Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-16

y There will be a dance in Grang
hall this evening under the auspices q
Il +. G. Pratt and John Tufts.
a Posters have been issued announc
u ing a meeting of all high license me-
in the Grange banquet hall at 7 b
o this evening.
The Catholic Union Ministries vii
c go to Bellows Falls Tuesday, May y
to give "A performance in the Below
S Falls opera house.
+ The regular meeting of Ethan Aller
lodge will be held in Red Mems hal
Tuesday evening followed by a dane,
! and ice-cream sale.
The ladies of the Baptist church
= are planning to hold cake sale in the
chapel Saturday, May n, from to
, o'clock. All welcome.
Fall Mountain grange Of Bellows
Falls has accepted the invitation OF
Protective grange of this town to come
here on the evening of day u.
Major f. W. Childs expects to &C
to Wilmington next week to complete
as far as possible plans for the new
hotel and assembly hall. Active ope-
rations will begin about June l..
The w. C. T. Z. held its regular
meeting in the i. NJ c. A. rooms yes
terday at the usual hour with a good
attendance. The next meeting will be
held Thursday at the same hour and
place.
Charles Miner advertises his two
we'll known stations, Nepos and Ralph
W in our columns this week. Nepos
is by the great Allerton, 209l4, and
Ralph W is a son of Ralph Wilkes,
20G3I.
Luther Bellows has bought the
place near the Forest x Stream club
in Wilmington of J. j. Gleason and
will take immediate possession, moy-
/ ing his family there at once. The
/ price paid was $1,000.
The Windham county Proctor men
will hold a meeting in Brattleboro to
morrow for the purpose of discussing
tue future conduct of the campaign in
southern Vermont 1t is expected that
the marble candidate will be present
to act as advisor.
Major f. W. Childs received sey-
eral brace of quail which he had sent
from the south with view to estab
fishing game preserve here. y mum
Der of the birds died on the way north
but it is hoped that enough have been
saved to make the experiment success
full.
There was a good attendance AT
the stereopticon lecture which was
given in Grange hall Tuesday evening
by j. II. jackson, his subject being
the Pan American exposition. \ num-
Der of fine views were shown includ
ing photographs of President Mckin-
ley's assassination and funeral. After
the lecture the farce, DIR. McBeaten.
was given by the Grange dramatic
club the following people taking part
H. f. Whitney, f. NJ. Goodenough, y. !
f. Miller, Mrs. Harry Haywood and
Mrs. \. f. Miller
The Boston journal of Yesterday
contained "A number of half tones of
Boston nurses who have made a public .
declaration that they will tender their I
services in aid of the suffering on the +
island of Martinique. One of the pic
lures bears the name of Perley f.
Holmes, although there is no resem-
blance to the Brattleboro boy. II is
possible, however, that Mr. Holmes
may have volunteered as nurse for
he has had considerable experience in
that line, having acted as hospital
steward at Chickamauga during the
Spanish war.
The new summer time table Of the
Boston Il Maine railroad has been made
out and will go into effect June %.
The schedules have not yet been re +
ceived in Brattlehoro 50 that exact ar
irving and leaving times Of the trains
is not known. The White Mountain
Express will run in place of the local
express and the southhound train will i
arrive at Springfield at , 30 the north
BOUND White Mountain train will
cave Springfield at II p reaching
Windsor at 3 % taking the place of
he local express which now leaves |
Springfield at l. 30 and arrives in ,
3rattleboro at2 81.
Since its institution in 1894 a con !
tantly growing interest attaches to
he Pre- Memorial day in our public
schools. Teachers, school officers and !
citizens are coming to appreciate the i
invaluable opportunity that this day {
ptferS to enkindle in the hearts of the
children and young right civic senti- !
nents and high patriotic purposes il
The state superintendent of education
las issued a booklet of Is pages as an ;
lid TO teachers in preparing suitable r
Exercises. About 20 pages refer to the
history and life in Vermont with half
ones of a number of prominent Yer
mont men including Ex-Governor Fred
rick Holbrook. I
-Wyontha lodge will be the head :
quarters this summer of Camp Ches-
erfield, a camp for boys, which will -.
,e a novel feature of the season at
;potford lake. Edgar b. Smith. for {,
nerly of Brattleboro, now sub-master .
f Mr. Leafs school for boys at Plain :,
ield. \. j., will be the principal in !,
barge of the camp, and he viii be as 81
listed by George Hopkinson, a student
n the medical school of Harvard uni D
ersity. Both men are experienced
eachers. Mr. Smith is a graduate of l.
amherst college in the class of 1894, q
nd Mr.. Hopkinson is a Brown man of /
he class of 1896. The camp will open .
tuesday, July l, and will close Satur-
ay, August 30. n
The opening chapters of Anna 1
katharine Green's marvellous story, II
Lost Mans Lane. will be given in c
ur next issue and it is no exaggeration u
D say that a more thrilling and skill |.
ully constructed detective story has '
ever been written than this plain, di-
ect narrative of an inexplicable mys- y
cry. finally made clear. This author, Il
.ho has won for herself a place in the %
ront ranks of story writers. has never "
reduced a better work than Lost "