The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-29
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The senior class of the Brattle.
boro high school will give dance in
Grange hall this evening,
The Ladies' Enterprise society
will meet with Mrs. II. II. Burnett on
Vine street Wednesday afternoon Mt
3 o clock. Supper win be served from
6 to S.
During the month of December
Rev. L. q. S, osgood will conduct the
3 o'clock Sunday service at the Home
for Aged and Disabled ON Western
avenue.
--Poeahontas council will confer the
degree of Pocahontas Thursday even
ing in Red Men IS hall A banquet will
follow. II is hoped that every mem.
Der will be present.
The Brattleboro branch of the
Woman S alliance will serve a chatting
dish supper in Wells hall Tuesday even
ing, Dec. 3. There will be a sale of
fancy articles and flowers beginning at
o clock.
M. Austin, ir., C. II. Pratt and w.
II. Gorser have been appointed by the
governors of the Vermont Wheel club
to investigate the matter of securing
some property near this town for use
as a country club. This committee will
report to the club at meeting TO be
called later,
"A fire in the picker room of the
Halle & Frost mill in Hinsdale, N. H.,
Sunday evening was the cause of a
prolonged blast on the fire whistle IN
that town. The blast was heard by
many Brattleboro people who mistook
it for the whistle at the Estey organ
factory.
DR.. st. Johns lecture in the Bap.
fist church this evening at $ o o'clock
will be the most important lecture OF
his course, that upon Early Adoles-
cenee, the period from IL to 10 years.
This is substantially the lecture given
here last spring, and was to have been
omitted from the present course, but
requests for it have led to its being
given again.
The funeral of Lewis S. Higgins
was held in the Universalist church
Friday afternoon at clock, Rev. d.
Il. Trout officiating. The church choir
rendered several selections. The bear
ers were E. l.. Roberts, A. j. Currier,
d. w. Tenney, II. p. Frost, n. IL
White and N. L. Staples. Burial was
in Prospect Hill cemetery. The odd
Fellows committal service was used
at the grave.
The Good News of the Waiting
life will be the general subject of a
series of four lectures which VIII Dc
delivered by Rev. W. j. Hamilton IN
st. Michael's Episcopal church, begin
ming next Sunday. The series will in
clude the Gospel of Hades, the Gospel
of Judgment, the Gospel of Hell ano
the Gospel of Heaven. A question
box will be placed in the rear OF the
church in which written questions may
be deposited These will be answered
in the evening service.
The first of a series of Sunday
night concerts which will be gwen II
the Congregational church every fourth
Sunday was held Sunday evening; IL
spite of the storm there was a largt
number in attendance. A double quar-
tet consisting of Walter A. Gilbert aho
r. II. Crane, tenors; Miss Ethel Ran
dali and Miss Emma Gregg, sopranos
Miss Florence Hildreth and Mrs. W
H. Bond, altos; and Fred G. Adams ano
Arthur l.. Clapp, BASES; rendered sew
eral selections with much credit. MISS
Corinne U. Blodgett sang effectively
and Carl Leitsinger played The Los'
Chord. The sermon was omitted.
Il
Mabel E. Saunders, Is years OF
ace daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Sanders of Brattleboro, Vt, and 10
tos p. Stafford, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Martin Stafford of Brattleboro, w.
we're married Saturday forenoon DS
Citv Clerk James G. Buckley in tnt
city hall, Chicopee. The couple saie
that they were not runaways, put ma.
merely selected Chicopee as place y
be married in, by chance. Ihey sac
their parents knew that they were t'
he married, but did not know when
4 fter the knot was tied, Mr.. and Mrs
d stafford left for visit in Hartford
Conn.-springield (Mass.) Union Nov
25.
--special Thanksgiving services
were held in st. Michael's Episcopa
church Sunday The church was deco
rated with fruits of the harvest and
large silken American flag was drape'
over the entrance to the chancel. Spe
c;al music was rendered by an aug
mented choir and a Thanksgiving ser
mon was delivered by the rector, heV
w T Hamilton. A dedicatory service
preceded the regular service when I'M
pprocessional cross and the silver boz
nsed for altar bread, given to Tn,
church as memorials, were. dedlcateu
Mrs. Arthur Brasor effectively ren
dered These Are They during the otfer
atorv If With All Your Hearts, wa
snng bv M. P. Davis in the evening
Five bows formed part of the veste'
choir With these as nucleus al
effort will be made to build up a larg
how choir. Much interest is being dis
nlaved in all departments OF Tn
church work and the coming Winte
season is looked upon as full Oh ac
tivity.
4 None of the passenger trains nov
,rn;no over the Connecticut and fas
sumnsie division Of the Boston u MAIN
40 81 he taken off The feasibility o
raducing the number of trains on Tn
d;v;sion has been earnestly considere
~ beadouarters in Boston, but 1t ma
been definitely decided to make n
changes although it is claimed tina
several trains are money losers lol w
road. Other divisions have lost tlain'
and for time prospects were good ina
service between Springfield and Whit
River Junction would suffer, at iea a
until the money stringency had bettere
materially. Superintendent Ford OF IN