The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-09-17
THE BRATTLEBORO REFORdER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1909

(. Rev. M. H. Sharples will preach i
Guilford Center at $50 o clock Sunda
afternoon.
g Sunshine society. branch No. |, vii
0 meet with Mrs. +. s. Edwards Frida
k afternoon, Sept, "a.
: Health Officer Henry Tucker say
: that the health of Brattleboro is first
class. There is not single case o
= infectious or contagious disease unde
I observation by the health department
t Work is being pushed on the reser
!. voir in Pleasant Valley Already tn,
I road at the mort hern end of the basir
has been raised about ten feet for
distance of 300 feet and will be carried
| about six feet higher.
!, A postponement was made Satur
day in the hearing to determine the
taxation of costs in the ease of Orrir
O. Ware of Wilmington against Rolln
$. Childs of Brattleboro. The hearing
will be continued in the office of the
county clerk tomorrow morning.
New rules of practice for the use
of the county court and court of chan
Gerry have recently been issued and will
be used. at this term of court for the
first time The rules We're edited by the
superior judges and published under
their direction. They went into effect
Sept. |.
Chester +. Clark and Henry w.
Forest of Guilford Center started Sat
urday on their contract at West Dunn
merston to transport a large amount of
lumber from the woods to a steam mill
and from the mill to the railroad. They
expect that it will take a year to com
plete the contract.
j. C. Rockwell S Sunny South com
pany drew good attendance at both
the matinee and evening performances
Saturday. Like all Rockwell produc
tions this play is replete with motion
and music and lovers of plantation mel
odies were given an opportunity to lis
ten to many new songs
Reserved seat tickets for the Val
ley Fair grand stand will go on sale
at the auditorium box office Friday
Sept. "a, at p. m. The box office will
also be open Saturday and Monday from
9 to 70 a. M, and from to and to
9 D. m. Tickets will be sold on the
grounds during the days of the fair.
The 5Sth anniversary of the found
ing of Rebekah lodge will be celebrated
| by Dennis Rebe kah lodge, /. O. O. F.,
in Odd Fellows hall, Tuesday evening,
Sept. 81, at 8 clock. Miss Emma
Gates of Ludlow, vice president of the
short talk, and there will also be read
ings and music, followed by refresh
ments and social hour. Every Re-
bekah is invited with her husband or
gentleman.
The newly elected officers of the
athletic association of the Brattleboro
high school are: President, Weed
Pierce TO-; vice president, Onslow
Thompson, II; secretary, Appleton
90; captain of football team, Manley
Adams, 10; manager of football team,
Charles Ramsdell, 10 An attempt was
made at practice Wednesday afternoon
and 30 aspirants for gridiron honors
appeared on the golf links. 1t is not
expected that active practice will begin
under the direction of the coach until
after the fair.
The Mount Hermon male quartet
was "reeted by an appreciatlEe audi
ence in the Baptist church Monday
evening. During the day Monday a
representative of the Mount Hermon
school paper. the Mennonite, solicited
the merchants of Brattleboro for adj
vertising space in the publication. The
managers of the publication did not
understand that there was an agree
ment among the merchants in this vii
lage to devote their advertising only to
local newspapers, but encountering the
same story wherever he went the solici
tor gave up the work.
Mrs r. Maria Clark widow Of
Stillman Clark, SO, died at the Memoir
al bospital Friday afternoon. She was
born in NARROW, N. H., May IS, 1910, |
and was a daughter of GeoToe w and |
Martha (Tennv7 Howard. Funeral SER
vices were held in Bond IS funeral mar
lors at q clock Saturday afternoon
Rev. d. p. Trout officiating. The bodv |
was taken TO Orange Mass. Monday
and the burial was in the
family lot beside her husband. Mrs.
Clark was member of the Unlversalist
church OF tins place and had resided
here many years. She leaves half
sister, Mrs. Martha A. Elliot of Orange.
Mass. There were many floral tributes
from friends and acqualntances testify
ing to the esteem IN which Mrs. Clark
was held by those who knew her.
The work of installing the yentila-
ton system in the auditorium has been
hammered the mast fortnight by the
several theatrical performances oiyen.
# has been mnracticahle 70 attempt to
10 any in@erior work as tbe noise oc.
easioned nv The workmen would make
+ imnossihle to hold rehearsals or 70
,t+nnd 70 otber business Connected with
he nresentation Of snch nerformances
Zext week there will no several days
n which tho selec+men homo to imnroye
he onnor+mn;tv and comnIete tbe in.
.or;or wnrl trba air diets from +ba
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