The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-29
THE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1907

The meeting Of the girls' club
which was 10 have been held neAt week
has been postponed, The date will be
announced later.
w. l.. Gibson, father Of Judge H.
W. Gibson has been appointed postmns'
ter al Londonderry. As soon MS the
bond is filed he will assume the posi-
ton.
The next regular monthly meeting
OF the Vermont Wheel club will be
held Tuesday evening at 1.SO. H. IL.
Barber viii give concert with his Vie
tor yietrola aud luncheon will be sery'
ed.
-Gion, Barraelough and McGuiggan
OF last year Newport On. H. team,
Church of Lowell, Mass, and Bucky
Lew, the star colored player, will com
pose the basketball team which Spring
field, VT, will send here Tuesday night
in the hope of defeating Doran s
bunch.
La Barre Brothers minstrels gave
two performances in the auditorium
Yesterday, entertaining number of
people who believed in laughter as an
aid 10 digestion. The company on the
whole was only fair and the program
was not sufficiently out of the beaten
path to call for much comment. In the
first part George Lewis s rendition OF
Dreaming Love of You was easily the
best musical number and his female
impersonation was one OF the features
of the clio. Tommie Hayes did an
original bone act which was clever,
while Careno and Dalmia pleased all
with their juggling and hooprolling
act.
Lyman Cooley, So, resident of
North Sunderland, Mass, for over half
century. died at the home OF his
daughter, Mrs. w. Il. Benson, in Green
field Wednesday morning, of old age.
He went there from Sunderland a year
ago. Mrs. Cooley died last May. lie
was a native of Connecticut, but soon
after his marriage settled in Sunder-
land. where with Mrs. Cooley he cele'
brated the golden wedding anniver'
sarv of his marriage seven years ago.
He leaves besides Mrs. Benson, three
sons. Edward +. and David of Brattle'
boro and Walter +. of Whately. the
funeral will be held this afternoon at
| clock in the North Sunderland
church
beginning Monday the local post
office will have the service of an addl-
tional carrier six days week instead
of three days a week as has been the
case since July /. Orders to this effect
were received recently from the post
office department. Fred Coombs OF
Guilford will become one OF the regu'
lar carriers and will in all probability
take the mounted route which has been
covered by S. w. Knight. This VIII
make necessary a Encouragement Of sew
eral of the other routes, and 1t is like
w that portions of the routes now Gov
cred by Carriers and will be made
into a new one. The local post office
/ had the services of an additional car
rier during the first six months of this
wear but he was reduced to half time
July l.
A report has become current in
| Brattleboro and elsewhere that VIII
French, who formerly conducted milk
business in this town, but later went
to Columbia, s. c., to engage in car
pentering, was stabbed to death a
Short time ago. Inquiry has been made
of friend of French in Batesburg, ).
c.. and letter from him, received this
week, states that the same report has
reached that city, but that nothing
definite can be learned about the al
legged affair. This friend states that
he saw French in Columbia in August,
and that French was then out of work.
He thinks French may have left the
city without caring to have his al
dress known, Brattleboro people who
have been in correspondence with
French say that few weeks ago his
letters stopped coming and that letters
addressed to him were returned
Brattleboro news in Springfield Repub-
lican.
David Warfeld says that on the
night he opened in his new play, A
Grand Army Man, in New York, he
felt as if he were going to be mar
ried. ~ reached the theater hours
before the curtain was to be rung up
and started to pace the dressing.room
as if | were a boy about to speak his
first piece. / trembled all over, and
every once in a while cold chill ran
down my back, and ran so fast that
the walls shook. | have had two Sc
rious operations in my short but tenn
pestuous career, but never while climb
ing on an operating table have | ex-
perienced the feeling of hopeless blue
funk that came over me as | was about
to take the plunge that night Once l
had taken it / was all right except for
a bit of reflex nervousness, but just
before l made the high dive-well, the
best | can wish is that you never feel
as | felt then. Believe me, my boy, 1t
was awful, terrible, horrible. !"
A petition signed by every enlisted
man in Brattleboro was presented 10
Ernest j. Waterman yesterday, asking
him to accept the captaincy of Com
many I, The election for this position
il TO be held tonight and much depends
mon who the next head of the company
is to be. Mr.. Waterman was approach
ed two months ago relative to assum'
ing the position but he then SAID that
he would not take the position if ten
dered to him. Today he says that ne
has not changed his answer. 1t is prop
able that Mr.. " aterman will be formal
" elected tonight with the hope that
| he will finally be induced to accept
should he refuse, the state Of affairs
in the company at present is likely to
terminate disastrously. To man tine
company would respond to the leader
shin of former Captain Waterman and
in view Of the cordial support he would
receive and in consideration of the
present status of the company every
effort will be made to induce Mr.. Wa
l. oaoo,,+ tba pneitiOn