The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-05-31

John Rock is on the sick list.
Frank Lawrence is still unable to work.
Oscar l.. Dean has gone to Gardner,
Mass.
Mrs. Corser has had relapse and is
very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Davis went to
Jamaica.
A few snow flakes We're seen in the air
on Tuesday.
Herbert Hall is working by the day for
Fred Watson.
j. Z. Edison is working on the Rich
ardson farm in Brattlcboro.
Four years old Robert Bemis recently
caught two trout for his dinner.
The farmers are engaged in mending
fence and signing for warm weather
Mrs. Fred Willard spent Monday and
Tuesday with her niece in Brattleboro,
Mrs. York of Athens visited this week
at II. O. Gales and at Lyman Gales.
Mrs. Metcalf recently cut an artery Ill
her right hand with a broken fruit Jar
Mrs. Kilton of Athens was in town re-
Gently and called on Mrs Abby Wood
ard.
There was ball game Thursday after
noon on Reeds field: Townshend VS.. New
fame.
Clarence Woodland has sold his dog,
Skin. which will be taken to Massachu-
sets.
1t is worthy of note that the evening
passenger train was on time twice last
week.
Henry Franklin rode to the village last
Friday for the first time IN over Two
years.
Mr.. and Mrs Bert Corey and daughter
of Grafton visited recently at Charles
Halls.
Mrs. Wavland Adams of South Wind
ham was in town Tuesday calling upon
friends.
Deacon J. O. Follett is in Westminster
LAYING the foundation for barn for Fred
Kimball
Col and Mrs. Henry Dutton plan to
sail from Florida June l on their way 10
Townshend.
Mrs. 4. A. Mason has been spending
week in Fitchburg with her daughter
Mrs. Parker.
Miss Ferman. who has been spending
some time at the cottage with Miss Lucy
Booth. leaves for her home tomorrow.
Eugene Cudworth went recently to
NorthamptOn. Mass. to attend the 1u-
neral of his aunt, Mrs. Charles lhomp-
son.
Mrs. Snow of Montreal, who had been
visiting her parents here, returned with
her month-old baby to her home last
week,
Mrs. Park Holland has a new hardwood
floor in her dining room ana mas opened
the large fireplace which has been closed
so long
Mr., and Mrs. Moar of Iowa with Mr.;
Moar's sisters, Mrs. Alroy Snow ana
Mrs. George Allbee, recently visited rela-
tives in Grafton.
Everett Phillips has reioiced the hearts
of at least two families in town during
the past week by papering, white washing
and laying a hardwood floor.
William Gale has been obliged on, ac-
count of i'll health to leave the farm when
he was carving on with his brother, Ly-
man Gale. and is now at H. 0. Gales
Rev. Daniel Mcintyre, Mrs. W. E,
Blood and Mrs. Fred Reed we're judges
at the prize speaking under the auspices
Of the ". G. T. U. held in Newfane last
Tuesday evening.
There were appropriate Memorial day
exercises Wednesday afternoon IN the
schools in districts No. 3 and 3. In the
latter district the school room was decked
with flags and apple blossoms
Someone has accounted for the unusual
" cold weather by the fact that too many,
neonle are looking for the north pole. If
his is the case let's take up subscnp-
tion and send all would-be explorers to
the equator.
The senior class of Leland and Gray
seminary have sent out attractive INVITA-
tons in purple and white, the class nc cor
ors to the exercises of next week. !hey
have chosen as their motto, 1--WE have
climbed the hills, the mountains are IN
view"
Do not forget to attend the annual prize
defamation contest next Tuesday even
ing or the commencement concert neAV
Thursday evening. Both beginl, at p;
m. The class day exercises will be at z
p. M on Wednesday, the graduating ex-
ercises at 10 a. m. on Friday ana the
alumni banquet at l p m. Friday.
Among those who attended the meeting
and dinner of the stockholders OF the Brat
tleboro & Whitehall Railroad company IN
Brattleboro last Saturday were Mr.. and
Mrs. f. B. Batchelder, j. III. Ware, Mr..
and Mrs. G. H. Willard, DR.. and Mrs.
f. L. Osgood, Park Osgood, Edwin Fes-
sender and Deacon G. L. Stebbins.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Stratton who has been i'll so long was
obliged to go the first of the week to the
Memorial hospital in Brattleboro and have
his leg amputated at the knee. DR.. Hazel
ton of Bellows Falls, assisted by DR.. Gale
of West Townshend, performed the OPP
Grafton DR.. F: L. Osgood administered
the ether. !
Miss Emma Bushnell and Mrs. o. W.
Folett drove to Manchester last Friday
staving several days with Principal and
Mrs. John e. Colburn. On the way over
they encountered nothing more serious
that chipmunks and woodchucks but on
the way home over the mountains they
encountered plenty of mist and three lively
thunder storms.
Hawks seem to think district No. 3 a
favorable summer resort and as result
chickens are growing daily more scarce.
Clarence Woodland has lost a large number
while Carlos johnson has already missed
Is. As if hawks were not a sufficient ag-
gravation, a weasel has also moved into