Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-24
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
The Brattlebofo overall factory
closed Saturday and will not open until
January A.
st. Michael's parochial school
closed Friday for two weeks vacation.
Appropriate exercises were held.
The advance sales of tickets for
the Criterion Clubs triple Offering
will go on sale Monday night at the box
Office.
Judge John H. Watson of Mont
pelier will preside at the April session
of Windham county court, and Judge
Wendell p. Stafford will preside at the
fall term.
IT. w. Monks of Cambridge, Mass,
former resident of Brattleboro. died
at his home Monday of pneumonia
Funeral services We're held yesterday
from st. Marys church.
The w. C. T. U. will meet at the
usual time Thursday afternoon in the
Y. NJ. C. A. rooms. Rev e. T. Mathi-
son will give talk and the public are
cordially invited to be present.
The dynamos in the electric light
station have been run by power from
the West river dam for the past 10
weeks, and it is hardly expected that
any steam power win have to be used
all winter.
The Y M. c. A. basketball team
will play Christmas day game in
Shelburne Falls, Mass. The next
1, xtriII fol tl1a "Wednesday
evening Dec. so with a team from Will
liston seminary.
The Crystal Springs ice company
began harvesting its first crop from the
Flat street ponds Saturday. The ice Is
little over II inches thick and is of
fairly good quality although not as
clear as in previous years.
Arthur V. d. Piper who has been
living in Marlboro for the past two
years, went to Jamaica Monday to open
a law office. Mr.. Piper was admitted
to the Vermont bar in 1898 and for a
time had an Office in this town.
The Brattleboro Hosiery Co. has
hired the lower floor of the machine
shop building and will use it for storage
purposes 1t is likely that an elevator
will be put in the building for the ac-
commodation of the hosiery company.
The local agency for the Stevens
Duryea automobiles has been taken by
E. D. Whitney who will push the sale
of this make during the coming season.
Mr., Whitney expects to receive one OF
the firms latest models as soon as the
weather permits automobiling.
The body of Mrs. Winthrop Mich
OILS. who died in Boston Sunday, was
brought to Brattleboro for burial Mon
dav afternoon She was formerly Miss
Lillian Samson and was a daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Samson of this
town. Besides her husband she Is sur
yiyed by two small children
The funeral of the late sylvester =
Rurlingame was held Saturday after
noon at o'clock from the Universails'
church Rev. r. X. Marvin officiating
IT f. TAYLOR, Roscoe Fisher. Davio
Baker. Michael Seers, James +. Elmer
and w. C. stone acted as bearers. Tne
burial was in Prospect. Hill cemetery
in the Congregational chapel Mon
day evening Jan. II, Mrs. GenevieVe
Howard of Boston, will give Snakes
peare recital Of scenes from Inc Mer-
chant of Venice. Mrs. Howard is
highly spoken of by eminent men ano
woman and leading newspapers as al
interpreter of Shakespeare. the re-
cital will begin at eight o'clock.
Fred H. Holden, Eminent Com
mander of Beauseant commanoer9' NO
| 7 knights Templar, has issued re-
ouest to all Sir Knights to rendezvous
at the Asylum in Brattleboro at ll'oe
m. on Christmas day to participate
in a sentiment in honor of the Mos'
eminent Grand Master Henry Bates
Stoddard. in which all Sir knights VIII
unite at that hour.
wallace N. Batchelder has deciineo
his recent election to the second ileu
tenancy of Company l ana hahueo A.
his resignation as memper VI .ne
Vermont National guard. rms actioi
has been taken by Mr.. Batcheiuer pe
cause he expects to leave Brattiepoi'
within a few months. The Office OF Sec
ond lieutenant which will be left vacan
hv his declination, will have to p'
6I,ed ut a special election. II VIII o'
held probably within few weeks
Tho nrinters and second Y. M. Z
A basketball teams played an exhlpi
+;on game in Hinsdale, N. H., Tuesda!
evening the former winning by scor
- oo-11. The feature of the game wa
an accident which happened 10 Der
brooks and Luke Woodard whiie
nursuit of the ball. Both zen iii.o
window and smashed out all the gas
Woodard sustaining a severe cut OH III
rigbt arm and Brooks bad flesh Woun
IN the palm of the hand. severe
st;tobas were taken in each OF Tn
wounds.
Arrangements for the formatio
of a local basketball league nave hc
vet been fully completed put there
little doubt that such league Will
formed with teams representing Co'i'
many I. the Catholic Union, the ing
school and the printers. The Y.
r. A. team will undoubtedly be unde
league MANAGEMENT but will not .
member of the league proper. IL
is decided to organize permaner
athletic association. as very many PEE
nIa hone the proceeds from the spol
IF there are any will be used to stal
fund for the purpose of purchasln
nublic athletic field. An interest
ing series of games could be arrange
among the four teams mentioned
: they are all of about equal strengt
and can put up very good article
basketball.
A business meeting of the stocH
holders of the Valley Fair associate
!, ,,,as hold in the Brooks House parlol