Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-20
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The annual village meeting will
be held May 5.
The Brattleboro schools close to-
day for weeks vacation.
The first Baptist church will hold
its annual roll-call and supper in its
parlors Wednesday, March 25.
The social by the ladies of the Uni
tartan society which was to be held at
Wells hall Tuesday evening, was in
definitely postponed owing to the death
of George A. Boyden.
The international sunshine society,
branch No. l, will hold its regular
monthly meeting Friday, Mar. p, at J
p. m., with Mrs H. P. Wellman, on
Western avenue.
The debating society of the Bap-
fist church meets this evening at the
residence of George E. Crowell. The
theme will be the relative Importance
of Home and Foreign missions.
The Protective grange dramatic
club gave repetition of the three-act
drama, Border Land" presented at
grange hall last week, to the inmates OF
the Retreat Tuesday night. The audi
ence greatly enjoyed the play.
Rev. H. X. Riegel, pastor of the
Universalist church at Wilmington,
was in town last week to close con-
tract with the Estey Co. for a fine new
pipe organ for his church. The new
instrument will be set up in about six
weeks.
M. H. Navin, the special represen-
tative of the Medina Gold Mining Co.
is still at the Brooks House. An
nouncement is made elsewhere in this
paper of the third monthly dividend
by this company, and of the favorable
outlook of the mine.
The selectmen have placed a
neat, new iron railing along the side
walk on the brink of the steep embark
ment of Church street. The old wooden
fence has been falling to decay fol
some time and has afforded little safe
guard against accident.
The funeral of Mrs. Julia Dineen
Brosnahan, who died March 10 at hel
home on Elliot street, was held Friday
morning at 9 O'Clock at the Catholic
church, Rev. p. Cunningham otficlat-
ing. Burial was in the Catholic GEM
etery. Mrs. Brosnahan was 70 years
of age
The firemen were called out about
30 Saturday evening, by an alarm
rung in at box AZ. 1t proved to be a
slight blaze in the George FL. Clark
house, at the corner of Oak and High
streets, occupied by Mrs. G. Fl. Mes
ser, and was extinguished without diff
ficulty.
Mrs. Elizabeth Davenport is to read
the paper on June and July on MI,
Mansfield which she prepared for the
university of Vermont, before the Au-
dubon society of Greenfield April IL.
Later in the month that organization
plans to come to Brattleboro for field
excursion with the Audubon society oil
Vermont.
How many Vermonters are aware
that Thursday, March II, was the 10th
anniversary of the first session of the
Vermont legislature and that on that
dav in l77S the government of the state
took regular form under the constltu-
tion? We have not seen or heard any
mention of the matter. The ReformeI
had story prepared last week with
considerable detail of the meeting OF
that famous assembly at Windsor, but
il was crowded out because of the pres
sure of local news.
1t will interest Reformer readers
to know that the liquor question IL
New Hampshire has been tangibly
brought before the lawmakers of the
state through report of the judiciary
committee of a license local option
bill. A leading provision of the DILL
makes license compulsory for the
cities and leaves the smaller towns tC
determine their policies through loca
option. The house of representatives
Wednesday sent the license bill TO a
second reading and rejected the mi
nority report favoring the retentlot
of the present statutes by vote OF
pa to 101.
John C. Knowlton has purchased
the establishment at Keene, we'll known
As the L. E. Mason store, recently con
Quoted by Bassett Il Jones, one OF the
oldest clothing and furnishing good:
stores in the city. Reliable as the riS
ING sun. !" is the way Brattleboro people
have always spoken of Mr.. knowlton
in his connection with ID. A. Young
under the firm name of Young q knowl
ton for nearly 10 years. Mr.. KnowltoT
goes this week to take charge OF nj
new enterprise, but he does not intent
to move his family until after the clos
of the present school year. The com
munitv will greatly miss him and nj
family as they were highly esteemed
and contributed much to the socia
life.
Alba Bryant, aged GA years, a wei
known Philadelphia business man Tor
merly of Marlboro, died very SUDDEN.
\ AT his Philadelphia home last Suuda
night, A severe cold contracted on oat
urday, at once developed into pneumo
MIA with attendant heart failure. MT
BRYANT left his old Marlboro home
the age of IA, and by his industry ant
business methods has built up an I'm
nortant sporting goods mandatory u
PHILADELPHIA where he has lived for 4
wears. Mr.. Bryant was never married
The funeral services were held Mon
day. Mr.. Bryant was an uncle OF MIS-
Harrie G. Pratt and Miss Nettie Dial
Rishop of this place and Mr.. Pratt an
Miss Bisbop were at Philadelphia Mon
dav to attend the services.
Mr. and Mrs. Kittredge Haskin
are in possession of two valuable an
interesting relics, recently presente
to them by friends in Washington
One is a handsome carved wall pocket
made from a piece of oak taken fror
the Z. S. S. Kearsage recently de
stroyed. This was presented by Ao
miral Hichborn who at one time wa
in command of the Kearsage. 1t ma
a1so he stated that some local interes