The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-20

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second Tuesday in January.
The Uniyersalist Christmas con.
cert will be given Sunday Mt the hour
of the usual Sunday school session in.
stead of in the evening ms has been the
custom heretofore.
There were Christmas exercises
and a tree for the kindergarten chill
dren AT the rooms in Emerson block
this morning at 10 o'clock, The kin.
dergartcn closes for week Is vaca'
tion and will reopen Dec 30.
The operetta, Love and Whist,
was given at the Retreat Tuesday
evening, A large number of local peo.
pie were in attendance. DR.. and Mrs
5. Il. Lawton entertained the perform.
ers afterward with a luncheon.
Judge Z, w. Gibson rendered a
decision Saturday in the ease Of A. J.
Gleason against otilla Hcdman. Glea'
son sued Miss Hedman for 1915
which he claimed was due for rent of
room. A judgment of $l2 and costs
was rendered in favor of the plain
tiff.
C. A. Borden and +. d. Morris will
leave for Greenfield in the early part
of January They have placed their
stock of paint and paper with an out
of.town firm who viii locate here and
carry on the business, although it is
not probable that the store on High
street will be continued
The rest room has had an unusual
" large number of visitors during the
last week. About l75 names have been
registered. Many of them expressed
their appreciation Of the room and re-
marked upon its home like appearance.
The receipts from the exchanges have
increased during the sale of the holi-
day goods and are being used for the
direct benefit of the room.
There was good attendance at
the annual meeting and supper of the
Friendship circle in Odd Fellows hall
last Friday afternoon. The officers for
the coming year were elected Presi-
dent, Myra Stone; first vice president,
Iva Evans; second icepresident,
Jennie Moran; secretary, Ida sar'
gent; treasurer, Ida Gibson; direc-
tresses. Susie Cook, Nellie Cooper,
Abbie Moran, Alice Landry and Lii
liam Pellerin.
Duffy & Leonard are thoroughly
remodelling the interior of the rooms
formerly occupied by the Y. NJ. c. A.
into miniature theater. false
stage is being erected with wide
proscenium from which vaudeville acts
can be produced. In the front of the
rooms a ticket Office and partition are
being put in. 1t is planned to open
the picture show after Jan. /. 1t is
probable that the vaudeville attraction
will not be added to the picture show
until after the season here is well I'M
der way.
The following officers were chosen
Wednesday evening at the annual
meeting of Leo council, Knights OF
Columbus: Grand knight, j. II. Burke;
deputy grand knight, c. F. Mann;
chancellor. DR.. F. H. O'Connor; re-
corder, James A. Austin; financial sec
rotary, John T. Austin; treasurer, John
7 Austin; warden, John J. Eckels; ad-
vocate, John F. Fitzgerald; inside
guard. Hugh H. Harwood; outside
Guard. John T. Fenton; past grand
KNIGHT, John L. Stewart; chaplain,
Rev, NJ. j. Carmody; lecturer, David
s Carey; trustees, Martin Austin, Jr,,
Harry B. Haus, David O'Keefe.
The Schubert symphony club and
ouartet furnished an exceedingly pleas
inc entertainment in the auditorium
Monday evening but the number OF
people there to enjoy it was exceeding
" small The company consisted OF
five versatile young people. All Oh
them could play, most of them could
pIav and sing and at least one of
them could play, sing ana recite'
Thomas Purcell contributed enJoyaple
violin and mandolin solos and the -FOUR
voung women of the company sang
well in the quartet numbers III addl-
tiop TO playing acceptably on mando-
Inns and guitars in the concert num-
hers. There were also vocal SOLOS by
Misses Vera Young and LOWE Purceh
and readings by Miss Maria De Grasse.
Every number on the program re-
celVed an encore. Inv =.
given under the auspices of the mgn
school for the benefit of The Dial ana
tbe athletic fund but it is doubtful II
much money was made.
Several changes in the local hre
alarm system have been made TINS
woek in accordance with orders from
+hn hoard of bailiffs. A new box, NO.
az has been installed at the corner OF
the Brattleboro Cabinet company s
land on Vernon street, 1t being neces-
sarv to put up over two miles OF ne"
wire TO connect this box with the sys-
fem Box "a has been moved from IN
front of |. o. P. Smiths on Canal
street to the junction of Canal, clark
and Elm streets and box 40 has peen
moved from the junction of Estey and
Riroe streets to the junction of Frost
and Elliot streets. Both OF these
changes enlarge the territory served
bv these boxes. There is feeling on
the part of some people that box 80
near Main street bridge has to serve
foo biq a territory and many belleVe
that better protection would result IL
this box were removed to the corner Oh
Main and Elliot streets and new one
Installed at the junction of Canal and
south Main. Three full rounds Will be
rung from box 80 on the test tomor'
row afternoon at 5.lo.
The nomination Of Charles H.
Fairbanks, former resident OF Brat
tleboro. to be pension agent for the
district comprising Vermont and New
Hampshire may not be confirmed by
tbe senate without considerable DIS
cussion. One story from Washington
saws: Sharp criticism of the admins,