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

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t The program for the grange NEE
ing Wednesday evening, Oct. s, is.
a charge of Mrs. A. j. Currier.
!. The Ladies Enterprise society wi
meet with Mrs; George Fuller, 3 Este
, street, Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 6. 6
4 clock.
Rally day will be observed in TIL
next Sunday, the morning sermon bein
on the subject: Preoccupation.
The Y. p. G. u. will begin its Sc,
vices for the year next Sunday evenin
at clock in the Universalist church
when State Superintendent and Trave
ing Missionary Rev. George +. Forte
will deliver an address and install tn
officers.
The taxicab service of the Mamie
Brothers did rushing business durin,
the week. 1t proved not only a quicl
but exceedingly comfortable mode O.
conveyance to the fair ground. Thre,
cabs will be kept in commission. On,
stand will be in front of the Brook
house and, cars will be. Kept at the gar
age and also at the railroad station.
-Selectman Calvin expects to re
sumo work on the Installation of the
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coming week. The interior work, il
practically completed. The old motto,
has been removed and sold and the new
| one will be installed as soon as the
fan house is built at the rear of the
building.
Carl s. Hamilton has been confined
to his home on Highland street for
several days from an injury received
at the Estey shops last week Thursday
AS he was preparing to leave for home
in the afternoon he dropped heavy
piece of metal upon one of his feet.
Though no bones were broken the foot
was badly damned.
Rev. Roy M. Hougnton, pastor of
the Centre Congregational church, has
inaugurated an up-to-date system of
card index in his parish work. 1t is
an elaborate scheme of-keeping rec
a system of neighborhood surveillance
upon the part of one or more persons
will keep the pastor in close touch with
the needs of his flock.
The annual c1erkcarrier examin-
boro. will be held Nov. II. Age linn
it's, IS to As years, and applicants must
be citizens of the United States. Those
of the male sex must be at least 5
it., in. tall, without shoes, and not
less than 1875 lbs. in ordinary clothing
Full particulars in regard to this ex-
with specimen questions, are
furnished with each application blank,
and can be obtained from Miss Frances
E. Guild, at the Brattleboro post office.
Or r. E. Stebbins, secretary, LIST civil
service district. Boston.
The United States battleship Rhode
Island while at anchor in Hampton
Roads. Va, in the early morning of
Sept. IS was in perfect wireless commu-
lication with the. Congress hotel Chica-
roS III. The operator of the high power
station at Chicago told the battleship
lis position, etc, which was given him
Che naval operator who is Leon E. An
rews, formerly of Brattleboro and Gull |
ord, doubted his hearing at the time, |
nd communicated with Manhattan
Beach, N. Y, long distance wireless
commercial station, to make sure he was
ot being deceived by some nearby YES
ell. The Rhode Island is equipped with
q the "Around the World battleship
eet. -
Charles Long and Maurice Cava-
augh pleaded guilty to intoxication be-
ore JuuRe =. w. 0lDSOH III municipal
Durt Tuesday morning and were as
,ssed $10.24 as fine and costs each.
hey became intoxicated and badly SO
le previous evening and Chief of Police
1ilson took them into custody. In pay
lg his fine Cavanaugh volunteered the
formation that making a man pay
ne for such harmless bit of amuse-
ent as getting drunk was good way
} make a bad man out of good one.
avanaugh gave the court bit of ad-
ice while he waited for his change.
e was sure that it was wrong to take ,
oney as the court insisted on doing.
-LeRoy Herbert Houghton of II
rost street and Miss Ethel Maude Gay !
Claremont, N; H., were married at ;
80 yesterday afternoon at the Univer
list parsonage by Rev. Delmar E. !
rout They were unattended, and left :
after the ceremony for a !
ort wedding trip. They will make :
eir future home in Greenfield Mass, !
here Mr.. Houghton has position with 9
e Wells Bros. company as cost ac- !
nntant. Mr.. Houghton was born and =,
ought up in Brattleboro, being the !
n of Mrs Hattie A. Houghton. He t.
tended the public schools, entered the t
Oh school, and graduated from Miss !
irk s private school, and later took a =
urse in the Albany business college. ?
nee graduation from there he has been c
lployed as stenographer for the Sulli- I
IN machine company Of Claremont, N. 5
. and secretary of Mount Pleasant .
litary academy at Ossining. Mrs. .
Dughton is lifelong resident of Clare t,
ont, where she was educated in the I
bile schools. She was employed for E
veral years as gOverness in the family a
Ira Colby there, and for the past year \
S been in training at the Memorial !
spital.
The unusual electrical disturbance ST
lieved to have been caused by the te
rora borealis was responsible for the s,
actical Generalization of local tele e,
aph and long distance telephone serv- r.
) Saturday morning. The wires were fl
avilv charged with electricity and the II
ses blew out in many places. The D,
al telephone service was not dis q;
9 clock in the morning the tele in
aph and telephone companies were Fl
able to maintain continuous commun 10
Ition with the outside world. The IL
res would work for short time and T.
IN they would fail to work again, so ~ 70
at the companies were unable to guar h.
tee the delivery of messages. The en- en-
use of all of the trouble was that the a. a.
was surcharged with electricity. so If If
,ir capacity. No apparent cause was w
be found for the trouble at first. The ~ y.
It that the main disturbance was in ~ ~
, daytime drew the attention of OBJ. IN IN
vers from the possibility of its being vi
aurora that caused the trouble. Had -
been night, the experts would have 70 20
IN able to determine the trouble right OH
Word finally came from Boston ex- pr
lining the difficulty. 10
The reunion of Company X of the SCI