The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-08-02

The women Of the Baptist church
will serve ice-cream and cake ON the
common during the band concert next
Wednesday evening,
There will be no services in the
Universalist church until the second
Sunday in September Rev. ID. h.
front is spending the vacation at his
home in Springfield, o.
The First Regiment band $50
pieces) will give its next concert on
the common Wednesday evening, Aug,
II. The band will leave for camp at
midnight of that evening,
George Leonard has been given
the position of superintendent of the
Snowflake corn canning factory and
is making arrangements for the open
ing of the season lat the local plant.
Mrs. Jane Thompson died at the
Memorial hospital Saturday night af.
ter short illness. She had been
staying in town and was taken i'll and
went to the hospital where she died.
Her daughter was here and went with
the body to New Haven, Conn, which
was Mrs. Thompson S home.
All this week demonstration of
the uses and different kinds of crack
ers and biscuits manufactured by the
National Biscuit company has been
going on at Fred c. Clark's grocery
store under the direction of Miss Will
son, the eompany's star demonstration.
The store is trimmed for the purpose
of showing the different kinds of
crackers with arches of the boxes.
Company l, V. N. g., and the
First Regiment band will leave Brat
tleboro about midnight next Wednes.
day for Fort Ethan Allen where the
annual encampment of the Vermont
National Guard will be held. A spe.
cial train will leave here in time to
reach Fort Ethan Allen at a. m,
Thursday. Companies will detrain at
the quartermaster s depot at the fort
and proceed from there to the reserva-
ton about half mile away, They
will remain in camp until Thursday,
Aug. l6.
A change which will not meet
with the approval of local post office
patrons went into effect yesterday.
Henceforth the extra carrier who has
been employed As hours each week
will only be available half that time,
orders to this effect having been re-
ceived from the post office department
this week. Since the addition of the
extra carrier the mail deliveries, par
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the town, have been much improved
and the cutting down of his time one
half will mean a corresponding de-
crease in the promptness of the ser.
vice.
w. II. Vinton, ]. +. Hooker and
Z. W. Gibson have not yet taken the
option on the Crowell water systems
according to the agreement which was
made public last week. Some slight
change in the text of the agreement
, was requested by Messrs. Vinton
Hooker and Gibson and the change
has been made but the papers have
not yet been signed. A number of the
J citizens who signed the petition fol-
special village meeting to act on the
water question say they are still anx
ious that such a meeting be held, but
the bailiffs have not yet taken any
, action toward calling such a meeting
II. r. Brown, chairman of the bailitfs
said this morning that he knew moth
ing about the matter and did not
| know who did.
; There was a hearing before Judge
: J. l.. Martin in the United States
court Saturday in the case of the
DeLaval Separator company agains
, the Vermont Farm Machine company
! of Bellows. Falls. The main case was
: decided in favor of the defendan
| three years ago, but now the defend
ant wants additional costs amounting
e to $92 taxed against the plaintiff. L
/. was shown that this amount was pait
a for copies of patents in foreign coun
e tries, which copies were used in TIT
! trial. The clerk of the court declined
TO include the amount when taxing
& the costs, and the defendant appealed
, to the late Judge H. H. Wheeler, bu
the appeal never was acted upon. TIT
, plaintiff. through Harding & Harding
; of Philadelphia, attorneys, conten'
! that having failed to get the cost
q included when the case was decided
q the defendant is not entitled to recov
> err them at this late day. c. c. Fit
! of Brattleboro represented Vernon
Farm Machine company. Decision
was reserved.
4 1t is seldom that Attorney II. Il
4 Barber starts out for spin in his au
= tomobile without having as many ad
ventures as can be crowded into tn
), time he is gone. Sunday afternoon h
met a playful dog which attacked tn
forewheel of the machine and was rul
+ over for his pains. This apparent,
! scared the dog as he started acros
y lots for home as if suddenly remem
-. bering an engagement. His tral
might have been followed for som
y distance through the holes which h
q made in the atmosphere by his yelps
Mr. Barber was intending to- go to hi
9 fathers farm and when short dis
lance this side of the farm he en-
!, countered a family of skunks. Tn
= old mother skunk was teaching he
: brood the latest waltz step in the roa
! and refused to bulge. The maehin
: was hastily stopped before it brok
up the happy family and volley o
! honks failed to Tout the skunks frot
. the road. At last after holding u
!, the machine for Is minutes her skunk
!, ship decided that she had had flu
:. enough and departed followed by he
4 kittens.
IS Thomas Grimes of Stamford
> Conn. and Miss Mary Christina DaW
n son of this town were married in 81
Il Michael's Roman Catholic churc