The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Methodist church will hold specia
business meeting in the church parlo
Wednesday afternoon at $50.
The Southern Comedy compan
which will appear in the auditorium
tomorrow afternoon and evening viii
be the last attraction of the season.
The cooking class in the Girls clul
will be postponed until next week Fri
day, May 81. This is the last lesson il
the course and each member may brin.
friend.
The Womans Exchange will hole
a meeting Monday afternoon at 3.3(
o clock in the rest rooms. The boar(
of governors meeting will be at
o clock.
A meeting of the stockholders OF
the People s National bank will bt
held Monday, May "a, for the purpose
of amending the bylaws in regard tc
the number of directors
Rev. Andrew Harper, jr., of Spring
field, Mo-, who recently accepted q
call to st. Michael $ Episcopal church
will arrive in Bratteboro this evening
accompanied by his family and will
deliver his first sermon Sunday.
A large delegation from Fort Dunn
Keene next Wednesday, May 19, to
visit MonadnOck colony. 1t is expected
that several other colonies will be
there, also the supreme officers will be
present.
"A mammoth peace dance will be
given by Quonectacat tribe, I. o. r. NJ,
in grange hall Tuesday evening, May
IS and the affair promises to be one
of the most successful which has ever
been given by that organization in
Brattleboro.
The body of Miss Margaret Gar
rity, 16 who died at the house of the
Good Shepherd in Springfield, where
she had been for two years, was
brought to Brattleboro yesterday and
was buried in the Catholic cemetery
this morning. Miss Garrity formerly
lived in BrattlebOro and died of tuber-
culosis.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Lord who live
in Church place were pleasantly sur
prised Wednesday evening when be-
tween 40 and so of their friends and
neighbors called at their home and ex-
tended congratulations on the 25th an
niversary of their marriage. Before the
evening was over the guests presented
them with a handsome quartered oak
extension table, Mr. Lord responding.
A collation. was served.
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
boro branch of the woman s alliance
was held yesterday afternoon at the
home of the president, Mrs. Charles
Warder, on High street. Reports of the
past year IS work were read and the fol
lowing officers were elected: President
Mrs. Charles Warder; vice president,
Mrs. John Barrows; secretary, Mrs. E.
Q. S. Osgood; treasurer, Mrs. H. c.
Freeman.
Work on the bridge across the
mouth of West river is about com
pleted and it is expected that the
travel early next week. The bridge
has beeu strengthened according to the
agreement made between the power
company and the town but it has been
decided not to raise the structure at
the present time. This work will prob
ably be done late in the fall when
traffic is not so heavy.
Hayes Bigelow launched one of his
3O-foot power boats the first of the
week and it was running Wednesday
for the first time. The boat will be
used to accommodate excursion parties
and will be in charge of A. l.. Billings:
Mr.. Bieelow has unloaded car of
Mullins steel motorboats this week
and they are now on exhibition at the
island boathouse H. S. Goodenough
has bought a Mullins launch of Mr.
Bigelow.
Fire broke out on the mountain
directly opposite this town about lo;3o
Yesterday morning and spread rapidly
-Oward the upper ridges in spite of the |
,fforts of large force of men from
he retreat. How the blaze started, IS
lot known. 1t was still burning TINS
morning although not with great rapid
ty. The fire was confined to the up
,er portions of the mountain and there
ore will not seriously mar the appear
lnce of the slope from this town.
Two of the big generators in the
,ower house of the Connecticut RiVef
'ower company are completely installed
nd will be started as soon as the cof-
er-dam on the downstream side OF the
ower house is taken away so as to
How water to pass through the wheel
its. The work of removing the cof-
er is going on rapidly and ought TO
e completed sometime next week. A
arge force of expert workmen from
he General Electric company $ plant
, putting in the electrical machinery.
United States District Attorney
.lexander Dunnett of st. Johnsbury
,as in town Saturday and in behalf of
he treasury department of the United
tates government formally accepted {
he property of DR.. and Mrs. G. ).
ratt and Mrs. c. F. Thompson as a
tie for government building. The
lpervising architect of the treasury .
epartment will have to consider over
0 buildings before he gets to the one i
Or this town so it is not likely that
nvthing will be done here inside a
ear and half.
The Veremont supreme court con
ened Tuesday at Montpelier after a
ncess from Friday and the first case
onsidered was one from this county,
hat of Richard Corey against Del
ert Baynton in which the county
nurt rendered a verdict for the plain
iff and found the defendant guilty,
that he should be confined IN
lose iail The case arose out OF al
,ged deceit in a horse trade. Boyn.
on purchased an animal from Corey,
nd in return gave note which he
laimed was as good as gold. AS
latter of fact it was proven that
,ovnton had been trying to collect
n the note for IA years. Being un
BILE to obtain payment for the paper.
orev brought suit against BoyntOn. ..
!. CLAYTON and f. w. Gibson appeared
or the plaintiff, Cudworth & Pierce,
nd J. X. Batehelder appearing for
he defense. The supreme court has
OF yet rendered its decision.
Louis Marcus, who was arrested in
rattleboro Nov. 1907, on the charge
obtaining money under false pre-
ences and was bound over to the
Dunty court in the sum of $500, was
rrested Tuesday at Newport. n. H.,
v Sheriff A. H. Thompson and is now