The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-13

The S. A. Smith company closes
tonight for three weeks during which
time an inventory will be taken.
The Lornc Erwyn company, play.
ing at the auditorium this week,
bought sos fur coat of lIoughton &
Simonds to be given away at one of
tomorrow's performances.
The Young Peoples Home Mis-.
sionary society of the Methodist
church met last evening in the church
parlors. An interesting program was
enjoyed, followed by n banquet.
Eight new members have been
taken into the board of trade within
the past 10 days and it is expected
that the membership will be still fur.
Their increased within short time.
The Vermont society of United
States Daughters of 1912 will hold
its quarterly meeting at the home of
Mrs c. w. Richardson, Green street,
Tuesday, Dee. II, at 3 o o'clock. An
interesting paper by Miss Theodore
Peek will be read.
- rom hHN II W aNuNs ~ ihNAuoiN'
the number and kind of communicable
diseases reported to the state board of
health from Windham county were as
follows: Measles, 40; whooping
cough, So; scarlatina, l6; diphtheria
and Group, 10; typhoid fever 10; cry,
sipelas, /; ehicken.pox, "a; mumps,
A; pneumonia, A; German measles,
10 NH. ,,,o,1 oopporng fovnrnhlv
with that of any other county in the
state on the basis of population.
-Midshipman Lucien Kimball, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w. Kimball of
this town, will start Monday with the
United States fleet on its cruise around
Cape Horn to the Pacific coast. Mid
shipman Kimball is on the battleship
Georgia, which heads the second divis'
ION of the first squadron and is the
flag ship of Rear Admiral William H.
Emery, who is in command of this di-
vision. 1t is expected that the fleet
will reach the Pacific coast in April.
The regular meeting of the Brat
tleboro Woman s club will be held in
grange hall Wednesday afternoon.
Rev. John S. Lyon of Holyoke, Mass,
will speak on Some Phases of the Life
of Our Day. Mr.. Lyon is pastor of
the Second Baptist church of Holyoke,
one of the largest churches in New
England, and is well known as an af-
ter dinner speaker and speaker be-
fore men s clubs. The meeting is
open to the public on payment of a
small fee
-Windham County Pomona grange
will meet with Protective grange
Thursday, Dee. 10. The morning SEES.
sion will take place at 1890 and will
include general business, written re
ports of the officers, written reports of
subordinate oranges, reports of finance
committee and election of officers. The
afternoon session at 100 will be de-
voted to the installation of officers.
The fifth degree will be conferred upon
large class in the evening by spe'
cial fifth degree team with IL. w. Sar-
gent, worthy master.
The annual meeting of the Brat
tleboro aerie of Eagles was held Tues
day night at the rooms in Retting
block. Reports of officers were read
and accepted. Several members were
initiated at the meeting. The follow
ing officers were elected: Worthy
president, William Devine; worthy
vice president, Guy p. Jones; secre-
tary, John Clune; treasurer, John Can
ton: conductor, Nicholas Flynn; chap
lain. Charles Dunleavy; inside guard,
B. A. Colburn; trustees, John Larrow,
William lifts and John Birch.
The December bulletin of the
state board of health contains analy-
SEES of milk from the supplies of 10
Brattleboro dealers. Eleven of these
SAMPLES were below standard owing tc
dirt. while four came up to require
ments. The following dealers submit
ted samples that were not up to par:
H. II. Winchester, Z. NJ. Whitney, a.
f. Jaauith, C. A. Ballou, J. L. Grover,
L. A. Howard, A. E. Torrey, G. c.
Winchester, C. l.. Stacy, Z. E. Mather
and J. A. Hoadley Those whose sam,
pies met requirements were Arad
Hunt. II. G. Smith, H. NJ. Barrett, M.
r. Robbins and w. M. Randall.
The warm weather and rain OF
Monday and Tuesday caused the Con
necticut river to rise with great "a
pidity. an increase of II feet IN helght
being noted at the dam site IN vernon
from Monday night to "Wednesday
morning. At its highest point, how
ever. the water was more than four
feet below the crest of the coffer-dam
and did not interfere at all with the
progress of the work. There is little
new to say about what has been go
ing on at the dam site during the past
week. The ledge east of the coher-
dam is being scraped preparatory to
LAYING the concrete and the planking
on the downstream crib is being com
pleted as rapidly as possible in the
hone that the pumps may be started
next week.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
boro East society was held in the chap
ell of the Congregational church wed,
nesday evening. The first matter OF
business was the election of clerk for
the ensuing year. W. A. Gilbert was
unanimously elected to the office. The
renort of the treasurer, G. G. Averill,
was read and accepted. 1t showed all
bills paid and balance in the treas
urv. and sufficient assets to liquidate
the estimated liabilities to January l..
The report showed total of $3SS4So
received and balance of $l2'.So on
hand. The old debts are fully paid,
both principal and interest, from a
special repair fund received through
subscription. The oflcers eiee'eq
were: Trustees, George II. Clapp' j..
G.. Stafford, H. E. Bond, F. W. keuch
L Ir.ol q AdnmS, treasurer. George