The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-04-23

Saturday evening
It The Brattleboro Street Railro;
e company has this week put on sa
round trip tickets for the season s pa
?. ronage.
y The bailiffs will meet in the Off
Z, of A. F. Schwenk Saturday evenir
May /, for the purpose of revising an
v correcting the check list to be used I
the village meeting.
n j. w. lizard has this week begu
work on his new house which is to
7 erected on the lot which he recent
! purchased on Pine street. 1t is to
+ seven room cottage. w. II. Fletcht
: has the contract.
9 The annual meeting of the Wine
> ham County Fish and Game Protectiy
:, association which was to have bee
! held Friday afternoon in the Brook
/, House was indefinitely postponed ov
; ing to the lack of interest and atten(
ance of the members.
! -Brattleboro chapter, D. A. R., wi
be entertained by Mrs. G. L. Stickne
and Mrs. H. r. Brown at the home o
the latter on Green street Thursda
afternoon, April 80, at $50 o 'clocl
This meeting will be an informal mu
steal and sewing party and the womel
The ice disappeared from Spoffor,
lake last Thursday and for severa
nights thereafter there was an unusu
ally heavy run of smelt in the tribu
tary streams. A number of people
from Brattleboro visited the lake an(
secured large catches of these fish,
The selectmen held meeting will
the tax collector Tuesday evening fol-
the suspension and abatement of taxes
The total amount disposed of in this
way was $275, considerably less than
for number of years. An adjourned
meeting for the same purpose will be
held in the selectmen IS rooms Satur.
day evening, May l.
The appointments for class day of
the Brattleboro high school, Monday,
June g. are as follows: President IS
ton, Helen r. Martini class poem,
Irene A. Plimpton; ivy grafton, Ruth
A. Brown; ivy poem Alice E. Jones;
class history, Emma p. Barrows; class
prophecy, Helen M. Betterly; class will
Russell N. Kuech.
The Brattleboro Medical club held
its regular meeting in the Brooks House
Monday evening, when a new set of by
laws was presented and adopted. Ac-
cordingly the annual election of off
GERS for the club will be held at the
next meeting, which takes place in
May. Most of the evening was spent
IN discussing the proposition made to
the doctors by the trustees of the
Thompson fund as told elsewhere.
A. W. Roel returned Saturday from
visiting trip to several Odd Fellow
encampments in the state. The Essex
County Herald. of April 16, stated that
A. w. Roel, of Brattleboro, grand SEN
ior warden of the Grand Encampment,
|. 0. O. F., of Vermont, made an off
cial visit, the 18th, to Ross encamp-
ment at Island Pond. 1t further stated
that the attendance was large and the
occasion was helpful and greatly en-
dress on Old Fellowship by Mr. Roel.
-Brattleboro was visited by a min
iature cyclone Monday afternoon. The
lasted but short time but
the wind was of unusual velocity and
did considerable damage to trees. One
Of N. III. Whites cottages on the river
just below this town was literally
blown off its foundations at one end
A farmer who was driving down the
Putney road when the wind overlook
lim told people in this town that the
wheels on one side of his vehicle were
lifted several inches from the ground |
md capsizal was barely averted.
DR. H. D. Holton and DR.. F. T.
zidder, members of the state board |
# health, met creamery men from va
ious parts of the state in Montpelier
asst week to discuss the provisions of |
he new law relating to the pasteur-
cation of skim milk and buttermilk in
rider to prevent the spread of tuber-
ulosis. The creamery men protested
hat the provision requiring that such
milk should be heated to not less than
76 degrees and not more than $50 de-
'rees and kept at that temperature
the question the state
oard of health decided to modify the
PROVISION, simply requiring that skim
nix and buttermilk be heated to a
of at least 176 degrees
fahrenheit.
George S. Hewins, who has been in
for nearly two years as
uperintendent of the construction of
he Connecticut river DAM will leave
arly in May for California to take !,
barge of the office which the contract
lg firm of J.. G. White & company !
i'll open in San Francisco. Mr.. Hew- !,
IS will have charge of all the com
anys work i'll that state, his first
)ntract beng on a water power for
he San Joachim Light and Power com q
any at Fresno, near Los Angeles. =
he development is on mountain
ream and the contract calls for in q
easing the height of the dam, widen d
g the canal and charging the power !,
'use.. The work will include the con- !,
ruction of a penstock 400 feet long Il
it'll fall of 1,410 feet in that dis o
nee. Mr.. and Mrs. Hewins and child !.
n will 90 to Dedham, Mass, tomor- =
w to visit the formers family before !!
aving for the west. G.
The annual meeting of the Wo- lc
an s Exchange was held Monday, t.
orll 10. The following officers were o,
'cted for the coming year: President, W
RS. Z. +. r. Jenne; vice-president, IL
RS. Henry Tucker; recording secre- n,
fy, Mrs. f. |. Swift; corresponding h,
Rotary and treasurer Miss Emma F w
'ath; directors, Mrs. Mary Warden,
IS. l.. d. Martin, Mrs. A. J. Currier,
SIS Judith Cain, Mrs. d. P. Dewitt. 10
IS. G. D. Smith, Mrs E. V. Morse a.
s. p. d. Whitney: food committee, o.
s. 2. D. Whitney, Mrs D. P. Dewitt. n d,
IS Emma Heath. Mrs 0. E. Randall; 81 81
ndiwork committee. Mrs. w. II. Cor pu
Mrs. c. G. Fits. Miss Heath; room nd nd
Miss Addie Fay, Mrs. A. NJ ne
hitler, Mrs. c. n. Moran, Mrs. E. W. III III
'dgett; membership committee. Mrs eN,
me and Miss Heath; finance commit W. W.
, Mrs. Cora g. Leonard, Mrs. Eugene ;;o
rk; printing committee, Mrs. F. C. R d,
'geant. ni
The selectmen have leased the co
vel bank on the r. H. Briggs farm mi