The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-09-10
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

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| field, Mass, was distributed to Brattle
| boro subscribers this week.
The Grange Dramatic club will hol,
a meeting Thursday evening, Sept. Ia
| Miss Alvena Walker will have charg
| Of the program There will be dancin!
after the meeting.
Rev. f. w. SharDe has nearly com
pleted the cellar for the three apartment
house that he intends to erect south o.
his residence on Central street. Mr.
Sharpe intends to have the building
framed and boarded in before winter.
H. G. & F. E. Barber have rented
the second floor of the Vermont Savings
bank building and will occupy It whel
vacated by A. F. Roberts who will move
into his home recently purchased OF
Walnut street.
Members of class No. of the Bap
fist Sunday school held corn. roast al
Thurber s grove Monday evening. The
event was a pleasant one and beside the
members of the class there were severa
invited guests present.
E. Wales will meet his dancing
classes at Grange hall. Children s class
reunion Saturday afternoon, Sept. 20
at 3 clock. Evening class reunion
Thursday, Oct. I, at s o clock. Circu
lars ready Sept. 1S.-Adv.
&C. A. G. Jackson, who is scheduled
TO deliver his lecture, The Reign of the
Common People. in Festival hall Tues
day evening. advises Brattleboro PEG
pie that he finds the date will be an I'M
possible one and that arrangements vii
be made as soon as possible for another
date.
A young man from Athol, Mass.
called at the town clerk S office Monday
1cnnCp tn
a l6-years old girl from Jamaica. lie
was disappointed to learn that accord
inc to the laws of Vermont, the only
place he could legally obtain license
was in the town where his intended re
sides. They left on the afternoon train
for Jamaica.
George Barr McCutcheon S romantic
play Graustark promises to be an I'M
portant theatrical event. The book has
been very widely read and the majority
of theater patrons are familiar with
the story. Numerous parties have al
ready been arranged, and requests Tor
seats from surrounding towns are com
ing.
Foreclosure proceedings have been
instituted by Thomas T. Flanagan
against Sadie A. Turner ct al to recover
the amount of a mortgage upon the
Brattleboro House property; Inc
amount of the mortgage stated in the
papers filed Wednesday is $1l 900. The
suit. which is entered in the chancery
docket, will not likely be brought for
ward at this term of court &. II. Eddy
& Co. have entered suit against Sadie
A. Turner to recover $500 alleged to be
due the plaintiffs.
A hearing was scheduled in the pro
bate court Saturday morning IN the
q no1n in m q a
of the Brattleboro Retreat, on the ques-
ton whether the expense OF the Wom-
an s keeping should be charged against
the town Of Brattleboro or the state.
Judge A. F.. Schwenck had not been
notified of the proposed hearing and
was not present, although the states
attorney was in town to attend the
hearing. The matter will come up
a gain within a few days.
man of the board of bailiffs, said this
week that he was not aware that
formal demand had been made by the
board of selectmen for the bailiffs to
conform to certain conditions or vacate
the quarters occupied in the town hall
He said that in regard to the
matter of police protection at the audi
forum he did not believe there was any
reason to expect friction between the
IlldSb anu lIt lOWu OllICClo. NNlN
likely the matter will be discussed at
the bailiffs meeting this evening.
"Wednesday evening was Children s
Night at the grange: The program was
oiano solo. Hugh Thayer; piano duet,
Mildred Knowlton and Doris Wyman;
Ruth Barker; song, Clarence
Buck; recitation. Warner Hopkins; pi-
mo duet. Edith and Florence Farwell:
song, Viola Niles; piano duet, Helen and
Jarlotta Hopkins; song, Flora Farwell;
piano solo, Edith Farwell song, Flor
nee Hall. Refreshments of ice cream
md cake were served after the meet
leld Oct. 81.
From 30 to 40 members of Brat
leboro chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, were entertained
" Mrs. Z. A. Starkey at her home on
)ak street Tuesday afternoon. Two
xcellent papers were given, one by |
Irs. O. d. Esterbrook on Brattleboro |
t the Time of the Revolution and one |
" Mrs H. w. Spaulding on The Sign
rs of the Declaration of Independence. |
Patriotic music was sung by four Young |
yomen. Miss Katharine Martin, Miss
nth Brown, Miss Ellen Sherman and
he piano by Mrs. Starkey, which was
thoroughly enjoyed. Refreshments were
arved and pleasant social hour was
pent.
-Graustark. George Barr McCutche-
n g thrillin" romance of a love behind
throne. has not only made fortune
Or the author, but for two different
rms of publishers. and now promises
, make a fortune for firm of theatre
al managers who have secured the
FANATIC rights for the book and are pre-
,nting the play in the leading theaters
{ the principal cities this season. 1t
conservatively estimated that more
ian one million people have read the
ook, and as there is an editlon on me
arket now selling for fifty cents, 1t
i'll probably continue to be read for
me time to come. Judging by the
immense crowds who turned out to see
lis play when presented in New York,
hicago and Philadelphia. the majority
those who read the book desired to
e the story portrayed in dramatlzed
,rm.
AS a sort of diversion local theater-
,ers will have an opportunity of seeing
mething entirely new IN the amuse- !
pnt line at the auditorium, matinee ;
id evening. Saturday, sept. u; wheh
C. Rockwell s New Sunny South com ;
INV will appear. This season the per ]
rmance is up-tO-date to the minute
.iobt and pleasing from start to finish. ,
here is every ingredient of gayety and
elodv and the olio presents strong l
raw of vaudeville talent equalled by {
w and surpassed by none. The songs :
I'd dances of the different players are ]
of the negro, whose hui :
1 1 laNs fnr no \