The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-04-08

district sili reopen Tuesday
Let us remove your ashes and do
your moving hfaiileeofo Weed Com
pany.-ady.
The cheek lst 10 be- used NJ the am
naal village meeiing Thursday evening,
May ., la Festival hall has hocn posted
u the town hall corridor this week.
The young women ii Mrs, sharplos
class II the Methodist sunday school
will hold food sale In the vacant siofc
in the Rrtting block tomorrow afternoon
The New England Telephone a
Telegraph company has improved the
looks II Washington street by placing
new poles between Central and Prospect
siwe,s,
III. L. Wellman has bough, the Knox
touring car owned by the late l., b. Adams
lie and &. A, Harris drove the machine
from Springfield, Mas, To Bra,ilcboro
Monday.
The annual reception and exhibition
Of T.. Males's dancing CLASSES will he held
this evening In Festival hall. Music viii
be- furnished by Males's orchestra Of ten
pieces Doors will be open a, 1la and
the march will take place at eight.
The ice went out Of Spoiiord lake
sometime during the latter part oil last
week, almost three weeks earlier than
usual A number 81 would.be smelt
fishermen have been to the lake since
but the fish have no, yet begun TO nun
In any great numbers.
Up To April . there had been 52s
dogs licensed in town. This number
was about % less than the number ne
ported year ago a, tina, time. \ mum.
Der Of females will probably be registered
between now and May 10.
Everyone who has discarded rlbbers
or old rubber goods Of any description
is asked 10 donate them for the benefit
Of the free kindergarten, and 90 have them
ready for the bow who will make the
house-to-housc collection Saturday, April
Q, dcpositing them in Mrs. {. IL. Tbomp-
son 3 she'd.
Rev. ID. T.. Trou,'s lecture in the
uniycrsalist church Sunday. evening was
upon Germany and covered the country
from the Baltic TO the Bavarian Alps
A series Of 100 stcrcopticon views illusira-
ted the lecture. Only three more lee
lures will be given this spring.
The local plan, Of the Twin state
Gas a Electric company was tied up Tor
a few minutes Monday morning ON account
of short circuit on the Nernon-Brattle-
boro power line. The West Dummerston
plant was temporarily out of commission
AT the time, and every wheel was brought
TO a s,andstill for about three minutes.
The trouble ON the Nernon-Brattlcboro
mower line was the frst OF any consequence
since the circuit was installed last fall.
A number OF local fishermen took adj
vantage OF the opening OF the trout sseason,
in New Hampshire last Friday and tired
their luck on streams in Hinsdale and
Chesterfield While most OF the brooks
were high the water was clear and several
fairly good strings were secured W. -,
smith secured several handsome fish IN
the Lamson brook, l.. W. Blodgett took
l6 from the Hubbard brook, while from
the same stream i. |. Swift and DIR. l.. ;.
Edwards took 40.
Howard Wilson, an ingenious citizen
of Bernardston, Mass, was in Brattleboro
Wednesday with Stanley steamer. Ap-
parently he was simply taking Joy ride
but an examination of his OUTFIT showed
that he was operating vacuum cleaning
APPARATUS. He would run his motor
carriage ND in front of residence, lay a
line of one-inch hose into the house, lift
the rear wheels of the outfit clear OF the
ground with jackscrew and turn on ,he
power. His apparatus excited consider
able curiosity.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Wheel club was held in the club rooms
Tuesday evening when the following
officers were chosen for the ensuing year
President, F. A. Thompson; vice-presl-
dent. DIR. F. r. Newell; secretary, l.. u.
Tasker: treasurer, j. r. Ryder; COVER
nors. W. O. Cooley, DR.. A. l.. Pettee
and L. Landry; auditors, II. r. Lawrence
and J. c. Dewitt. A committee com
posed of F. A. Thompson, +. L. Smith
and R. C. Bacon was appointed to draw
M resolutions on the death OF +. w. Am
ball II was voted to take enough money
from the athletic fund to wipe out the
piano debt
e. CYRUS Miller, the well-known
orcbardist and authority on pomo!oglcal
matters, was in Brattleboro Tuesday, to
consult with the managers OF the bradley
farms and the Bratteboro Retreat farms
concerning the setting out OF numper
of fr,it trees this spring. Hearing that
Rrattleboro had been infested with the
San lose scale he brought up a few twigs
cut from trees in his orchards. ne salu
that the pest has been at work IN his or
chard for number of years. WINE ne
would do everything to combat It ne sald
TO Chairman John Calvin of the board OF
selectmen that he would not recommend
the cutting and burning of young trees.
He said he had had good results spraying
such trees. He would recommend that
ali old and WORKOUT trees, infested with
the scale, be burned.
-Addie L. Morse, Sc, widow Of William
B. Eddy, died Friday night at her nome ,
on Western avenue after an illness OF less IS
than two months. She was seriously III
Of the time of the death of her husband,
Feb. %, and never rallied afterward. She
was born in Wardsboro, March IA, 1854,
and was the daughter Of Rev. and Mrs
Edward s. Morse. Mrs. Eddy attended
school in her native town and was married
to to- Mr.. Eddy when he was a resident OF
Jamaica. They came to Brattleboro
ohn,t 20 wears ago. Three children were
horn to them, all Of whom are dead. Mrs
Eddy is survived by three half-brothers,
s +. Breese Morse, Taylor Morse and
Ernest Morse, all of Brattleboro. Funer.
al services were held at the house az
o'clock Monday afternoon rev. Jon ~
R. Cow officiated. The bearers were Il
r Chamberlain, E. W. Blodgett, p. y;
Roberts and Elliott Phillips. Burial
was in Wardsboro Tuesday beside her