The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-05-05

HNhhthlA&hl lilut Oh iAtu MNh hAs
yaneed a large class of adopted pale
faces 10 the warrior s degree Friday
evening
Tho coming Of Phil OFT and his
company next Monday night in The EN,
plorer marks the closing of the season
at the auditorium.
Tho regular monthly meeting of
the Brattleboro Mutual Aid association
will be held Monday at $50 at the
headquarters ! Canal street.
AS soon as Road Commissioner
David Il. Perry receives his oil sprink'
Ter he will begin work in earnest on
the oiling of several stretches of roads
North Main, High and Chaplin streets
a coating Of taryia and oil. thus Obat
ing the dust nuisance.
The third annual report of the
BmttlebOrO Mutual Aid association
has been issued in pamphlet form this
week. In addition TO the usual facts
and figures regarding the work OF the
association the pamphlet contains a
handsome illustration of the assoeia'
ton 3 new home ON Canal street
About 200 members of Wantasti.
auet lodge of Odd Fellows and Dennis
Rehekah lodge attended the morning
service at the Methodist Espisconal
church Sunday. Rev. +. A.. Wells
preached upon the theme OF brother,
hood. They met at Odd Fellows hall
and went in n body to the church.
The last dance of the series given
during the winter and spring by the
Odd Fellows was held in /. o, o, II. hall
Friday evening. The event was a sue
cess. There are probably few organl.
cations in town which can point TO as
large an aggregate attendance at Sc.
ries of entertainments as can the ODD
Fellows for their dances the past win.
ter.
The big derrick on the Central
Vermont ledge near the passenger sta
ton has again been moved TO the sOuth
and the last half of this big stone wall
is beginning 10 succumb TO drills and
dynamite, The northern half Of the
ledge has been removed to the lever
of the tracks and if a passenger sta
ton is TO be built at that point the
site is practically ready for the cree
ton of the building.
Roy b. Miner was elected captain
of the high school track team at a
meeting of the members of last sea
son 5 team in the high school building
shown during the past two seasons IN
track events continues undated and
those in charge of the arrangements
for the coming meet promise program
up TO the two previous events.
Irwin, the ten yearold son of Mr..
and Mrs. Dana Howard of Maple street,
broke a small bone in one of his ankles
and sprained the other ankle Monday
noon while practicing on horizontal
bar on Canal street school grounds. DIR.
IG, r. Anderson was called and the boy
was taken 10 the Memorial hospital
where an N-ray treatment showed the
results of his injuries. He went to
his home Tuesday
The series of illustrated lectures
given by Rev, D, h. Trout at the 7 nj
yersalist church Sunday evenings dur
I ing the fall, winter and spring has
aroused so much interest that Mr.. Trout
! is planning to have another series next
winter. 1t is probable that the subjects
will be upon altogether different lines
| from those discussed the past winter.
| The lectures in the course Just closed
were mainly of travel.
Town Clerk c. S. Hopkins, who has
a list of all automobile owners ana
operators in Vermont, says that there
are many local owners who have as
vet failed to secure licenses. Mr. Hop.
| kins saws that the state expects all
lautoists to have a square deal in this
matter and that unless all pay their
| fee this is not the ease. Mr.. Hopkins
| is special agent for this part of the
state acting for the secretary of state
in issuing licenses.
The public drinking cup in the
Central Vermont passenger station dis
appeared NJ onday morning according
to law but Italian laborers displayed
their ingenuity in defeating the object
of the new regulation by drinking from
the faucet. They tried to include all
of the faucet but the top in their at.
tempt to swallow the plumbing and II
was ludicrous to see some of them turn
on the water suddenly after they had
encompassed the outlet of the tap with
their mouth.
According to the financial state
ment of the town of Brattleboro for
the wear 1861 the town liquor agency
showed a loss of ST. Sc from the figures
of the preceding year. The select
men stated in their report that the loss
was occasioned by diminished sales
on account Of Great Competition.
Evidently the competition was stltl
as the printers used capital letters in
smelling the last two words of the off
cial explanation of the decline in the
receipts from the liquor agency.
One week from Monday night, at
the close of the official day in the office
of Town Clerk Carl S. Hopkins, the
DAYS of grace for unlicensed dogs have
ended. The law says that after May
Is no dogs can be licensed, and that
every pup without license shall be
killed. That ism u all the law says in
this connection. There is little at
tachment which calls upon the owner
to pay fine. The advice of the town
clerk to about so dog owners is to ship
their animals to Canada or pay up,
While a female dog can be licensed
for a fee of 81, the usual amount. all
male dogs not licensed before April 10
will have to pay SO instead of half
that amount.
We hear about great artists, spe'
cial favorites, etc, but now many are
able to cover the same territory year
after wear to ever increasing receipts
Yet that is exactly what Phil OFT has
been doing ever since he first started as
an entertainer, and his past two sea
sons instead of measuring succession
of broken trips, has been one long sea
son of 100 consecutive weeks Thlnk
Of it. two solid years without break
Of course, there's a reason. He gives
theatregoers clean, wholesome amuse.
ment, sparkling in every line. Bright
snappy dane es, melodi0us, catchy songs
and shocks of pleasure permeate, his
musical com edy, The Explorer, from
start to finish Remember, a genuine
treat awaits a packed house when Phil
oil appears here next Monday evening.
Popular prices will prevail.
Postmaster Kittredge Haskins and
b;s Office force of clerks and carriers
are earning their salaries this month
Thev have not been required to copy
the addresses on all mail passing
through the local office but that is