The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-27

soeiety helu sewing meeting AT the
home of Mrs. 7. w. Bruce yesterday
afternoon.
During the month of January,
Rev. ii. h. Miles will conduct the 3
o clock service at the Home for the
Aged and Disabled on Western ave.
nue..
Beginning Jan, 2, Company / will
have drills every Thursday evening at
7,3O o'clock and the regulations re-
garding drill attendance will be strict
ly enforced
e. Wales will hold his annual
mid winter reception for pupils of his
dancing school in Grange hall Satur'
day afternoon at 2.3O. The public is
invited to be present.
Those desiring to join the Girls ,
club may do so by signing the consti.
tuition and paying the fees. The treas
urer assistant treasurer and secretary
will be at the rest room each Tuesday
evening prepared to enroll members
The parochial school fittingly OBJ
served the coming of Christmas with
songs and recitations Friday after
noon. The smaller classes had trees,
the gift of the senior department. On
these trees gifts were hung for each
pupil. The members of the school sang
Christmas carols at the s o clock mass
Christmas day.
Beatrice LeClair, s, died at the
Memorial hospital Sunday afternoon
of appendicitis. She was the daugh-
ter of Didus and Helen Vayo LeClair,
who lives at 9s Elliot street. Miss
LeClair was born in st. Adams Jan.
5, 1889. The body was taken ON the
IL o clock train Monday morning to
st. Adams for burial. The funeral
was held Tuesday.
The Vermont Printing company s
calendar for 1908 will be ready for
delivery early next week. 1t is
handsome l2-sheet calendar, each
sheet containing a picture of the last
Valley fair, tipped on to light mount
which is printed in two colors of ink
and bronzed. The edition is limited,
and while it is expected that there
will be enough to 60 around, the ex'
pense is so large that they can not be
promiscuously distributed.
The petition for the pardon OF
Charles White. which Gibson and Wa
terman are seeking to obtain, is now
in the hands of the governor me pc,
tition contains a list of lnfiuentlai
names which will have, it is believed,
considerable weight with the CHEF ex-
ecutive. White was convicted of lar
ceny of barber's tools from his en-
ployer, S. H. Hartman, in Bellows
Falls at the September term OF the
Windham county court, 1900.
The Home Sunshine society will
hold its annual meeting at the Home
for the Aged Monday at P. m. FOL
lowed by an entertainment to whlch
all members are cordially invited. In
the early evening there will be a
Christmas tree for the inmates of the
Home only. If anyone wishes TO re
member them, they can leave their
Gifts either with Mrs. S. o. Miner,
Miss Emma Gregg or Mrs. G. II. Ry'
der before noon Dec. 80, or II more
convenient, at the Home.
Frank w. Colburn of Claremont,
N. H.. who was formerly employed IN
the store of +. J. Fenton d company,
and Miss Frances Lareau of Spring
field. VT. we're married Wednesday IN
New Britain, Conn, by Rev. DIR. U. D.
Davis. who was formerly pastor OF
church in Springfield where the young
couple spent their childhood MI ool'
burn is at present proprietor of cloth,
inc store in Claremont where he and
his wife will make their home after a
brief wedding trip.
Solomon Nesbitt of West Brattle-
boro was poisoned in Springfield,
Mass. Monday and on his way 10
Rrattleboro became unconscious from
the effects. On arrival at Brattle'
boro he was met by DR.. &. K. Ander-
SON who cared for the man. Mr.. Mes
b;tt was taken to the home of his
brotber. Robert Nesbitt, on Pearl
street where he has since partially re-
covered. He has now been taken u
the home of his father, John Nesbltt'
in West Brattleboro.
Christmas exercises were enjoyed
Friday afternoon by the pupils IN the
various grades of the public schools
Each primary school had tree on
which were hung the presents that the
pupils had made for their parents
Singing was also enjoyed at eaci
school. The fourth and fifth grades
enioved similar exercises but had nc
tree on which to hang the presents
that the pupils in these grades mao
made. The pupils in the grades IRON ron,
the sixth to the ninth met in the hlgi
school room and sang Christmas car
oils There were several recitatlons
given as a part of the exercises.
Amos Franklin Thomas, 70, dleo
Wednesday morning at his home III
Chesterfield, n. H., just across the riv'
err from Brattleboro, after prlel IL,
ness with pneumonia. He was porn III
| chesterfield, son of Aaron and Gratla
ICressv) Thomas and had always lived
~ that town where he successfully
carried on the large farm which mao
been his home for so many years. MI
Tbomas's wife died number OF years
AGO. He leaves one son, Walter Ihomas
, q Stone mason. Funeral services VIII
, ho hold this afternoon at o o'clock az
: Bond S undertaking rooms, hev. a. Il
/ Webb officiating. Burial will be III
: Prospect Hill cemetery.
What might have been serious
fre at the Brooks House yesterday
norning about 11.30 was narrowly
averted by the timely discovery OF 9
box of waste that had become ignlteu
When the box was found long tongues
, Of flame were streaming up filling the
room under the office with such dense