The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-05-15

The Ladies' Aid society Of tina Episi
copal church will hold a Tnmmase sale
Ia the Reiting block ON High street
next Thursday and Friday.
-sedgwiek post, O. A. X. cordially
invites all old soldiers aud associate
members Of the post TO meet within q.
A. X. hall, Sunday morning, May -, at
10 clock, 10 attend services at the
Methodist church.
The post Office appropriation bill
passed by the senate Tuesday contains
an amendment for weighing the mails
annually instead Of once every four
years as is now the rule. This amend
ment will probably mean the necessity
OF another clerk in the Brattlcboro
pos, office,
The courts Of the North End tennis
club have been opened this week and
a number Of the members have taken
advantage of the opportunity 20 try
their hands al racquet welding II Is
expected that a team will be formed
| from members 81 the club and a series
OF matches arranged with out Of town
clubs.
William u. l.cnihan and Maurice
IO'Donnell broke the Brattlcboro Green.
field walking record Sunday afternoon.
doing the distance in four hours aud -
minutes. They walked 10 Bernardston
in three hours and nine minutes aud
| from there 20 Greenfield in one hour
and 80 minutes. II is likely that 4. ii.
Atherton will attempt TO beat this rec.
ord in the near future.
"A large number attended the box
and necktie supper given by Brattle.
boro lodge, y. +. .. T., in Red Men s
hall Wednesday evening. II. T.. Harris
acted as auctioneer and succeeded in
getting high bids for several Of the
neckties. Each man who purchased
nccktie then found the woman who had
one 10 match his, aud on making the |
discovery he was bound 20 take the
lady in question to supper.
Parents Day was observed by
grades 8, and of the Canal street /
school building Wednesday afternoon.
over loo parents took advantage of
this time to visit the schools and regu
lar programs were presented in each of
the grades. The custom of inviting the
parents to village school on a special
day each year has met with great sue
cess during the past two years. \ fca.
ture of the exercises was the musical
numbers, which were in charge of Miss
Emma Gregg.
The William Tudor family who
purchased the John Robinson farm on
the Pownal road have purchased a lot
in the Bennington Park Lawn GENE
terry and Mr.. Tudor and Supt. Esta
brook left for Brattleboro today to
take down and remove here a $1,000
they had erected there last
year. They will also remove the daugh
ter s body from Brattleboro and that
of the son which is in the receiving
tomb at Bennington Center TO their
new lot.-Bennington Banner.
The annual strawberry supper Civ I
en- by the Young Peoples union will be
served at $50 Tuesday evening in the
social rooms of the Baptist church. The
union made success of its supper last
year and this year s committee does not
intend to lower the standard. The ,
rooms will be decorated for the occasion I
and there will be music during the sup
per, A meeting of committees was
held Tuesday evening, at which plans
for the evening were approved. The !
chairman of the general committee is
E. " Morse, president of the union, ;
Other members are: Mrs W. b. Doug Q
as, Miss Shattuck, Miss Phillips, Miss
Croker, II. $. Wellman, a. L. Maynard, !
Z. j. Eddy and II. +. c. Toedt.
AT a meeting of pastors and repre- =
,entatives from the various churches In I;
he village, held in the Baptist chapel +
asst Monday afternoon it was decided q,
o have services on the common this /
as usual, beginning with the b
irst Tuesday in June. The following d
committees were appointed: On pro
ram and general oversight, f, Q. $. Os-
rood, II. X, Miles, A. II. Webb, ID. +.
trout and w. j. Hamilton; on music, f. q
/. Crane, Myron p. Davis, Walter )
'tearns l.. r. Burdett, A. l.. Maynard II
md l.. W. Hawley; on finance, II. F. =
:. Toedt, l.. d. Taylor, c. G. Wheeler, j,
}. B. Smith and L. W. Gibson; on Y
rounds and seating G. S. Wilson, T. Ct
'entland, L. NJ. Stickney, +. A. Bagg, \
i. +. Roberts, Carl Cain and Freeman }
cott. v
Notice has been received that the Y
Jew England Telephone and Telegraph
has refused the petition, sign I
d by boards of trade in Massachusetts,
Few Hampshire and Vermont, asking
hat the time for night rates be extend o,
d from 10 p. m, to a. M, to S p. m, y
D a. m. The company recites its old 81
nasons for curtailing the half-rate ser al
ice and claims that to extend the rate
-ould mean disproportionate expen V,
ense of others. The Springfield board &C
trade has instructed its public i'm 81
rovement committee to adopt plan b
{ action looking toward the extension p
{ the night rates, and it is probable te
nat trade bodies in other towns, in ~
uding the Brattleboro organization, q,
i'll do likewise. to
The reception and dance given by Sc Sc
lie First Regiment band in Grange hall ~ ~
thursday evening to those who took in
art in the Mikado and their friends sn
as delightful affair. About $50 were W
'esent The hall was prettily decorat- be
with streamers, japanese lanterns be
Id parasols. Over the stage was sus-
,nded the large snickersnee' of the
I'd high executioner and on it was in re
ribed, "The Mikado, May 6, Z, s, de
'0S.n From either end of this instru pl'
emit of torture were hung Japanese
nterns. Dancing was begun at s elt
clock and lasted until II. At 10 so
clock the Grange banquet hall was ma
rown omen and a luncheon of salads. I'll