The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-12-24
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

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Crosby Adams of the junior elias
of Norwich university has been chose
editor.in-chief of the War Whoop, tn
college annual.
The Hooker, Corser & Mitche
overall shop will close today until jan
to allow the concern to take its m
nual inventory.
BY order of the attending phys
clan at the detention hospital, tul
key dinner will be served tomorrow TO
the three patients there under quaran
tine.
Rev. John r. Cow oilicated at tn
funeral of the infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Dillback Saturday after
noon. The burial was in Prospect Hill
cemetery.
1aBrattleboro lodge, \. E. 0. p
will hold a meeting for the nomination
of officers in the near future. Defnit,
announcement of the event will b,
made next week.
Frederic C. Adams of this tow
will 90 to Springfield, Mass. Sunday
to be soloist at the Y. NJ. c. A. mass
meeting which will be held in tn,
Court Square theatre.
The Reformer. from an authorita
tive source, is able to state that pend
ing condemnation proceedings for a
site, nothing further will be done
about the proposed new court house
and postoffice.
Thomas Burke was before the local
court Tuesday morning. on the charge
of intoNication and was assessed a fine
of 50 and costs amounting to $l0.S0,
which was paid. He was arrested
Monday. evening" on Elliot street by
Chief of Police Evans.
General Manager G.. G. Jones of
the Central Vermont railroad passed
through Brattleboro for the south
Tuesday morning by special train to
view the work of reconstruction on the
racks below Brattleboro. He returned
north to st. Adams Wednesday morn
ing.
-Advices received from the far east
state that Midshipman Lucien Kimball.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Kimball of
Crosby street. has taken and passed
I.the examinations for the rank of en-
sign and according to the Army and
Navy Journal, he has been advanced
to that grade.
The funeral of Judah Franklin
Bassett was held at his late home on
South Main street Saturday afternoon,
Rev. John R. Cow, pastor of the First
NBaptist church, officiating. Selections
I Hall and burial took place Iii Prospect
Hill cemetery. The bearers were L. H.
Miller, A. E. Miller, p. c. Dunklee,
Eand D. 7. Perry.
Twenty members of Brattleboro
Hodge of Masons, who were made Ma
Sons during the term of Worshipful
Master George M. Clay, presented Past !
MASTER Clay last week with hand |
Some past master s jewel, engraved |
with his name. The lodge enjoyed a |
period of substantial growth during the /
Two years of. Master Clay's admins
&ration of which the members are duly |
4 William Webb of Springfield,
Boston and Maine railroad, fell from
$he tender of engine $50, on which he
vas firing, in the local railroad yard
Bhortly after 2 o'clock this morning.
He was removed to the Brattleboro
Memorial hospital where he was
bund to be suffering from strained
muscles and severe shock. He was
[ble to return to his Springfield home
&pday.
John S. Meyerholz, who is known
Brattleboro through his connection
6th the syndicate land sales that have
ken place here, was arrested last
eek in Springfield, Mass on lar
my warrant sworn out by the North
upton police, who claim that he stole |
10 from Maria E. Moseley of that city. t
eyerholz was released on 800 bail
4 has been a frequent object of pur-
II by the police. Not long ago when
Ereturned to his home in Springfield {
less than nine warrants for his ar y
it came from towns in Massachu- :
rs. New Hampshire and Vermont. !
Ia pleasant social affair took place S
nday evening at the Memorial hos d
nurses home when the nurses c
a Christmas entertainment. An f
Sing feature of the occasion was a 0
h-pond, - which contained gifts for c
member of the party. To each t.
Pei was attached an original rhyme II
gaining personal joke. A tree C
ting many gifts lent its part to the n
pyment of the occasion and This was W
led by feminine Santa Claus who D
Barred in the discarded moth-eaten, Of
6lized fur coat of local physician. m
decorations were evergreen, can IL
and Christmas bells. Refresh 81
Is were served.
IA petition for an injunction Ii
Inst the Connecticut River Power W
pany the French King Rapids o,
bany and the Connecticut River ST
Emission company all allied cor S;
Hons, has been fled in superior ST.
at Worcester. Mass, seeking to to
hin the defendant companies from W
ecting their lines through private TO
The petitioner is Margaret Nc H
ems of Lancaster,> and in her petit tn
ehe alleged that trespass is being w;
kitted The petitioner claims that tn
Zee. 10. the respondent companies HI
Egh their agent, entered upon her ha
in the westerly part of Lancaster til
cut down trees. dug holes and in
wise injured her property. and an
they further contemplate the no
ling of towers ON her land for the VIZ
6se of transmitting electricity She str
rotested against a continuance of Oh
FORK Buttrick & Stone are coun- tin
br the petitioner. and the petition AT
furnable in Boston on Monday In sla
meantime, the defendants are re- bro
a6 topaporarilv our