Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-02-24
GOODNOW, PEARSON & HUNT
LOCAL OVERFLOW.

McEnelly's orchestra will play for a
dance in Grange hall this evening.
Wantastiquet lodge will confer the
third degree on several candidates Mon
day evening
The regular meeting of the W. c. T.
L. will be held Monday afternoon at
o'clock in the rest room.
During the past week the snow has
melted on Main street in the business
section so that the sleighing is very poor.
Brattleboro lodge, No. 1O2, F. & A. NJ,
which mas been comforting degrees upon
a class of six candidates. worked the
Master Mason degree last evening.
In the meeting of the Woman's asso-
citation of the Congregational church yes
terday afternoon it was voted that the
associa ton pay for the repairs on the
organ.
Fred Davenport of Chesterfield was
arrested Wednesday morning by Special
officer II. e. Harris. That afternoon he
was fined IS and costs by Judge William
r. Daley for intoXication.
The ladies' circle of the Universalist
church will hold their monthly business
meeting in the church parlor Thursday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. At 6.15 an es-
calloped oyster supper will be served.
a special conclave of Beauseant COM
| mandery, No. I, will be held this even
! ing. when the order of the Red Cross
| will be conferred. The annual inspection
of the commandery will be held the
| night of March Is.
sleighride to Bernardston was enjoyed
by II members of the Exchange club
Tuesday evening. A turkey supper was
| served in Baxter Reeds hotel and the
party arrived in Brattleboro at an early
hour Thursday morning
| Sergeant John c. Cody of the 1st U. S.
Infantry will arrive in Brattleboro Mon
| day. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
| day evenings he will hold n school for
non commissioned officers, and on Thurs
day and Friday evenings special drills
will be held,
Morris Brown entertained six of his
! little girl friends Wednesday afternoon
from to at the home of his aunt, Miss
Mary Brown of South Main street, the
occasion being his fifth birthday anniver-
sary. Refreshments of ice cream, cake
and fruit were served. Games We're en-
joyed and the little ones agreed that
Aunt Mary knows how to get up a
party"
Four men are engaged in the work of
getting out foundation stones in the pas
ture west of the moving on the Hooker
Winchester farm, to be used in building
the cellar walls of the Austine institu-
ton for the care and education of deaf
dumb and blind persons. Work on the
foundation will he begun as soon in the
spring as the ground is in condition to
permit digging, and by that time it is
expected that plans win be completed.
Mrs. Julia Cotton Cook, 40, died in the
Memorial hospital about 100 this morn
ing, following an operation for gall stones
which she underwent yesterday morning
! She was born in Irasburg, Jan. rs, 1869, a
daughter of John D. and Agnes Hill Col
| ton. She attended the schools of Irasburg
ana later was a student in the Conserva-
! tory of Music in Boston. She was married
| to Clarence X. Cook in Newton, Mass,
June 2, 1906, and last April they came to
Brattleboro, Mr.. Cook being employed at
Naulahka. Mrs. Cook apparently was In
good health until Saturday, when she
was taken i'll. She went to the hospital
! Wednesday afternoon. She leaves her
| husband and two brothers, Edward of
lrasburg and John b. of Orleans The
burial will take place in Orleans.