The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-07
BrattLebOrO Local

The Windham and Bennington
county associations of Universalists
will hold convention at Wilmington
next Tuesday.
e. J, Fenton received eonsign-
ment of 800 Naval Blue Hills box
kites which he will give away with
every boys suit which he sells. The
kites are made Of paper in the form
of an oblong box without any ends
and will fly at tremendous height.
John Buck, who came here from
Boston about two weeks ago to be
headwaiter at the Brooks House, has
finished work there and returned to
| Boston. His place is taken by Rob
ert McCord of Concord, n. III. Mr..
McCord has been headwaiter at the
Eagle hotel in Concord,
An open air meeting under the
auspices of the Y. NJ. c. A. will be
held on the Common Sunday afternoon
at ) o clock. Rev. A. IL. Webb will
speak and a choir from the Universal
list church will be in attendance to
/ furnish music. If the weather is
stormy the meeting will be held in
/ tne congregational ChulcH'
State S Attorney Edwin A. Cook of
Newport, and Atty.-Gen. c. c. Fits,
of Brattleboro, filed an information
against the railroad company at
special term of Orleans county court
| Nav 81. The ease was tried by the
court and Judgment of guilty, pro
forma, was made. The case will be
heard by the supreme court at the Dc
| tobcr term.
Two men representing themselves
/ to be Mormon missionaries sent out
from Salt Lake City to scatter the
doctrines of Brigham Young are in
town holding series of meetings. a
meeting was held last night in Grange
hall attended by less than 10 people,
mostly women The missionaries pro
pose to hold a meeting on the Com
mon Sunday afternoon. The y. NJ. G..
A. is also intending to hold a meeting
there and the two may conflict.
George W. Pierce returned today
from the meeting of the Holstein-
Friesian association of America
which has been held at Syracuse, n.
Y. this week. Mr.. Pierce seconded
the nomination of F. l.. Houghton as
secretary. The reelection of MIR.
Houghton, with n new administration
thoroughly in sympathy with his pro
gressivc ideas, is of interest to breed
ers generally and to Brattleboro in
particular as the Office here employs
several persons and does large bust
ness by mail.
BENJAMIN Wonson, n l4year.old
boy, was sentenced to the state in
dustria school for boys for the re-
mainder of his minority this morning
in the municipal court by Judge e.
w. Gibson, but the sentence was sus-
pended and he was placed in the
charge of the probation officer. The
boy had been employed by Carl 5.
Hopkins since April and had been
paid the sum of one cent as wages
since that time in addition to his
board. Led astray by the opportunl-
ties for dissipation which his high sal
airy offered, the boy to meet his obi
cations embezzed the sum of Al cents
from his employer and was arrested
on the complaint of his employer
forthwith
Sam S. and Lee Shubert announce
the coming engagement of Mary Man
nering at the auditorium next week
Friday evening. This will be wei
come event, as she will be seen here in
new play, Glorious Betsy, the story
of which is by Rida Johnson Young,
author of Brown of Harvard and other
successes. 1t has to do with the love
affairs of Jerome Bonaparte and Eliz'
abeth better known as Betsy Patter-
SON Of Baltimore, which terminated in
their marriage only to be set aside by
royal decree in an order from his i'm
perial brother, Napoleon. In this
comedy which teens with romance
and atmosphere of the chivalrous days
of 1903, Miss Mannering as the hero
inc is said to have been supplied with
one of the best mediums she has ever
employed The company in support is
an exceptionally brilliant one.