Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-12-14
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

with Mrs, j. L. Mack next Friday af.
tornoon.
The mission circle Of the Univer.
salist church will meet in the parlor,
next Thursday, Cheerfulness will b,
the watchword.
Tickets for the performances to b,
given in tho auditorium all next week
by the Marks Brothers company 60 OF
sale tonight at the box office.
Walter NJ. Ware, through his coun-
sci II. g. and f. l.. Barber, has brought
suit against Maria L. LOOMS. OF
Springfield, Mass, to recover sum OF
5000.
--Beauseant eommandery, Knights
Templar, met in Masonic hall Monday
evening and conferred the Knight Tenn
plar and Knight of Malta degrees on
one candidate.
A food sale will be held next We'd
nesday afternoon in the Brooks House
at the close of the meeting of the Wo-
man S club. The sale will be open tC
the public from > to 6.
Referee +. d. f. Stowe Mon lay
decided upon Dee. % as the date foi
the first meeting of the creditors OF
George II. Danyew and William Boyce
who filed petitions in bankruptcy last
week.
State Organizer w. F. Flanagan OF
the Independent Order of Foresters will
organize court here Monday evening
in Red Mems hall beginning at
L. 81, ha cta wit
% charter members.
The Sunday school class of the
Baptist church taught by Mrs. c. F
w. Cunningham gave its teacher very
enjoyable surprise party at her home
on Green street last evening. The time
was spent in games and music.
The Brattleboro Womans Indian
association met last Thursday after
noon at the home of Mrs. J. Nj. Tyler
ON Oak street and reelected the oil
board of officers. 1t was voted to scnc
barrel of garments and children
TOYS to the hospital for women an,
children at Crow Creek, 5. ID.
The collection box which was
placed on the Brooks House office cOun'
ter by the Salvation army was stoler
Saturday night by some person un.
known. The collection box contained
only small change, probably about Sl.5l
in all. An investigation is in progress
but it is doubtful if the culprit is b.
Gated.
The annual meeting of Windham
County Pomona grange will be held
with Protective grange wednesday
Dec. 10. The morning session Will be-
gin at 1890 with reports of officers
There will also be reports from the
subordinate oranges and the comforting
of the fifth degree. The afternoon SEES
sion will begin at l.30 and will be de-
voted to election of officers.
BY recent order of the postoilice
department the rent Of the call boxes
at the postoffice is increased to 30
cents a quarter and small lock boxes
to 60 cents a quarter, and box rents
are to be paid on or before the last
dav of each quarter for the succeeding
ouarter Due cards will be placed IN
each box ten days before the first OF
each quarter. The increase in price
If boxes is for the sake of uniformity
and is general all over the country
The Vermont court of claims has
allowed E. B. Barrows of Brattleboro
800 conditional upon the passage by
the legislature of the bill providing
COMPENSATION for damages to or loss OF
crops. trees and shrubbery by deer. The
| conrt considered claims amounting 10
S4,93S.SS and of this amount allowed
S2945.25. Among the other Windham
county claims allowed were the follow
ing: i. w. Kingsbury of Jamaica, 81;
IT d RYDER of Bellows Falls, $3.50.
Merton A. Thomas, administrator
of the Victus C. Warren estate OF HAN
fax. has filed an appeal from the decS-
i'm Of the commissioners in allowing a
claim of $3.50 against the estate in IA
vor of Maria Phillips. The claim IS
based on a promissory note which the
nlaintiff AYERS was obtained by fraud
and Misrepresentation at time When
Mr.. Warren was incompetent John n.
Gale of Guilford is counsel for MI
Thomas and F. d. E. Stowe for Miss
Phillips.
A number of local lawyers held a
"run- together" Monday afternoon TO
d;scuss tbe situation relative to the bill
nroviding for municipal court IN
Rrattleboro. The main object of the
gathering. which was entirely informal,
Was TO unite upon some lawyer 20 rec
or1m mend TO Governor Proctor for ap-
nointment as municipal judge in ease
| Tho hill became a law. 1t IS under
stood that Attorney Charles >. chase
of Nottingham will be candidate IN
casc there is anything to be candl-
date for.
Two cars of northbound Boston
g. Maine freight were derailed at Yer
non Monday night at about lo'oo
q clock The cause of the accident is
not definitely known but it is thought
that the switch where the accident oc-
cured was clogged with snow and not
thrown quite far enough on thar aG-
count The train was moving Slowly
- The time of the accident and was
ouickIy stopped. Owing to the oan
s I'm the track was not cleared unIil
Tnasdav morning. The owl train Tues
doy morning was sent around by way
of Keene. n. H., to reach Sprlngneld:
Moss hut the track was cleareo III
time for the later trains.
The woman's alliance of the I'M
+or;on church held successful chahlls
dish supper at Wells hall TUESDAY az
tarnoon and evening. Dreamed chicken,
creamed oysters and welch . rarep =.
were served from the chahng dlsnes ~
addition to the rolls, canned tongue
and olives. The chatting dishes were
Manipulated MAJ, by Mrs. John Barrows; MIS-
Gerry 8. Messer, Mrs. 3. Burr smith,
Ms Ms Harry Freeman and Miss Mario
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