The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-22
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Brattleboro has been increased to ST.
:. per month, such increase to date frOI
Oct. 4.
At regular meeting of Wantast
quet lodge, No. 8, /. o. o. F., Monda
evening the third degree will be con
ferred.
e Branch ! of Brattleboro Sunshin
IS noon, Oct. 30, with Mrs. f. l.. Hunt,
Tyler street.
The Woman S Alliance of the Uni
tartan church will serve a chatting disl
supper at Wells hall Tuesday evening
e Oct. &C. at $50 clock.
Patrick j. Griffin of 70 Elliot street
Brattleboro, and Miss Mary Moynihal
of 81 Chestnut street, Holyoke, Mass.
were married in Holyoke Monday morn
ing.
The annual harvest day at the
Home for the Aged will be observed
Thursday, Oct. 90, from 10 clock a
M, to p. m. Everyone is cordially
invited.
The public service commission OF
Vermont started on its annual tour of
inspection of the Central Vermont rail
road Tuesday, making a trip over the
West river branch.
. Until the return of A. P. Carpen-
|
; taken toward re-cOmmitting the Is per
sons now in the Brattleboro Retreat
committed from this town.
-Brattleboro high school s football
eleven will play its second game of the
season Wednesday afternoon on the
island with Greenfield high school, The
lineup will be practically the same as
that of the Bellows Falls game.
About 20 of the friends of Mrs.
Edith Newton gathered at her residence,
2 Church street, Saturday evening, to
for Schenectady, N. Y, where she en-
tered the employ of the Mohawk Over
all company this week. Mrs. Newton
left Tuesday morning.
L. H. Barber has this week bought
of G. M. Dugan and w. &. Horton their
complete stock of monographs and
records and is now established as the
exclusive local dealer of Edison goods.
The exchange was made through
George A. Hedden of Orange, N. j.,
national representative of the Edison
company.
The football team of the Allen
school in West Newton, Mass, which
is coached by Arthur W. Peach Middle
bury college, '09, defeated the strong
Wellesley high school team 60 Satur-
day at Wellesley This is the first time
the Wellesley high team has been de-
feated on its own grounds by the AL
len school in four years.
Crosby & Parker, the local contrac-
tors, have recently secured two impor-
tant contracts in Springfield, VT. They
will construct two buildings 200 feet |
long and 80 feet wide for the Rae Flee
trio Vehicle company, and new con
crete bridge across Valley Street brook
at the head of Main street. The work
will keep large force of men busy for
several months.
Prince, the IA year-old Schipperke
brought to this country by Maj. F. w.
Childs in 1896, died at Hilcrest Tues
day morning. Major Childs brought
the dog and female named Fannie
from Brussels when he returned from
Honorable Artillery. Fannie died last
spring. Prince and Fannie have sew
eral sons and daughters in this part of
the country
The motor and exhaust fan for the
ventllating system at the auditorium
have arrived and work will be begun
at once upon the motor house at the
rear of the auditorium. 1t was decided
by the selectmen that it would be ad
vlsable to wait until the apparatus ar
rived before building the house. 1t is {
I,
De installed. The direct-indirect ra-
ilators used in connection with the ven !
tllatlng system are working satisfac-
torllv with the castings placed around ;
their bases. :
Justice F. D. E. Stowe had another 4
horse case Saturday. He listened to s
ne troubles of Charles Stacey of Brat I
,iietboro, who brought an action against C
Wilbur l.. Yeaw of Dover. In a horse i
no }vrn he ,l,.. - 4
eyed that deceit was practiced by Mr.. b
feaw and that the animal in question
vas not physically perfect. The evil $
ience tended to show that Yeaw paid C
stacey $75 in the transaction Judg- a
nent was given for the defendant to t
ecover his costs and Mr.. Stacey took
IN appeal to county court =
The class of 1910 of the Brattle- c
'oro high school announces a course of
our stereopticon lectures by Prof c
feorge N. Cross of Cambridge, Mass. Ii
or the benefit of the Washington fund "
he lectures will be given in the high c
chool room and the dates and subjects {,
re as follows: Thursday, Oct. %. Il
Washington. the Beautiful Capital of h
Great Nation; Thursday, Nov. IL, al
historic Castles of England; Friday, c,
DIN. the First American; at p. M, Sc
he Splendors of the Alps. Professor hi
ross is a man of broad culture, a keen So
tudent of human nature, and a lectur- @,
r of wide experience, while his lee al
Tres themselves are alike educational q
nd entertaining. st
Dispositions were taken Saturday bl
efore Judge A. w. Schwenk in the m
,reclosure proceedings of Thomas j. W
flanagan of Springfield, Mass, against OF
[iss Sadie A. Turner, owner of the IN
rattleboro House. Mr.. Flanagan, who lie
dds the first and second mortgages, al
leges that the value of the hotel prop D
'ty is not equal to the mortgaged in n
ebtedness. In bringing the suit for w
'reclosure the plaintiff asks that c. III. 80
ddy & Co. and the Valley Bottling Co. 81
, joined with Miss Turner as party de- re
ndants and defined as attaching cred
ors. The hearing Saturday was to FL
termine the value of the property and he
veral dispositions were taken. Among DO
ose testifying as to their opinion of a
e value of the property were ii; r. la
chairman of the board of hi
iters. S. W. Edgett and w. C. Horton, W.
al estate men. John Calvin. Patrick TO
eming and p. +. Crown. br
Past Master II. W. Sargent and of
lst Master c. 5. Hopkins had charge III;
the program at the grange meeting roc
evening. and presented the up
lowing program: Song. grange choir; no
citation. Miss Sanders; song. +. NJ. no
questiOn-What Can be ter
me to Create More Interest in the dr.
ange and Increase the Attendance | ran
eakers. F. f. Franklin. !. +. Law goo
nee. Mrs Nav Edwards; tableau. me
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