Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-20
COUNTY REFORAfER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 90 1908

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Louis MARROW, s6. died at the Re
; treat Sunday. The body was sent I
Rutland for burial Wednesday.
There was free entertainment 4
: Grand Army hall Tuesday evening un
der the auspices of the Pilgrim Fathers
-Lucius Richardson Is renovatinI
the basement of his block next to tn,
American house and 1t is possible tina
a meat market swill be opened Their,
soon.
The regular meeting of the Brat
tleboro branch of the Internationa
Sunshine society will be postponed
from next week until week after next
on account of Thanksgiving.
"A large crowd from here will at
tend the Foresters' ball in Hinsdale, N
H., Wednesday evening. Leitsinger's
orchestra of 10 pieces will give a con-
cert and furnish music for dancing.
The women of the Congregational
church served supper to a large num-
Der of people in the chapel last even
ing. A candy table was conducted by
the Fessenden Helping Hand society.
The suit of DR.. Charles d. Sever
ance against the Central Vermont rail-
road for $4,000 damages for injuries
sustained in the collision at Miller's
Falls last Thanksgiving day will prob
ably come up in the Suffolk county
court in Boston next month.
The first of the Vermont wheel
club whist tournaments will be held
Tuesday evening. Entries in the pool
and billiard tournaments close o-day
with larger list than ever before. The
handicaps will be fixed within a few
days and the first games will be played
within few weeks.
The women of the Unitarian
church served supper in Wells hall
Tuesday evening to a good number of
people considering the weather. A
short musical entertainment consist
ing of songs by Mrs. F. w. Putnam,
Miss Lenna Thomas and A. H. Brasor,
and violin solos by Floyd Johnson, was
given after the supper.
The Brattleboro Woman's club
cordially invites the public to lecture
on The Making of Vermont" given by
Judge Wendell p. Stafford at the
Centre Congregational church Monday
evening at s o'clock. Judge Stafford
is so well known throughout the
state and in our own town. that he
needs no introduction to a Brattleboro
audience.
The Union Thanksgiving service
will be held this year in the Unitarian
church Wednesday evening. at 7.30
o'clock. Rev. e. O. S. Osgood will
preach the sermon. the other ministers
of the village assisting in the service.
L, II. Miller will have charge of the |
singing The usual Thanksgiving Of |
fering in behalf of the associated |
charities will be received at this ser
vice. All will be most heartily well
come.
William Heard, who served with /
Company l. First Vermont Volunteers, +
At Chickamauga, has recently been /
nominated for a commission as second /
lieutenant of Company NJ, Second In
fantry, New Hampshire National |
Guards, at Newport. n. H. Mr. Heard /
enlisted in the Newport company,
lnown as the Stowell guards, five
years ago and held the rank of cor
ooral when his nomination for a com
mission came.
A slight railroad accident near the
,orn canning factory delayed traffic for
tbout two hours Wednesday afternoon.
4 freight was switching on the spur
rack at that point when two empty
coal cars became derailed blocking the
main line. 1t was necessary to jack
Up the ends of both cars before the
rucks could be placed on the rails
gain. The 2.27 train from the north
waited here until nearly $50 before
he north bound train could pass the \
wreck.
The annual meeting of the Column
,ian book club was held last evening at
he home of Mrs, Maverette Fisher
when the following officers were chosen
or the ensuing year: President Mrs.
daverette Fisher; vice president, Mrs.
:. II. Davenport; secretary and treas
lrer. Miss Edith Stolte; book commit {
ee in addition to officers, Mrs. R. L. s.
'aton. Mrs. c. E. Knight and Mrs. c. {
:, Crosby. After the business session
ne annual auction sale of books took
lace, Mrs. Davenport acting as auc- |
ioneer.
No more successful show than the
'londells Through the Center of the
,arth" has been on the road this sea-
on. Their business has been enor-
nous through Pennsylvania, Maine
nd New Hampshire. Brattleboro will
e the only Vermont town which win
&c the show as after Wednesday it :
i'll appear in Pittsfield, Mass, for
NO nights and then go direct TO the 4
It'll St, theatre in New York city for
averal weeks. Later in the season
will be seen in the new Majestic
leatre in Boston.
w c. Mitchell is all ready to be-
in his new business. which will be the
of handkerchiefs, as soon
) his motor arrives from the factory.
lis machines have been set up in the
loms on the top floor of Emerson's
aw Flat street building. and all that
needed now is power to run them.
r. Mitchell expects to employ only
nall number of hands at first but will
lcrease his help as the demand for
is output increases. He intends to
AXE different grades of handkerchiefs
ut all of them will be of excellent
aterial.
The Brattleboro football team
ill play its stiffest game of the sea-
N, top,nrrovu aftarnoop uhap tho fast