The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-29
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

/ -ITOTpcIlNc SIuHSc Will W VI vs.
first and second degrees at the mex
meeting, Wednesday evening.
The Ladies Enterprise society viii
meet with Mrs. John Henkel on Este.
!, street next Wednesday at'4 p. m.
A sewing meeting was held at tn
church parlors by the women of tn
Centre Congregational church yesterda,
afternoon.
The women of the Centre Congre
e eational church are making prepare
lions for their annual Thanksgiving
$ flower and food sale, Nov. %.
THE regular meeting of the foreign
missionary society of the Methodist
church, held with Mrs. E. w. Sharpe
Tuesday afternoon, was well attended.
E The women Of the Centre Congre
gational church will serve creameed
chicken supper next Tuesday evening IN
the parlors. Everyone is cordially in
vited.
Work was begun this week on the
frame of the large lumber shed of Hol,,
den e. Martin, at the corner of Flat and
. Elm streets. A portion Of the shed
will be rented and the rest used for
storing stock.
H. F.. Weatherhead, agent for the
f. A. Strout company, has sold Dana |.
Howard S farm of 1870 acres in Guilford,
to William r. Fitch of Massac husetts.
Mr.. Fitch is prosperous young farmer
and has bought the place for his home.
The Independent basketball team
| Academy hall in West Brattleboro. It's
first game this season was played last
Tuesday evening, against the. West
| Brattleboro team, with a score of 22 to
10, in favor of the Independents.
%. H. Henderson Of St. Johnsbury,
| grand secretary, in company with Grand
Master F. E. Perry of Brattleboro, will
make an official visit to Wantastiquet
lodge, /. O. O. F., Monday evening. at
which time the initiatory degree will be
confe1ed by the regular lodge officers.
The stereopticon lecture given at
the Universalist church last Sunday
was very interesting as well as lnstruc-
tive and was well attended. The lecture
next Sunday evening will be on the
Life of Jesus, illustrated by Hoffman,
the celebrated German painter.
AT the last meeting of the w. c.
T. IT,, Mrs. Harriet Tucker gave a
very interesting report of the recent
state convention in Burlington. One
of the pleasant features related was
wilson of Newfane, state president, of
a sum of money contributed by the
union throughout the state to defray
her expenses to Omaha to the national
convention which she is now attend
ing.
"A force of workmen laid six miles
of new rails on the West River railroad |
Sunday. Work was begun early in the |
morning at point two miles below
West Dummerston. and the gang was
distributed along the road to Sand hill.
Tho pau iron uac laid hatwann the two |
points named. The work of lining and
surfacing the roadbed was begun this
work Before winter sets in it is ex
pected that considerable more iron will
be laid.
"A pleasant social was held Friday
evening in the parlors of the Centre
Congregational church by four Sunday
school classes, taught by Miss Edith
sto a = Miss i Finn Emma Gregg, 3. G. Crosby,
was given and games were enjoyed, af-
ter which a creamed fish supper was
served. Miss Gregg gave a brief talk
ON Taking Shares of Mission Work in
the Albuquerque school. The young
people attended the regular Friday eve
ming service at 7.30 o'clock, and heard
The interesting address by Rev. R. NJ
Houghton on The History of the Bible.
All active and sustaining members !,
u tHC Ollio Clup are luNlItu 10 meet ,
At the free kindergarten room, Elliot o.,
street, Monday evening, Nov. |, at 8 ;
} clock. Final arrangements for the :
,lasses which open Monday, Nov. s, !
n the high school building will be an !
bounced. All members of the club .
Will receive tickets to an entertain :
nent by Mrs. Jeanette Jewell Kel- l.
,eadings in grange hall, Thursday y
Nov. 4. Mrs. Kellogg is finished Y
reader and impersonator of unques- J.
Toned ability and favorite wherever :
he appears Those who are not mem
,ers of the club will be admitted for
small guest fee. o
Eli H. Porter of Wilmington. who a
vas Monday visitor in Brattleboro. n
las just returned from an extended n
rip through Kansas, Oklahoma and "
Arkansas. Mr.. Porter is enthusi- Il
site over the prospects in eastern Kan a
as. He termed that section the gar a
en of the United States and says that f
veryOne has money there and is max w
ng more. While Mr.. Porter is a VI
God Vermonter he said it could not G
e denied that Kansas has the rest n
f the United States beaten as a p
oney-making section. He went there q;
0 examine mortgages held by his bank 81
n Wilmington and he comes back with r.
smile that indicates that he found r.
he collateral as good as need be. II
Members of the old Second Yer
lont regiment will smile upon reading o,
ne following press dispatch from Chi n
ago. which appeared in the papers this ii
eek ga. W. Austin is the oldest I,
rect pedler in Chicago in years, but he lie
young in service. He is 81 years old, G
nd he obtained license yesterday to II
eddie wooden cups. Il was born in or
ermont on May %, 1S1S,' he said. Il n,
rived in the list New York. 18th New Sc
ork and Cd Vermont regiments. I e,
ought at Bull Run, Harpers Ferry and gi
number of other places. / never got E,
pension from the government, never d,
iked one, and don t want any. / have te
, friends or relatives, but / only want an
chance to work - An examination iii
the records of the adjutant- general en-
ills to show that such a man was ever To-
member of the regiment. There was in
William H. Austin in Company A of Sc
e Second regiment, who enlisted July tn
J, 1868, at the age of 20, but the ii,
cords show that he deserted on July co
!, 1864.
The directors of the Brattleboro NJ
ard of trade have fixed upon the an
ening of Wednesday, Nov. 10, as the of
tie for the banquet which the board tn
ted to hold at its meeting last week. pl,
he banquet will be in the Brooks Re
,use, and Charles w. Bosworth of an
ringfeld. Mass, president of the me
non Trust company and a prominent re:
torney, will address the members and bri