Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-11
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

oSN@ WIVES AND GOSSIP.
The Estey Guard basketball team
expects to play in Hinsdalc. n. H.. Fri
day evening.
The Central Vermont railroad of
ncials passed through here Tuesday OF
tour of inspection
a house for the car inspecting fore,
of the Boston & Maine railroad is be
ing built opposite the depot
John l.. Roess has bought the vii.
nam +. Patch house on Williston stree
and will occupy it for a home soon.
The Estey Organ factory last weel
began running on full time six days ir
the week. During the summer the
factory has closed at noon Saturdays.
-Lucien a. Elmer viii have charge
of meat market which L. II. Richard
son is getting ready to open in the
basement beneath Bakers barber shop
/ The following dates have been
made for the four remaining Brooks
House assemblies; Thursday, Dec. 81,
Tuesday Feb. 9. March s, Thursday
April 7.
Thomas Harmon of Fitchburg.
Massachusetts. was arrested for drunk
enness Tuesday. He pleaded guilty
before Judge Newton and was fined IS
and costs.
The annual meeting Of Brattleboro
chapter Daughters of the American
Revolution. viii be held at the Green
street home of Mrs, E. D. whitney
Tuesday afternoon At s o'clock.
The teachers of the intermediate
classes in the Congregational Sunday
school entertained their pupils in the
chapel Tuesday evening. Games fur
nished the amusement and refresh
ments were served.
Services have been resumed al the
Home for Aged and Disabled ON West
ern avenue. taking place every Sunday
afternoon at O'Clock. Rev. E. Q. S.
Osgood will have charge of them dur
ing the month OF December.
There was hearing before Judge
z. L. Waterman in the probate court
Saturday on matters connected with
the settlement of the account in the
Henry S. Blanchard estate of Whining
ton. The hearing was continued until
Saturday, Dec. IS.
The first three days of this week
afforded good pickerel fishing and
many excellent strings We're taken
from Kilburn and Baker ponds. Pre-
vious. to the heavy snowfall OF We'd
nesday the fox and rabbit hunting
hereabouts was excellent
The Baptist women viii serve sup
per in the church dining room Thurs
day evening when a Christmas sale of
useful and fancy articles and potted
plants will be held. The committee on
fancy work wish all articles brought
in the day before the sale
Candy, cake, useful and fancy ar
ticIes will be sold at the rainbow sale
which the Fessenden Helping Hand
society will hold in the Congregational
chapel Tuesday afternoon and evening.
The tables win represent the five senses T
and will be decorated in the colors Of
the rainbow.
Chief of Police Hall received a +
telephone message from East Randolph T.
Monday night that one Arthur Luck. /
who was under bonds for forgery, had
jumped his bail and was thought to be (
in town with relatives. Chief Hall +
has kept a vigorous watch but the
man has not been apprehended.
The annual meeting of the Uni /
parish was held in the church +
Tuesday evening when reports for the /
past year We're read and officers elect (
Id as follows: President. J. L. Mar +
lin; clerk and treasurer. C. l. Stickney; /
prudential committee, F. D. E. Stowe, .
F. C. Sargent, Freeman Scott; auditor,
.. A. Harris.
Miss Katherine Austin, daughter
If Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Austin who has
aiken a position as stenographer in the
Reformer office, made noteworthy re-
,ord at Albany Business college from
which she has just graduated. She
completed a full course in shorthand
md typewriting in the remarkably
short time of seventeen weeks, record
hat has not been equalled by any
graduate of the school for two years.
The Center Congregational Sunday
school made the following appropria-
ions Sunday Forty dollars to be used
or scholarship at Atlanta university,
;25 for the Christmas festivities in the
lone Sunday school, S25 for the use
# Edward Fairbanks, missionary in 4
ndia under the American board. $50
O the Kurn Hattin home at Westmin-
ter. SIS TO be devoted to the poor Con-
yregationalists in Cuba and $40 for
charitable work in the Brattleboro par
sh.
Warren NJ Howe. whose critical
Illness was reported in The Reformer
asst week. died in Oshkosh, Wis. early
Wednesday morning after brief III
,ass with pneumonia. The body was
,rought to Greenfield yesterday and
he funeral will take place today Mr..
Howe was a native of Vernon and was
-raduated from the Brattleboro High
chool For the past several years ne
,as been travelling salesman for B0S-
on shoe concern, making his head
,1arters at Greenfield where his moth
y lives. He was a member Of Column I;
,ian lodge. F. & A NJ, and Beauseant
There was a hearing Monday be
o-a Referee F. D. E stowe on the petit
IONS for discharge from bankruptcy
,1a5 bv II G. Everleth and James W.
ester. both Of Putney. Mr. Everleth
nd Mr.. Lester are among the II sign
- of the now widely advertised Sto-
,sr note for $4,000 to the Vermont
,-,+;oral hank. which the Stowell Man
featuring company Of Putney, makers
. ~ note faiTsd to pay. Fourteen
+ the signers have paid their share and
ne other will pay in few days ieav-