Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-23
0dlmdham County 0etormer
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

w nooplng cough Is proving an cpl
demic in town.
John Baker has sold to out, of
town parties the pacing mare owned b.
Percy Jones.
The women of the Baptist church
will hold a cake sale in the churcl
'parlor tomorrow afternoon.
About 81 couples attended the
dance which was given in Grange hal
Friday evening by E. G. Pratt.
-Brattleboro and Bennington are the
only two places in Vermont to secure
Frank Daniels and his company in Miss
Simplicity.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Episcopal church will hold tea and
sale at the home of Mrs b. ID. Harris
Wednesday, June 4, from to 6 30.
Daniel Moriarty is making a fine
recovery from the operation which, de-
spite his three score years and ten, was
performed upon him by DR.. Lynch, for
sarcoma of the inferior maxillary.
A. Y. Mays agency has sold for C.
L. Griffin, administrator of the Frank
Griffin estate, the 400-acre farm in
Halifax, the best farm in town, to +.
f. Battey, the manager of the l.. M.
Houghton deer farm.
Mrs G. f. r. Jenne and Mrs. G.
II. Thompson were elected delegates
from the BrattleboIo Woman's club to
the annual meeting of the State FEEDER
alton of Woman's clubs which will be
held in Waterbury next October
Mrs. j. B. Randoll has sold her
needle factory to Harry Freeman, who
1, 4 1,,,,t ln,r H.
Freeman has been employed in the fac
tory for several years. His brother
George Freeman, of Philadelphia, is
expected to come here and act as SUI
perintendent.
The league baseball game tomor
row will no doubt draw a large crowd
as both the teams which are to play,
Durham Brothers and the Y. NJ. G. A.,
have won previous games. The associa-
| ton has ordered new uniforms of bris-
| toll gray and red for its nine and they
hope to receive them in time for tomor-
rows contest.
Fletcher D. Proctor, the marble
candidate for governor, and f. K.
Morse, his chief of staff, were in town
Saturday to meet the Proctor workers
of Windham county. Sessions We're
held in the Brooks House before and
after dinner and plans for the final
work before the caucus of tomorrow
evening were laid
An advance copy of the program
of Miss Simplicity" the new operat-
ic comedy in which Frank Daniels is
to appear here Thursday evening, states
that the electrical effects for the pro-
ducton are by one Per Lee Sibila. 1t
would be interesting to know whether |
the owner of this electrical cognomen
were Chinese, Boer or Filipino.
The case of II. c. March VS.. G. S. |
wilkins of Dummerston was heard by |
Justice j. II. Merrifield Wednesday.
1t was an action for S. borrowed money I
and 50 for services, the defendant
claiming an offset for board, Lawyers
If. G. Barber and E. W. Gibson APP
peared for the plaintiff, and Lawyer a.
f. Schwenk for the defendant
-Brattleboro chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution, met at the
Brooks House Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Levi *. Fuller gave paper on the IN
dustries of the 18th century and Mrs.
George F. Barber gave paper on the
amusements of the same period. Both
were very interesting. After the tran
saction Of the usual business, par
liamentary drill was given by Miss
Susan Clark.
The 10Th wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Dewitt was very
celebrated Saturday evening
at their home on Canal street, the
guests being the members of the two %
clubs of which Mr.. and Mrs. Dewitt
are members. The evening was spent IN
playing IS, there being six tables, and
were served. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dewitt were given a very sub
remembrance in cut glass
"A meeting of the executive com !
mittee of the local baseball league was
held Friday evening when it was de-
cided to bar all non resident members
Of the various organizations from play
ing on the teams. This ruling was !
made to obviate any tendency toward /
professionalism which might arise. 1t
vas also decided that after the next
Meeting of the committee no new mem L
Der of any organization or employe of c
my firm in the league may play IN any !
If the leagues without authority from a
he executive committee. |
Ezra C. Wilcox, son of Mr.. and
Hrs. S. Wilcox of this town, was mar '
led Tuesday noon to Sadie \. Wright, v
laughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Abbott q
Wright of Greenfield. The ceremony =
vas performed by Dr. f. +. Marble of b
his place, assisted by Rev. E. H. p
,herwin of Greenfield, and took place W
t the home of the BRIDES parents. C
'he bride is 1900 graduate of the a
Greenfield high school and the groom t.
.raduated from Miss Sawyer's private 81
chool in Brattleboro. Mr.. and Mrs. n
Wilcox will live in Greenfield where 81
lie is manager of the New York bargain a
tore
During the run of the Frank Dan b
els company in New York in Miss b
an observant newspaper e,
,riter called attention to the fact that b
he Daniels chorus in this piece is the I
ardest worked organization of the L
ind that had ever been there By o.
he found that there were 30 p
MUSICAL numbers with ensemble effects Il
n which all or part of the chorus were T
allied upon for their services in the b
,ay of dancing, marches or some 9th al
r form of up-to-date musical comedy II
volution. Changes of costume are "
requent and this writer admitted that al
t puzzled him to discover how the
Merry. merry chorus girl stood the #
ard work. :,
A. L. Blair, superintendent of the ST
,rattleboro Jelly company, has made OF