The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-05
BrattLebOrO Local
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

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Sunday IN September.
Rev, l.. Y. :. osgo0l will conduct
the service at the Retreat chapel next
sunday afternoon al J o'eiock.
About SO members az Sedrwiek
Woman's Relief corIs met Tuesday al
The home Of Mrs. George A, Stone on
MYRTLE street aud enioyed lawn party.
supper was served.
Tho Lyrlc theatre reopencd yester,
day with double,aet specialties from
Boston, The stage has been enlarged
aud other improvements have been
made since Il was closed.
The Ladies circle OF the rnlNer,
sallsi church will meet with Mrs.
George =. Warner nj whipnle street
from ) until q clock Tuesday after
noon. There will be work for all.
The opcn-air meeting on the com,
mon NJ 3 o'rlock SUNDAY afternoon
will be addressed by Rev. 4. d. Penny
81 Burlington. An orchestra under the
direction Of Sowall Morse will furnish
music.
Fire alarm box No. L. has been
relocated ~ the corner Of Pine. Canal
and Maple streets. Heretofore this
has been telephone call hut now the
department can be notified IN the reg
ular way from box.
The hpok trout fishing season in
southern New Hampshire came 10 an
end Aug. |. Fishermen who visited
the streams early in the spring found
excellent sport hut since the middle
of June the dry weather has had a
disastrous effect.
The drought has had no pereeptible
effect on the supply of water IN the
Pleasant Valley reservoir Of the Brat
tlcboro Water Works company. sun
day the water in the big basin was
practically AT the same mark Il has
stood nj for several weeks.
-Elbridge ]. Knowlton, supcrintend
cnt of Prospect Hill cemetery. has set
the street department an excellent ex.
ample in trimming the narrow strip OF
lawn between the sidewalk and road
way the entire length of the cemetery
on South Main street. In addition 10
this work he has improved the ap
pearanee of the street by raking all of
the small stones out of the gutter on
the east side of the street for the en-
tire distance in front of the cemetery.
Over a wear ago solicitors came 20
Brattleboro from Boston and interested
many of the citizens here in an illus
trated history of the town which was
TO be issued within few months. NJ.
ter interviewing large number OF
people, securing many photographs ana
obtaining the loan of several manu-
seripts the solicitors ceased their Ia
bors. Nothing has been heard OF their
project since last winter and the IN
dications are that local bihliomanlaes
will not have an opportunity TO aad
this pictorial history of Brattleboro 10
their libraries for some time at least
Jennie W., the pacing mare that
was one of the contestants IN lasl
wears free for-all at the Valley far,
won second in the 2.O5 pace |! IN y a.
the grand circuit meeting in Detrpll;
Mich. Monday. She finished second
in the first heat, which was done IN
. O2I and third in the second heat,
time 2.O3. Ed Sunderlin, well known
to local hfsemen, was driver Of zen zen
II brought defeat to Walter W., Tor
the first time since this PAGER was
taken in hand by Ed. Geers, the
veteran reinsman. The winner was
Ross X.
Stanley Dean Cornell. Z, only child
of Alfred and Elizabeth Dougherty
Cornell of East Guilford; died at the
Memorial hospital Sunday, of micro
colitis after an illness of about weeh. |
The child had been in frau health a dIr
several years. Tn, little ieliow iao d Dr
served his seventh birthday the uay
before he died. He was born in west,
moreland, n. Y. July 80, 1908. Funeral
services were held at the Cornell nome
at East Guilford at 3 o'clock TUESDAY
afternoon. Rev. John R. Cow oihciated
and tbe body was taken to Highland
Mills Mi n. Y. the native place of Mr..
Cornell, for burial
Mrs Charles L. Davis died at
West street early Saturday morning Oh
tuberculosis after an illness OF several
Funeral services were heid aV
Pond : funeral parlors Saturday after,
noon. Rev. John r. Cow oiliciated ana
He body was taken to Ashby, Mass.
the former home of the woman, 1or
bmrial Mrs. Davis was about 80 years
old and came to Brattleboro WIN IVY
children early in the spring. 1nilo
child was born since she came nur Ill.,
arrangements have been, made TO cure
e. tbe children. Two Of them Will pc
sent 70 Ashby and the other one VII
remain in Brattleboro. Mrs. DAVIS
husband lives in Ashby
LIGHTNING struck the four tenement
house Of A. G.. Allen on, vernon s'i rel
during the heavy thunder anu M h ho
storm Tuesday afternoon. me po,t
stpnck the chimney, tearing OF apout
half Of il above the roof inc caps
n 'p tho stovepipe holes in four rooms
,,,oro thrown into the rooms anu a
,orao onantitv of SCOT was distributed
X .hrouah the house. The slated, rool
was mns damaged slightly by falling prlch,
Tbouob there were several persons M ~
tbe house they were not INJURED; al in
nearly Is minutes hailstones Lea ~
and gardens were lnluigi ovar
many parts of the village. Many noI tbn
PEGS s,! We nf shade trees was beaten on
1o,ia tbo wind and hail. Though tne
py ~ INC was severe for about l? MN mn
So ,,tos :" in Brattleboro but little ram len
y; ;,,e ve ~ and practically no hail.,
Tho D w. Felch Chair COMPANY, OF
!, lie ~ which for the past year has
[hls ',os king a line of dining :, ana T
When chairs and rockers at Hi Ii -
P1ke s o n,ored TO Brattleboro this fail,
Is 10 10 n Mr. Felch has arranged to form
tnersbin with Frank w. Pler ol
I dlndyi1le. VT. and they, have pouSme
Tarv favorable terms the old iounu III,
hiding on Williams street WHICH Me Me
~ fitted into chair t az Got IN IN
,n;lding is a large one, Ioo b;rb
I an @th and four or five stories o 4ngnt
I1s oo6 5' and vii move the maehinery and IN
be Reene factory to Bratt ef od ann
i'd Id to It. new dryhGiln 4 .f Of the ou new
Construction will be bat tb at 1 Business
factory. 1t is expected ell, yn r. the fall.
viii be begun there cary aar o IN lnv a
! The fe or ffteen hands here and has
l ,ada several ~ hundred chairs a week.
Zeene Sentinel.
LMlllerT ,osdav at the home of his
,pop phter Miss Hattie NJ. Mat ,,, on