The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-04-01
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.


social hour devoted To games Was passed
Six IL the lai.s, model Reminsior
liypcwriiers have bern added Ia the equip
meni 81 the Characterization college
-Ploughing II gardens began thu
week and an the last day III March severa
Prospect Ilill gardeners werc preparing "a
plant seeds,
Rev. y. J, Lewis, pastor Of the finl
Congregational church, will conduct III,
seryice at the Bnitleboro Retreat sun
day afternoon at 3 o elock.
The annual sugar supper Of Pro
iariive Grange was given "Wednesday
evening in Grange hall, over 200 per
sons attended. Ain. I, W, Bruce was
chairman oi the committee in charge.
The woman ) auxiliary Of the y NJ
&. 4. will hold lis annual meeting ioi
the election of officers next Tuesday after
noon AT $50 o'clock in the nest room.
There will be reports Of officers and COM
miitees. The executive boari viii meet
al o'clock.
Competition night, which was 10 be
observed by Protective grange Wedncs-
day evening, has been postponed 10 April
10 The program of the meeting We'd
nesday evening will be under the direc-
ton OF the lecturer. G. ;. Hopkins. The
program gu the 10Th will be in charge OF
II. ". Sargent rs planned.
Rev. A. J. Hough, formerly OF this
town. has resigned rs pastor OF the Me
thodist church in Montpelier where he
has been for two years. lie has held pas
torates in Hartland Woodstock, Brad
ford, Ludlow, Groton, Brattleboro and
White River Junction, and on two occa-
sions has served as chaplain Of the Yer
mont house of representatives.
The subject OF the illustrated lee
ture al the Univcrsalist church Sunday
evening will be Germany from the Bal
tic 10 the Bavarian Alps. Rev. ID. Il.
Trout will use 100 stcrcopticon slides
in depicting the wonders of this interest
ing country. Only four more lectures
win be given rs the series will end the
last of this month. II is expected TO re-
sumo the lectures the coming fall and con-
tinue them through the winter.
Some weeks ago G. L. Warner d COM
pany, discovered that their bakery teams
were being looted nights while stored
in a stable on Clark street Mr.. Warner
made the fact known and thefts ceased
for time. Sometime Tuesday night
a thief visited the stable and carried
away four boxes of crackers and other
goods MIR. Warner thought for time
that the work was done by boys but
now has pretty well-defined idea as
TO the identity of the miscreants.
No more beautiful day than Sunday
has brought the Lenten season to close
for many years The weather was OF
the sort that brings to mind the TACT
that spring has come, and the attendance
at the various Easter services IN the local
churches brought out many persons who
have been shut-ins for many months.
Not only did the churches show a mate
rial increase in attendance Sunday, but
the trolley line did bigger business than
for many Sundays before, while. the IL
very stables report an unusual business
on that day.
Mrs. Jane Knight Ryder, u, widow,
of Charles T. Ryder OF Wardsboro, died
Wednesday morning at the Home Tor
the Aged where she had been about two
wears Several years ago Mrs. Ryder
broke one of her hips and had been obliged
to use a crutch since. Mrs. Ryder was
born in Wardsboro, March %, 1888, and
was married in 1858. A brother, Charles
Knight of Chicago, survives her as do
two sisters, Mrs, Marshall and Mrs.
Esterbrook of Wardsboro. Funeral SER
vices will be held at the home at 3 o clock
this afternoon Rev John r. Cow will
officiate and the burial will be in Wards
boro tomorrow.
Road Commissioner David 7. Perry
has notified the Brattleboro Water Works
company that it must put the streets
into proper condition wherever it has
opened bitches during the past fall and
winter. He will pass upon the work and
it will have to be satisfactory to hlm or
the company will have an opportunity
to do it over He says that while many
of the streets are in bad condition ne
believes the company is working as fast
as It NAV be expected to do and that
within a few weeks the unsightly ridges
and holes will disappear. He says that
that he intends to give the company time
to do the work and that he intends that
it shall be done well.
Emily Francis Farnsworth Johnson,
~. died suddenly of heart failure Wednes-
dav morning about clock at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Dunkiee,
IN High street. She had been in her
usual health and while assisting in pre-
narinp breakfast she fell and never re-
ppo',arod consciousness. Mrs johnson was
born in Fitchburg, Mass, Dec. Y, 1857;
After the death Of her parents she hveo
in that city with an uncle, DIR. Jabez
Fisher. At nine years of age she was
adonted by Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Swain OF
BELLOWS Falls. She was educated in that
town and graduated from the hlgn scnool
50 years ago. About three years aiter
graduating she married ID. =: Johnson
Of Bellows Falls. Previous to coming
to Brattleboro about two years ago MRS.
Johnson lived in Boston. She was
member of no organization except tne
Congregational church of Bellows Falls.
Resides her daughter, Mrs. johnson IS
survived by one grandchild, Margaret 5.
Dunklee, and one brother, George FARMS
worth of Ludlow.
DEPUTY Sheriff M. P. Davis made
another official call upon the druggists
Of Rrattleboro Tuesday and made copy
of the label on each receptacle contain
inc liquor found in each store. MI. La
Wis was reticent about the significance
of his call and said that he made the
comics at the direction of Attorney A;
p Carnenter, who is counsel for the board
Of seIectmen. Mr.. Carpenter SAID wed,
NJ that the copies had been asked
for hy the state laboratory at Burling-
ton and did not know Tor wnat purpose,
as ~ to the necessity of copies being made