Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-11-16

ihuihuhN AFTERNOON hnu evening,
Miss Gregg aud Miss Tucker ar,
/ giving their annual informal ut home Il
the teachers and committee of school
district No, Saturday afternoon ut
| WilliSton street.
- A, Butler, who WAS buried in
| Vernon yesterday, was well known IN
this town as he was formerly the treas
urer OF the Brattlcboro & Whitehall
railroad and was also nj one time the
cashier of the Jamaica Savings bank.
The Nellie Kennedy stock company
closed its week of repertoire al the
Auditorium saturday night with Wolves
of New York. With one exception the
play was the worst of the week. The
company remained in town over sun
day and left Monday morning for ST.
lohnsbury, where IL has been barnstorm'
ing this week.
Protective grange conferred the
first and second degrees on II candi'
dates Wednesday evening. The second
degree was worked by the special de,
gree team with Harry W. Spaulding
master. The third and fourth degrees
will be worked at the next meeting,
the date of which has been changed
from Nov. % TO Dee. }.
A new railing made of iron pipe
has been placed along the north side
of the walk leading from the front door
of the High school building down to the
street. The walk has been one of the
hest places in town TO catch n fall at
sIipnery times but now if one maintains
good grip the chance of aifording
merriment to the school children is min
imized.
The funeral of Mrs. Addison Brown
was held at her late home ON Grove
street Saturday afternoon, Rev. E. Q. >,
Osgood, pastor of the Unitarian church
officiating. There was large attend
ance and there were beautiful floral re-
membranes. Three selections were
sung by Edwin II. Miller, The burial
was in the family lot in Prospect Hill
cemetery, the bearers being c. \. Miles
| O. l.. French, Luke Fcrriter and o. J,
/ Pratt.
The Twin State Gas 4 Electric
company has installed in its Arch street
plant new transformer with a capac'
| ity of $50 lights, which viii be used On
/ the incandescent circuit of the town
The company has begun the work of
putting in new bulbs to replace the old
ones. Under the new system these
lights will be regulated automatically
and will not have to be looked after by
any one. Similar work is being done in
Hinsdale, n. H.. where the company has
taken the contract there 10 light the
Eagle Iron foundry with electricity.
A small fire was discovered early
Saturday morning in some cotton waste
in the loft Of the ear Inspector 3 Office
near the Central Vermont freight depot.
An alarm was sent in from box SO, but
owing to the wet and slippery condition
of the streets the department was slow
in getting to the scene of the fire. The
fire was out before the company ar
rived. The waste had been thrown out
doors and the fire was quenched by a
few buckets of water. 1t originated
from spontaneous combustion in the
oily waste. Slight damage was done
Philip Thomas has bought out the
interest of Constantine Condor in the
fruit store near the new American build
ING and will henceforth run it alone.
Monday afternoon the Dewitt Grocery
company, through their attorney, II. u.
Barber. levied an attachment upon the
store for Il bill of about $50 against
Thomas. Owing to the fact that the bin
was owed by Thomas alone and not by
the firm the attachment fell through
The matter was settled Tuesday by
Thomas purchasing the interest of Con-
don and the Dewitt Grocery company ;
taking mortgage on the store.
The Boston & Maine railroad has
this week awarded contract for signal
work amounting to 100000. 1t is
planned to cover practically the entire
system of the railroad, the contract
calling for sufficient material to equip
1000 miles of trackage. &. Il. Il. french,
assistant superintendent of the Connec'
ticut River division, says that probably
nothing will be done for the present on
the division. which is sufficiently well
equipped for the present. The bulk OF
the work will be done on the fltchburg
and Western divisions, and when the
more pressing needs have been met the
Connecticut River division will be at
tended to. The Boston & Maine last
summer put in about 40 miles of the
best railroad signal system in existence.
The Lion and the Mouse, by Charles
Klein, a play which has scored one of
the greatest successes of the past ~
wears. will be produced by Henry b,
Harris at the Auditorium Brattleboro,
tomorrow night. The success OF the
piece, which had its premiere in Boston
in October, 1904, was immediate, and
after an engagement of four weeks
there it was transferred to the Lyceum
theatre, New York, where it has been
presented ever since, to the limits OF
the theatre; in fact, this play has rec
ord which no other dramatic production
can boast-it is the only drama to have
run through an entire summer without
single break and is now in its second
wear at one theatre. The play has also
inst closed a three months run in Bos-
Ton. playing to the largest audiences
ever known in the history of the ParK
theatre. The central figure in the play
is one of extraordinary interest and
tbe theme is timely. Mr.. Klein has
taken as his central figure money
baron of the present day who wants to
be supreme leader in monetary AFFAIRS
financial julius Caesar, an Alexander
signing for more moneyed world to
conquer.
The illegal cutting of $4,000 feet Of
timber on the Sandgate side of Equinox
mountain in Manchester is alleged IN a
suit which has just been brought
through a Brattleboro law ONCE. Lay oo
ingston Cushing of Boston owns loo
acres of spruce timberland in Manches-
ter. He had it surveyed recently by Il.
G. Bacon of Sunderland. While Mr.
Bacon was performing this work he