The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-05-27
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Leo council, knights OF toiuhpusi
will work the first degree this evening
The monthly business meeting of
the Attainers of the Methodist church
was held with Mrs. Jameson on Green
street Tuesday evening. Refreshments
were served.
The Woman S Relief corps will
meet in Grand Army hall this after
noon and tomorrow to make wreaths
for Memorial day.
The bailiffs will meet this evening.
The use and sale of explosives on July
4 and the regulating of moving picture
houses will probably be discussed
The annual meeting of the Brattle-
boro & Whitehall railroad company
will be held in the Brooks House at 10
o clock tomorrow morning. The annual
dinner for the stockholders will follow
the business meeting.
AT the meeting of the Brattleboro
boat club last evening it was decided
to lease a water frontage of 800 feet
on the east side of the island north of
the highway and to construct a wharf
there for use of club members. Sec
tions along the frontage will be sub
let to members who desire to provide
places for their boats
Fred II. Harris of this town again
won the title of New England inter
collegiate tennis champion yesterday at
the Longwood courts in Brookline,
Mass, by defeating his team-mate, s.
round in singles. Harris and Smith
were expected to win the doubles for
Dartmouth and thereby gain perma-
nent possession of the intercollegiate
trophy, but they were unexpectedly de-
feated Wednesday by Bacon and Hol-
ton of Wesleyan 6-S, ga, GA.
Upon invitation of the manage
ment of the rest room members of the
Brattleboro board of trade attended
the sat home' in the rooms on Ell
hot street yesterday afternoon and
evening from 2 to 9 o'clock. The
visitors were entertained with musical
selections on the violin and piano and a
buffet luncheon was served during the
afternoon and evening. The Misses
Garfield gave violin selections during
the early evening and piano solos were
given by Miss Emily Clapp and Miss
Miriam Childs.
F. l.. Houghton, secretary of the
Holstein- Friesian association of Amer
lea, leaves tomorrow for Syracuse, N.
Y, to attend the 25th annual meeting
of the association which takes place
Tuesday. The organization has had a
year OF unusual prosperity as shown by
facts and figures presented in the sec
retarys annual report. The receipts
have reached total of $S0,777.09, and
5I,466 certificates have been issued
The receipts of the association have
doubled within the last three wears
and the balance RENTED this year to
the treasurer after paying all expenses
amounted to nearly $4,000, an in.
crease of over $4,000 over the previous
year. Six hundred and thirty -one new
members have been admitted to the
association since the last annual meet
ing and with these to be taken in Tues
day the increase will reach 500.
Greenfield high school having de-
clded not to enter the track meet with
Brattleboro and Bellows Falls on the
Valley fair grounds tomorrow after
noon, Vermont academy has been asked
to send down team and promises to
do So. Thus a three cornered meet is
assured, and as Vermont academy has
team OF fast athletes those attending
the meet may expect to get their mon
eey,,s worth. Those representing Brat
tleboro high school are Fits. Wash
burn, Thompson, Knowlton, Weeden,
Morse, Miner, Taylor, Sanders, Ray
Adams, Kuech, Spaulding and Noble.
special electric ears will be run to the
grounds before and after the meet.
inns afternoon the Brattleboro team
VIII be given plenty of opportunity to
establish unofficial records as Coach