The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-05-22
BrattlebOrO Local
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

the Epworth League wili DO held Thurs
day evening at the league rooms,
Sunshine society. branch !. will
meet with Miss Slate and Mrs, II, IL.
Thompson Friday afternoon. May 20, at
$50.
Special services will be held In NJ.
Miehael's Episcopal church On Aseen'
sion day, May -. There will DO morn
ing prayer, holy Eucharist and reading
at $3.50 and evening prayer aud sermon
at T;a0.
Pre- Memorial day exercises will be
held In the high school room next Fri
iay morning at 1910 a. m. Delegations
from the Gsand Army and Woman .
Relief corps will be present aud the
public Is invited. Tho speakers will be
Judge j. l.. Martin and Rev. Charles
Riyiere.
MIR, and Mrs. \. II. Emerson Of ~
Oak street will celebrate their 50th
marriage anniversary tomorrow. Dur
ing the day they will entertain relatives
and friends from out Of town. In the
evening they will be at home TO their
Brattleboro friends from : 10 10 clock
Nltnuut
-Four Of the Company baseball
players, Thomas Clune. James Riley,
Vendall johnson and William Lee, have
appeared on the streets this week with
little or no signs of hair on the tops
Of their heads. Some Of their friends
intimate that they lost their scalps at
Millers Falls last Saturday.
Five members Of the senior class OF
the Brattleboro high school will attend
higher institutions OF learning next fall.
Miss Margaret Barber will 20 10 Vas
sar, Miss Ellen sherman 20 Mt Hol'
yoke, Miss Nellie Fem 10 Westfield nor
NAL school, Paul Jones TO Dartmouth
and Robert kenney TO Colgate.
The body of Mrs Truman Stevens
who died in Danbury, Conn, Wedncs.
day will be brought here this after
noon. The funeral will be held ut the
home Of her brother, II. II. iildreth,
on West street and the burial will be
in Meeting House Hill cemetery. The
family recently moved TO Danbury
where Mr.. Stevens bought teaming
business.
meet in the vestry of the Methodist
church Sunday morning at 10 'cloca to
Join the members of the Grad Army
Post in the Memorial service. They will
meet at the town hall Friday morning
81 lC clock to attend the pre- Memorial
exercises at the high school toom and
at Festival hall at 100 o clock Memoir.
ial day. II is desired that all members
make an effort 10 meet promptly at the
times specified.
The new enclosed are lighting sys'
TEN which the Twin State Gas and
Electric company will install in the vii.
lage has arrived this week. The system
is a second hand one which was secured
in Ossining, n. Y. 1t was stated a
week or two ago that the system which
the company ordered year or more
ago had been found to be useless in
places where it had been tried. This
is not so. The system which W. II.
Bryant, former manager, ordered was
of more modern design than the one
which is to be installed here.
"A big company of high.class artists,
headed by the popular comedian Phil
Maher, and playing an entirely new and
different line of plays, from what the
popular price companies are in the
habit of playing at low prices, opens
five nights engagement at the audi
torium Monday night, presenting for
the first time here dramatization of
Bertha NJ. Clay's popular novel,
Thorns and Orange Blossoms. Numer-
GUS new specialties will be introduced
between the acts. The advance sale
opens tomorrow morning at o clock.
Extensive repairs are being made
on the buildings at Silverdale, Spot.
ford lake, in preparation for the sum-
mer camp and school for boys which
Prof. Frank Cole of Columbus, o., will |
open this season. Professor Cole is a
native of Westmoreland and is at pres
ent teacher in the University school
at Columbus. Camp Chesterfield will be
conducted as usual by Principal 4. b.
Smith of the local high school, and Rev.
Father Griffin of Washington, d. c.,
will have camp and school at his cot
tage on the north shore of the lake. Mrs.
Annie Greene IS cottage has been leased
by Frederick Wheeler, A. b., and Miss
Mary Wheeler of New York city who
will conduct a summer camp for girls.
The Mayor of Toxic appeared in
the auditorium last Friday evening and
provided an evening of real merriment
for an audience that laughed immod-
erately but did not grow fat enough to
visibly affect the box Office receipts. The
mayor himself was very small part of
The show; in fact, he was one of the
minor characters. The brunt Of the en-
tertainment fell on John L. Kearney as
Marcus Orlando Kidder, an operate
and Jane Griffith as Madam
Stitch, wardrobe mistress who was
in "the ballet" These two
kept the audience amused continually
md they 'did it so politely" that it
was really refreshing. Probably the hit
If the evening was their appearance in
, capital burlesdue on the now famous
Merry Widow waltz The chorus was
If necessity small but it made up in
volume what it lacked in size and kept {
,usy every minute. The other members {
If the cast supported Mr.. Kearny and
Miss Griffith cleverly and the scenery !
ind electrical effects were wholly sat +.
sfactory. !
A large delegation of local Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs has been in Rut- {
and this week attending the annual
convention of the grand bodies of that
rider. The convention opened Tuesday
With parade of the Patriarch Mill t
ant, Palestine Canton of this town be- {
np represented by a good delegation t
md it's own drum corps. At the annual
election of officers William 7. Haigh OF
3rattleboro was elected vice-president, :