The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-22
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The w. c. Horton real estate
agency has sold this week for Stephen
/ Chase of Wanna, Wash, his small place
| at West Brattleboro to Mr.. and Mrs.
| William Fisher of Marlboro. Mr. Fisher
will move onto the place in October.
Clyde Fitch 5 comedy, The Fortune
| Hunter, pleased a large audience in the
auditorium last evening, The play it
! self is an unusually entertaining one
and the company that presented it last
evening was uniformly competent. The
stage settings were particularly at
| tractive.
! The exercises of laying the corner
stone of the Austine institution, which
were to have taken place Monday but
were postponed on account of the acct
| dent which befell II. M. Eustis, who
was to take part, will be held tomorrow
afternoon at $50 o clock. The program
will be as given in last week s Re
former. The public is invited to attend
The annual meeting or the Mission
circle of the Universalist church was
held yesterday afternoon in the church
parlOrs and the officers elected were:
President, Mrs. II. NJ Wood; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Emily S. Edwards; seere-
tary, Mrs. VIC, Stone; treasurer, Mrs.
M. Il. Cooper, The amount contributed
for missions during the year was in ex-
cess of last year.
Special Master Thomas Z. o 'Brien
of Bellows Falls made his report Tues
day in the chaneery matter between J,
O. Frost of Vernon and the Connecticut
River Power company arising over the
action of the company cutting number
of trees on the orator S land. The mas
ter found that there was reason for the
defendants to cut the trees and that the
tnt re ha Inl ~
ting of the trees. The report finds for
the defendants in nearly all of the spec
ifications claimed by Attorney Clarke c.
Fits. Bacon 4 Davis are attorneys for
the orator. The report will be presented
to the chancellor presiding at Newfane
at the opening of court Oct. II.
The First Regiment band, which is
in camp with the regiment at Fort
Ethan Allen, has received compliments
not only from the visitors at the camp
but from the officers and men of the reg.
iment. ColoHel Dyer has spoken in ex-
tremely fattering terms of Bandmaster
+. c. Leitsinger S organization of 35
men. In a report of the doings at camp
the Burlington Free Press says: "The
regimental band from Brattleboro fur
nished music for the parade Of the regu-
lar infantry. Their performance as
musicians called forth the praise of the
onlookers An officer who is familiar
with the merits of regimental bands in
other states said that the First Infantry
band is surpassed by but few organiza-
tions of this kind in either the New
York or Massachusetts militia, outside |
of New York city, The full band.
which includes several performers from
Boston, will appear at the Valley fair |
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of !
next week.
The September meeting of Brattle
boro chapter, Daughters of the Ameri- |
can Revolution, was held at the home of |
Mrs. l.. w. Hawley Wednesday after
noon. Mrs. Hawley and Mrs. Cora G. !
Leonard were the hostesses. A good |
number of members and guests were
present. The meeting opened with the
The Star Spangled Banner and the roll
call. Miss Carolyn Clark gave two solos
very acceptably. Miss Susan E. Clark
described the historical pageant at Ben
nington in a very realistic way. Dele
gates of the G. A. r. state conferences
in Rutland in October were elected. Be-
sides the regent, Mrs. w. F. Root, they
are Mrs. w. A. Gilbert, Mrs. l.. E. Hoi-
den and Miss Susan E. Clark; altern-
ates, Mrs. H. R. Brown, Miss Maria
Stedman, Mrs. w. 7. Haigh and Miss
by Mrs. Clinton w. Gowdy of the
Springfield, Mass, Mercy Warren chap.
ter. This is one of the Oldest chapters
and has $50 members. Their special
work this year, besides regular chapter
work, has been patriotic \education.
The meeting closed with a solo by Miss
Clark. Pleasing refreshments were serv-
I'd by the hostesses and all declared it
delightful meeting.