The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-24
A food sale will be held in the Bap.

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Chaplin street Monday, April 3,
The Ladies Enterprise society will
meet with Mrs. Charles Il. Sargent,
Cherry street, Wednesday afternoon.
The second floor of the Brooks
House will undergo renovation in the
shape of paint and paper, the work TO
begin this week.
The regular meeting OF Sunshine
society. Branch l, will be held with
Mrs, Charles Bingham, 8 Chaplin street,
Friday afternoon, March 81, at $3.50
; o clock.
4 People who think this is a back.
ward spring may he interested to
know that on March 2s, 1887, there was
still three feet of snow on the ground
in the adjoining town Of Dummerston,
The degree team of the Modern
Woodmen of America held drill in
Festival hall Saturday evening under
the direction of II. II. Harris, who has
charge Of the floor work of the order.
The laundry at the Brattleboro Re.
treat will be electrified as the erection
of the new casino and gymnasium will
require all of the steam that the pres
ent apparatus can produce. Heretofore
the machinery has been operated by
steam, but motors will be installed and
the old motive apparatus will be re.
moved.
Persons who desire fish with which
TO stock public waters must have their
applications on file with the state fish
and game commissioner. j. w. Titcomb
of Lyndonville, previous TO April 10 II
they wish TO share in this year s distri-
button. The commissioner will furnish
blanks and information upon request.
The Ladies' aid of the Methodist
church will hold its annual meeting
next Wednesday afternoon nj 2.3O
clock Mt the home of Mrs. A. +. At
wood, 80 Green street. A ehicken'pie
supper will be served TO members at .
clock. In the evening at the same
place members and friends of the So
eiety will hold their "dollar " social.
| cordial invitation is extended to all.
lee cream and cake win be served.
Competitive program No. /, in
charge of +. ID. Weld, was given by the
men of Protective grange Wednesday
evening. They presented burlesque en-
titled Working the Third Degree in the
Grange: Ralph Thayer gave two recita'
tions, C. s. Hopkins spoke upon the
Reciprocity Treaty, ID. T. Perry gave
paper and also recitation. drum Sc
lection was given by Clayton Daniels,
| Charles Brockington and II. w. Sar-
gent. An exhibition of black magic
was given by +. d. Weld. A broom
drill concluded the entertainment.
The heavy snowstorm Sunday
evening prevented large attendance
at the illustrated lecture on The Vati
can in the Universailst church. The
lecture was one of the most instructive
of those given thus far TINS season,
while the pictures were pronounced
| among the very best shown either this
winter or last season. That all may
have an opportunity to see the pictures
and hear the lecture it is probable that
it will be given again. Rev. ID. +.
Trout pastor of the church, has re-
ceived a number of suggestions that the
lecture be repeated
The last testimony in the chancery
ease of the Hooker, Corser 4 Mitchell
company against C. d. Whitaker.
James r. Hooker and w. II. Corser was
taken last week Thursday and Friday
before Special Master NJ. G. Webber at
Rutland The witnesses included w. II.
Proctor, II. X. Brown. w. G. Mitchell,
j. l.. Stuart and James II. Allen of this
town. At later hearing counsel for
the opposing parties will submit briefs |
and make their arguments, and the
master will then make his report to the
supreme court of the state. II will
probably be several months before a |
verdict in the ease is rendered.
Christopher d. Wallace, 81. died |
Tuesday at the home of his nephew, !
Joseph Wallace, at 267 West 10Th street |
in New York city. He suffered para
lytic shock several DAYS ago and was
unable to rally from it owing to his
advanced age and infirmities. MI
Wallace was native of Marlboro, and
spent his early life in this town. His
wife was Maria Goodenough of West
Brattleboro. She died about four years
AGO. The funeral will be held in New
York today. The body will be cremated
and the ashes. will be deposited in
Meeting House Hill cemetery with Mrs.
Wallace Is. Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace lived
in Hartford, Conn. for some time and
later went to New York city, where they
lived at the Murray Hill hotel until
after Mrs Wallace Is death. In former
wears they were annual visitors at the
Brooks House, spending the greater part
of each summer in town.
The brotherhood class of the Con-
gregational church, which devotes an
hour every Sunday to the discussion OF
various social problems, has of late been
interested in the subject of railroads,
their operation and ownership. Differ
ent members of the class have spoken
briefly each Sunday. The discussion
upon this subject was finished Sunday
when E. J. Guthrie, local station agent
for the Central Vermont railroad, and
Clarke c. Fits, Brattleboro' s corpora
ton lawyer, were the speakers. The
he an n
whether the public welfare is better
conserved under government rather
than private ownership of railroads
was discussed comprehensive. by Mr..
Guthrie. The experience OF Australia
and Germany in government control
was contrasted with the private owner
ship of this country. Mr.. Guthrie
pointed out defects in government
owned systems as they appeared to
him. a practical railroad man. Mr..
Fits gave brief history Of the growth
of state regulation of railroads. Next
Sunday the class will take up the sub.
iect of state regulation or municipal
ownership of public utilities other than
railroads.
Two young men with tale about
their way through college !
came near getting into the clutches of ,
Chief of Police George Wilson Monday ]
afternoon. They were trying to sell
art subjects, which they car
ried in a sheet of brown paper. When
thew called at the home Of e. M. Adds
on Cedar street Mrs. Adds did not re- {
spond to their knock at the door as she {
saw them coming and decided that she
did not care to purchase. any Rem
brandts or whatever they had to sell.
A few minutes later she heard per. !
son moving about in the house and
while she supposed it was a neighborr