Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-02-17

VIII pfehcn ut tne lHiNersahht churS'
Sunday
Since Jan. /, 1900, DR.. George +
Gales snow gauge has registered
fall OF 81 feet, 10h Inches.
-Sedgwick Woman's Relief corp
will have drill In odd Fellows hal
Saturday afternoon at o'clock. Ev
cry member is urged to be present,
Branch No. l OF the Sunshine
society will meet Wednesday after
noon at o'clock at the home Of Mrs
c. +. X. Jenne, IA oak street.
"A local camp of Spanish American
war veterans will be formed In the
rooms of Company / this evening
About 80 men have signifed their In
tention OF Joining the organization.
About 30 members of the Vermont
Wheel club enjoyed a roast pig supper
In grange hall Wednesday evening
The supper was served by the Wom-
ans Relief corps,
Elk Governor Frederick Holbrook
quietly celebrated his 92d birthday at
his home on Walnut street Tuesday.
He was greeted by a number Of old
friends and received many letters of
congratulation and gifts of flowers.
AT the meeting of the w. c. T. U.
yesterday Rev, T.. Il. Mathison gave
an interesting account of the life and
work of Miss Frances Il. Willard.
Having been personally acquainted
with aer he was we'll prepared TO do
this.
The Holyoke Interscholastic bas-
ketball team will be the attraction at
Festival hall next Friday evening.
This is the team which is playing for
Company of Schenectady, n. Y, and
includes Hardman, Wiley, Snow and
Wachter.
Mrs. Amanda Anderson, wife of
Anton Anderson and sister of Mrs.
Walter Mixer, died last Monday even
ing at her home in North Easton.
Mass, after a long illness. She had
been visitor In Brattleboro many
times and had numerous friends
here.
The February meeting of the
Professional club was scheduled for
Wednesday evening but on account
Of the G. A. r. encampment has been
postponed one week. Dr. +. II. o.
Conner will give a paper on Tuber-
culosis and the discussion win be led
by DR.. George f. Gale.
Tickets for the Foresters' minstrel
show go on sale at the box office of
the auditorium next Friday evening
at o'clock The committee in charge
of the entertainment has been working
hard and the performance promises to
be well worth seeing. II will contain
number of local songs and jokes.
Durham Brothers have made ar
rangements for the installation of a
al hrat a
various departments of their store.
There will be 10 instruments connect
ing with the main Office and the ar
will be such that any one
Of them can be used for long distance
work by connecting with. the Brattle-
boro exchange
--Houghton and Simonds have sign
ed a contract with the Lamson Con-
solidated Store Service company TO
equip their stores with the Lamson
cable cash carrier. 1t will be operat-
ed by an electric motor and is the
finest cash carrier system yet produc-
ed as we'll as the first of its kind to
be installed in Vermont The system
will be put in as soon as the new floor
is open.
Organization was perfected yes
terday of the Brattleboro Mining COM
pany with the following officers:
President, Lester r. Page of Whining
ton. vice president, Newton Smith of
South Hadley Falls. Mass: secretary
and treasurer Dennison Cowles of
directors in addition 10
the officers, W. B. Vinton and s. A.
Smith of Brattleboro, G. T. Aplin of
Putney and +. o. Beal of Bangor, Me.
The new corporation owns the prop
erty in Leadville. Col, formerly oper-
ated by the Vally Leasing & Mining
Co. Major A. V. Bohn of Leadville
was present at the meeting yesterday
and was appointed superintendent.
Major Bohn is one of the leading min
ing experts In Colorado and will have
full charge of the property. The COM
pany is capitalized for s75o.o0o in
shares of S1.00 each. The main office
will be in Denver with branch office
At Brattleboro.
Manager Fox was not put to the
trouble of busting off and putting out
his standing room only" sign last
evening, but he had an unusually large
audience to see that wellknown Ger
man comedian, Louis Mann, in The
Second Fiddle. That Mr.. Mann and
MS company gave satisfaction was ev-
denced by the unusual manifestations
If applause which greeted them after |
each act AT the close of the second |
act Mr. Mann responded to the cur
ain calls by brief speech. The story |
IF the play has already been given in |
.hese columns. Suffice it to say, then, |
hat Mr. Mann was not only very |
in his role of the light-heart-
ID Austrian musician. but he made |
he most of his opportunities for Sc
'ious work and did some excellent |
emotional acting. He was ably sup
ported, and the play was well staged |
md finely costumed.