The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-20
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

LOCAL INVITES AND 6OSSlf.
There will be no meeting Of IN,
Rehekahs Tuesday evening.
The rooms in the Market building
formerly occupied by the Christian
Scientists have been leased by the Sal
walton Army workers.
Ernest 5. Hall broke ground Fri.
day for n new house on Williston
street. on the land recently purchased
of Mrs. W. :. Stearns.
According to the allowance for am.
munition for the present fiscal year by
the war department the Vermont ma.
tional guard numbering Isl men will
receive Si529.
County Clerk +. d. T.. Stowe has
received notice from Chief Justice John
w. Rowel that the session of the SUI
preme court scheduled to begin Tues
day has been continued until Dec. $.
L. ID. Taylor received Monday the
| 1909 six.cylinder Oldsmobile touring
ear which he has sold to W. f. Has
kell of this town. The machine is one
of the handsomest and most powerful
in town.
Carroll z. Parker, junior member
of the firm of Crosby & Parker, con-
| tractors. has gone to Springfield, VT,
TO take charge of the concrete work on
| the floors and walls of the new ear
| barn which the Springfield Electric
| railway company is building
-Elroy Kent. accused of the murder
of Della B. Congdon, was sent Tues
dav from Rutland county Jail to Water
bnry ASYLUM, whence he escaped IN
.Tnly for observation as to his sanity.
Kent was captured in Pittsfield, Mass,
short time ago. He has been back
and forth between the insane hospital
and the prison several times.
The new issue of the postage
stamns which were scheduled to be
nlaced on sale at the stamp window of
tbe local postoffice Monday has not put
in its appearance, some unaccountable
delav having left the Brattleboro of
fee high and dry. 1t is expected that
the new stamps will reach Brattleboro
some time within the week. The new
issue runs in denomination from one
cent to one dollar.
The marriages of Miss Selma Law
son to Amandus Anderson ana MISS
Hanna M. Gunnarson to Anton f. Hec.
FOR will take place at the home of
Miss Lawson s parents, Rev. and Mrs.
@, O. Lawson of Southern avenue.
Wednesday evening, Nov. %, at
n ,clock. The weddings will necessarily
be private on account of the prevail
inc endemic instead of being celebrat,,
cd in the Swedish Congregational
church as stated in the invitations.
According to the assignment of
court judges for next year
Chief Judge George M. Powers viii
preside at the April term OF Wlnd,
ham county court and Judge a. A: nan
at the September term. ms VIII pe
Indge Halls first appearance as a
?ndge in Windham county. Judge f.
I, Waterman of this town has the fol
iowing assignments: Lamoille, De
cember: Grand Isle, January; Rutland,
March: Bennington, June; Washing
ton, September.
Geo. A. Houghton of - So, Nam
street. carpenter in the employ u
Holden & Martin, was the vlctilh " q
bad accident yesterday, forenoon az
result of which he will pc lncapaclta.tu
for work for some little tlme. Nv
Houghton was running, power pianea
AFT the time of the accident ana III SUM
unaccountable manner the nns9ass ~
h;s rioht hand became entangleu III
tho machinery. The ends of his index
Gnoar and his thumb were taken OH
by the sharp blades.
The mail box at the Central YER
mont railroad station was closeu "
nnblic mail yesterday. afternoon, anu
Viii not be reopened for use untli MI a.
Ter the smallpox scare sups1uessi. oha n,e
any mail leaving braIIie1pod nf
axcept through the regular chanheis u.s. -
he postoffice, and precmdes any po t;o
,le chance Of carrying inies short
through the mails. 1t Will De ns snul
inconvenience to a number OF peUGPie
nv. iS have been accustomed to mailing
! III n ietters at the railroad station.
Mai Fl. W. Hovey, U, $. A., re-
-;red Who died suddenly of heart dis,
, =, Saturday night at his nome Mr nn
Torthfeld, VT, was father OF Mt III
0ana H. Gilman. Mr.. and MIS-, f e
nan were married in NortnheIu NV Nv
weeks ago and after brief stay az + lie
,ome of Mr.. Gilman's parents III uh .n.
own left for Fort Worth, , Ie3, Hwy Mnu
Ir. Gilman is employed. MAX No nUiS
vas formerly commandant OIL W. Wer.
and was well Known no u an for
mont military circlesa;. ne 80 The Yer
O anf t nafiona guard and was respected
nc aon i, n with whom he came in contact
while working at his bench in shop ,n, p
r. 4 Of the Estey Organ company
VT last Friday, Harry Plummer wal
he an victim of an accident, welch ss mn :
him for WORK loi o eT in
a ttIe time. Plummer was engage nS wbi 1e
1orking circular a.,v saw which alu he WA" was
1w bsade eS and before he could H. TgS
and n'ss e. badly sSsa anger Hf three! zee
1ches in length, and the n next sT0 The
ers were ais also T BABY Iing @rnE was quite
Tsa' to take six stitches to close Sc
E eees snt Mr. Plummer will return u =