The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-01


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The Daughters of the America
Revolution will meet Oct. 6 with Mr.
Akley Canal street.
David Willard has presented IL
town library with handsome portra
of William Morris Hunt, the artist.
Rev. M. II. Sharples of the Metl
odist church will preach at the chap,
in Vernon at $50 p. m. Sunday.
George II. Clapp & Son kindly CAV
the old men at the town farm delight
full automobile ride last Sunday whic
they enjoyed hugely
Major Clarence Boyd of Worcester
Mass, visited the local branch of tn
Salvation Army Monday. He addresses
well attended meetings on Monday an,
| Tuesday evenings.
E. Wales will meet his dancin,
| classes at Grange hall. Children s elias
| reunion Saturday afternoon, Sept. %
at 3 o o'clock. Evening class reunion
Thursday, Oct. Z, at s o'clock. Circu
lars ready Sept. 1S.-Adv. BOT,
-Sedgwick Woman's Relief corps
will have drill Saturday evening Oct
2. The annual inspection will be Oct
9 with social in the afternoon and sup
per as usual. Mrs. Mary L. Rising, de
partment president, will be the visiting
officer.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution will meet next Wednesday
Oct. 6 at $50 p. m. with Mrs. Akley
Canal street. Mrs. l.. X. Fuller will
read paper~on The Old Time Parson
and a collection of antiques will be on
exhibition.
Chester Maurice Burnham and Myr-
tie Emma Stoddard, both of West Ches-
terrified, N. FL, were married Saturday
afternoon at the Universalist parsonage
b. Rev. d. f. Trout. They were un-
attended. Mr. and Mrs. Burnham will
make their home in West Chesterfield.
Subordinate court BIS, Independ-
ent Order of Foresters, held a social in
Red Men s hall Monday evening that
was largely attended. The evening was
spent in various sorts of entertainments
A prize of barrel of flour was award
ed to II. W. Shaw.
Judge A. A. Hall has again called
he attention of the assistant judges to
The necessity of a telephone in the
court house at Newfane. Last week it
became necessary for Judge Hall to
answer a long distance call while court
vas in session and he didn t relish
making sprint across the green to
he booth in the hotel
The opening of the new garment
hop, Houghton & Simonds s, Saturday
proved a pleasant occasion and while
he volume of business done by the firm
vas below the normal the attendance
vas far above that point. 1t required
0 gallons of lemonade to serve the |
uests during the day. Leitsinger's or
hestra was in attendance both fore
Don and afternoon.
The funeral Of Mrs w. F. Neal was
'uesday afternoon at 2 clock, Rev.
Ohm R. Cow, pastor of the First Bap-
st church, officiating. The bearers
,ere Arthur E. Merrill, John Davis,
[arold E. Smith of BrattleborO and
homas Welch of Lowell, Mass Burial
as in Prospect Hill cemetery The
oral tributes were especially beautiful
nd profuse.
Health Officer Henry Tucker in dis
lssing the matter of the pollution of
lie water supply said Tuesday that in
Use, it became necessary to continue
lie boiling of water for drinking pur-
,ses it was quite likely that some
.tion would be taken toward provid-
G sterilized water for the use of the
lblic schools. But as no water has ,
ZEN pumped from the West river since .
pit IL it is believed that the neces- ,
~ for boiling the water will soon be t
moved. '
DIR. J. N. Mccormack of Bowling
cen, KY, chairman of the organiza- !
IN committee of the American Medi-
association, will deliver an address !
on Things About Doctors Which Doc
rs and Other People Ought to Know I
GRANGE hall tomorrow evening at '
30. Capt. E. J. Waterman will pre-
lie. The Windham County Medical I
ISOLATION invites. the people Of Brat
'boro and vicinity to hear Dr. Nc 7
rmack. Following the address Rev. =
". M. J. Carmody, Rev. John R. Cow, $
ark G. Fits and G. L. Durham will I
eak No admission will be charged !;
d the invitation is general. 9
Following directions from the post t
ice department, every post office in
e United States placed on sale Satur- t
y the new stamps concentrating the G
ldson- Fulton celebration at New b
'rk. The new issue only includes the s
ent stamp. which is bright red, in a
cordance with the International Post b
Union regulation. The design shows /
view of the Hudson opposite Grant s G
NIB, with the palisades in the distance. )
e Half Moon is shown sailing up the e
1und canoe load are watching the /
)gress of the little vessel. The Cler n
mt is also included in the design. 1t /
approaching Manhattan from the N
nth. The usual inscription on the 2 p
1t stamp is included in the engrav- 81
{, with the scroll at the top, which o
IS: '11609 - Hudson Fulton Tercen- h
larry Celebration-l90 h
"A good -sized audience greeted the
I Homestead at the auditorium Mon b
Y evening despite the rain. Under a
management of Franklin Thompson p
son of Denman Thompson, the pro- e
,tion was naturally a correct portray &c
of New England rural life. Even h
ugh there are far fetched characters II
the play there is that touch of hu- lo
n interest that invariably holds the II
ention of the audience. Edward l.. tt
lder as Joshua Whitcomb and Earl g
1ding as the whistling Ganzey boy III
'e the interesting characters and their &c
ing was sufficiently true to life so W
t one could catch the spirit of the Il
y from the first. The several selec- I'll
MS by a double quartet were encored. al
2 finale with its rollicking dance and ca
ification in honor of the return of al
wandering son always arouses the til
husiasm of the audience. tn
The concert and farce given in "a
lnge hall Saturday evening under the III
pieces of the choir of st. Michael's co go
holic church drew good attendance. n
leverly arranged scene was that pre- Il
ting the illustrated song Floating he
id the Lilies. A canoe carrying as n of
sengers several daintily gowned ~ ~
ng women sitting beneath japanese ~
asols occupied the stage which had