The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-05-26
THE BRATTIEBORO REFORMER, FRIDAY, MAY rs, 1911

Memorial day will be observed
Tuesday according 20 the program pub
lished in last weeks Retormef'
The listers have completed their
lahOrs and the individual grand list
book has been filed with the town clerk,
The abstract Of the list will be hled
June Is,
a special trolley ear will leave the
Brooks House AZ l.30 y, N, tomorrow
for the track meet nj the fair grounds.
After that the regular schedule VIII be
followed, ears going through 10 the fair
grounds.
The members Of the Woman 5 Re.
lief eorps are requested 20 meet IN q, A.
| r. hall tomorrow afternoon 10 make
wreaths for Memorial day. Every
member is requested 10 be present II
possible,
William G. Horton real estate
agency has sold for Mr., and Mrs.
Charles 4. Drown Of Corning, Gala thelf
house ON Cottage street, Brattlehofo,
10 Mr.. aud Mrs, Frank a. johnson oil
Guilford.
The torrid weather Monday drove
people out of doors in the evening ana
the concert by the First Regiment band
WAS hittHhtu ny one VI INV ~ 800
gatherings of people seen on the com.
mon for several seasons.
Coy. John A. Mead of Rutland,
Lieut. Coy. L. p. Slack of -. Johns,
hurry. the board of visitors 10 public IN.
stitutions visited the BrattlebOro Re.
treat Tuesday morning and left on the
lilo a. m. train for Windsor 20 visit
the state prison.
The house and lot az 80 Chestnut
street. formerly owned by Annie N.
Perry. was sold al auction SATURDAY
afternoon by the Brattlcboro Trust
company administrator, 10 close an Is.
tate. Prurius W. Manlev was the purs
chaser at 81 $50. 4. W. j. wilkins was
the auctiOneer
Company / of the Second Vermont
regiment will hold q reunion TUESDAY,
June d. in Ludlow, W.. 10 celebrate lis
semi-centennial of leaving the state 10
90 TO war. Al members of the regiment
are cordially invited TO be present. The
people of Ludlow will serve dinner and
entertain the guests while there.
The Prospect Hin baseball aggre.
cation entertained the citizens OF thai
section of the town Saturday afternoon
/ by defeating the Episcopal SUNDAY
school team bv n score of II 70 3. The
game was PLAYED on the camp grounds
on Oak Grove avenue Davis and wv.
man were in the points for the Prospect
Hill team and GIBSON and Wilson acted
in a like capacity for the Eplscopallahs.
There have been reported TO Health
Officer Tucker during the week two
eases of scarlet fever, one az the nome
of T.. l.. KnOwltOn al % Central street
and the other in the family of Mr.. Rauls
on Walker place. Chicken poX IS re
ported at 10 Flat street and - Elliot
street 4 ease of mumps i under quar-
antine in the home Of George Collins
on Canal street and measles are report
ed In the family of i II Estey on North
Main street, NJ the Brooks House. on
Park place and at IS OAK street
"A class of 1893 children ranging in
/ age from seven TO ten wears received
/ their first Holy Communion in -. Mich.
ael's Catholic church Yesterday morn
ing. Communion was given hv Rev; VI.
j. Carmodv. who addressed the children
upon the duties they owe 10 their par.
ents. teachers. and to the community
The annual Nav procession and Crown.
ing of the Blessed Virgin took nlace
last evening and the church was hlIed.
/ A special musical program was rem
dered by the choir and John Lee sang
10 Salntars Ave Maria was sung by
" ~
browning of the statue the children
were received into the sodalities Of The
/ Children of Mary and The HOLY Angels.
/ The objects of the sodaltics We're ex'
lplained by Father CarmOdv The class
] admitted to first communion was the
largest in the history of 81. Michael :
church.
FLORENCE Grant Amidon. %. wife
/ of Paul d. Cobb, died at 40 o clock
Sunday afternoon at the home Of her
! husband 5 father. Charles l.. Cobb. ~
Pearl street. She had been III much OF
( the time for a number of months, Last
/ October her sight became ahected ,an1
her malady not yielding to medical
treatment she went in December to
4 Boston where she underwent an opera
/ ton at the New England Deaconness
/ hospital for tumor al the base of the
brain. Temporary relief was had but
i Mrs. Cobb s evesight was not improved
Some five or six weeks ago her hearing
became impaired and her maladv mani
/ tested itself in q more pronounced form
than it had done before. Last week
/ Thursday she was calling at the home
of Charles l.. Cobb when she suffered
an attack of illness and soon became
unconscious She did not return to heI
home. Mrs. Cobb was born in West
Chesterfield n. H.. Sept, q 1856, the
daughter of Charles l.. and Clara )
| Davis Amidon When she was about
! 10 wears old she came to West Brattle'
horo to live and attended the schools
of that village. She was graduated
from the academy at West Brattleboro
in June. 1904, and a short time after
came to this village to live with hel
parents. She was employed about foul
years in the binderv of f. L. Hildrettf
& Co. She married Paul D. Cobb n
Springfield. Mass, June 90, 1907, ano
early the following year they came tf
Brattleboro to live at IL Pearl street
where they had made their home since
She was a member of the Baptist par
fish. Funeral services were held at the
home on Pearl street, Tuesday after
noon at 2 clock. Rev. George V. Dan
iels. who officiated at Mrs, Cobb &. mar
rage. and Rev. John R.. Cow .officiiated
and burial was in the Cobb family. LOT
in Prospect Hill cemetery Selections
were sung by Arthur L. MAYNARD. The
bearers were Edwin r. Amidon. a
brother of Mrs. Cobb, Robert Davl;
of Chesterfield, r. Albert Newton OF
Brattleboro and Arthur Barrett OF
Springfield, Mass, Besides her parents
who live in Vernon. Mrs. Cobb leaves
her husband and a brother, Edwin X
of Vernon.
Advertised Letters.
Men: Frank Abb, F. H. Godalll
George Gonyer, Arthur Greenwood
Harry Griffin. 9; George ,Iollys, =. :
Libbev. H. w. Macy. L. H. Taylor. n
M. Wilder. -.
Women: Mrs. Emma Buffum, Miss
roo.a Tnoron, Mrs Villa Jov Mrs