The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-26

be given on Prospect Hill Wednesday
evening.
The Ladies Enterprise society will
meet with Mrs, H. II. Burnett, IL
Vine street, next Wednesday after
noon at o clock,
DR.. George b. Hunter of West
Brattleboro will move soon to the Of
fees in Williston block which were oc'
eupied by the late Dr. G. Il. Severance
Miss Minnie Moran will be at
Mrs. q. ii. Smiths store after Aug. !
to do manicuring, hair dressing, facial
massage and scalp treatment. Miss
Moran is n graduate Of the Broadway
IIairdressing school and has done this
work in New York city.
The June number of Architectural
Art and its Allies contains handsome
cover design by Paul Revere Henkel,
a former Brattleboro boy who is now
associated with +. w. Crosby in New
Orleans. The design received the first
prize in competition recently inaugu'
rated by the magazine.
Sheriff Arthur Thompson of Bel
lows Falls took Frank lnman from
Newfane Jail to the state prison at
Windsor Monday. Inman is the negro
who pleaded guilty to burglary last
week and was sentenced by Judge
Taylor to serve not more than 2la or
less than two years in states prison.
The residents of High street are
generally signing a petition protest
ing against the plan of the bailiffs to
remove the are lights at the top OF
High street hill and at the corner of
High and Oak streets and to substitute
several incandescents. The signers re-
gard the action of the bailiffs as need
less and foolish. The petition will
probably be presented to the bailitfs to-
day.
Hayes Bigelow launched one of
his Mullins steel power boats IN the
river yesterday afternoon. The boat is
10 feet long and is equipped with
two-cylinder, six horsepower Ferro en-
CINE. 1t has torpedo stern and a
reversible propeller and is an exceed
ingly graceful craft. Mr.. Bigelow has
a 16-foot boat equipped with single
cylinder engine which he will put IN
the water soon.
Counsel for the defendant in the
case of Mrs. Annie NJ. Hopkins
against the Boston and Maine railroad,
in which the plaintiff was awarded
damages of $1,000 for injuries sus-
tanned by being obliged to ride on a
car platform. has asked for an appeal
to the United States court of appeals
and Judge Holt will give a hearing
on the matter in New York at date
to be determined later.
Road Commissioner p. S. Eames
and force of men Monday began to
extend the pavement on Main street,
beginning near the top of the hill and
continuing to the crossing in front OF
the Vermont National bank. In a
short time Mr.. Eames expects to be
gin constructing about 1900 feet OF
permanent highway on Canal street
for which $500 is available. 1t is
hoped that every effort will be made
to have this work completed before
Valley Fair time.
The parish picnic of st. Michael s
Episcopal church will be held at
Brookside park Thursday, Aug. /.
Special ears will leave Prospect hill at
1.3O p. m. Attractive features are be
ing arranged by a competent commit
mittee. Some of the committee are
the following: Mr.. and Mrs. Frink,
Mrs. Tyler, Mrs Martin, Mrs. Cobb,
Mrs. Haskell, Mrs. Gibson, Miss Me
Weigh, Miss Marshall and Miss Tyler.
All members and friends of the par
ish are invited to attend and to coop
crate in making the picnic a success
Much work has been done on the
Connecticut 4 Passumpsic division OF
the Boston 4 Maine railroad toward
installing the new block signal system.
In addition to getting the crowded
parts Of its lines protected with these
block signals, the Boston 4 Maine has
recently equipped a large number of ITS
stations with semaphore train-order
signals, in place of flag signals. IN
der the old system, when a station
agent received orders to hold a train
he had to leave his office to flag 1t.
Now he simply pulls a lever and sets a
semaphore signal on an arm directly
over the station. These signals have
been supplied chiefly between White
River Junction and Sherbrooke, be
tween Woodsville and Concord, and on
the Central Massachusetts division, be-
tween Cambridge Junction and Ware
Ray r. Howard, whose death in
Danbury, Conn, July II was men
toned in our South Newfane cores
pondence last week, was son of Ar
thur G. and Helen (Charter) Howard,
formerly of Brattleboro, and grandson
of the late Charles c. Howard of this
place. Howard was 27 years old and
| lived at $50 Lafayette street IN
Bridgeport, Conn. He was employed
as an engineer on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad and it was
while repairing his engine at Danbury
| that his head was struck by passing
locomotive and he was instantly killed.
Engineer Howard was a Royal Arch
Mason, and was widely known IN
Bridgeport. Besides his parents, who
live at 80 Elmwood avenue, Bridgeport,
he is survived by a widow, two broth,
ers, Henry A. of New York and Carl
P. of Bridgeport, sister, Miss Esther
Howard, and an uncle, Herbert G.
Howard of Putney.
AS result of the efforts which
tho Japanese government is making
to better the cattle in that kingdom
by importation from the best breeds OF
the United States, f. L. Houghton,
secretary of the Holstein Friesian as.
ISOLATION of America, received call
from the special envoy of the emperor
of Japan Monday. The special en-