Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-02-16
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

ter company will take place Monday
The Brattleboro Medical club held
an informal banquet at the Brooks
House Monday evening
Delegations from number of sur
rounding towns are planning to attend
the concerts Tuesday, including party
of over 20 from Putney,
The bailiffs held their regular
monthly meeting last Friday evening
when the usual bills were approved and
several sewer assessments levied
The entertainment furnished the
Masons of the eighth district at its
annual meeting last week was furnish
ed jointly by Columbia and Brattleborc
lodges.
The Brattleboro branch of the
woman S alliance will meet for a socia
hour with Mrs. John Barrows, 3 Oak
street, at 7.30 this evening. A large
attendance is hoped for
The funeral services of Frederick
Smalley of Cuttingsville, who died last
Friday at the Retreat, were held Mon
day morning in st. Michael's Roman
Catholic church The body was taken
to Cuttingsville for burial.
The women of the Catholic Be.
nevolent association, assisted by a mum
Der of young people, will give an enter
tainment in Grange hall Monday even
ing, Feb. 20. The program will begin
with mock trial, followed by whist
and dancing.
1t is said that no play of rural life
has so successfully caught the true
atmosphere of the New England home
as the dramatization of that famously
popular New England novel, Quincy
Adams Sawyer, which is to have an
elaborate production at the auditorium
Wednesday evening.
-Gracia |. Graves, the two year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Stillman
Graves, died Monday morning at the
home of her parents on Prospect street
after brief illness with pneumonia.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
morning and the body was sent to Lud-
low for burial.
The New England Order of Pro.
lection had n very enjoyable affair
Wednesday evening in the way of "A
box and shadow supper. The order con
templates having sleighride to the
home of p. +. Chase on the Rice farm
next Thursday evening. All wishing to
90 are requested to leave their names
with H. c. Harris or NJ. n. Stafford
at the New York Bargain store.
The village water board is still
awaiting the report of the state board
of health on the Chestnut Hill and Sun
set Lake water systems, and will make
no proposition to Mr.. Crowell until the
report is received. James +. Hooker,
chairman of the water board, has re-
.ceived from Dr. C. S. Caverly a letter
stating that his report will probably be
drawn up within day or two and for
warded to the board the first of the
week.
Nothing more artistically and finan-
cially successful has been done for a
number of seasons in the way of drama.
tizing popular novel than that OF
Quincy Adams Sawyer, the widely read
New England story, which for over a
wear has continued to be one of the
best selling books in this country
Quincy Adams Sawyer in play form
will be seen in all the elaborateness OF
its five country scenes Wednesday even
ing at the auditorium.
The regular quarterly conference
of the Methodist church was held last
Friday evening when the following OIL
GERS were chosen: Stewards, A. V. May,
w. R. Geddis, r. F. Gleason, S. A. Dan
iels. HI. p. Matthews, F. A. Bagg, DIR,
G. q. Wheeler, w. S. Betterley, Mrs.
Eva s. Chase, C. D. Smith, E. c. Crouch;
recording secretary, DR.. Wheeler; treas
urer, G. d. Smith. 1t was the sense Oh
the meeting that Presiding Elder W.
M. Newton use his influence to secure
the reassignment of Rev. A. Fl. Webb
to the Brattleboro parish.
The ceiling in the smoking room
of the Vermont Wheel club came down
Wednesday afternoon with thud that
mist have been dull and sickenlng to
the owners of Grange block. About D
q clock several members who were IN
the smoking room heard cracking
sound overhead and upon examination
found that the plastering was sagging
around the edges of the room. 1t soon
became evident that the entire celilhg
was coming down and those present haa
little more than time to remove the
furnishings of the room before the ex-
pected happened. On account Of the
cloth that covered the ceiling it fell IN
one piece and with force enough to IN
iure severely any one who might nave
been beneath it.
Marv. II. Youngest daughter of
Daniel Brosnahan, died at her home on
Elliot street early yesterday morning
after three weeks illness win
Bright's disease. She was glrl OF
loving disposition, thoughtful and KIND
to old as well as young, and her many
friends will sympathize with her father
and sister in their bereavement. one
was born in Brattleboro, Oct. Z, 1852
daughter of Daniel and Mary Brosna'
han. and had lived here all her life, pc
inc in the second year of the hlgh
school at the time of her death be
sides her father she is survived by one
sister. Julia, who is attending school IN
New Haven, Conn, an aunt, MISS 20
hanna Brosnahan, and an uncle, PatrlcK
Rrosnahan. of this town. Miss Brosna
hams mother died several years ago
Funeral services will be held from the
Roman Catholic church Sunday morn
ing
An excellent demonstration OF th'
well known saying that when woman
will. she will, may be found in the pup
lication of the popular New England
novel, Quincy Adams Sawyer, and t .l'
marveIous success that has attended Its
sales throughout the land up to the pre-
sent day. Miss CAIRO NJ Clark,
voung Boston woman, thoroughly be
Iiieved there was market Tor UNI