The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-03-25
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

hsh supper Ia The chapel next Tuesla
'N"hlhg promptly al o clock.
Mrs, ;, 4. Bailey OF West Dnn
mrIsion has dwarf lemon tree froI
Whleh she recently picked a lemo
weighing a pound aud measuring ~ b
II Inches
II Frank j, Sherlock ~ Chicago, spe
ciai agent Of the national council
Knights Of Columbus, closed his tfi
through Vermont with talk 10 IN
members Of leo council Saturday even
ing There was a good attendance an,
he talk proved interesting and insiruc
tive.
a Braitleboro man has figured onI
that a single Vernon damn mosauit,
with Jurisdiction above West river
bridge would have 100000. 900, 200, goo,
100000 ,O00. COT, 100000, 600 direct de-
seendanis IN the next six months. We
think there Is an error Of a cipher OF
two In this computation.
Frank r. Barber Of this town has
told a number of his friends that he is
10 he candidate for state : attorney
OF this county, and Ms far as il known
he Is the only aspirant for this Office in
the field Mr.. Barber. Il will be- re.
membered, ran four years ago against
Robert c. Bacon and was defeated.
George 4. Gibbs has bought the
} a 10 cent store of T.. W. Orkins in the
American building. Mr.. Gibbs has Just
returned from New York with full
line of novelties and is ready 10 meet
his old customers ms well as MANY new
ones Mr.. Gibbs will continue with
bis landscape gardening as In previous
years,
AT a hearing before Assistant Judg.
es Worden and Pier in the Office of the
county clerk Monday afternoon the pc.
tition for struck jury in the Larrow
Doolittle alienation of affection ease
was granted and an order was made for
such jury 10 be drawn. II is expected
that the ease will be tried at the April
term of Windham county court.
The third and last ladies night at
the Vermont Wheel club will be held /
Tuesday evening. with dancing in 1
Grange hall and refreshments served |
by w. ii. st. Germaine. The attend. |
ance AT the last ladies night, Just be.
fore Lent, indicated the popularity of |
these parties and il is expected that as
this is the last one of the season there
will be even a larger attendance next
Tuesday night.
The order of Judge Alfred A. Hall,
denying the petition of Guy Doolittle
that the close jail sentence under which
he is being confined in Newfane Jail be
vacated, has been modified The peti.
ton has been dismissed without preju.
dice and the matter can be brought up
at the April term of Windham county
court for the purpose of fixing a date
when Mr.. Doolittle shall be granted the
liberties of the Jail yard.
County Road Commissioner David
7. Perry says that he will deputize sew /,
eral competent men in different parts of ,,
the county TO assist town road commits i,
sioners in expanding the money which !
the state appropriates for permanent j
He believes that the state !
will get better service and that more =
permanent road will be constructed for |
The money than to trust entirely to the .
Efforts of the road commissioner of each 7
own. n 9
Manager John +. Brasor of the Z
Brooks House announces that owing to :
he increased cost of foodstuffs it is I
necessary to increase the rates of the 7!
house. The commercial rate of So a
lay will be increased 20 $3.50, the new p
ate taking effect today. For long r
,een made to local people but this will 4
,e increased to rs cents. All meals will Il
re rs cents in the future except Sunday n
timers for which the price of 90 cents r
will be maintained for the present y
The sale of part ! of the fine post. !
lge stamp collection of the late John "
:. Seybold of Syracuse, n. Y, which W
las Just ended at the collectors club in Il
(ew York city, realized a total of &c. ,
03S5 for the two sessions. The aver II
ge was high, many of the items real |
ling record prices. Among the rarities e,
vas one from Brattleboro, postmas- u
er's provisional five-cent issue, buff on =
stter Cancelled Brattleboro, VT, July IN
l, 1916" which brought 500. A west q
IN dealer recently had the nerve to "
fer dollar apiece for stamps Of this 81
ariety. ~
The bursting of the hydrant con- Of
ection with the high-pressure water II
lain opposite the Judge property on to
'ernon street Thursday evening. of last il
eek made things interesting for sew M
raj hours. The water was thrown to
eight sufficient to touch the high ten !.
on wires of the Connecticut River st
over company carrying 10000 volts ce
{ current, and caused the formation of gr
eavy icicles which drew the wires III
own nearly two feet. For several TO
ours it was feared that the wires might fr'
,eak and the workmen employed on Tn
pairing the break were warned not to IN
tempt to knock the ice away from Nj
e wires. The water froZe in the mid Cl'
e of the street about as fast as it fell ar
ID Friday morning there was bank OF
ice nearly three feet deep IN places. KIN
Within the past week several per- tht
ms in town have received checks from rec
B. Clark of Baltimore, Nd, in set eel
,ment of the old accounts OF his "a in
er. Barna A. Clark, who was formerly eli
gagged in the hardware business where low
e Mellen Hardware company. IS now she
lated. Mr.. Clark, senior, failed and riv
t many Brattleboro creditors. HIS has
n. who is a professor in Johns Hop est
rs university in Baltimore, has pros. VIII
red and proposes to liquidate all OF toll
) obligations left by his father. Ac- her
each check is modest cha
I'd stating that the check is to cover cas-
} amount of the account due from 3. ass
Clark to the person receiving the
eek. A West Brattleboro man who
ned note with B. A. Clark for $i0o W. W.,
was obliged to meet it after Mr.. we
lrk's failure received check for Gnu Gnu
amount of the note and interest this stu STU
elk. tnr,
The bank in the rear of the build the
,s on the east side of Main street pre- tho
it's an object lesson for civic improve the
MT enthusiasts that might be repro wor
.ed in the form of picture postal acc
/ distributed to the people of Brat mas
boro. The various articles comprising at
debris scattered from the town pres
! building to the American building to
nld make an interesting EXHIBIT. IN ings