Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Rev. w, $. Turner of Chester vii
', occupy the universalist pulpit Sun.
day
w, ii. Halghs advertisement vii
be of interest to those who intend
to buy spring suits
The Mummy and the Hummine
Bird is the attraction at the auditori-
um tomorrow evening.
"A, d. Wyatt has ordered 20
horse power Winton touring car
through Manley's agency.
Rev. Alfred DeBarritt of Glen
fuegos, Cuba, viii speak in the Com
gregational church this evening,
The Ladies' Enterprise society
will meet with Mrs. Phelps on Chest
nut street next Wednesday afternoon.
The will of Mary Harris of Dunn
merston was probated and allowed
Saturday, John III. Merrifleld being
appointed executor.
Leland G. Carleton is one of the
committee appointed to take charge
of the spring indoor track meet at the
University of Vermont,
William b. Vinton of this town
has bought the Falmouth house at
bins of Springfield Mass.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the White River Chair COM
pany will be held in Brattleboro Tues
day, March 2S, at o'clock.
The meeting of the Alliance study
class will be held at the Unitarian
parsonage Monday evening at 7.30
o'clock. Subject: Paul at Athens.
4
George e. Mosher and Sergeant G. II.
Thompson have been appointed a
committee to revise the bylaws of
Company l.
On account of the unusual sue
cess of the recent masquerade ball /
given by the local camp of Modern /
Woodmen the members of the order 7
are planning for another similar .
event after Lent.
H. F. Willis, general agent for the
Union Central Life Insurance Co,
has this week paid Mrs, Eliza L.
Adams $1,000 in payment of the poll
icy which her husband, the late Mer
rill Adams, held in that company.
Col. Charles A. Miles celebrated h
his 10th birthday anniversary Fri
lay. The occasion was marked with /
10 formal observance, but a number
IF Col. Miles's intimate friends called
md wished him returns of the day,
A leak in the Eliot street gas main |,
rave considerable trouble the first of L
he week and ii was necessary to shut /
IF the gas Tuesday afternoon while
the pipe, The men who ex-
awaited to find the leak had to dig
through nearly six feet of frost.
The funeral of Mrs. Herbert c, II
yeaw was held Friday afternoon at 3 l
clock from her late home on Forest t
treet, Rev. H. r. Miles officiating. C
he bearers were f.. b. Barrows, Will @
am Betterley, Frank Wright and Geo.
!. Howard. The body was placed in
he vault at Prospect Hill cemetery. l
The funeral of Charles H. Ellis I
)ok place at l o'clock Friday after il
Don from the home of his brother, d
William Ellis, on Canal street, Rev. s
luther NJ Keneston of West Brattle- g
orc officiating. The bearers We're V
William, O. H., l.. F. and Fred Ellis. a
he body was placed in the vault at fl
respect hill cemetery.
-Sergts. Percy and Perley Bond W
win sons of Leroy l.. Bond of Spot d
,rd, n. H., and nephews of H. +. and b
H. Bond of this town, have returned IL
Boston after three years service as OF
embers of the United States signal II
,rps in the Philippines. They are II
lpected to arrive at their home in h
pofford in a short time. W
The fifth annual meeting of the a.
'antastiquet golf club will be held u
the Brooks house Wednesday eve
ng, April 5. The club is in the most A
'osperous condition since its organi- in
,tion, its debt having been almost m
holly wiped out and its membership ca
1913. An unusually lively d.
ason is expected the coming sum- ri
er, particularly on the tennis courts Il,
George Leavitt, who has been te
1ployed by G. E. Gilman, was ar y.
sted Tuesday on a writ in favor of ~
ark Chandler of Wilmington, it be- 70
g claimed that Leavitt was making tSo
to leave the state with ~ ~
t paying his honest debts. He was ", ",
raigned before Justice Bacon but no y"
idence was produced showing that
was preparing to skip and so he m
is discharged so
A play that appeals to the heart r;l
Eben Holden, the quaint and orig q,
II rural drama, shortly to be seen ~
re. Some of the quaintest types ~,
ar seen on any stage will appear ~
ere is Nick Goodall, the dumb and "a
nd musician so graphically de- w,
'ibed by Irving Bachelor in his les To-,
nous novel from which "Eben Hold lea
; was dramatized. There are also an
vid Brewer, Deacon Hospur, Pan ~
ne Walker, and Tip, the man of y
work, who is hare-lipped. Tips dct
empts to sing on the village choir ~,
pronounced side-splitters. M
Do.,ito tbo storr, oil lovarc of the
ma attended the magnificent pre- W.,
tation of The Mummy and the ,;s1
mining Bird at the opera house ~, ~
night says the Kingston, &c
Y, Leader, all not only being de- ~
lted with the play but declaring it n arc
finest here this season. To say pio
t no play ever presented here was ai,,
re keenly appreciated than this is Gle ole
exaggeration, From beginning to
a clever and strange story of true inc
e is so charmingly portrayed that re re
S not only interesting but extreme -
The company will play va,
return engagement here tomorrow &c,
hit. nor
The Bennett Moulton Co. No. l Da
be the attraction at the audi Coz
um all the coming week. This Col
MANY is one of the best on the TIL,
d this year and is pleasing its of
nv patrons as ii has done for the Sid
t 26 years. Each year the Ben sen
t -Moulton managementaimt to- give eve
r friends a new line of metropolis ed.
successes, but they have eclipsed dur
former efforts and offer a series of
iuctions which have never been -,
sented at popular-price except by sdii
Bennett Moulton management I'LL Ill
h play is mounted throughout, all in; in