The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-02-14
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

AT a business meeting Of the Girls
club Wednesday night Il was voted q
have leap year party. The date VA
not agreed upon.
Hal l.. March has leased the Tudo
farm In Hinsdale, \. H., aud will trans
fer the equipment Of his trucking bust
ness TO that place. Mr.. March vii
take possession March !.
No one appeared Monday TO con
test the discharge Of William 7, keef'
from bankruptcy aud IL is likely thai
Referee A. T.. cudworth will grant
him the discharge that he asks for.
Miss Mary o'Neil gave bridg,
whist party TO eight Of her friends
Tuesday evening az her home on III
liot street. Handsome presents Were
distributed and refreshments served.
The services OF several frcmeu
were required Sunday in testing the
hydrants about town and in ihawing
out those that were found TO be froz'
en-. II was necessary 10 take the
steamer TO five Of the fire plugs in or
der TO thaw them out.
The military ball will be held Feb.
2s in Festival hail. Plans are being
made 10 make il one of the social
functions of the season. Gov. and Mrs.
+. ID. Proctor and Lieut.. Gov. and Mrs.
@. II. Prouty will be present. Lett.
singers orchestra will furnish music.
The Magnet club. will hold a sugar
supper tonight in the Esteyville school
house from $50 TO clock. The ar.
rangements have been made by the
boys and they will serve the supper.
The proceeds will 60 toward the sup.
port of the baseball nine which will be
formed in the spring.
The Brattleboro free library is
open Sunday afternoon from TO $50
for reading only. Access may be had
TO the book shelves, but no books may
be returned or withdrawn ON Sundays.
II is hoped by the trustees that every.
one will feel perfectly free TO make
use of the reading rooms on Sunday af-
ternoons so that the custom of keeping
the library open may be continued.
--Brattleboro lodge, n. f. o. p,
gave a public dance in Red Mems hall
Wednesday night which proved to be
an enjoyable affair. There were so
couples present. Music was furnished
by Leitsinger s orchestra. The lodge
will have a sleigh.ride tonight to g.
n. Bond s house in Guilford where the
evening will be spent in card playing.
A supper will be served there. All
members are invited to 60 on the ride.
Teams will start from Red Mems hall
at 7.15.
A fair number attended the enter
tainment in the rest room given under
the auspices of the Girls club We'd
nesday night. The program was great.
ly enjoyed and the numbers received
well merited applause. The numbers
included violin and piano selections by
the Misses Calvin, recitations by Mrs.
f. ID. Wilson, solos by Mrs. A. IL. Bra
sor and Fred C. Adams, and toy sym
phony, which proved to be the feature
of the entertainment, given by the pu.
pills of Mrs. John d. Barrows.
Harry A. Bingham of Springfield.
Vt, gave a bachelor dinner to 10 OF
his friends Monday night in the Brooks
House. After the excellent repast was
served cards were enjoyed. The din
ner was given in honor of his marriage
to Miss Edna S. Crosby which took
place Wednesday evening. Those who
attended were Charles II. Stolte, Ralph |
B. Pettee, Murray M. Tucker. John II.
Brasor, Hal L. March, William II.
Harold E. Whitney, Ray
L. Greene, Howard Merrill and Robert
Mitchell.
A meeting Of the commissioners of
the estate of Mrs. Lucy M. Doolittle
took place in the probate court room
afternoon. A bill presented
bv DR.. G. Roberts was rendered by his
H. G. Barber, for medical ser
vices to the amount of $1s5. Warren
!. Doolittle claimed that DIR. Roberts
contracted to treat Mrs. Doolittle for
s75. An agreement was finally effect
ID by which the commissioners are to
.llow DR.. Roberts 1925. E. H. Akley
# Vernon and II. G. Clark of this
own are the commissioners.
John Fogarty, one of the gang ar
ested at the dam in Vernon several
weeks ago and who served a 45-day
entence in the county jail was ar
ested Monday in Bellows Falls in the
ct of making away with some liquor
hat he had stolen. He was with Will
lam LIE Strange, another one of the
nen arrested at that time, but LIE
strange succeeded in making his es-
ape Monday. Fogarty was given 81 !
avs in the house of correction in
rutland. He was taken there Tuesday
y Deputy Sheriff Dan P. Thompson.
Mrs. Dennis Griffin, one Of the old
st and most respected residents Of $
Wolfe Island, Canada, died at the +
ONE of her son, Michael Griffin, re- i
emily, at the ripe old age of 100 years I
nd 3 months. She was born in Ire
md, in November, 1907, and came to !.
his country with her husband and :
amily in 1852. They sailed in the :
nip Roderick Dhu, and took IS weeks ;;
, make the trip across the Atlantic. :,
fter reaching Kingston, they settled =
n Wolfe Island, remaining there all :,
lie time. During all these years, Mrs. :,
riffin never required the services of :,
doctor until about a year ago. She -
as a sister of Daniel Cavanaugh of a.
APPLE street. !,
The funeral of George J. Walker, G.
no died in Dubuque, Ia, last week, G
ok place at the home of his father, Il
Gorge W. Walker, on the Putney road 7
l clock Saturday afternoon. Rev. O
R. Miles oficiated. E. H. Miller q
ng several selections The bearers 81
ere Warren Walker, Walter Walker b
Gorge Sargent, Edgar Huntley, =. }. Sc
reanor and John J. Barker. Those d
esent from out of town were Mr.. and W