The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-22
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

| -Mlss Helen kohue mas purchased u
yose 4 Sons upright piano of l.. H.,
Barber, High street,
The program for the grange meet
ing Wednesday evening is in charge
of the dramatic club.
The women of the Congregational
church will give Lenten supper at
the chapel Tuesday, March 26, at q
o clock.
The Brattleboro Sunshine society
branch !, will meet with Mrs. j. C..
! Dewitt at her home on Canal street
next Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Dennis Rebekah lodge, No, |, will
have an exchange party next Tuesday
evening. Members are requested to
bring a package containing something
they do not want.
The last meeting of the Alliance
study class for the season will be held
at the Unitarian parsonage next Mon
day evening at $50 o'clock. The sub
iect is The Religion of Swedenborg.
Easter millinery opening Friday
and Saturday, March 30 and 80; tea
will be served Saturday from to .
and I to p. M, at Mrs. IL. l.. Bas-
com s, SO Main street, second floor.
A special meeting of the Brattle'
boro branch of the Woman's Alliance
will be held this evening at T.3o
o clock at the home of Mrs. Charles
Warder. A full attendance is desired.
The body of John King of Viii
mington was brought here yesterday
morning. The funeral was held at the
Catholic church at a. m, Rev. FIR. Nj.
J. Carmody officiating. The body was
buried in the Catholic cemetery.
Tickets for the concert by the
Home City and Cecilia quartets Tues
day evening, April 2, in the apdito-
rum, 90 on sale at the Y. NJ. G. a.
rooms from 8 to II a. m. and to b p
m. on and after Thursday, March 2S'
Protective grange will give its an
nual sugar supper Tuesday evening,
March 26, from $50 to s o clock. New
sugar from the Miller farm in Dunn
merston will be served. All members
requested to contribute to the supper
as usual.
The Ladies Aid society of the
Methodist church will serve ereamed
fish supper Monday evening, March
%. from 6 to in Grange hall after
which the autograph wheel quilt con
tanning s64 names which the ladies'
have been making will be sold at auc-
ton.
Mrs. Chester Sargent is the pos
SCISSOR of an unusual floral display for
this season of the year in the form OF
a branch of laurel in full bloom. Inc
branch was gathered some time last
December and the tiny buds which
were on it at the time have just
opened.
An Easter food sale will be held
by the Brattleboro w. c. 7. U. in its
beadouarters on Elliot street March
70 from 3 to 6 o clock. Many Of the
articles of food so much in demand at
this season will be for sale. The regu-
lar meeting of the union will be oo'
served at usual time and place next
Tuesday, March 26. A full attendance
is requested
The Portland, Me-, Advertiser
saws: "The Home City quartet or
Springfield, Mass, gave concert at
the Ottawa hotel, Cushing's Island
Friday evening, which was acknowl'
edged to be one of the best concerts
ever given in that famous hosiery
This quartet and the Cecilia Ladies
quartet will appear in the auditorium
Tuesday, April 2.
The Harvard male quartet of Bos'
TON visited the Memorial hospital Tues
dav afternoon and delighted the pa
tents and attendants with a short con
cert. The quartet being in town 1or
tbe Masonic affair Tuesday evening"
verv kindly consented, at the request
of George NJ. Clay, master of Brattie'
horo lodge. to grant this additional ia
vor, which was deeply appreciated
Lovers of good music will be sure
and attend the concert by the Home
Citv male quartet and the eczema
ladies', quartet at the auditorium tues
dav evening. April 2, under the aus
Noes of the Woman IS auxiliary OF the
Y M C. A. This will be the best
musical entertainment of the season
The program will include solos, duets
ouartets, double quartet and selectioh'
by reader of reputation.
Notices have been sent out to al
tbe grocervmen and general merchant
in the county to attend meeting OF
the comfy association which Will nol0
meeting here March 26, in atiilatloi
with the state convention which Wi
he held at Burlington April 20 and "a
Elisha Winter, the organizer OF the as
a;at;ors in New England, will bt
: present at the meeting and make al
address. The meeting will be held II
Grange hall.
A fire was discovered in the nous
occunied bv Elton Barrows on TINT
Farm of e. H. Thomas on the Putne.
, road at O clock Wednesday morning
The fire had gained good heaa"a'
when discovered and nothing could D
done TO save the furniture or building
NJ and Mrs Barrows and five chlldrei
had barely time to dress and get on
Of the burning building before u wa
too late. They lost everything III Wv
fire The house was remodeileu LII LII,
tobacco barn and burned qulGhiy
The loss will be over $1,000 ana ther'
| is no insurance.
C R. Tucker of Frost street ha
taken the agency for the Carter auto
mobile rad made by the MotOr rear com oa
Many Of Detroit, Mich, and has ca
on exhibition at the Brattleboro \, ma
ON oh;n eA Works shop on Elm street. Thi
COW is bnilt on new designs and has
y yerv 70 ingenious friction device TO
trea lS and controlling the spec
, 1rS does away with all gears an'
9 oImtcbas and gives any speed from
. clus . ~ +ho HIGHEST. and reverse at thu