Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

tomorrow.
j Remember to put out your flag a
r half mast tomorrow.
The lawn on the Common is almos
: as brown as buckwheat cake.
! Rev. A. C. Ferrin Of Springfield
VT. will preach at the Congregation
al church Sunday morning.
D --Wantastiquet lodge, l. o. O. F.
will work the second degree on tw,
candidates Monday evening.
There are no new cases of scarle
fever. The patients are doing we'll
Most OF them are free Of quarantine.
The barber shops will remain oper
until II O'Clock tonight and close a
2:3O p. m. tomorrow for Memoria
day.
e. j. Fenton & Co. recognize
Memorial day by providing very ar.
tistic window display for the old vet
Grams.
The chemical engine was called
out Tuesday evening at 6 80 to subdue
a growing brush fire on the railroad
embankment.
The International Sunshine society
will meet with Mrs. l.. X. Fuller this
afternoon. Officers for the ensuing year
will be elected.
Band concert on the Common next
Wednesday evening, and all the more
appreciated because this weeks con-
cert was postponed.
The selectmen have requested sa-
loon keepers to close their places of
| business at noon tomorrow, Memorial
| Day, for the rest of the day
Rev. A. c. Ferrin of Springfield,
Vt, will be the speaker at the mems
meeting in the Y NJ. c. A. rooms at
4 O'Clock Sunday. Every man should
hear him.
"A stated communication of Brat
tleboro lodge, F. & A. NJ, was held at
Masonic hall last evening. Newly elect
ed officers were installed and the E. A.
degree was worked.
The annual meeting of the direct
ors of the Home for the Aged and Dis
abled has been postponed until Mon
day afternoon at o'clock at the Yer
mont National bank.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will serve a strawberry supper
at the church parlors Thursday, June
4, at 6 O'Clock after which Lucien
Howe will give an organ recital.
The postoffice will be open from
to u O'Clock tomorrow and the car
riers will make the early morning de.
livery only. The Sunday morning open
ing hour is from $50 to 10 30 o'clock.
Mrs. c. Z. Glidden fell in her
room at the Brooks House Saturday
afternoon. fracturing and dislocatipg
her left elbow joint. DR.. Roberts was
called and reduced the dislocation and |
set the fracture.
The W. c. L. U. held their meet |
ing in the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms yester- |
day afternoon. No meeting will be
held next week on account of the con
vention. at Wilmington, but the follow T
ing week meeting will occur as usual. T
Miss Ella j. Stafford, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs John A. Stafford, and +
Robert W. Blood of Dummerston were
at the BRIDES home in West +
Brattleboro Wednesday evening at 80,
Rev. l.. M. Keneston officiating Many
friends were present.
Chief Hall had his eye on a stran
ger who was scraping around in the +
dust just east of the depot the other
day. Finally he concluded to question
him. The miserable culprit said he
was looking for the new bridge project,
so the chief let him go
II. Frank Turner of the American
house, drove to Marlboro Sunday after
noon TO visit friends. Starting on the
return his horse made effort to Jump
over the moon, for some reason IN
known, but George Bishop caught the
beast and the damage was slight.
The presidential address on Prob
ems in Sanitation delivered before the
American Public Health association at
New Orleans, Dec. 8, by DR.. II. ID.
Holton, has been reprinted in neat
from the Philadelphia Medi-
al Journal, for general distribution.
Memorial day will be observed in
he schools today. and members of
Sedgwick post will attend. The post
net at 8 80 o'clock this morning to at
end the exercises at the High school
and in the afternoon, of the
Canal street school at the Universalist
hurch.
The friends of J. H. Chamberlain
will be pleased TO learn that he will
'old an auction sale of horses on Sat
Irday, June 6. as announced elsewhere
n this paper. Mr.. Chamberlain judg
nent on horses has never been ques-
toned and this sale will be particular
Y attractive.
The sunny weather of the past
yer so long has been very favorable for
he work on two additions to the Home
or the Aged and there is every pros
ect that the new parts will be ready
or occupancy even before contract time, =
october l. There are % men working
nd the additions are going up rapidly.
he stone front 44x52 feet will be
coupled for reception rooms and house |
old purposes and the west addition |
5x62 feet, will be used for dining
Dom. Both additions will be of two
tories
Protective grange celebrated its
9th anniversary Wednesday evening.
here were about $50 invited guests
rom neighboring oranges, Dummers
on, Bellows Falls, Guilford, Bernard
ton, Chesterfield. Bethel, st. Johns
ury, Lebanon, n H., and other
being represented. Ten can
idates were initiated in the third and
uurth degrees, the officers and march |
ng staff exhibiting their usual fine
Tork After harvest supper the pa |
rons returned to the hall where a
rogram was presented by the worthy |
faster. Three of the eight remain |
ng charter members were present, |
frs. Sarah A. Chamberlain, Mrs. AL
IA Goodenough and John Liscom.
he others are Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
ioodenough, Mrs. John Liscom, Mrs.