The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-05-10
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

'''''' NuV" w yum slocl III rccelNlnb
a coat of paint,
Edwin l.. IIildreth has bought Mrs.
j. X. Parker S house on Oak street ana
will occupy it as residence
The Estey Organ company has Civ.
en- one of its best pianos for use in the
Vermont building at the jamestown ex-
position.
Track team practice was resumed
by the high school pupils at the fair
grounds Tuesday afternoon when n
good sized squad was on hand
Ground has been broken on South
Main street for three new houses which
will be erected as soon as possible by
II. Ia Emerson. The houses will be
similar to those which Mr., Emerson
owns on Green street at the top of
Church street hill.
"A set of covers for all the maya.
zines and papers in the Y. NJ. c. A
reading room have been donated by Mr.
and Mrs. c. +. W. Cunningham. The
covers are pretty in design and give
pleasant uniformity to the appearance
of the reading room periodicals,
1t will be of interest to owners of
automobiles and gasolene engines to
know that the National Carbon compony
of Cleveland, o., has a contract to de,
liver to Horton D. Walker a barrel Of
No. Columbia dry batteries direct
from the factory every two weeks.
j. L. Cole, A. c. Mitchell and A.
Z. Holmes, the bridge inspectors of the
Central Vermont railroad, passed
through here yesterday afternoon. They
were equipped with an automobile made
to run on the railroad. They went up
the West River division to inspect the
bridges on that division of the road
About $4,000 lake trout fry were
recently put into Spofford lake by the
Cheshire County Fish and Game Protec-
tive league. A small number of lake
trout fry were put into this lake several
years ago but there is no record that
any fish of this variety were ever taken
there. The Cheshire county league has
also distributed 100000 brook trout fry
in the various streams throughout the
county.
-Myron Ward of this town thinks
he has discovered an excellent remedy
for ivy poisoning Some time ago Mr..
Ward was badly poisoned and one day
in desperation painted the affected por-
lions of his body with common white
wash. Mr.. Ward says that this treat
ment relieved the irritation Immediately
and recommends the remedy to anyone
who may be suffering from contact with
! the weed.
The opera company of which VIII
Schuster is a member opened its season
in Baltimore, Nd, Monday evening with
Robin Hood In an extremely favorable
criticism of the performance the Baltl'
more American says: "Perhaps the hit
of the evening was made by William
Schuster, the sheriff of Nottingham, the
rollicking, drinking sheriff with the IN
imitable conceit. Mr.. Schuster vocally
was excellent and the spontaneity OF
his manner added materially to tho
enjoyment of his part. ="
Clark Hulett was arrested Tuesday
night by Policeman James Evans OF
Elliot street for being drunk and dlsor
Iderlv and taken to the cooler. He Wa'
fried before Judge f. w. Gibson in the
municipal court Wednesday morning
and the amount that he should pay tol
his fun was assessed at S. with costs
amounting in all to $10.10. He avoided
having the fine of So by signing th'
pledge for one year in accordance "iVl
the statute enacted at the last session
Of tbe general assembly. Should he tal
from grace within the prescribed TINT
the fine will be collected.
In the April number of the IuIt
College alumni magazine The Graduate
Rnv. r. K. Marvin, '96, has an artlcl'
ON Athletics at Tufts. lie writes II
part: "The present year surpasses d.
others in the history of Tufts tor re
snlts achieved. If the baseball team
kaens M the record of the football, pas
ketball and relay teams, the coIes
war 1oO6-19O7 will stand as the banne
Var in our athletic history, In Tn
mast we have had our great elevenS am
lines and track teams. But there ha
been no year when all the dlne lela
teams have been so consistently succees
fnl as this year, and now it remain
onlv for the baseball team to cap I'LL
climax"
The body of John Toomey, WIN
a;od in Brooklyn, n. Y, last THURSDAY
was brought here Saturday Tor the IL ~
neral and burial. The funeral was ned
in ST. Michael's Roman Cathohc chu n,
- O n ;clock Sunday morning. Rev
tbor Thomas O'Donoghue celebrated
b t requiem mass and the BODY wa
+ai'nn TO the Catholic cemetery Tor pu'
iai William Toomey, brother, az Il
Miss Nellie G. Toomey, a sister, potn
Prooklvn. accompanied the body !!
: Prot+lehoro. Mr.. Toomey was born
! Pntnev and learned the WORK Oh ~ sei ha
! ranhv. For the past few years G ~ m'
heen operator in the Boston oioo o,,,
poum bnreau in New York city, SUI
nooding a brother who died few yea
c c"o Tbe cause of Mr.. Toomey's deaf
was consumption.
A minstrel show without so0
singing is like building WILL M a !,
sa nng5dstion. The DeRue Brothers mar at
nou snociaI feature of their quintet l.
d I Iina careful selection OF Vocai us,
m ni,i IN narts of the country, lnclu'
from al, psoloists as the English teno
1 Wso1+er 7. Hearn; the eminent pallo .;al
|. william R. Pattie; the San iT Tavlo
: basso Frank Graham, oscar so nan
4 and the phenomenal juvenile b svp, mai nal
p" Master Mas John Lambert, altogeentiI tio 1I
ing in the Gp' singing department In ni9a W y
nRPsfP part at the aqdt tor fest wedHe
day eveni ,.;iio numbers is the marvelo'