The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-07-23


Fort Dummer colony, Pilgrim Faith
ers. will have a sale of ice cream on the
common Wednesday evening during the
band concert.
e. ID. Whitney has bought 1908
model six-cyljnder Stevens.Duryea tour
ing car to take the place of the machine
which he has sold to G. o. Robbins.
A meeting of the governing board
of the Brattleboro Boat club Will DC
held in room Is of the American build
ing next Wednesday evening at 7.30.
e. J. Fenton g. company's store Is
closed today to prepare for the great
10 DAYS sale which starts tomorrow
morning. During this sale everything
ins the Store will be marked down.
At the close of the school meeting
Tuesday evening the prudential com
mittee of district No. organized with
the choice of Rev. E. @. s. Osgood
chairman and Miss Florence M. Well
man, clerk.
Roberts & Gobie have leased the
Williams building on Williams street
for an automobile, carriage and sign
paint shop Warren A.. Putnam OF
Woodstock will be in charge of the
work.
Two baseball games are scheduled
for tomorrow afternoon. The cups VII
meet the Thompsons on the old gol1
links and the Brattleboro Cabinet com
pany's team goes against the Estey
company's aggregation of fast ones on
the Valley fair grounds. Both games
will be called at three o'clock.
H. F. Weatherhead, agent for the
F.. A. Strout company, has sold Charles
H. Shepardson IS farm of 100 acres IN
West Guilford to d. Wesley Davis OF
Chester, VT. Mr.. Davis takes imme
date possession although Mr.. and Mrs
Shepardson will remain there for the
present. The sale includes all crops ano
farming tools
The Office of the district superin
tendent of the New England Telephone
company at Greenfield, Mass, has beer
equipped with an automobile and one
of the first official trips of the machine
was made to Brattleboro when party
of trouble hunters patrolled the poie
line between this place and Greenfield
early in the week.
The members of the Brattlebort
high school track team have received
from the athletic department OF the
University of Vermont the medals which
they won at the track meet June D
The medals bear the seal of the un1Ver'
sity with an additional emblem suit
ably engraved. The first prize medals
are of gold, seconds of silver and thirds
of bronze.
Miss Dearborn of the executive
staff of the National Red Cross society
who is in charge of the society's ma
tional headquarters in Washington, ~
c., will deliver a series of addresses IN
the large towns and cities of Vermont
beginning the latter part of August OF
the first Of September. She will appear
under the auspices of woman s clubs IN
most of the places where she will speak
She will speak in Brattleboro, Rutland
Middlebury, Burlington, Montpelier
Barre. st. Johnsbury and some other OF
the larger towns.
The officers of the recently organ
lied Mohawk Overall company are as
follows: President, James F. Hooker
vice-president Charles D. Whitaker;
secretary and treasurer, William II. Cor,
ser; general superintendent, A. Edward
Hobart; foreman of shipping room; u
j. Dion; foreman of cutting room, Sher
Mrs. Sherman McQuaide. The capital
stock of the corporation is $3.50, 900, OF
which 100000 is paid in; The com
pany has established itself in large
light ground floor stores at 171-9 state
street in Schenectady, N. Y, pending
the erection of it's new fireproof factory
which will be of steel, brick and con
crete. The building will be four stories
high.
-Chickering Evans, brother of james
H. Evans of this town. has been sold by
the management of the Hartford
Comm league baseball team to the
ter club at the close of the present sea
son. The sale price was $4,000. "Chick
Evans was born in Arlington, W.T.. q
wears ago next September. He first
pitched for Burr and Burton academy
and then Joined the semi professional
team at Hoosck Falls, N. Y, where his
work attracted the attention of Thomas
Dowd, formerly manager of the Hart
ford club. Dowd brought Evans out IL
the Connecticut league last season and
his work was equal to that of any
pitcher on the circuit. Evans has not
been making so sensational showing
this year but has pitched fine ball just
the same.
George A. Collins, manager of the
Bradley farm, is on the lookout for
valuable black mare which disappeared
from the j. Henry Pratt pasture IL
West Dummerston several days ago anC
which he believes was stolen. Mr.. Col
Inns and his men have searched every
foot of the Pratt pasture and those ad
Joining, but the only trace of the AM
NAL is few black hairs which were
found on single strand of barbet
wire near one end of the pasture. JUS
beneath the wire portion of the stone
wall had been removed. and it is Mr.
Collins 8 theory that the wire was llftet
while the horse was led through the
opening and thence to the old Brookllnt
road short distance away. The mare
had a small white star on her forehead
and weighed about 1900 pounds.
Members of the West River Lum
bermen s association were in Brattle
boro yesterday in consultation will
their attorneys, Gibson & Waterman
relative to the hearing before the Yer
mont public service commission whicl
will be held in the Brooks House Thurs
| day morning. Messrs. Gibson AM
| Waterman last week made a persona
| tour of the West River railroad AM
embalmed the scenery along the line II
| the form of snapshots which will doubt
| less he placed before the commission
that the physical condition of the roa'
may be explained when State S Attorne,
| Williams gets ready to tell of the de
! linduencies in the road S equipment
Counsel {. w Writers of ST. Alhan
will probably appear tor the Contra
Vermont railroad, which operates tn
West River road, at the hearing.
Col. Fl. E. Taylor and s. W. Ed
wards were in Bennington Wednesda.
to attend the annual meeting of tn
trustees of the Soldiers home. Hug
Henry was reelected president, job
A. Sheldon, secretary, John c. Stearns
treasurer, Thomas Harmon, assistan
treasurer Col. Thomas Harmon of Ben
nington was again chosen superintend
emit and Mrs. Harmon matron. DR.. l.
H. Ross was again appointed physical
] to the home. Coming on the 4Sth ami