Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-15
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

lie Union will be held June 10.
Sidewalk bicycle riding must
cease. So say the bailiffs, and they
mean it.
"A branch of the Tabard Inn libra
ry has been established at the Brooks
House Pharmacy.
The prosperous Garment Workers
union initiated IS members at their
last regular meeting.
Bingham chapter, o. E. S., will
initiate two candidates at the regular
convocation Tuesday evening.
Herbert Richmond of Guilford
Center took 10 cattle to Lowell Thurs
day. Morris Guiheen accompanied
him.
-Sedgwick Post and the Woman s
Relief Corps will attend service in a
body at the Universalist church Sun
day, the oath.
/ The first open air concert on the
Common, given by the First Regiment
band, will come on Wednesday evening
the Goth, and all are anticipating the
pleasure.
Several officers elect of the Yer
mont National Guard will be exam
ined in this town Tuesday at 2 p. m.
Col. j. Gray Estey will act as presi-
dent of the board of examiners.
Spence and Coombs, contractors for
the Brattleboro Gas Light Co IS dam
across West River have had their work
accepted by Civil Engineer Jones of
Wilton and the Gas Co. has paid the
bill.
Mr.. Bond, the undertaken, will
move into his recently purchased resi-
dence. corner of Linden and Chase
streets, to-day. Several alterations
and improvements are to be made in
the house.
The Sodality young ladies of st.
Michael's Roman Catholic church will
give May party at Red Mems hall
Monday evening next. All are invit-
ed and a pleasant entertainment is
promised.
The general missionary conference
of the Baptist churches in Windham
county and nearby Massachusetts and
New Hampshire towns opens IN the
Baptist church here this afternoon at
2 80 o'clock.
Shea, the shoeman, repeats his
base ball offer made last year, and will
give pair of 50. 30 Douglass shoes to
the player in the Brattleboro league
having the best batting record at the
close of the season.
There are no indications of further
spread of smallpox in neighborlng
towns. A case at Rutland is reported
this week and DR.. Holton has visited
the place as secretary of the state
board of health. The patients at Dunn
merston and Putney are getting on
toward recovery.
Frank E. Willard and Mrs. Althe.
ma E. Burnham were quietly married
at the home of the bride on South
Main street Tuesday, Rev. r. X. Mar
vim performing the ceremony. Only a
few friends and immediate relatives OF
the couple were present
The listers will file the personal
list with the town, clerk today and ex-
meet to finish their work so that the
grand list may be filed about June l.
They will meet at the listers room in
the town hall Saturday, May y, to
hear complaints and correct errors.
Chairman Fuller c. Smith of the
state railroad commission is authority
for the statement that New York eX-
press will be put on to the Central
Vermont line beginning June "; LII
will be through train between Mon
treal and New York via Brattleboro
and Springfield. 1t will leave Mon
treal at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon,
reaching New York at O'Clock the
next morning. On the return the tram
leaves New York at O'Clock in the
afternoon.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
boro branch of the Woman's Alliance
was held at the Unitarian parsonage
Thursday afternoon. The reports OF the
secretary, treasurer and of the various
committees were read and adopted,
and other necessary business was tran
sacted balance of over 500 remains
in the treasury with which to begin
the new wear. The following officers
were chosen: Pres, Mrs. Mary Y.
Warder: Sec, Mrs. E. Q. S. Osgood
Treas. Mrs Joseph Draper.
Miss Mary Howe received most
gratifying tributes from the Burning
ton and Rutland newspapers last week
in their reports of her concerts III S,lose
cities. The Burlington Free Press
spoke particularly of her line dramatlc
action In UDe IHdo oCcno
The Rutland Herald said that her voice
was as clear and pure as bell and OF
wide range. 1t commended the nat
uralpess and perfect ease OF her singing
and her beauty and pathos in the I'M,
nersonation of Lucia. The members OF
Miss Howe's company were entertained
at Rutland Thursday morning by the
Elks at their hall.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution were the guests OF mrs: De
mis- and her daughter, Mrs. Z. n. eros
hv at the home of the latter Tuesday
eyening. The entertainment program
onened with a violin solo by Floyo
Johnson. with Miss Ellen Ware as
Diano accompanist 1t was exceeding
" we'll rendered and much enjoyed.
Mrs. Georgia Morse Love OF Newfane
nrasented paper on Ticonderoga,
Which with accompanying maps, was
most instructive as well as interesting,
and covered the subject exhaustlvely'
A. the close of the entertainment, re-
freshmepts were served.
-Ex-Goy. Holbrook is one of the
to the pre-memorlal day
n.n,nhlet issued by State Superintend-
ant II p. Ranger, containing material
81. snaakers and teachers. Part of the
,,a+iar in this pamphlet appeared in
1t YEARS. issue but most of it is new.
nono the other contributors are Com
nnder Frank Kenfield, of the state u.
R Gov. Mccullough, Lieut-Gov.
Ct.nton and Secretary of State Fleet
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