The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

! -Workmen have begun installin
the pumps in the pumping station o
the Retreat meadow.
-Pocahontas council will give tn
last of its series of dances this season
tomorrow Saturday evening in Re,
Men S hall.
Sunday proved one of the best day
this season for the Brattleboro Stree
were taken during the day and evening
w. M. Randall will sell his person
al property at auction Tuesday May Is
| at the George Walker farm ON the Put
ney road at 10 o clock a. IN. There vii
be free lunch at noon.
PRINCIPAL E. b. Smith of the Brat
tleboro high school announced Tues
day morning that a balance of $40.44
was left from the 1909 Washington
fund and would be turned over to the
juniors for their 1910 fund.
The Dartmouth tennis team de.
feated University of Vermont 5 to 0
at Hanover, n. H., Tuesday after
noon Fred H. Harris of this town
beat Mcneil of U. V. NJ, 60, 90,
while Harris and Brooks beat Smith
and Lovely 6-3, 81.
AT the regular meeting of Brattle-
boro lodge N. E. O. p, Wednesday eve
ming it was voted to hold fair some
time next fall, and the following com
mttee were appointed to have charge
of all arrangements: Mrs. Grace Da-
Wis, Mrs. Belle Gallup, Mrs, Harry
Holmes
Advance copies of Champlain, the
official chorus of the tercentenary cele-
bration, have been issued for the use
of teachers and pupils in patriotic ex-
ercises. Any teacher may secure
copy of this chorus, which seems to be
a great hit, by sending postage to the
Euphonic Music company of Rutland.
One hundred and fifty members of
Wantastiquet lodge, |. O. O. F., and &c
members of Dennis Rebekah lodge at
tended Sunday services in body, at
the Center Congregational church last
Rev. Roy M. Houghton, pastor
IF the church took as his text the Good
and likened Odd Fellowship
% the samaritan spirit.
Canton Palestine, 1. O. O. F., held
is last ball of the season Friday eve
ling. Probably the largest crowd of the
eason was in attendance. there being
Turing the evening Both halls were
He'd with dancers from start to finish.
The members of the Canton appeared |
n uniform. Refreshments were served. !
John Ahern, who died in Keene,
!. H., Saturday at the age of 60
ears. was married in 1882 to Rather
ne Moran of Brattleboro who sur
ives with four sons and two daugh-
ers. Mr.. Ahern was native of Ira
,e, Ireland, where he learned the
rade Of painter and letterer He
anne to this country in 1864 and had
we'd most of the time since in Keene,
eing employed in the paint shop of
he Boston & Maine railroad.
The members of Sedgwick Post are
lready making plans for Memorial day
-hich will be celebrated this year on
1onday. June |, May 80 falling on Sun
ay On Sunday the post will attend
ivine service at the Universallst
hurch, and in the afternoon they will
isit West Dummerston. Rev. D. E. Trout
le exercises in the auditorium Mon
ay when the parade will be held as
sual in the afternoon, the line OF
arch being the same as in previous
ears.
The Ladies Aid society Of st. Mi
lael's Episcopal church held its an
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loir room of the church The officers
ected were: President, Mrs. F. w. Clip
IN; first vice president, Miss Clara
ale; second vice president, Mrs. Lii
an Royce; third vice president, Mrs.
christopher Babb; secretary, Mrs. f.
. Gibson; treasurer Mrs. A. W. Mont .
merry: directoresses, Miss Elizabeth {
weigh. Mrs. Adeline Brown. Mrs. J. I
Martin, Mrs. M. p Davis, Miss Bes-
! Cain and Mrs. w. Fl. Lane.
AS prelude to his Sunday morn c
Q discourse. Rev. John R. Cow spoke C
iefiy on the peace conference ended t
st week in Chicago. He said in part: e
On Wednesday of last week three
vs. peace conference was brought y,
a close in Chicago. The annual re- !,
IN of such gathering is worthy of =
e attention of every disciple of the r
ince of Peace. Too long has Chris q
ndom allowed wars to be waged for a
me of religion itself. The time has 3
ne to adopt universally the first y
solution presented at Chicago. which (.
vs. that public war is out of date, ~ !,
relic of barbarism unworthy of our u
ne. and that the nations of the W
rid by joint agreement among them ~
yes ought to make its recurrence ..
-ea fter impossible -
&C. F. Mann and H. B. Haus, dele it
es from Leo council 81, Knights of lo
umbus. attended the 18th annual con W
ltion of the Vermont state council at b;
lows Falls Tuesday. DR.. ]. T. Rud T
of Bellows Falls was reelected state fe
,uty; DIR. F. H. O'Connor and DR.. in
iden were chosen delegates to the m
ional convention to be held in Mo- 81
n ~
nm was elected first alternate All By
ncils in the state were urged to CO. hs
rate with the Burlington council in ov
grand celebration to take place in
{ city July ) in honor of the discov m
of Lake Champlain in connection III III
h the the tercentenary celebration. w
mont has Just been set aside as a W.
4th degree district and il is eX- 60
ted to have an exemplifcation of 1 u.
degree on the above date. OF
Miss Mary Rudd. "a, died Monday of
,rnoon at the home of her niece. Mrs. COZ
3 Aldrich. on Clark street after an an
ass of four weeks. She was born ito
90. 1926 in Brough, England, and tri
the daughter of Thomas and Eliz- tn,
h (Highmoor) Rudd. When a small bis
4 she came to America with her ne
'nts. and for some time after arriv- wit
in America she lived in New York il
nrward she lived in Saybrook, Conn, rat
still later went to Hartford where tri,
greater part of her life was spent fay
wears ago she came to Brattleboro of
iveN with her sister, Mrs. Joseph of
ghton. and after her death in 1907 bv
went to live with Mrs. Aldrich on fur
K street She had been in excellent the
tn up to short time ago when she is {
n to fail rapidly. She was a mem En-,
# Christ Episcopal church of Hart con