The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-05-12
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

anniversary day Sunday evening in the
Methodist church.
The New England auxiliary will
meet this afternoon with Mrs. NJ. j.
Larrabee on Clark street.
The home mission circle of the
Methodist Episcopal church met in the
church parlor last evening
The Brattleboro hose team plans
to give its guests good time this eve,
ming at the waltz party to be held in
grange hall.
The street railway company has
been RELAXING ties mt several points on
its line between this village and West
Brattleboro this week.
The annual meeting of the Won.
an s exchange will be held in the rest
room Monday afternoon and il is hoped
that they will be n full attendance of
the members.
After a municipal employee had
spent the greater part of the day yes
terday raking up last year S leaves into
heaps on the common boys came along
and scattered the piles.
DIR. C. +. Clark, son of DIR. c, s.
Clark of this town, who is medical
missionary in Turkey, will give ste
reopticon lecture in the Centre Congre-
gational church next Sunday evening
at 7.30. on his work in Turkey. The
public is most cordially invited.
The selectmen have improved the
small plot of ground Mt the corner of
North Main street and Park Place by
removing the unsightly and badly dis
figured seat and making circular flow.
er garden at the intersection of the two
streets. The plot has been edged with
turf and reseeded.
Though no advance information
has been given out regarding the sum
mer Boston 4 Maine timetable ii is
understood among local railroad men
that the schedule for the White Noun
tain trains will be practically the same
as last season and will be put into effect
about June 81 as usual.
AT the postponed annual meeting
of the Woman s Auxiliary of the \. NJ.
C. A., it was voted that the present
officers and memberships continue until
fall. when new organization will prob;
ably be effected. At the devotional
meeting Mrs. G. B. Lamson gave an
interesting account of her recent visit
to The World in Boston.
-Arbor dav was observed in all of
the schools of the incorporated district
Friday afternoon with brief references
to the forestry work which IS gong on
throughout the world and the neces-
sity for conservation of the forests N
the lower grades the pupils were told
stories of famous trees and in different
WAYS interested in the preserving OF
the forests.
The annual meeting of the WON
an S auxiliary of the Y. NJ. Y. A. WhlSh
in the rest room Tuesday afternoon;
The election of officers was deferred
until something definite is done IN the
matter of boys club. 1t Will be re-
membered that last season the auXlll'
arv interested itself in the work OF the
Magnet club and assisted in entertain
ing the organization. The auxiliary
now has over $500 in its treasury
The prophecy made few years ago
by a few croakers that the high pres
sure water service would rend the
mains and require the relaying OF the
entire system has failed to prove true
The high pressure was turned INTO the
mains of the entire system a year ago
this week and since then the number
of breaks has been practically MI, -
number of pressure valves were requil-
ed upon the plumbing of houses ON tne
lower levels but the street mans nave
stood the pressure.
Users of water on lawns snoula
heed the admonition given last ran py
Superintendent C. b. Crowel OF tne
Brattleboro Water Works company re,
parding the waste of water; IN tne
mast the company has allowed hose users
IN snrinkle lawns and gardens as many
bonrs a day as they wished. ms sea-
SON the company will insist on less ex-
pavagance. There is ample water IN
The Pleasant Valley Reservoir to carry
tbe citizens of Brattleboro through a
season of drought but that is no reason
why it should be wasted.
The war department has detaiieo
First Lieut.. John B. Barnes, =, 2. Al
for service with the Vermont Natiohai
Guard nnder the new law by, which a
certain number of army officers, are
detached from their commands ana or,
dered to duty with various militia
regiments of the country, as lnstrue'
tors. It is the intention that these III,
strnctors shall serve for several yea
AT each detail, and then, be succeeae u
in the duty by another ofilcer appo tinuo III
IN relieye them. This gives the natlonai
guard the benefit OF permanent p'o7
fessional instructor.
Mrs. Harriet F. Rice. IS. who dled
at her home in Springfield, Mass. Sun si
dav afternoon, was born IN nai li;i
Ian. 4. 1888, the Oldest of seven S I'M
dren of Perley and LoVina P Gnnou
When a young girl she went W u tbere
field with her parents ana diNe ;r t
until 1858 when she went to oprlns51ei ~
Mnr frst husband was Seth Smead OF
Graanfield who died in 1888. Ihrefe
Uaars later she married Daniel Rlce o. o.
Greenfeld. whose death occurred -
1,aars AGO, Mrs. Rice is survived by tWo
a aomahters. three brothers and sister
Mrs ]. G. Taylor of Brattleboro.
The local and vicinity business OF
.ho Tonnecticut River TRANSMISSION
c cnu has grown to such an exten.
that the equipment of the Beech stree.
tt na,o station has had TO pt
domhled Three new transformers u
600 horse mower are to be put IN n 10,
o ~ at the Beech street station. lne
7nraoant transformers have a ccapacl.s
- e 400 horse power, so that the ouu,
, y, will he lust doubled when the new
Transformers are in WorKlng oiuI -,
The apparatus was manufactuieu ~
the General Electric. COMPANY a, we 70,
Pittsfield plant, especially for the po Iii
furnishing firm. They arrly h;ah III hri mos as
Guy .Gudy' from Vernon, VT, to the
e eeeeh street station. has voltage 81
es mo and transformers at the beecn
o t.oot station are required to lesser
s sLot voltaoe so that the juice can 9e
t.n nmo over the branch nnes -
the city at lower tension'-f1'enoufs
Sentinel. MI.
For a short time Wednesday Time L,
keeper Howell OF the the oe husv time try
con tp etDa a' to 1'G Italians 1s
e eeeeloyu of the road Some Of the oa mea
e ehnoa a desire to do the timekeepei