The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-09-17
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

f. A. Strout company, has recently sol
f. II. Stacey s farm in Guilford to Lu
cus Weatherhead of Halifax.
The women of the Centre Congrc
gationa church will hold their annua
meeting Thursday afternoon at
clock in the church parlors. Ever,
woman of the congregation is cordial,
invited.
The Woman S exchange will hold i;
meeting Monday at $50. The board OF
government will meet at 3 o clock. Al
this is the first meeting aftel-the sum
mer vacation. it is hoped that there viii
be good attendance.
The next grange meeting. Wednes
day evening. Sept. 90, will be young
people s night. The program will be- in
charge of Miss Alvena Walker. Chloe
Franklin and Clara Davenport. This
committee desires all the young people
to be present
| A party of the officials of the town
of Clinton, Mass. made a trip to Yer
| non Friday to visit the power plant of
the Connecticut River Power company
| The company is to furnish electricity to
the town of Clinton. While in Vermont
the party made trip to Brattleboro.
The announcement that Wednes-
day S concert by the First regiment
| band was the last of the series for the
season heralds the approach of autumn
and incidentally recalls to mind that
| straw hats are supposed to have out
| lived their usefulness for this season.
| The program for the entertainment
| to be given in Grange hall Saturday
evening. Sept. %. under the auspices Of
the choir Of st. Michael s Roman Catho-
lie church will include illustrated songs
by the choir. and illustrated song by
Nanny Rastus and her pickaninnies,
and farce. Dr. McBeatem, in which D.
Frank Shea will appear. Miss Maize
Calvin will act as viOlinist and Miss
Mary Martin as pianist.
A. l.. Billings and Kendrick Bar
rington served a clambake at Smith s
landing at the head of Dummerston
island Sunday. Sixty-fve tickets were
sold and preparations had been made
for that number but the greediness of
some of the early arrivals created
shortage in refreshments for those who
came later. The bake was cooked by
Lorenzo Leach of Guilford and boats to
and from the landing were furnished by
Hayes Bigelow.
Rev. Sven Frederick Hammarlof
has resigned the pastorate of the Swed
ish Lutheran church and will remove to
Lowell. Mass. to accept the charge of a
fOurishing church in the Swedish colony
in that city. Though the church in
Brattleboro was Mr.. Hammarlof's first
charge he has won for himself the
recognition of the leaders of his de-
nomination. He left early in the week
for Kane. Pa, where he was to wed
Miss Edith Marie Svenson Wednesday.
Mr.. Hammarlof came to Brattleboro in
June, 1908.
The funeral of Mrs. B. F. Ketchu1,
who died last week Thursday at her
home in New York city, was held Mon
day afternoon at o clock in the old
Presbyterian church at Cambridge,
N. Y. Rev. DR.. Work. pastor of the
Fourth Presbyterian church of New
York city, and Rev. DR.. John Fisher of
Cambridge officiated The bearers were
j. G. Estey, J. H. Estey. j. W. Cobb, |
Harry Gray, Charles Anderson and A. |
B. McNish. nephews of Mrs. Ketchum.
Burial was in Woodlawn cemetery at
Cambridge.
AT a hearing before Justice F. D. !
f. Stowe in the county clerk Office |
Saturday afternoon Mrs. Lucy E. Wilder |
was awarded Judgment of $13 and |
costs of 1851 against her brother-in-
law, Edwin Wilder. The plaintiff al
legged that her brother-inlaw had failed
to return watch she had loaned him
and she brought suit for the timepiece,
placing value of $40 upon it. She
also alleged that Edwin was indebted to
her for a board bill amounting to $12.
Chase & DAILY appeared for Mrs. Wilder
and Mr.. Wilder conducted his own case.
Leon B. Wilder. %, of Nod Church
street, died Sunday at the Brattleboro
Retreat after an illness of little over
a year. The young man had been in
poor health since a boy. He was born
IN NARROW. y. H., and was the son of
Mr.. and Mrs Herman NJ. Wilder. The
funeral was held at the home on Church
street Tuesday afternoon at clock,
Rev. Mark H. Sharples officiating. The
terry. Miss Gertrude Matthews sang
wo selections The bearers were two
brothers, Alvin and Arthur Wilder,
Lewis Prouty and Elijah Prouty.
1t is likely that a warrant will be
sworn out for Mrs. George w. Brown,
who was sent to prison for one year
rom Greenfield, Mass, asking that she
De turned over to Vermont officers when
Ter term expires in Massac husetts.
Some of her Brattleboro victims are in
lined to take the same view of her eX-
,loits as did her husband when sent
o the house of correction at ChicOpee,
Mass. this week. Inquiries were made
f the Greenfield officials this week by
Tedtors of the Browns in BrattlebOro
s to where the woman was incarcerated
nd when she might obtain her liberty
she is of good behavior.
In response to a petition signed by {
/. H. Hildreth. Charles Henkel, E. NJ. {
pplin, j. p. Elmer. c. w. Puffer. H. s.
ioodenough, H. Haskins. w. H. Bar t
EFT. i. II. Richardson, H. c. Stowell, {
}. F. Howe, A. w. Rockwell. Eugene |
lark. Fred Rano. w. g. Rockwell. G.
!. Eels. f. A. Lord. p Fleming w. J.
'enton. III. S. Sherwin and F. p. Thomp-
on, the bailiffs have called special 7
leeting for Friday evening, Oct. l, to
ee if the village will rescind the vote ,
f Sept. 9 ''to install 80 hydrants at
lch places within said village as the !
GARD of bailiffs together with the chief !.
ngineer deem most convenient. pro-
ided sufficient water and necessary .
ressure are furnished by the Brattle !
orc Water Works company. Some :
f the signers of this petition also !
gned the one asking the bailiffs to :
AXE such changes in the water supply .
5 would give better protection on the
igher levels
A large audience gathered in the I
auditorium Wednesday evening to see a
ne dramatization of McCuteheon s ia \
ous novel Graustark Like all stage G
reductions of stories of this kind there l
as an over abundance of the melo- II
although to a ma ioritv of the o
ldience this did not appear distaste r
n. Aside from this the play is poorly L
instructed in other WAYS. especially at "
ne close of the last act where interest 7
brought to a climax and then allowed 4
flag before the final curtain. The ii
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