The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-03-06


-. Miehael's Roman calholle church
morning aud evening, special deve
llonal services will b. held each Friday
evening" daring i.eni,
Albert Churchill was arrested by
Chief Il Police J. II, Evans MondaN
night In a state ~ inioNisaiion, lie
MAS fned - and costs amounting "a
elisa. which were paid.
II, D., TAYLOR 4 Son have taken the
agency Tor the Massachusetts Bonding
& Insurance company 81 no,,on, a con
cern with cash capital ~ s5na0nn
aud surplus q ss5o,ooo,
The social committee % Protective
grang. will give masquerade hall
March ~ for members 81 the order aud
Invited guests, Invitation cards may
le obtained 81 the committee,
During 4, ', Fcnion & Co. 5 Giva-
way sale iust closed, the day On which
the receipts proved 10 he nearest the
average daily business was Feb, u,
Those who hold slips bearing that date
can have their money refunded by
presenting them AZ the store.
A recent issue ~ the hinghamion,
IN. Y, Press contained q large piciut"
81 the Rraiilehoro rest room beneath
which was the query; "Rraiilehoro,
VI, with q population u s.0oa sup
ports a rest room, Why cant Ring
hampton with is $4,000 have ono ,ooi'
Plans are being made for mis-
sionary conference of N. Baptist
churches Of the county TO be- held her"
I March 20. The special speakers will
I be- Dr. ". T.. Wiiicr ~ the missionary
union and Miss Julia Shinn IL Burma.
Definite program viii be announced
next week
approximately 600 cubic yards u
/ concrete have been laid inside the cot
fer dam AZ Vernon since the last high
water one section has been complet
"a TO It's full height and the forms
were removed from il yesterday. The
work Of concrete laying is now going
forward rapidly,
The New England order Of Proiec.
ton held a dance in Red Mems hall
March 4. over so couples were pres
ent. Ice cream and candy were on
sale. After the regular meeting Of the
I y. T.. .. T.. March II leap wear box
supper will be held. The meeting viii
begin AT 7.30 o'clock.
w. Howard Mitchell, who has lived
in Brattlebor0 for the past three
wears. and Miss Cell Murphy, a nurse,
who has had the care Of Mr. Mitchell
for the past year, were married Tues
day in Poultney. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Father Donaghue
of the place. After n brief wedding
trim Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell will return
TO Brattlehoro. IL is expected that
they will make their home in this town.
Past masters night will be oh
served by Brattleboro lodge, F. & \.
NJ. Wednesday evening when the
chairs will be filed by the following
past masters: +. r. Vaughan, O. =.
Randall, +. I. Swift, W. b. Vinton. ID.
Cowles, ]. Henry Pratt, NJ. c. Hough.
ton, W. D. ellison and G. NJ. Clay. The
third degree will be conferred. music
will be furnished by the Brattleboro
Masonic glee club and refreshments
will be served after the work.
II. ]. Manning of Dummerston left
his horse in front Of Mrs. George W,
Hooker house this morning and the
animal INDUCED in a run through Main
street. The horse got as far as Thorn
as s drug store when il attempted to
dodge a team. but the move on the
part of the runaway was unsuccessful
and il knocked the other horse down.
From here the animal proceeded down
the sidewalk and when it reached
Houphton & Simonds' s store concluded
the road was the best place 10 run IN.
The horse here bumped into +. y.
Chamberlain 5 team and succeeded in
freeing itself from the sleigh. At a
point further down the horse was
caught. Strange to say none of the
horses was hurt and no property was
damaged, except the sleigh attached to
the runaway horse.
Mrs. Melissa A. Nichols, &C. wife
of A. S. Nichols, died yesterday after.
noon at the Memorial hospital where
she had been two weeks. She was TAX
en- i'll at the Grange banquet hall a few
weeks ago with acute indigestion and
heart disease and was i'll at her home
two weeks before going to the hospi'
tai, Mrs. Nichols was born in Halifax
June 3, 1S4l. the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Putnam. She lived there
as child and attended the schools of
that town. She was married July =
1862. to Alphonso S. Nichols, then of
Halifax. They came to Brattleboro IN
1872. Besides her husband she leaves
two sisters. Mrs. Sarah Graves of Han
fax and Mrs. Luana Hillman of Green.
field She was prominent memper OF
Protective and Pomona oranges. Flu
neral will probably be held Sunday.
: The woman's auxiliary of the Y
NJ. G. A. held its regular monthly
meeting in the rest room Tuesday at
J ternoon. The devotional exercises were
led by Mrs. Fred L. Smith, Mrs. G. O.
Abbott offering prayer. A very inter
esting and entertaining program was
. given under the direction of Mrs. "A
Ii. Brasor consisting of several solos
bv Miss Charlena Hall, piano selection
bv Miss Ellen Sherman, violin solos by
Miss Maize Calvin accompanied by her
sister. and recitations by Miss Eloise
Sanders. At the business meeting Mrs
G. O. Abbott was elected auditor and
nominating committee consisting OF
Mrs. S. Wilcox, Mrs. H. E. Bond, Mrs
G. S. Clark, Mrs. W. E. Haskell, Miss
Kate Wheeler Mrs A. E. Atwood and
Mrs. A. Fl. Bixby appointed to bring
in a list of officers for the annual elec
ton.
The music committee of the Brat
! tleboro Woman IS club furnished de-
lightful entertainment for fully 200