The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-11-12

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! Nov. II.
trucking at the Brattleboro Woo
company.-46tf.
The election of n second lieutenan
by Company | to succeed Captain Wal
ter O. Cooley, promoted, has been post
poned from Nov Is to Thursday eve
ming, Dec. 2.
The Central Vermont railroad Sat
urday paid off the crew of the grave
train which has been at work for ;
month past below Brattleboro, Tn,
month S payroll amounted to $4,325.
The meeting of the Windhan
County Pomona grange at Brattlebor,
for the election of officers, and confer
ring of the fifth degree, is changed from
Thursday, Dec. 2, to Friday, Dec. 3.
Plans are being made for sub
scription dance and supper in the
Brooks House Thursday evening, Nov
%, Thanksgiving, from until clock
There will be special music by an aug
mented orchestra.
DIR. Henry Tucker. health officer
has received n report from the state
| labIatorv on sample of water taken
from Chestnut Hill reservoir. which
shows but slight trace of pollution No
colon baclli are present.
The property on South Main street
owned by Mrs. catherine Sears of Win.
throp, Mass. and known as the Michael
| Sears estate, has been sold to Daniel
| Sullivan Of Brattleboro through the w.
| c. Horton real estate agency.
Protective grange will confer the
| third and fourth degrees at its regular
meeting Wednesday evening The an
nual harvest supper will be served, and
without further solicitation all mem,
bers are invited to contribute food
The 18th annual meeting of the
tenth Rebekah district will be held with
Dennis Rebekah lodge this evening. A
banquet will be served from $50 to Z
clock, and Amity Rebekah lodge of
Bellows Falls will exemplfy the de-
gree. Prominent members of the order
and state officers are expected to be
present.
AT the chancery hearing held at
Jacksonville Tuesday before Special
Master Y. O 'Brien Of Bellows Falls in
the case of William E. Clark guardian,
VS.. Charles F. Clark, ct ais. Chase &
Daley appeared for the defendants ami
E. w. Gibson and r. c. Bacon for the
orator Miss Pearl G. Gibson acted as
court stenographer.
Daily papers Monday announced
suicide in New York city of a Mrs.
Marie L. Estey, "the widow of wide
ly known piano and organ manufactur-
er. - Investigation shows that the
story was purely a fake in regards to
the woman s connection with the Estey
concocted in the Office of sensational
New York newspaper.
Miss NJ R. Cabot s Sunday school
al
Grace Whitaker at her home on Oak
street Wednesday evening to extend
their good wishes to Miss Whitaker,
who is soon to leave for her new home
in Schenectady, n. Y. The evening
was spent in a social way, and the
guests presented their classmate with
pearl pin as remembrance of her as
ISOLATION with the class.
The Magnet club Of Esteyville will
entertain the boys of that section this
evening with games and a lunch. IN
vitations have been extended to large
number of boys, and any boy not re-
ceiving one is invited to present him
self for good time The club will meet |
in the Esteyville school house basement |
as usual, and the program will contain
many interesting stunts to be per
formed by members of the organization.
-Wilfred F. Root returned from
Montpelier Wednesday morning. He
went there to attend a special meeting |
of the state board of pharmacy Tues
day at which the cases of the three Rut-
land druggists, recently convicted Of |
illegal liquor selling, were passed upon.
Mr.. Root stated that the evidence
brought before the board was of such |
a nature, in the case of Barrett. that
the board could not do otherwise than
revoke his license as a pharmacist. The
other licenses were not revoked.
Nearly all the boats of the local
power fotilla have been taken from
Bigelow s boat house during the past
week, and most of them have been
stored in the Williams shop on Williams
street. The canoe-house has been tax
an down and packed away for the win
-er. Mr.. Bigelow is planning num-
Der of improvements for his boat house
next year. The end nearest the road
Will be boarded clear to the water s
edge to keep out the dust as much as
possible, and double floor will be
aid in the main part of the building.
The second lecture in the course
or the benefit of the Washington fund
# the high school was held last eve
ling in the high school room. Prof.
ieorge n. Cross of Cambridge, who
elivers the four lectures of the course,
poke upon The Historic Castles of Eng
and. Professor Cross is always in
eresting and his knowledge of his sub
ect was manifest in his descriptions
f the many historic places he told his
udience about The third lecture in !
he course will be held FRIDAY evening.
he subject being Abraham Lincoln, the
irst American. {
Manager Charles Ramsdell of the i
high school football team /
negotiating for a game with Keenc 7
} be PLAYED in Brattleboro Wednes- I
ay afternoon. This game will quite like
: wind up the season for Brattleboro. a
ut little practice has been INDUCED in c
II fortnight past. and the team will
robably disband after the Keenc
ave received slight injuries, and the \
after of keeping up in their studies ~
as practically compelled others to drop u
hletic work, thus Gripping the team q q
the extent that it is believed ad- y
sable to cancel the remainder of the y y
hedule of games arranged. \
Mrs. Anna Cook, GA, wife of Oscar a
. Cook, of Greenfield. Mass, died at r.
II home on Petty's Plain in that city N
of last week. and the body 81
as brought to Brattleboro for burial N
Prospect Hill cemetery Satur- al
" morning. Funeral services were b
Id at her home in Greenfield Friday, CO
". r. f. Birks of Deerfield officiating. tt
RS. Cook leaves besides her husband. a
n, Edward Johnson of Orange, Mass, G.
a former husband. Mr.. and Mrs. a
ok left Brattleboro about two years in
o, going to Greenfield where Mr.. u;
ok was employed at his trade of ty
hitting. They lived in Brattleboro "
veral years previous to going 20 &c