Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-11-04
COUNTY FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1904

raigned before Justice w. S. Newton
Tuesday on the charge OF intoxica-
ton and fined SO and costs when ne
paid.
"A football team representing the
ninth grade of the grammar school
PLAYED tie game with an eleven
captained by Carroll Wood on the IS
land Wednesday afternoon, neither
side scoring.
Raymond Greene, Edward Leon
ard and Howard Merrill have leased
a portion of Floyd Smiths store IN
Retting block and will carry a fuil
line of rubber stamps, SEALS stencEs
and other office supplies there.
The Festival hop wednesday
evening took the form Of lollypop
party, each attendant being presented
with one of those viscid and luscious
corrections. The dance was well at
tended and proved an enjoyable occa-
sion.
Plans are under way for an ath.
letic exhibition to be held In Festivai
hall In the near future. The program
will comprise contests In sparring,
wrestling and other athletic exercises.
and the participants will all be local
young men.
Considerable personal property
will be sold by auction Wednesday at
the Dwight Goodenough farm In west
Rrattleboro to satisfy the holder OF
a mortgage on the place, The sale
will take place at noon and r. w.
Mcclure will act as auctioneer.
The women of the Unitarian So
ciety held their first supper of the
season in Wells hall Tuesday eve
ming. As usual ii was bountiful re-
past and was enjoyed by a large mum,
her, After the supper a musical ana
literary entertainment was furnished.
-Jeston w. Chamberlain of Bel
lows Falls has been adjudicated bank
rupt this week, his liabilities amount,
ing to S1.166 and his assets to $2oo an
of which is claimed exempt Inc
first meeting of the creditors VIII pc
held i'm the office of Referee f. ID. H.
Stowe Nov. 10.
About 80 members of the Baptist
Christian Endeavor society met win
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. w. Hawley at thelr
homo on Chaplin street Monday even
ing to enjoy a Halloween celebration
The usual games We're played, mar
raising ghost story was told by MRS.
r L. smith and refreshments were
served.
i e. Comerford, who will lecture
in the auditorium Thursday evening
Nov. II. under the auspices OF the T.
NJ G. A.. has given his entertainment
A Day and a Night with our Life saw
ers. in Keith's theatre, Boston, WIN
great success. 1t is not an ORDINARY
lecture that Mr.. Comeriord
gives but an entertainment of great
realism and power.
lanes Fisk Hooker has accepted
the invitation of Frank l.: FISH
president of the Vermont FISH
Came league. to act as toastmaster at
ito annual banquet in Montpelier
wednesday evening. 1t is expecteu
thar John w. Titcomb, formerly state
fish and game commissioner but now
connected with the United States
fisheries department, will De one u
the speakers.
The Murray club held a Hal
1ove'en marty in the vestry OF the
Iyniyersaiist church Monday evening
the event being largely attended, me
first of the evening was devoted 10
program consisting of readings ny
Miss Florence Clark songs by MRS,
katherine O'Connor Weeks anu d
short talk on the history OF hal-
lowe'en by Rev. r. X. Marvin. After,
ward the usual games We're piayeu
and refreshments of fruit served.
The Brattleboro Womans cup
had an unusually large meeting
Wednesday afternoon. the program
committee had prepared nome gay,
and it was proved without question
that home talent always can pc oe-
pended upon for proht ana litereSI'
Papers were read by MIS- - "a
Thompson and Miss Fits upon cur.
rent events. Mrs. ]. p. Elmer on the
s,hiect The Home and its Influence,
and Mrs. e. H. Crane on The Con-
sumers' League. Several new mem
hars were added to the club.
Protective grange instructed
class of Ia in the first and second de-
grees Wednesday evening. Inc tllir1 !
ana fourth degrees will be conferred
Nav 70. It was voted to invite Ar
iington grange of winchester, N. H.,
10 visit at that time. Bellows talls
grange will also be present. l.. VI
Cook worthy master of Guiding star
Strange. Halifax, and L. f. Jaquith'
worthy master of Broad BROOK
grange. were present at "Wednesday
evenings meeting and made brlet re-
marks There will be no grange
meeting the 10th as stated IN the d.
rectory.
Mrs. Charles f. Mason, AS, died
early Monday morning al her nome Oh
Washington street after an illness OF
civ weeks with cancer of the stom-
ach. The funeral took place Wednes-
dav afternoon at o'clock from the
house. Rev. R. X. Marvin ofhclatlng
and the burial was in Prospect HI
cemetery. Mrs. Nason's maiden name
was Alice L. Fowler and she was pori
in Halifax June IA, 1856, daughter o.
Charles and Julia Day Fowler. ~
the age of 10 years she caris
Rrattleboro with her parents, ana ar
ter graduating from the hlgh schoo
here taught in Chesterfield, n; H. w
some time. She was married 10 WI
Mason Dec. "a, 1875. For ~ year,
after their marriage they lived in Wes'
Rrattlehoro. subsequently removing tt
This village. Mrs. Mason is survived
hv a husband and one adopted daugh-
tsr Miss Lila NJ Mason. She was =
mamber of the Universalist cnurcl
and a woman of strong Chrls'iai
character.
$. L. Rice, who lives on the Ches'
torfiald road a short distance beyone
the suspension bridge, was renewed o
$40 Wednesday morning IN tne cor
ridor of the local town hall pullolis
MIR Rice had been to the stamp WIN
dow of the postoffice to make pur
chase and thoughtlessly left his. bill,
hook on the counter. He remempere'
# as soon as he was out of the build
ing and went back to get it but fount
that it had disappeared. Al nrst ~
thought that it had been found by th'
stamp clerk at the postofiice ou NJ o,
making inquiries was disappointed
Mr.. Rice remembers that man wa a
standing near him while he was ;, a
the window, but he cannot recail ~,
appearance, except that he was a tal'
good looking stranger. the Ghes.el
field man went to the depot Weuhes
day morning. hoping to identlfy tn