The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-21

Spotford lake Wednesday evening,
The woman s auxiliary Of the Y
NJ, c, A, will hold food sale in the
association rooms Saturday at 3 p. m
Richard Pollica and Miss Mary
Ann Dundon, both of Brattlcboro, were
married yesterday at the Unitarian par
sonage by Rev. Il. Q, $. osgood.
The children of the free kinder
garten were given an automobile ride
Tuesday afternoon by II. l.. Emerson
and at the close of the trip were treat
ed to iee-cream at Alright 4 Casassa :
restaurant.
John j. Clune of this town and
Miss Anna Golden of Glens Falls, N
", were married at that place Monday
morning. Mr. Cmnc is employed by Col
j. Gray Estey and the bride formerly
worked at the Brooks House ms a wait
ress.
DR. Edgar Luke Major of Green
field and Miss Katherine Gertrude
Ryan, niece of Nicholas Il. Ryan, for
merly of this town, were married in
Holy Trinity church in Greenfield We'd
ncsday morning by Rev. Father NJ. j.
Carroll.
William Currier has leased the bill
lard room and barber shop in Emer'
son 5 block, A Elliot street, formerly
occupied by John Larrow, and took
possession Monday. His assistant is
William Tiff of Northampton, Mass
There are three chairs in the shop, and
they will all be used Saturdays.
Mrs. Caroline NJ Smith has sold
her farm beyond West Brattleboro vii
age known as the J. l.. Barney place
and it is understood that the pur-
chaser is daughter of United States
Senator Thomas G. Platt of New York
and intends to spend a large sum of
money improving the place which will
be used as a summer home.
The offices of the Holstein- Friesian
Association of America were h,oved
Monday from the Ullery building to
the fourth floor of the American build
ing. The new quarters are exceptional,
y well fitted for the large clerical
force which is employed in the work
of the association, including one large
room occupying the entire south end
of the fourth floor and two other rooms,
one of which is used as the private of
fee of the secretary, Frederick l..
Houghton.
"A general meeting of the Brattle-
boro high school alumni will be held
in the high school building this even
ing at S clock. There will be an
interesting program with musical Sc
lections and remarks by Ora f. Butter.
field of Detroit, Mich, Attorney Cen
eral C. c. Fits and others, The gath
ering will be informal and will take
the form of class reunions. At this
meeting it is expected that steps will
be taken toward forming permanent
alumni association and it is hoped that
as many high school graduates as pos
sible will make it point to be pres
emit
The funeral of Cyrus F. Reed was
held at his home Sunday afternoon at
? o clock, Rev. E. Q. S. Osgood otiiciat-
ing Wantastiquet lodge of Odd Eel
lows attended in a body and Canton
Palestine, Patriarchs Militant, attend
ed in full uniform. There We're also a
large number of Masons present at
the funeral. The floral offerings were
extremely beautiful. The body was
buried in the Morningside cemetery,
the Odd Fellows and Masons conducting
a service at the grave. Rollin S. Childs,
A. j. Currier, Charles Staples, Jerome
Amidon, c. S. Spear and Fred Sargent
acted as bearers.
We're w. Shipman launched his
steam launch Eloise on the river Sat
urday evening the event being attend
ed by a large number of curious sight
seers. The launch took to the water
nicely and ran without a hitch. 1t is
q feet long and is equipped with a
five horsepower steam engine which
pushes the boat through the water at
a good rate of speed. Young Shipman,
who owns the craft, is only II years
old and seems to have a natural ability
as machinist by the way he makes
the engine work. The boat was for
merly used on Spoford lake by 5. A.
Smith.
Children s day was observed in the
First Baptist church Sunday. The
church was well filed and the services
were interesting. \ good proportion
of the congregation was made up of
children among whom were several
babies. while several cages of canary
birds served as well to enliven the oc-
casion as to attract attention. The
platform was decorated handsomely
with ferns and flowers. The children S
day service Songs of Summer, consist
ING of music, responsive readings, reel
tations. etc, was carried out, the choir
being made up of both children and
adults. Superintendent l.. W. Hawley
led the Scripture reading and the re
sponsive reading and Rev. George B.
Lawson made brief address to the
children. 4 pleasing feature of the
musical program was a cornet solo, The
Lost Chord, by Carl Leitsingcr.
DR. C. r. Aldrich, J. r. Ryder, DR..
L. S. Edwards, F. G. Adams and II. G,
Rice returned Wednesday after spend
ing 10 days at Middledam, Me. They
sfound excellent trout and salmon fish
ing in that vicinity and brought home
between 80 and 40 fish weighing from
two to five pounds taken from Wellok-
enebacook lake, Rapid river and b
pond. Mr. Adams proved himself the
best trout fishermen, taking two square
tails that weighed 81 and four pounds
respectively, while Mr.. Ryder carried
off the honors in salmon with five
mound fish. The party had the services
of True Durkee and Will Morton, two
of the most experienced guides in the
Rangeley lake district, and had better
luck than any other party at Angler s
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