The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-07-23
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.


See the Connecticut company's al
for motormen and conductors, page l.
Merrill & Greene have sold $l'9o
Maxwell touring car to Dr. Ueorge o.
Foster of Putney.
The regular meeting of the n. Il: y.
p. will be postponed from "Wednesday
until August 4, on account or repairs
being made in Red Men IS hall.
The next meeting of the Sunshine
society branch l, will take the form
of picnic and will be held on the com I'M
mon Friday afternoon, July ~, at o.oo'
DR.. H. D. Holton will accompany
the other members of the state board
of health to Island Pond next week TO
listen to charges preferred against the
health officer of the town OF brlgntoh.
The Colonial Danes of Brattleboro
and vicinity will hold basket picnic
with Mrs. Marshall l. Reed OF Dum nntn
Station, VT, next "Wednesday the oos ~
inst. The train leaving Brattleboro at
10 a. M. stops at Dummer station.
Ensign and Mrs Gullage, who have
heen in Charge of the local branch of
the Salvation Army, will. leave next next
week for a new field Their places will
be taken by Adjutant and Mrs: Howard
McGrath. who will hold their first meet
ing Wednesday evening
N. w. Niles, who won his way to
the challenge round in the tennis tour
nament at Seabright, n. j., last week,
was defeated Saturday by W. ). Go
tnier. who out unanswered Niles IN -FOUR
closely scored sets. Clothier won by a
score of GA, 60, 6-S. So
David Carey qualified as Brattle-
boro's Steve Brodie yesterday after
noon by jumping from point very near
the TOP of the arch of the Connecticut
r rHU i bridge. The distance to the water
is between 80 and 60 feet. Young
Carey made the jump several times, cut
ting the water clearly in each instance.
j. Sutherland & Co. are firm believ-
ers in advertising. Last week they
fold through the local newspapers the
story of their alteration sale with the
result that it taxed the selling staff OF
the store to the limit to handle the
crowd Saturday evening. They are
continuing the sale this week and have
another announcement which appears
elsewhere.
At the regular meeting of Brattle-
boro lodge, N. E. o. P, Wednesday 1t
was voted to hold district meeting OF
26, The lodges at Bellows Falls and
Springfield, VT, will be represented on
the occasion and supreme and grand
lodge officers will be present, The
meeting will be held in Grange hall and
a banquet will be served.
Frank Crosier, formerly of this
town and later engaged in Y. M. u A.
physical culture work, is winning lau-
rels for himself at Winthrop, Mass,
where he is in charge OF a large play
ground which is conducted under, the
management of the woman s club OF
that place. During the past week MI
Crosier has had over $50 boys and girls
under his charge on certain days.
The field dav committee Of the Yer
mont Wheel club has decided to hold
that event on the Valley fair grounds
Monday, Sept. G.. Labor day, and is
planning to make it repetition of last
wears success. Several new members
have Joined the club recently with the
idea Of being eligible to attend the out
ing and more are planning to 90 So, As
was the case last year, the clam bake
will be feature.
Pursuant to permission from the
Massachusetts railroad commission fol
lowing similar action on the part OF the
Vermont and New Hampshire boards,
the Boston and Maine company will
adopt a new form of warning. posts at
grade crossings The new signs Will
Simply bear the words Railroad Cross
ing. the warning, Look Out for the
Engine, being eliminated. This is. but
another step in the curtailment of I'M
necessary words from these sign posts.
Not so many years ago they used to
read: Railroad CROSSING, Look out for
| the Engine When the Bell Rings.
-Forty-four years travelling, sales
man is the record of Fl. K. Cooley OF
| MacS who comes IN Rrat-
tleboro regularly for Wait & Bond. Mr..
Cooley has journeyed up and down the
valleys of the Connecticut, Deerfeld
and Hoosick rivers since the Civil war
at first wholly by wagon. then by stage
and railroad and lastly by rail alone.
| His line has always been tobacco and
cigars. OF late years Mr. Cooley has
been shortening his trips and spending
most of his time either at his home IN
| Sprin ofield or in the Maine woods fish
ing and hunting. He is an excellent
rifle shot for a man of his age.
As many of the local members If
the Vermont Fish and Game league
contemplate attending the mid summer
banquet of the league at Bluff Point
N. Y, Sept. II, it has been suggested
that a special car be chartered by those
ATTENDING from this place and nearby
towns to take the party to Burlington
where steamers will convey the mem
| bers and guests across Lake Champlain
There will doubtless be a good-size
attendance from Windham county as
this corner of the state is credited with
having three candidates for the lieu
tenant governorship and it is popularity
supposed that the league weeds out The
sheep from the goats at its mid summer
meets in odd years.
IS. Fl. Abel, commercial traveller
from Hartford, Conn, accompanied bJ
a companion, started Tuesday to drive
from Brattleboro to Newfane. Wher
about two miles outside of this place
them suddenly and the horse became
frenzied. Swerving into the ditch thu
horse started to kick the buggy int
kindling wood. Mr.. Abel was tumblet
into the road and badly bruised. Hi
clothino was torn and he suffered bat
shaking up His companion endeavoret
to stop the half-crazed animal and IL
so doing got his feet entangled IN tn
reins and was pulled from the wreck
age by the horse which started to leav'
the scene of the accident behind him
Mr.. Abel though partially stunned go
to his feet in time to capture the ami
NAL before further injury was done hi
com-anion who was wedged between tn,
body and wheels of the vehicle.
Two of the students of forestry a
the University of Vermont are in thi
city for a day or two, having beef
sent ont by State Forester HAYES TO
work during the summer. The boy
are III. l.. Ames of Island Pond and /
A. Thayer of Brattleboro. Their tern
tory comprises Washington, Orange
Windsor and Windham counties. Nh
Ames left for Plainfield this morning
while Mr.. Thayer went to Mortified
! - -aon Wbs1a hare thew have Wis