Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-20
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

uiiiudl llTtlnen = Dali there
The Hooker, Corser & Mitchell
overall factory was closed from Frida,
noon until Monday to allow inventor,
to be taken.
Tickets to the extravaganza.
through the Center of the Earth
VIII go on sale tomorrow night at :
O'Clock at the box office
The senior football team of the high
school defeated a consolidated eleven or
the island Friday afternoon by a score
OF 1915. The contest decided the schoo
championship.
Fire burned over a small norton
of Wantastiquet Mountain Sunday
night but the flames We're quelled by
the storm of Monday before any seri-
Gus damage was done.
w. A. Belden was arrested We'd
nesday afternoon by officer ThayeI
who found him on Elliot street in an
intoxicated condition. He pleaded
guilty before Justice Newton and was
fined IS and costs, which he paid
The womans auxiliary of the Y. M.
c. A., will hold a window market at the
association rooms, Saturday afternoon.
from 2 till 6 O'clock. The market will
be devoted to the sale of pickles, jellies,
canned fruits and home made preserves
and will be under the supervision of
Mrs. George C. Averill.
The United States civil service
commission has ordered the local
board to hold examinations for the
positions of clerk and carrier We'd
nesday Dec. 2. All wishing to take
the examinations should file their APP
plications promptly with Miss F. E.
aminers.
Alfred Shaver was arrested in
Guilford wednesday by Sheriff Frank
L. Wellman and brought to Brattleboro
to be arraigned before Justice William
S. Newton. He pleaded guilty to va
grancy and was sentenced to three
in the House of Correction.
Sheriff Wellman went to Rutland with
his prisoner last evening,
The Epworth league of the Metho-
dist church held its regular election in
the league rooms Wednesday evening
when the following officers were chos-
en-: President, Miss Lulu Lewis; vice
presidents, Miss May Fraser Miss Eft
Ia Miner, Miss Hattie Smith and Miss
Elizabeth Lewis; secretary, William
treasurer, William Plimpton.
An alarm of fire from box So near
he milestone block was rung in about
). 30 last evening on account of a slight
blaze in an unused oil shed near the
Central Vermont round house. The
department. responded promptly but on
Y went as far as Main street bridge,
he flames having quelled before the
nan who rang the alarm reached the
BOX. The damage was slight
A C. Clifton, owner and proprie-
or of the we'll known and popular Is
and Harbor house on Lake George died
here Wednesday evening. He leaves
| widow, three daughters and two sons.
His eldest son B. S. Clifton has for
several years had the management of
he business. Mr.. Clifton was broth
,r of Mrs. F. w. Weeks of Brattleboro
md Mrs. Jane f. Gale of Guilford.
An Informal opening of the new
Home for the Aged and Disabled to-
yether with the annual harvest vista
ION VIII DE DtIu plopipis hhihAe's
Dec. 8. At this time the public will
lave a chance to see the interior of the
lew structure and also to contribute
.nything in the way of canned fruits.
ellies. etc, that may be of use in the
administration of comfort to the oc-
D. p. De Witt is planning to move 4
lis wholesale grocery business from
IS present quarters on the lower floor
f the Crosby store house to the quar-
ars on the top floor formerly occupied (
" Suffer Brothers. An elevator Will 4
robably be put in for Mr.. De Wits (
Sc in shipping. The change will give
increased space to the business and
1ake Mr.. De Witt better situated in .
very way.
States Attorney A f. Schwenk
yas in Putney Monday to appear
gainst Henry Everleth Porter Ford
nd Chester Taft who We're arraigned
efore Justice Harlan Goodhue OF
on the charge of assault
,g Andrew Wooley at a church sup
err last Wednesday evening. the
ouths pleaded guilty and We're fined
10 and costs each. Charles Taft'
tho was also implicated in the mat
4r left the state Sunday afternoon. A
-arrant is out for his arrest.
Miss Agnes Pringle violinist of the
grand concert company
hitch comes to the auditorium Dec
is through musician according to
he Chicago Musical Times which says:
The audience was fairly electrlneu
nd captivated with a charming httie
ioliniste, Miss Agnes Pringie. she
,ovs a mastery skill with this most
ifficult instrument, producing a r1ch, Z
RIM tone. Her bowling is artistic ana {
or INTERPRETATION almost faultless A;
, addition to Miss Pringle the com {
any contains Robert Kent Parker, {
,sso. Vernon Henshie, pianist; ana s
re charlotte Guyer- George, contral- {
Lake Carthage. the aged negro who
enploved by L. B. Yauvey, sought
,unsel Of Lawyer E. W. Gibson Monday
, a matter of grave Importance From
e storv II appeared that he had given
,eo to Mrs. William Burt, a white
oman. who in return for the money
a ,,romised to marry him. From lat
developments Carthage became con-
mood that he was being imposed upon
"a wanted action brought against
rs Burt for obtaining money unoer
lse pretences. Deputy SneriH NC D.,
ura found the woman VINO ADMIT
= having taken the money on such a
,,,-oct Rut she said she could not
-, Carthage for the reason that
Q had one husband ALREADY,
. = h,.o,, chi to the attention OF l