
Mre ,vman while not