Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-10
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Lent began Wednesday.

l. Lehl DcSuH wednesday,.
VI, Tickets for The Mummy and tn
" Humming Bird go on sale Tuesda
evening.
e Peter Demers has sold his hous
y on South Main street where he ha
l lived for the past 20 years.
n The meeting of the Alliance stud,
class will be held at the Unitarian
. parsonage Monday evening at 1884
I o'clock Subject: The Mob at Thessa.
:. lonica
Y Only about 30 couples attended
! the assembly in the Brooks house las,
' Friday evening. Music was furnished
by Leitsingers orchestra and dancing
) enjoyed until ~ o'clock
"A comparatively small audience
attended no-license rally which was
held in the auditorium Sunday evening
under the auspices of the w. C. r. u.
} The gathering was addressed by Rev.
w. r. Davenport of Barre,
w T. Furness and w. b. Medli-
colt, members of the sprinklers com
mittee of the New England insurance
exchange, have been in town this
!
ing occupied by Durham Brothers and
the Brattleboro Cabinet company's
plant.
AT a meeting of the directors of
the Y. M. C. A. Monday evening it was
voted to accept the resignation of Vic
tor S. Reed, who has been general
secretary of the association for the
past IS months. Mr.. Reed will remain
at his post here until after the ami
versary exercises which will take place
the first Sunday in May
Brink & Washer have removed
their plant from Harmony block to
their newly constructed brick building
on Elm street and announce that their
business will be conducted hereafter
under the name of the Brattleboro
Machine works, the new company as
Stunning all the liabilities of the old. In
the new quarters there is increased
floor space and new machinery.
John Sutherland Michael Hennes-
sy and Edwin Canton answered to the
charge of drunkenness before Justice
w. S. Newton Tuesday morning. Hen
messy and Sutherland were unable to
l.,
Newfane to work out alternative SEN
fences. Truman Stevens and Lewis
Hamilton were arrested for intoxica-
ton Tuesday and paid fines of S. and !,
costs each.
Fremont H. Wright Of Boston, ,
who negotiated the sale Of the Peck :
timber lands in Somerset and STRAIT ]
.on to a Boston syndicate headed by =
Gushing, was in town the !
irst of the week on business connect !
ID with these interests. Mr.. Wright
eels confident that the Central YER
mont management will see fit to ex- :
end the Brattleboro & whitehall c
Dad so as to tap this tract of timber
and. :
George w. Clapp is lecturer and "
instructor in the New England auto h
Mobile school, which has its head
quarters in Boston The object of n
he school is to teach young men to r
ecome competent chauffeurs and re- h
air men, to make prospective buyers q
f machines competent judges and to A
each owners points of Importance r
bout the care of automobiles. G. Fl. il
'lapp is on the advisory board of the II
ompany. v,
The members of Brattleboro nj
HAPPIER, D. A. R., were pleasantly en- "
ertained Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. u
V. H. Corser and Mrs. c. F. Bingham >
t the formers home on Chaplin street. y
he meeting being in observance of 81
ermont day very interesting paper III
as given by Mrs. F. w. Weeks on NJ
than Allen and Seth Warner The oi
napier voted to contribute SIS to the w
ontinental hall fund. Refreshments IN
ere served followed by a social hour. al
The Vermont society, United W.
tates Daughters of 1912, will hold a LEI
"a and sale of useful and fancy arti- NJ
es at the home of Mrs F. HI. Holden f,
Oak street Monday afternoon from fe
until o'clock A choice musical Ie,
'ogram has been prepared. Between
lections Mrs. Charles II. Thompson ~,
i'll read brief paper on The Max nv
g and Raising the First United -,
.ates Flag over School House. A IT,
Election of interesting antiques and ~
ar relics will be on exhibition ~
points toward a large 19'
thering of members and guests of CHI
e Brattleboro Woman's club next ga
ednesday afternoon at the meeting tri
be held at the home of the presi- w
mt, Miss Susan E. Clark in West me
'attleboro. The session will be given tai
er principally to paper on Library rel
ork in Vermont, presented by Mrs. the
p. Smith of st. Johnsbury as res
ecial guest of the club. Current st;
ents will be given by Mrs. Charles low
Boyden. During the social hour Jul
/ will be served and there will be ovt
Isle. Two cars will leave Prospect col
Immediately after the regular bee
lock car for the purpose of convey tina
, the club and its guests to West of
attleboro. one
dec
The Morse motor vehicle COM
ny has no workshop of its own yet,
it has a completed car, and will mil
an exhibitor at Boston. The Morse ten
is driven by superheated steam, IL to
ng the first steamer to be made in of
S city. Mr. Morse, who has worked wit
most of the essentials, has gone han
o the enterprise with his eyes wide and
m. He is one of those who believe tale
t steam, instead of being doomed var
supersedure. is distinctly nearer Hu
ideal agent than either electricity in
This theory the company by
ieyes IL will demonstrate in the car
V car. Chief among many uncon- and
ltional features is the placing of par