The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-22
BruttIebOrO Local

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church will serve Lenten supper
Tuesday, March 20, in the chapel
Mrs. q. II. Smith will have her
spring opening next "Wednesday ana
Thursday. She has an excellent assort'
mcnt of spring hats from which to Sc
lcet.
There win be n sale of narcissus
and hyacinths in Freeman Scott s store
Thursday and Friday for the beneht
of the Ladies circle of the Universal
| list church.
| "A canvass will be made next week
for the sale of tickets for Professor
Southwick's lecture which Is to be
given in the Brooks House Saturday
evening, March 30.
The Ladies' Enterprise society
will meet with Mrs. Il, A. Foster on
Organ street next Tuesday at p. m.
IL is hoped every member will make n
speeial effort to be present. supper
will be served from O to $ % clock.
BY request of the seamstresses,
needle women and shop girls of Brat,
tleboro special meeting will be held
in Festival hall Tuesday evening,
March %. A full attendance is desired
ms questions of Importance to all will
be considered
! Charles +. Reyes has sold his pool
room to Tufield Barraby and posses
sion has already been given. Mr.. Bar
rabv works in the Estey organ factory
and the room is run by Harry Deyo
Mr.. Reyes will take up the work OF
house.painter in town.
Fishing through the ice and rab'
bit hunting are prohibited by recent
act of the New Hampshire Legislature
which took effect from its passage and
hereafter the time limit for such hunt
ing and fishing viii expire January l..
The Cheshire county game warden mas
stopped the ice fishing which has been
going on in Spofford lake.
The Brooks House management
has decided to discontinue its free bus
service after April l. This action was
taken in conjunction with hotels IN
North Adams and Greenfield Mass,
and several other towns in Massach hui
setts. 1t is probable that the bus will
be run in the future by Howard 4
Yearly and that fares will be charged
between the station and the hotel,
A meeting of the creditors of the
firm of G. o. Howe and company of
Wilmington was held before Referee in
Bankruptcy A. Z. Cudworth of Lon
donderry in the county clerks office
Monday. Clifford L. Mann was APP
pointed trustee of the estate OF the
bankrupt firm, he having been appoint,
ed temporary receiver at the time OF
the adjudication.
The past week with the exception
of one or two days has been an excel
lent one for sugar-makers in this sec
ton, and large quantity OF hne look
ing maple sugar has been brought in.
lIf the farmers can have one or two
weeks more of good weather the pres
emit season will prove an unusually
good one. Sugar has been selling IN
the local market this week for IS cents.
Mary Mannering, the actress, who
was taken ill in Springfield, Mass,
March 6, two days previous to the date
on which she was booked to appear
here. left that city Monday for New
York. She will consult a specialist
in the hope of obtaining relief from
rheumatism which has been troubling
her hands and will join her husband,
James X. Hackett, in Washington.
She expects to join her company in
Joliet, ILL.,, April /.
The boarding in front of the stores
in the new American building was
taken down yesterday and 1t is now
possible to get an idea of how the
building appears. All OF the piate
. glass fronts are of the latest design,
the different panes being joined with
small steel clamps instead of being set
into wooden frames. The two enor-
.. mons windows in the store to be occu-
MED by Fenton & company are attract
inc especial attention. They are cas-
ily the largest windows of this kind in
New England outside the large cities.
Edward /. Hartman, who is to ad.
dress the citizens Of Brattleboro April
4. is a fluent, magnetic speaker and
gives practical suggestions in regard TO
village improvement. he has taken
pictures of various ugly spots IN Brat
tleboro which we have quietly tolerat'
ed and will show these by aid OF the
stereopticon together with the changes
necessary to make these ugly Spots
beautiful. He cannot fail to interest
every man, woman and child who has
the best good of the community at
heart.
Signs of spring noticed to date are
the rattle of marbles in the small
boys pocket, one boy carrying base
bail bat the removal Of the. storm-door
from the front Of the Brooks House,
the ice being cleaned out of the gut
tiers on Main street, new maple sugar
exhibited. Easter openings among the
millinery stores, pussy-willows in the
country, a bluebird, the matin song of
the cat, the epidemic Of quinsy, sore
throat, tonsilitis and the wearied
look of the physicians, the busy drug.
clerks, the rising river, and that tired
feeling.
Ellen E. Kendall, wife of Edwin
F. Brooks, died Wednesday afternoon
at her home in Gardner, Mass she
was married to Mr.. Brooks in July,
1856, and they lived in Brattleboro
from 1868 until 1901 when Mr.. BROOKS,
formerly station agent here, was ap-
pointed ticket agent at Gardner. Their
home was on High street in the house
now owned by DR.. Alvin Knapp and
later on Oak street in the house now
owned by E. W. Gibson. Besides her
husband Mrs. Brooks is survived by
one daughter, Miss Emma Brooks, for
merly ticket agent at the local station
and more recently employed in the
store of Jardine & company.
Benjamin Franklin Baker, 76, died
last night at his home on High street.
NJ +be ,ost +hree weeks his death had