Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-09-07

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The Ladies' Aid society of the
Methodist church will hold sociabe
nj the parsonage Wednesday evening
All members of the church and congre
CATION are invited.
Company + Of the 18th Vermont
regiment have its annual reunion Sept
II nj the Fair grounds. Time aud place
OF meeting will be arranged on the ar
rival of the veterans.
The 55th anniversary of the Re
bekah degree will be observed by Den
mis- Rebekah lodge at the next regular
meeting Tuesday evening. Refresh
ments Of ice.crcam and cake will bc
served.
There was an unusually small at
tendance at the meeting of the grange
Wednesday evening. The next meeting
Sept, ., is "neighbors night" New
fame grange viii furnish the program
and Protective grange the supper, to
which every member is requested to
contribute generously,
"A force of men has been engaged
during the past week in putting in a
new bowling alley in the Y. NJ. c, A.
gymnasium and in repairing the old
alley. The new alley is of hard maple
and promises to be fine piece of work.
The old alley has been planed down, re-
paired in places where ii was worn and
generally renovated. The sport of bowl
ing is becoming more and more popular.
Mrs. Kittredge Haskins will enter
tain Brattleboro chapter, ID. 4. r.,
Tuesday afternoon AT 3 clock. Mr..
Haskins will read paper on some sub
iect of interest and good musical pro-
gram is promised. If the day is pleas
ant Mrs. llaskins will entertain the
members on the lawn and hopes for a
large attendance. Delegates to the state
conference at Burlington Sept. 26 and
~ will be elected
Charles +. Mills, a representative of
the new idea in electric roads, is in
town. The scheme of the company
which Mr.. Mills represents is to build q
road from New York to Chicago and
make the run in 10 hours for fare of
$40 Franchises to build the road have
been obtained along the entire length
of the proposed route. Stock having a
par value of 500 is now selling for $25
"A share. There is no preferred stock in
the company. Mr.. Mills will be at the
Brooks house for the next few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Z. Leitsinger
were driving down Western avenue
Tuesday morning, when their horse took
fright at an electric ear and SHE'D, over
turning the carriage and throwing Mr..
and Mrs. Leitsinger out. The latter
struck on the concrete walk and was
badly bruised The horse ran into d. S.
Pratt s moving, dragging the carriage
after him, and was finally caught by
some employees of the telephone com
pany. The carriage was not badly dam
aged. but the horse was considerably
cut about the hind legs.
The last open-air meeting of the
year under the auspices of the Y. NJ.
c. A. was held ON the Common last
Sunday. The largest crowd of the sea
son was present to hear talks on vital
topics by most of the local ministry.
The women s quartet of the Baptist
church was present and rendered sew
eral songs, which were heard with pleas
ure by the audience The ministers who
spoke were Rev. A. H. Webb, Rev. G. B.
Lawson, Rev. Fl. II. Miles, Rev. +. e. ;.
Osgood, Rev. F. Masseek, Rev. +. L.
Mathison.
A. V. May has bought the Herbert
S. Norcross mill property in West Dunn
merston for a syndicate of local men
who intend to utilize the water power
on the property for manufacturing pur-
poses. The Norcross place is situated a
short distance north Of West Dummers-
ton depot on the bank of West river,
and there is an excellent water-power
at that point. The men who have
bought the property do not wish their
names made public for time nor are
they willing to tell the nature of the
enterprise in which they are interested.
--Brattleboro lodge, N. E. 0. F., held
a corn roast at the home of Louis How
ard in Guilford last Friday evening.
Mr.. Howard met the party at the end
of the trolley line and carried them to
his home in teams. The farm was made
beautiful by lanterns and a huge bon
fire. After roasting and eating corn
FOR ABOUT an noui .no ,,,haso oaIa ond
,vited lnto the nous ME- Dana How.
ard contributed a cake handsomely dec
Grated by her brother, who is a baker
in Philadelphia and is now visiting in
town. The remainder of the evening
was spent in playing games and enjoy
mo an informal musical program.
80 , ho.uoon .ho
THE tennis matches p1' tho toam ON
Wanta ls a.o e,u' N Se" II were left nm.
from Gharle t1 ~ ~ ao,onnt Of dark.
finishedsyesteruay On a ''Iouad u Ia Of
ness. VI the matches P p,;,;u p. aa 81
the local cup oeleaaeu a ni,ip * All
the Charlestown ~ team ,i. o.o, , H. r n T.
r. ii. Perry OF CnarlesloWh peae