Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-02-11


ice cream and cake will be served.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Rrattleboro Mutual Aid association will
be held Monday at $50 at Mutual Aid
headquarters "a North Main street.
Lyman II. Howe, with an entirely new
collection of travel pictures, will be at
the Auditorium tomorrow afternoon and
evening. The program for the matinee
will be precisely the same as i'm the even
ing.
Brattleboro lodge, n. f. o. p. will hold
a box supper for members and invited
friends in Red Mems hall Wednesday
evening. An excellent program will be
furnished by the entertainment commit
tee. The women are requested to carry
boxes.
Miss Mary NJ Croker has been chosen
as representative from the First Baptist
church on the board of Associated Chari-
ties OF the Brattleboro churches to sue
coed Mrs. j. Il. Hall, deceased, who was
an efficient member of the board many
years.
A big audience was present at the mat
inee performance by the Whiteside-
Strauss company Saturday, the fact that
the drawing for the womans fur coat
announced to be given TO the holder OF
the lucky number was to be made at
tendance. Mrs. F. f. Young Of Central
street held the winning ticket.
A meeting of the Woman's club will
be held Wednesday in the Congregational
chapel, when ]. Adams Puffer of Need
ham, Mass. who has had experience In
a reform school and as a probation Off
Ger. will speak of Boys Gangs" There
will be music and the ways and means
committee will conduct sale of food and
home made sweets in the parlors,
John H. Gomez, So who died In. New
York this week, is remembered by old
residents of Brattleboro as secretary for
Col. James Fisk. Mr.. Gomez Joined the
rush to the California, gold fields in 1S49.
For 10 years he was connected with the
firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co., in which
Col. Fisk was at one time a partner. and
in 1868 he went to New York as Col.
Fisk's private secretary.
A concert will be given in Grange ban
quet hall tomorrow evening by the
Mount Hermon silver quartet under the
auspices of the Salvation Army The
concert will begin at and a very small
admission Zee will be charged. Special
services will be conducted Sunday at Z
and pm. by the quartet Mr.. Besse-
lievre's subject for the evening service
will be The Christ" All are invited.
Inc flTSl -bdpllSN mas uGClutl
to celebrate the roth anniversary of the
organization of the church, which falls
on April 2. and has chosen VIII B,
Smith historian. Rev. DIR. John r. Gov
was chosen chairman of the general com
mittee. and he has appointed as hissas'
slstants DR.. II. d. HOlton. l.. w. Hawley
E. " Morse. Mrs. Julius J. Estey. Mrs
Lucy A. Cox, and Miss Mary f. Horton
Rev d. f. Trout will preach series OF
sermons during Lent on the general sub
ject, From Gethsemane through Cal.
vary" Next Sunday the subject will be
Jesus before Annas and Caiaphas'
Other subjects are: Feb 20, Jesus be.
fore Herod": Feb. 81. Jesus before
Plate; Mar. G., Jesus on the way tC
Calvary; Mar. Is. THE Crucifixion: say,
ing of Centurion; Mar. 20. After Cruel
fixion: Joseph and NicOdemus" Mar. %
The Resurrection"
The Magnet club was entertained al
its monthly business meeting in high
school hail Friday night by an exhibition
Of fancy Indian club swinging by NJ. ]
Moran. The boys were very appreciativt
and applauded with customary vigor. AZ.
ter the brief business meeting the boys
had their regular drill In the basement
The drill team of 16 boys who will give
an exhibition at the high school fair has
been picked out. but it is possible thai
some cnanBeS VIII De maze.
Sergt. J. c. Cody OF the United State.
army has had Company l. v. N. c., under
his charge all this week. The company
as whole drilled before him Monday anC
again last night. On Tuesday and Wed.
nesday evenings he had a school for the
nom commissioned officers. and he will
meet them again tonight. Next weel
he win visit Company X in Bennington
The work under Sergt. Cody has beer
interesting and profitable to the Compan
l boys. and they will welcome him agaIr
on his next visit about three months frorf
now. He will spend two weeks with tn,
| company then, paying special attention
to outdoor work. Sergt. Cody said tina
Company / made good showing a.
| compared with other companies he haC
worked with Considering the inadequac,
OF the armory for proper drilling, ht
| thought that the work of the company wa
good, and was pleased with the gooC
spirit OF the organization.
Gay and attractive costumes frightened
Festival hail Monday evening, when tn,
annual masquerade bail OF BrattleborC
| lodge, n. F. O. p. was given. The had
was decorated with palms and the color,
| of the order. which made a bright settint
for the fancy and amusing costumes
| About 60 couples were present, about hal
| Of them being in fancy costume and tn,
gallery was well filed with spectators
Wales's orchestra gave an excellent con.
| cert from to 9 O'clock and the dancins
| opened with a grand march led by Spencer
w. Knight and Miss Gertrude Canedy
The dancing was in charge of II. II
Messenger floor director, assisted by
| these aids: Austin Nichols, Arthur Ellis
S. w. Knight. Stlllman Graves and FREQ
Currier. Mr.. Knight was chairman OF
the entertainment committee and Mrs
Ada Niles was in charge of the refresh.
| ments. Much interest centred around tn,
awards of prizes. The prize for the best
woman's costume was awarded to Mrs
Christine Harrington and Wayland Grave.
was given the prize for the most comica
mans costume. The prizes for the bes
walters were given to Miss Gertrude
Canedy and Edward Cutting.
John w. Storrs of Concord, N. H., con.
sulting engineer for bridges on the Boston
& Maine railroad, came to Brattleborc
yesterday by invitation of the selectmer
to make a detailed examination of the
West river bridge. Mr. Storrs went t.
| the bridge yesterday afternoon with tbs
selectmen and was shown the weaknesses
which have developed under me strait
OF the raising and repairing done by tn,
Connecticut River Power company and b,
the selectmen. Mr.. StOrrs examined tn,
bridge in 1907 and made some recon.
| mendations which never We're carried out
Last night he visited the selectmen II
their weekly meeting and the bridg,
problem was gone over carefully. Mr.
Storrs was of the opinion that the spread
| ing and settling of the east arch was du,
to failure of the power company TO pro
| vide a sufficient abutment wall at tn,
ends and ne was emphatic I'm his state
ment that 1t was the duty of the compan,
10 put the arch back in its proper place
and to put in an abutment that SHOULD
| be heavy enough TO Withstand all strair