The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-22

thanksgiving AFTERNOON from 10
9. clock aud during the evening.
THO senior class of the high schoo
Will hold a dance in Grange hall Fri
day evening, Nov. 20 All member
of the class and alumni are invited.
Judge L, l.. Waterman will pre-
side at the December term of Gale
donna court which opens in St. Johns
bury Dee. 3, There are "A eases OF
the jury calendar.
The union Thanksgiving seryic,
VIII be held this year in the Unita
rian church, the pastor preaching the
sermon. The service will be at 1890
Nov rs, and il is hoped that there
may be good attendance.
There will be food sale in the
rest room Saturday afternoon from 2
until o clock. Some things suitable
for Thanksgiving will be furnished
The w. 9. I, u. requests the return OF
pals and dishes that have been loaned
to patrons from time TO time.
Arrangements have been made
for a series of assemblies to be held in
the Brooks House this winter The
first will take place next Thursday
evening Thanksgiving night and the
other three will be held on the follow,
ing dates: Dee. 81, Feb. Ia and March
10. There will be dancing from . until
IL on each evening.
Philip Kornreich, better known
as Harris died in the Heaton hos
pital in Montpelier Sunday of en-.
| largement of the liver. He was ad
vance agent for The Hottest Coon in
Dixie company and was in Brattleboro
several weeks ago in that capacity.
| Kornreich left no relatives and the
Hebrews in Montpelier subscribed
money enough to send the body of
their fellow countryman to Burlington
for burial
Alice Leal Pollock, the leading
woman of The Heart of Maryland
company lost two valuable gowns
Just before the performance in the
audto rum Monday evening. \ stray
piece of paper was blown into the
flame of the gas jet in her dressing
room and fell into her trunk which
was directly beneath the burner. The
clothing in the trunk at once caught
fire and though the flames were ex
tinguished in a few moments two of
Miss Pollock S dresses were entirely
spoiled.
A Rutland despatch says that
Rev. +. Laurison Billiard of Brandon,
who was arrested in Boston recently
charged with the theft of several val
liable books, has resigned as pastor of
the Congregational church in Brandon
and will probably come to the Brattle-
boro retreat for rest and treatment.
For the past two weeks Mr.. Billiard
has been in the Adirondacks but his
nervous condition has not improved. |
His wife will remain in Brandon for
the present, having been rendered a
weekly allowance and the free use of
the parsonage until next April
The assistant judges of the Wind.
ham county court, Frank Worden of
Halifax and Fred B. Pier of Rawson-
vile. have under consideration four
recommendations of the grand jury
for Improvements at the county Jail at
Newfane. The Jail was greatly i'm
proved year ago by the installation
of steel cells, but few things re-
main to be done. The recommended
tons of the grand jury are as follows:
That bath be put in for the use OF
the prisoners and furnished with hot
and cold water; that the lower and up
per rooms be ventilated; that new
mattresses bes furnished for the beds,
and that the beds be supplied with
army blankets instead of the old
quilts now in use.
The local branch of the National
Novelty company began this week to
run on a five.day schedule. 1t is
planned to continue this until the last
.wo weeks in December, during which
lime the factory will close for lnven-
.ory. After the first of January the ;
hopes TO begin ON full work
NO time again. Several men have j.,
,een laid off according to the general
.ustom. About all the rush business I
1t the S. A. Smith factory was over {
~ the early part of November and S
rom then until after the new year '
,egins there is little to do in the way t
# filing orders 1t is understood t
hat the short time schedule is put
nto operation on account of the tight :
money market. j
Deputy Sheriff M. P. Davis took
n early morning drive Wednesday TO
he farm of Viola Dodge Miller IN
immersion, where he found the
eaeeful steers which have been the
ause of so much legal disturbance t
uring the past few months. Armed i
With lien note against watson G
,rench which set forth the owner OF I
he animals as Sullivan d. Bishop OF O
farlboro until the amount of 500 was C
aid to him, the officer demanded the \
nimals. With some difficulty the y
teers were driven into the barn OF n
Watson French, the only raven OF v
est that could be found for them IN II
hat vicinity. The animals VIII be I
old at a sheriff IS sale to satisfy the d
mount of mortgage claimed p
One of the best of the coming at, 7
ractions at the auditorium is Danlei l
ullv,s new play, The Golden Rule, in \
-hich the popular star is meeting with
ha greatest success of his career, and
,hich will be presented here Nov. 70 c
is a romantic drama of unusual $
5rength. full of exciting scenes and e
,rilling situations, brimful of com
Nv. original in theme and treatment W
nd novel in construction. The Gold d
n Rule must not be confounded Win D
he Parish Priest which Sully pro a
uced some years ago, as the only h
,semblance between the two lies IN ii