The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-21
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

bOCAh NOI6o AND GOSSlf.
There will be a meeting Of the "
G. 7. L. in the rest room next Tuesda
afternoon at 3 clock.
On account of the death of Mrs. j
+. Hall the May meeting of Brattlebor
chapter, D. A. r., has been indefnitel
postponed.
The May l3 issue of Leslie Is Week
~ contains story entitled Little job
Smith by Harry y. Thomas of IL Pros
pect street.
! -Brattleboro chapter, d. A. r., will
hold a business meeting Tuesday after
noon, May %, at clock at the hom
of Mrs. w. F. Root, A. Canal street.
The Goth anniversary celebration
of the Epworth league of the Methods
church which was scheduled for las
| sunday evening was postponed and vii
be held this Sunday.
Applicants from Brattleboro ant
from Hinsdale, N. H., took the civi
service examination for railway mai
clerks conducted at the Bay Path in
stitute in Springfield, Mass, Saturday
Fly screens. We will make best
grade sliding screens fitted to any win.
dow at lowest cost prices, also screen
doors in all kinds of wood. Orders
should be sent in early. Holden & Mar
tin, 81 If
Fish and Game Warden Roswell
Frost reports that another deer was
found dead in the town of Newfane on
Saturday last, making a total of % in
this county since the close of the open
deer season.
The editions of Ny Ladye's Coke
Booke compiled and edited by the com
mittee on ways and means of the Wo-
man S club was long since exhausted.
The calls for copies have been SO fire.
quent that the committee have decided
to have printed another edition which
will be offered to the public at an early
date.
Rev Andrew Harper of Springfield,
Mo-, who arrived in Brattleboro Friday
to assume the rectorship of St. Mi
chael s Episcopal church, had charge
music was rendered and a large cOngre-
CATION was in order at both services.
Mr.. Harper delivered an address to the
members of the Sunday school in the
morning. He was accompanied to Brat
tleboro by his wife and two daughters.
At the secretary of state S office in
Montpelier Saturday papers were filed
merging the Sunset Lake Water COM
pany and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir
of Brattleboro into the Brat
tleboro Water Works company, at
capitalization of 100000. The par
value of shares is set at 800. The d.
E. Crowell. NJ. L. Crowell. E. L. Crow
ell, T. V. Crowell and C. B. Crowell.
The annua7 reception given by the
members of the First Regiment band
to the participants in its annual opera
tTIy- M nIn low thn
Brooks House. Leitsinger orchestra
furnished music. Dancing was enjoyed
from until II o clock and many of
The catchy strains of Pinafore were
played for the dances, all of which were
heartily encored Refreshments were
served. The committee in charge was
he same as that which had charge of
he production.
The bill of exceptions upon which
he case of Elroy Kent, recently con
victed in Rutland county court of the
murder of Della Congdon. of East Wal
lingford, will be taken to supreme
curt, has been filed with County Clerk
Il. A. Harmon. The respondent s coun-
eel objects to the introduction of the !
Jongdon barn door on which Kent was
to have cut his initials. also |
he comparison of the letters "E. K.'
N the handle of a lawn mower used by |
Kent at Waterbury state hospital for
he insane, the same letters cut on the
,arn door. The case will be argued in
Rutland in November.
The fire which started on Wantas-
lquet mountain last week Thursday
morning spread over a large area be-
ore it was eXtinguished by the rain
+ Saturday night. The flames worked
Yer the bridge during the dav Friday
nd burned fercely in the underbush
n the ravines in the vicinity of the
line mountain. They also spread
orthward to a considerable extent
nd by Saturday night had worked
own near the mountain road opposite
his village. 1t is believed that the
re was started by a Brattleboro Re i
reat patient who has been in the habit !
f ma king regular trips to the noun {
ain this spring. {
People in various parts of this 5
1Wn were startled soon after clock !
unday evening by dull thud sound !
e somewhat like a muffied explosion. !
[any accredited the sound to the fall !
lg of some heavy body nearby, while |
hers thought it, to be due to the slam I
ing of a door. One woman thought !
er young son had fallen out of bed :
nd went to investigate. A woman who y
as looking out of the window at the
me saws that there was sharp flash =
Ike lightning just before the noise.
he noise1was noticed by various West !,
rattleboro residents and a party who |
ere staying at Spotford lake also y
'ard it. 1t is believed that it was due
Their to slight earthquake shock or
the falling of meteor near here. |
-Judson I. Prouty, for many years .
nployed as a compositor on Hartford :
,wspapers. was found dead in bed yes n
rday morning at his home. No. % n
larter Oak place. Mr.. Prouty was h
years old, and was a native of Brat t
ebora, VT. He came to Hartford 7
'enty seven years ago and for several V
he Courant. For the last twenty-five i,
airs he had been in similar position fl
the Times. His wife died several u
onths ago. and since then he had not t,
en- in good health. He is survived by D
70 sons, Robert. of this city, and Ray g;
md, who is in the United States navy il
d is stationed at Vallejo, Cal. He II
50 leaves a brother, Emerson, of New b
,rk city, and ister-in-law. Mrs. R. s.
Prouty, and niece, Mrs. Robert H. W
Elm. Mr.. Prouty was a member of the al
lrtford Typographical Union.-Hart 50
I'd. Conn, Courant May 10. h,
The new ventilating fan which was
rtially installed in the auditorium I,
ne time ago by the Twin Gas & Flee al
C Co. was given a trial during the a
tinee performance of Pinafore last j
iday. The test could hardly be called co
isfactory. The fan itself and the tn
tor which drives it together made nj
se enough to cause considerable an II
vance to that part of the audience on wi
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