The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08

Mass, AN experienced piano tuner, VIII
he In Brattleboro next Monday aud
Tuesday March IL and IL. Orders may
be left at the store of l.. IL. Barber,
Fort Dummer Colony, Pilgrim Fa
theirs. will have the Walsh Crystoplex
glass blowers the entire week OF April
! /. The workmen are high'class artists
and nm excellent entertainment Is AS
sured,
The women Of the Woman 4 Relief
corps were invited last Wednesday
evening by Mrs. Ida Goodenough to
her home on Walnut street About 30
were present. Cards and refreshments
made the evening pass pleasantly
The Brooks House management
has had n force of men at work this
week putting in five new private pain
rooms on the first floor. To install the
bathrooms il was necessary to take up
the floors in several of the rooms.
While waiting for the counters to
finish with the votes Tuesday evening
West Brattleboro milkman left his
horse standing for over two hours in
the nipping wind. Perhaps the horse
would have enjoyed it better had he
been blanketed.
The fixtures of the National Rub.
Der Stamp company have been moved
into the American building this week
and ms soon as the front stairway is
IN the business Of the company will
| be transferred to the new quarters
from the Crosby block.
For the past two weeks carpenters
have been at work in the Wilcox Bar
gain store putting in new shelves, The
shelves and interior of the store have
been painted white with blue trim
trimmings. In its new dress the store
presents a very attractive annearanee'
Owing to the lecture by George w.
Cable under the auspices of the Won
ans club nj the Brooks House on the
evening of March 90, the concert ar.
ranged bv the woman s auxiliary of
the Y. NJ. C. A. for that evening has
again been changed and will be held
in the auditorium on the evening OF
April 2, Tuesday.
! A horse attached to n meat wagon,
both belonging to the Richardson com.
many. was left on South Main street
! for a few minutes Tuesday forenoon.
/ After standing for sometime without
being hitrhed the horse decided TO re
turn TO the market and started forth
with. The down grade along South
Main street caused the wagon to crowd
the horse and he was soon travelling
M good rate Of speed. J. f. Bush
nell saw the outfit coming and as the
horse passed, jumped from his own
wagon to the other and stopped the
horse. No damage was done.
A horse and sleigh took the cor
ner of Main and High streets Satur,,
dav lust after noon at such high speed
that the sleigh jumped the track and
unset Glen Boutwell,, who was the
driver of the outfit, was thrown out
and the horse continued dragging the
sleigh The course led up High street.
thence down Oak street and then turn
| ing the corner of Grove street, where
the sleigh was left. The horse came
back TO the starting point and was
stopped without doing any further
damage. The harness was demolished
and the cross bar was broken.
The National society of United
States Daughters of 1912, state OF yer
mont. hopes to preserve its past repu-
tation at the fifth annual bazaar to be
held at the home of Mrs. George >.
Dowlev Wednesday. March 10, from
/ 4 until G o o'clock Useful and fancy
articles. confectionery and flowers will
he sold, and light refreshments will be
served. The society is raising funds
for the purpose of placing a marker IN
the state house, commemorative OF
Vermont 1912 soldiers, permission
having been granted by the legislature
al it's last session. The public is in
vited to aid in this patriotic work by
attending the bazaar.
The members of the senior class
are praying for better weather when
they 90 to Washington three weeks
from tomorrow than the seniors OF
Rrattleboro had. They left in tenn
perature of 10 or u degrees below
zero and their ear which they were to
have taken at South Vernon was
frozen so they had TO wait until reach
ing Springfield before getting settled
New York was very cold, and when
Washington was reached, genuine
Vermont snowstorm was encountered
with very cold weather. This greatly
hindered their plans for the party had
TO 90 to Mt. Vernon by rail, as the
river was frozen over solid and the
steamer trip necessarily abandoned
The weather has one month in which
70 moderate for the local party.-Bel'
lows Falls Times
Ia, nhsnrNnH
Brattleboro chapter, Daughters or the
American Revolution, at meeting at
the home of Mrs. l.. w. Hawley on
Chaplin street Tuesday afternoon, Al
ter the usual form of opening the
meeting Miss Margaret Barber played
medley of patriotic airs which was
much enioyed. At the roll call the
members responded by giving anec'
dotes of a patriotic nature. At the
business meeting announcement ""
made of a bazaar to be held at the
home of Mrs. L. E. Holden March "a
The feature of the afternoon was pa
per on The Teaching of True Patriot
ism at Home and Abroad, by Mrs
George w. Pierce, which elected much
favorable comment. Mrs. Pierce de
fined patriotism as the passion when
moves a person to serve his country
either in defending it from invasion OF
in protecting its rights and maintain
ing its laws. 1t is a universal senti'
ment of the race. We are learning
that the man who lives for his country
may be as much of a patriot as ne
who dies for it. There may be as much
of patriotism in giving ones time to
the improvement of civic conditions
and in electing good men to office as
in going to war and being target fo'
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