Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-12-07
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.


The next Masonic social will b,
held Wednesday evening.
Private dancing lessons, day OF
evening. +. Wales, 9 Canal street.
There will be a Waiting party
~ Odd Fellows hall every SATURDAY
evening beginning Dee. -. The pub
I lie is invited.
There will be a meeting OF the grang,
dramatic club this evening at 7.3O fol
lowed by an entertainment. All grang
ers are invited to be present.
The annual meeting OF Brattlcborc
chapter, ID. A. r., will be held Mt III
home of Mrs, G, Il. Lamson ON Washing
ton street Tuesday, Dee. IL, at 3 p. m
Reports of officers will be given and
officers for 1907 will be elected
The women of st. Miehael's Epis
copal church will give stereopticon
/ entertainment at the home of Mrs
George Tyler ON Tyler street Tuesday
evening at Z o clock. Useful and fan
cy articles will be on sale. A small
admission fee will be charged.
Harry Leighton. who will be re-
membered when last here as Othello
and a new play, The Unwritten Law
| by Mark +. Swan. arlth0r of The Press
Agent, which was recently here looks
likes combination that would surely
please. The date is next Wednesday
the 10th.
Bingham chapter, o. 4. s., eele
brated the acquisition of its new piano
Tuesday evening. There was short
program which included vocal solos by
Mrs. W. T.. Hubbard and Miss Ethel
Randall and reading by Mrs. NJ. A
Fisher followed by an hour of socia
bility and card playing.
Harry Leighton who heads The I'm
written Law company is one of the
most deservedly popular actors in Amer
lea. Mr.. Leighton is to star next sea
son in a new play made from a book
by Cyrus Townsend Brady. Mr.. Leigh.
ton is no stranger to Brattleboro and
will be remembered as Othello, here q
few seasons ago.
Protective grange conferred the
third and fourth degrees on IL eandi'
dates Wednesday evening. The WORK
was followed by the harvest supper and
dance. Remarks were made by the
worthy master of Dummerston grange,
the worthy master Of Spotford grange
and other visiting members. 1t was
voted to change the date of the next
meeting from Dee l2 to Dec. Is on
account of the meeting of the state
grange at Burlington
An exhibition of the light refiectors
manufactured by the Holophane com
panv of Newark, Ohio, was given AT
the Brooks House Monday. A large
variety of the reAectors were shown
The claim of the company is that by
the use of its rehectors the light from
s-burner or an electric bulb can
be doubled. The demonstration sustain
tiated its claim. William II. Minor
formerly of this town, is exhibitor and
travelling salesman for the company.
The next meeting of the Brat
tleboro Professional club will be hell
NJ tbe Brooks House Monday evening
with supper in the dining room at
o clock, followed by the meeting II
the parlor. Col. c. 4. Miles VIII de
liver an address on the Valley Press
Century Ago which he gave before
the Woman s club this week. The lis
cussion will be led by Walter a. uu
bert. who has been engaged in news
paper work here for several years
The directors of the Brattleoorc
Memorial hospital recently voted tc
have the hedge around the grounds re-
moved owing to it's bad appearance
and the fact that it was lmposSipl'
TO keep it within control. Inc hedgt
was torn up last week and the grouhds
are being graded at the corner OF OF
Canal and Maple streets. Inc resu,,
will be pleasing in appearance as wen
nc much more convenient in every way
Whom the work is completed. The bank
will be graded in circular FORM anu
= sidewalk laid along Maple street
David Carlisle, a lumberman from
New Hampshire, received a consish.
mont of four quarts of whiskey from
Roston Saturday and together with a
oomnanion started in to see how mueh
Of tbe booze could be absorbed in the
os4ornoor About midnight Carlisle
was found sleeping in an alley on ELiIo'
street nv Night Waterman Il. Il, Ihay-
or who conveyed him to the lookup
He pleaded guilty to the charge Oh IN III,
toxication before Judge w. > Newton =
Monday morning and was hned 20 anu
costs amounting to $lO.95. lie was
unable to liquidate his Indebtedness
mill some friends procured the money
and Maid his fine. After fatherly
lecture from Judge Newton he went
his way and promised not to repeat
the offence,
Miss Mary G. Cone, Of the Hartford
school of religious pedagogy in hart
FORD Conn, addressed the members
and teachers of the Brattleboro sun
day school union in the Baptist churcn q
Wednesday evening. The subject OIL
bar lecture was The Characteristics
and Interest of Childhood and Youth
After being introduced by Dr. II; W.; ~
Holton, president of the union, Miss NILS
Cone spoke of the various characters !
ties of different children in the way Oh
imitation. Imagination, etc, ana now "
zach these children through thelr
at,orao+er;stics The lecture was
we'll received by the Sunday sehooi
teachers and many good points were
Given After Miss Cone s lecture,
which lasted about half an hour, the
renort of Mrs. A. H. Webb, secretary
of the union, was gwen.
A decision has been handed down
by Judge Loveland Munson, presiding aaant :
At the September term of the ,- county y
az Wv in tbe ease of DR.. E. s. Niles OF
f Boston against Will Carleton, the a, au-
Ia The decision was in favor of Mr..
Carleton. The late Adora Niles Carleton
vas sister of DR.. Niles and they TO-