Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-21

uay by score of 90.
The second Masonic social wa
r held last evening in Masonic hall an,
was well attended. Leitsinger's or
chestra furnished music.
The Goth Regiment band gave
concert in Shelburne Falls yesterda,
afternoon, that town being the home o
: william Bayne, the bands conductor
C. H. Eddy discovered a Sigh
blaze around the fireplace in his Clarl
street dwelling Sunday evening. The
blaze was eXtinguished by means of {
pail of water with small loss.
William b. Warren of Halifax was
thrown from his wagon on Main street
Friday evening and badly bruised. His
morse became frightened in some way
and turned sharply, upsetting the wag-
on.
One of Freeman SCOTS horses be-
came frightened at the electric cars
Wednesday afternoon in front of l.. III.
BARRIERS and ran some distance up the
avenue before being stopped The de-
livery wagon was slightly damaged.
The new steel vault for the Yer
mont Savings bank arrived in Brattle-
boro Monday and force of men have
been at work putting it in place this
week. All the other furnishings of
the bank are completed and it is
expected that it will be ready for oc-
cupancy in about three weeks.
The annual exhibition of the
Greenfield Score card club of which
many Brattleboro poultry fancers are
members, will be held in the Green
! field opera house Dec. , and B. |. X.
Felch of Natick, Mass, and C. +.
Crangle. manager of the Valley Farms
at Simsbury, Conn, will be the Judges
The W. c. T. L. held their meeting
yesterday afternoon and decided to
hold no meeting next week as it is
Thanksgiving. The next meeting will
be held the first week in December
and will be business meeting. Mrs.
Wardner gave paper on mothers du-
ties yesterday which was very interest
ing.
The American Crystalplex Co.
continues its entertainments in Grange
hall until tomorrow evening There
will be a special matinee at , O'Clock
to. morrow afternoon when three prizes
will be awarded for the handSomest
babies in town. Miss Ollie Warner
won the prize Tuesday evening for the
best woman waltzer and George Du-
paw captured the gentlemen's prize
Wednesday evening.
The annual meeting of the Asso-
ciated Charities of the Brattleboro
churches was held at Mrs. j. NJ Ty-
ler's, Oak street, on Thursday of last
week. The report stated that 30 fam
lilies had been assisted during the
year at an expense of S2l2. 50; fuel had
cost SlO2 30; clothing SCI y; provis-
ions S:}L %: aid of various kinds in
illness 81. and miscellaneous expenses
81. 10. \ large quantity of second
hand clothing has also been distrib-
uted.
The Congregational club has en-,
gagged Prof. William p. Bradley Of IVES
leyan university to give an entertain
ment at the Auditorium Tuesday even
ing Dec. ,, his subject being Liquid
Air. Tickets will 60 on sale at FoX's
news store next Friday. Every mem
Der of the club is entitled to one tick
ct free. Prof Bradley is the first per-
son in New England to use liquid air in
public experiment and his lecture will
be one of the most interesting scien
tific events of the season.
Augustus Thomas excellent play,
" Arizona comes to the Auditorium
tonight with the proud record of hay
ing played longer in New York city
dramatic production "Arizona's"
two long runs, one at the Herald
Square theatre and one at the Acad-
envy of Music set a new pace for the
managers and one which they
will find it hard to follow with any of
the attractions of this years production
Arizona is one of the brightest
most interesting and most wholesome
plays ever written by an American au
thor
Hon John Temple Graves of At
ANITA. Ga. will lecture in the Audito-
rum Tuesday evening under the aus ,,
oices of the Y, NJ. G.. A. This is the l
promises to be one of the best of the
series. The Springfield, Mass, Re
iublican SAYS Of one of Mr. Graves {
ecent lectures: His address was |
and proved him in every |
way worthy successor of Henry W. -,
Grady - George W. Balm, Kentucky's =
orator, says: II consider
The Reign of the Demagogue' by d
John Temple Graves the finest Grafton
n the language, " and Thomas Nelson t
Page says: His speech is a mosaic of !
loquence. :
Mary +. wilkins has so many ad- ]
nirers in Brattleboro that the drama t
ization of jerome, Poor Man, e
me of her most successful novels, Will b
10 doubt be a popular attraction IN t
}rattleboro Manager Fox has secured g
he play for Thursday and there will ;
,e a matinee as we'll as an evening per Il
ormance. The company, which is a
leaded by Walter f. Perkins, includes ]
number of clever artists and Is the Il
anne that will present the play IN /
Jew York and Boston later in the sea d
on. The adaptation of the story makes e
charmingly simple, wholesome and b
lean play filled with excellent eli b
makes and containing a vein of excel \
ent humor. The part of Jerome stands /
ut prominently, but no more so than a
hat of Simon Bassett, rich old t
niser who owns half town. Then
here is Col Lamson, war veteran, u
Tho is everybody's friend, and Adonl- n
UNI Judd. an awkward countryman, a
HON two spinsters are in love with. g
he squire of the village. of course, has "
daughter, who is the belle, and she v
roves to be the one up there tow
I'd whom Jerome strives to climb. +,
1.-The Climbers, which appeared "
+ the Auditorium two weeks ago, be v
an its engagement at the Grand Opera Il