Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-20

Tine Lauies enterprise bociety
will meet with Mrs. +. A. Holmes, b
Estey street, Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock.
The store Of Il. ]. Fenton & Co.
closes Tuesday In preparation for the
fifth anniversary sale. which begins
Wednesday.
AT the annual meeting Of Com
pany 4 last evening Lieutenant
George e. Mosher was chosen clerk
and treasurer.
Slight damage was caused at the
home Of ]. l.. Stockwell In West
Brattleboro Sunday evening by the
overturning Of a lamp.
Sunday morning was one Of the
coolest OF the winter. DIR. g. +. Gales
self registering thermometer report
ed II degrees below zero.
The Epworth league OF the Meth
odlst church will hold their regular
business meeting Thursday evening
at 1880 O'Clock In the league room.
Edwin J. Hadley's moving pic
lures will appear in the auditorium
Thursday evening. Feb. 2, under the
auspices Of Wantastiquet lodge, l. o.
o. +.
Engine 4 on the south bound mar
row gauge mixed train broke a jour-
nal near Wardsboro yesterday after
noon. the accident causing delay OF
several hours.
Mrs. e. w. Gibson entertained the
womens society of ST. Michael's
Episcopal church at her home on
Oak street Wednesday evening. After
a special entertainment refreshments
were served.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Methodist church and It's friends are
invited to the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
c. ID. Smith to supper next Wednes-
day. Each woman is expected to
contribute food.
There was a good attendance at
the social given by the Congrega-
tonal Christian Endeavor society
Wednesday evening. A feature of
the entertainment was the musical
bottle playing by Frank Morse.
Mrs. N. NJ. Puffer Of Bennington
has an interesting souvenir OF by
gone days In a certificate, dated at
Brattleboro Sept. 10, 1914, and good
to the bearer, Mr.. Blackmer for two
seats in the mail stage from this
place to Bennington"
-Gray's Crystalpex carnival COM
pany has been playing to small au-
diences at grange hall this week. al
though the number present has been
commensurate with the merit Of the
Dancing has followed
the regular program each evening.
Herbert S. Norcross Of West
Dummerston has brought suit through
his attorneys, II. c. and +. f. Barber,
against the Brattleboro Gas Light
company for $4,000. claiming that the
companys dam has usurped his water
rights on West river. The case Is re-
turnable at the spring term OF court.
Thirty members Of Protective
grange took sleigh-ride to Dunn
merston Wednesday to attend the
meeting Of Windham County Pomona
grange. Evening Star grange gave
the visitors hearty welcome, and
both sessions of the meeting were
very interesting. A fine dinner was
served at noon.
The officers of Bingham chapter,
o. L. s.. were installed Tuesday
evening by Past Matron Maverette
Fisher, assisted by Mrs. Dora Bing-
ham as marshal Col C. A. Miles
gave paper on Adaptive Masonry
in which he paid a feeling tribute to
the brother for whom the local chap
ter is named Miss Gertrude Mat
thews sang twice, refreshments were
served and a social hour enjoyed af-
ter the meeting. There was a good |
lilies, among the visitors being Mrs. |
N. p. Wood and Mrs. c. II. Webster
of Mortified, Mass. who were guests
Of Mrs. Fisher
Miss Maud Field, who recently |
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subject of cookery, will come to
Brattleboro soon to give chatting |
dish demonstration and to make ar
for a class. The talk
will be open to any women who |
wish to attend whether members OF
the club or not. Those who wish to
go to the first lecture are requested |
to give their names to Mrs. Howard |
Rice or Mrs. Hobart Whitaker be-
fore Wednesday and they will be |
notified of the time and place OF the
The subject of the first talk
will be Chatting Dish Cookery and
small admission fee will be charged,
The So head of cattle belonging
10 the Richards Bradley estate, which
we're tested last week by DR.. j. l..
Rathbone and responded to the tu-
berculin test, were shipped Monday
to Somerville, Mass, where they viii
be turned into phosphate and other
such products by the Savage Broth
,rs' fertilizing plant. The cattle were
appraised last Friday by George c.
stephens of White River Junction,
of the state board Of cattle
commissioners. and George w.
Pierce, and afterward sold to the fer
.ilizer company. Hardly any of the
,attle showed signs Of being affected
With tuberculosis. and most OF them
seemed to be pictures of health. They
we're all grade Jerseys and Guernseys'
Members of corporations in this
section will do well to take notice OF
he following provision of the new
tax law which says that:
All corporations organized under the
avs of Vermont having capital stock
,r deposit except cemetery associa-
ions and such corporations as are
organized. solely for charitable, relig-
GUS or educational purposes, are
required by law to pay to
he state on or before the nrst uay
# March an annual license tax and
o make proper returns therefor; and
hat all such corporations when
hall neglect or refuse to pay all an
,ual licenses taxes due to the state
If Vermont and to make proper re-
urns therefor on or before the first
Law of April. 1906, shall cease to ex.
st as corporations subsequent to said
asst named date"
The Hildreth cottage, situated on
he bank of the Connecticut river
ust above the extension bridge and
eased by a number of young men
# this town, was entered and occu-
lied part of last week by man
Who left there in a hurry Sunday,
aking with him a sweater belonging
o Guy Tasker and a number OF other
,rticles. d. f. Tasker and his son,