The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-15

estate business in connection with b
work rs pension attorney.
Tho skating season will open
the Centeryille roller rink next We,
nesday night, Nov. 90, for the seaSOi
Round trip tickets are for sale by th
conductors on the cars the same a
last season,
William Ryan Of 6uilford Will
engaged In saving wood for Henri
Clark at his farm Friday caught hi
f0relnger Of the left hand ia the cir
eular saw. lie was taken TO the T.. Il
Lynch hospital where the Wounds
member was dressed.
The local coal market promises Il
be considerably relieved by the discov
cry by the local dealers that they ear
get coal shipments by the way OF
Rutland much more promptly than by
any other route. Heretofore practical
ly all the local coal supply has beer
received by way Of Hoosae tunnel, ant
Greenfield or Millers Falls.
The Brattleboro book club held IL
annual meeting last night at the home
OF Mrs. Ada 4. Dowley. The old board
Of officers were elected These are
Mrs. J. NJ. Tyler, treasurer; Mrs
james Dalton, secretary; committee on
books, Rev. Il. O. 5. osgood, Mrs.
Charles Warder, and Mrs. n. l. Haw.
ley. A sale of the books used during
the past year was held. After this re.
freshments were served About 90
members were present.
Rev George II. Watt of Barre,
eolporteur for the Vermont Baptist
state convention, will speak in the
Baptist church Sunday morning. II
was about two years ago that the local
Baptist church raised money TO buy
the colportage wagon which has done
such good service since then, and
the annual offering for the cause will
be taken Sunday. Mr.. Watt is an ex.
eeptionally bright speaker and his
work is extremely interesting.
The Brattleboro ministerial union
held a meeting in the Brooks House
Monday at 10 clock. There were l3
ministers present. Rev. George b.
Lawson gave review of the book,
The Prophet of Nazareth, which has
been the source of so much discussion
of late among theologians. The work
brings out the life of Jesus, said the
speaker, in its historical relations 9th.
err than as the Christ of the Bible.
The book is written by Nathaniel
Schmidt, a professor of Cornell uni
versity. After this each minister
gave an abstract of the sermon
on the Sunday previous.
Dinner was served at the hotel The /
next meeting will take place in Janu
Try.
The gauges at the site of the Con.
lectieut river dam this morning
howed that the water has fallen be.
ween 10 and IL feet since the high
mark of last week Thursday. The dam.
ge to the Golfer dam by the flood was
lot as great as the contractors feared
nd force of rivermen is already at
york repairing the upstream crib from
which a portion of the superstructure z
'as carried off, 1t will be two or
hree weeks before the Golfer will be
n condition to be pumped out, and
n this account the engineers have de-
ided to begin constructing immediate
= the extreme easterly section of the t
lain dam Excavation is now going
n with this idea in view and it is ex-
ected that the work of laying con. I
rete will begin soon. This section of
re dam will be built on the rock
beneath the bluff which has
cen removed during the summer.
Mrs. Julius j. Estey entertained h
rattleboro chapter, Daughters of the. /
merican Revolution, at her home
tuesday, afternoon at o clock. The t
tendance was unusually large and
e various features of the program
ere much enjoyed. Besides the rou- !
ne business a nominating committee
as elected, of which Mrs. W. 7. a
aigh is chairman. Mrs. Harry W. "
gave report of the recent
Getting of the state society at Ben e,
ngton, Mrs. Levi X. Fuller read a h
per on Industries of the Eighteenth
injury, Mrs. Walter A. Gilbert gave d.
paper on Current Events, and Mrs. W
tey described the new battleship
srmont and told of the presentation i i
the battleship of silver service -
ught by the state and of silk flag g,
Vermont presented by the Daugh. W
IS of the American Revolution of W
IS state. Mrs. Estey was present at
, presentation exercises. fie
Thomas Smith, son of Harry pa
nth of Vernon street, sustained
yere accident at 100 Wednesday Ca
.ernoon, catching his right foot be- in
cen the couplers of two freight WI
8. Smith saw that there was
ne difficulty in the locking of the Al
5omatic couplers and in attempting a 40
remedy the trouble, kicked the "
pliers as the cars came together hi,
some way his foot was caught and m,
shed so badly that it had to be wi
putated close to the ankle. Smith
) taken to the Memorial hospital toy
rtly after the accident and DR.. c. a
Pratt was called. After an at est
Ipt to save the injured member it
cut off. Smith has been very I'M yWse
tunate since he entered the rail for
d business. He is but little over the
years old yet he has suffered four A
dents while employed on the rail spe
L. The worst injury that he re- Els
-ed beretofore was while he was No
~ tho yUos+ pi,,ar hronoh spe
n he was caught between two bo N
!, wrenching his back so badly aft,
he was incapacitated for several sist
tbs. Mrs.
"A meeting was held in the rest "
D Monday evening for the purpose nov