Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-27
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The seven social will be held at
I. o. o. F. hall tonight at o'clock.
The annual meeting Of the Wantas
tiquet golf club will be held at the
Brooks House April l.
Mrs. G. H. Smith will have an out
ing hats opening tomorrow, with ex-
elusive designs on hats for the season.
Leroy F. Adams has sold his resi-
dence on Western avenue to f. A.
Thompson of the firm of B. Souto & Co.
William H. Gay has novelty in
rare collection of $50 newspaper head
ings, including many headings from
England, Germany and Sweden.
Practice has already begun by the
members of the golf club on the old
green. The new course has not dried
sufficiently to attract enthusiasts.
Don't forget the dog tax if you
value your family pet. The constable
will be out with his gun in few days.
The open season on dogs without IL
censes will expire April l.
Speaker John H. Merritield with
Governor Mccullough and Lieut.. Gov
ernor Stanton will be at Montpelier on
Tuesday, April IA, to sign the bills
enacted into law by the last legisla-
ture.
The Brooks House social has been
changed from March 81 to March 30.
The managers had unknowingly ar
ranged the affair on the night OF the
presentation of "The Crisis" at the
Auditorium.
C. G. Fits has brought suit in
- or
the Central Vermont Railroad Co. for
$40, 600, because of injuries received
by Mr.. Barrabee in an accident last
Thanksgiving day.
james lizard has a remarkable hen.
While it is rare performance for
hen to lay an egg each day for six days
in succession, this fowl, white Ply
mouth Rock, tops the record by laying
16 eggs in l6 consecutive days.
At the election of officers Satur-
day at the meeting of the Vermont
Dental association DR.. George F. Bar
Der was elected vice president of the
association, and received the re-elec-
ton as delegate to the national con-
vention.
Col. H. E.. Taylor was in White
River Junction Tuesday to attend
meeting of the board of trustees OF the
Soldiers Home in Bennington to
choose a trustee in place of Z. Z.
Kinsman, recently deceased.
Howard C. Rice has been appoint.
ed local agent for the establishment OF
Tabard Inn library in this town. Ihe
station will be situated in the BROOKS
House Pharmacy if club with the
necessary membership OF 70 subscrio-
ers can be raised.
The second game for the basket
ball championship of the state between
the local Y. M. C. A. team and 60, D
of st. Johnsbury will be played at St
Johnsbury o-night. A third game, If
necessary, will be played on a neutral
floor, probably at Montpelier.
Captain Robert Somerville is in
New York city to purchase barker
tine to match his 800 ton schooner,
The Prospaire. If successful in his
quest, he will not return to Brattleboro.
Mrs, Somerville is at the home OF her
mother, Mrs. F. A. Woodbury..
A conductor on the electric road
informs us that if he were free and I'M
bampered by the routine OF Work, ne
would open a kindergarten to instruct
ladies' how to get on and off cars prop
erly. 1t is knack, he says, that few
of the fair sex seem able TO master
without tuition.
The camps of the southern Yer
mont district, Modern Woodmen, in
Guiding Bennington, Rutland, Wind
ham. Orange and Windsor counties,
will hold convention in Windsor,
APRIL Is. There will be parade,
bIisiness meeting, public meeting and
banquet.
CAUTIOUSLY enough there is no act
in the village charter on the quesGuI,o,h
of the sprinkling of the streets. Inc
general opinion. is however that IL IS
properly a village function and this
npinion is backed by the testimony OF
several local legal lights, who say tnat
the village can be authorized to 90 the
work providing that sufficient appro-
priations are made for the purpose
While Brattleboro wilted and per,
sn;red Friday with a temperature luz
degrees in the sur and 80 in the shade,
# Is interesting to know that howl
inc blizzard was raging through sec
tions of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, Sc
rionsly interfering with railway trafhc.
Even the Oldest inhabitants do not re-
member a day so early in the season,
when the thermometer rose so high as
on Friday.
Miss Ethel, daughter of A. +.
Childs of Bennington. has won her case
against the street car company IN New
York. About two years ago Miss Chiids
was quite seriously injured by falling
from car in that city and suit iol
damages has since been pending me
vardict returned allows the plaintiff
$50 and together with the costs the
ra;Iway company will be out seyera
thousand dollars.
-Prin. Whitaker Of the Brattlebort
High school and the executive commit
tee of the graduating class have made
the appointments for class day as fol
lows: Presidents address, Marshal
Moves: class history, Raymond White
WV Grafton. Florence Putnam; address
to juniors, John Kaine; class proph
ecy, Zetta Weld; class poem. Edwln'
whitney; ivy ode, Stuart Frost; re
Spouse for juniors, Frank Roberts
A trip to the tip-top house on thu
Wantastiquet mountain range, reveal
that forest area of several acres OF
the mountain side has been denudee
for firewood. Unless measures arr
taken for the village to come into con
troll of this tract it is probable that thu
trees on the entire slope of 1.-The Con
necticut river Palisades" will soon b'
saor;f;ced to the axe of the woodman