The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-04-26

have bought valuable uflNlhb hoIhe'
-Pocahontas council, No, 4, will give
u drcss,as -you,please calico ball in
Grange hall Monday, April 20.
The regular meeting Of the Won
an club will be held Wednesday at
the Brooks House. Dr. Smaller Il. Law
ton win speak on the subject; Our
Trees.
The Central Vermont road has re-
fused all freight in carload lots CON
signed to Brattleboro. The embargo
will be kept on until the local yard
is cleared.
Henry p. Harrington, 60, died this
morning at the house of w. +, Pellerin
on Prospect hill of paralysis of the
bowels. Arrangements for the funeral
have not yet been made.
The regular monthly meeting of the
executive board of the Woman club
will he held Monday with Mrs. G. II.
Warner. There will be no meeting of
the parliamentary law class.
The Ladies circle Of the Univer'
salist church will meet in the church
parlors next week Thursday afternoon,
MAY .. Business meeting Mt 4 o clock.
Supper will be served at $50.
A. V. Mays agency has sold for
Charles H. Pratt, administrator of the
j. II. Holden estate, the Bastian house
on Prospect street to George 4. Little
field Possession is given at once.
Tickets for the Twelfth Night,
which will be presented by the Amherst
Dramatic club in the auditorium the
evening of May l, will 60 ON sale Mon.
day evening at the box office at I
o clock.
George Davenport of Chesterfield,
n. H.. who has been working about
this town as carpenter for the past
few months. was arrested this morning
at clock by Policeman Scion Rich
mond. He was tried this morning in
the municipal court on the charge of in
toxication and fined So and costs,
amounting to SOLO, which he paid.
A social of the members Of St
Michael s Episcopal church was held
Wednesday evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. +. W. Gibson as a farewell
reception for Rev. f. T. Mathson. A
large number were present and Mr..
Mathison was presented a purse con.
tanning a snug sum of money as tok'
en- of the esteem in which he is held by
his parishioners.
Philip Thomas has rented the cen
trail store in the American building and
will begin Immediately to install fix
lures for the largest candy store in
town. The business will be done by
Philip Thomas and Peter Alexander
who have been associated in the fruit
business here for the past few years,
The property which they rent at the
present time in the Richardson block
will be retained and used as a fruit
store.
M. Austin, jr., +. r. Vaughan and
Z. D. Whitney, representing the Brat
tleboro board of trade, were in Bos-
ton and Cambridge, Mass, the first of
the week investigating the proposition
made bv Edward Wilbur last week IN
regard to locating a factory in town
for the manufacture of improved pipe
unions. The committee reported at a
meeting of the directors of the board
of trade Wednesday evening but 1t was
decided TO investigate the matter fur
Their before taking definite action.
W. II. Bryant, superintendent of
the local division of the Twin State
Gas and Electric company, went to Bos
ton Wednesday TO spend several days
studying the practicability Of heating
houses by gas. Mr.. Bryant Will VISIT
the exhibition store of the Consolidat-
ed Gas company and investigate ga'
heating thoroughly. If he finds that
such a method of heating is practical
for Brattleboro it is probable that ar,
will he made TO sell gas for
that purpose in this town the coming
winter.
An audience that filed the audi.
forum gathered Saturday evening to
witness the performance Of As We Sow,
a fouract drama written by Rev. John
SNYDER The story which the play
tells is one with a strong moral lesson
vet very little different from the stories
of other plays of a similar nature. 1t
is the old tale of love triumphant over
adversely, and although the spectator
may be stirred to deep feeling by the
trials through which the characters are
forced to 90 he knows that in the end
everything will come out all right.
A consignment of $4,000 brook
trout fry were received in Windham
county yesterday from the state hatch
erv at Roxbury. A part of the fish
were distributed through the northern
county towns by the way of Bellows
Falls and some were sent up the West
River road. Five cans of the baby fish,
Is 900 in all, were planted in the brooks
in the vicinity of Brattleboro, most OF
them being put in the tributaries OF
MILESTONE and Broad brooks and Green
River. The brook trout fry at the state
hatchery have been dying in large num-
bers of late and State Fish and Game
Commissioner Thomas has been dis
what are left as rapidly as
possible. The fry received in Brattie'
boro appeared healthy but were ex-
tremely small.
The annual meeting of the Epworth
league was held last evening in the
church parlors. The reports of the Of
fcers were given, that of the secretary
showing that the league has member
ship of is and the treasurer S report
showing that after all liabilities had
been met such as the payment of state
and national dues a balance would re-
main of about $40 Officers for the en-
suing wear were elected as follows:
President, Mrs. Bertha Dean; first vice.
president. Miss Eta Miner; second
vice-president, Miss Helen Field; third
vice president, Mrs. W. A. Moore;
fourth vice president, Miss Minnie
Rawson; secretary, Abbott Frizzelle,
and treasurer George Wilbur After
IL o1oo+;on a sunner was served and