The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-03

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next week.
The Ladies auxiliary Of Brattle'
bor0 lodge, N +. O, T.. will meet witt
Mrs. A, j. Brackett, 80 Clark street
this afternoon,
The Ladies Enterprise society was
very pleasantly entertained Wednesday
afternoon by Mrs, Fred llopkinson. A
chicken-pie supper was served.
Freeman Scott, while at work in
his barn ON Oak street Monday, fell
through a hole in the floor striking
upon n piece of tin and cutting one OF
his hands badly.
The next meeting of Protective
grange wil/bc held March s. |, VIII
be in charge Of Mrs h. $. Miller OF
West Brattleboro. An interesting pro-
gram is promised.
The Odd Fellows will have the It'll
dance of the series Friday evening
March 10 in the large hall. An orches'
ira of four pieces will furnish music.
| The public is invited.
III. Il. Weat erhead has announced
this week that he declines to serve as
overseer of the poor another term. On
account of his real estate business he
| is unable to give the work the necessary
| attention.
The First Regiment band will not
put on a musical show this year but in.
stead will present the world famous
! farce. Charley's Aunt, with c0mpe'
tent local east including j. Harry Estey
! i'm the title role The production will
be under tho stage direction of Myron
=. Davis.
Funeral Service of Frederick X.
| Boehmcr were held nc the funeral par
lors of II. Il. Bond Son at , 30 o clock
! Sunday afternoon. Rev. John II. Cow
ofliciated and the body was taken to
Shelburne Falls. Mass. for burial \
| delegation from { he local camp of Mod
ern Woodmen attended the services
and accompanied the body to Shelburne
Falls.
Work on the island grandstand has
progressed rapidly this week and the
/ structure has now reached stage
where il is casV 10 get an idea OF its
| size. IL is estima ted that more than a
| thousand people visited the island sun
| day. and il is safe to say that the
! sight of the baseball park inoculated
the majority of them with the baseball
| fever germ.
While the temperature was down
| to 10 degrees above zero Wednesday
morning. March cannot be said to have
| arrived like a lion. II was neither par.
| ticularlv lambli Ike during the early
| hours Wednesday morning as mgh
wind prevailed much of the time. Du-
ring February there were 20 days out
| of the 2s in which the sun shone all or
part of day
1t is expec ed that the replica of
| Iarkin Mead's Recording Angel, pre-.
scented to the l. nitarian church by II.
! X. willard in memory Of his father,
! Henry Augustus Willard, will be I'M
| yelled either NJ arch 10 or March 20.
| The statue has arrived and will be nm
pac ked by the Charles II. Grant gran
lite company and placed in position
within few DAYS,
The only eases Of contagious DIS
eases TO he reported TO the health OH
| Ger this week were case OF diphtherla
| in the Crosby block which was removed
to the Memorial hospital and case of
| whoopinp cough on Western avenue
| The rumors circulated that there are
many cases of diphtheria in the village
are unfounded There was a ease at the
! hospital one of the nurses, who, with
! the Crosby fblock patient, has been
moved to the isolation ward
No particular business was trans
! acted at the regular meeting of the Sc.
| lectmen last evening. The matter OF
! purchasing ornamental trees to re-
| nlace several (which Were cut on the
common was discussed. The matter of
! the contract between the town and the
! Twin State Gas x Electric company Tor
! street lights was brought up but the
| document. which had been referred to
| Town Counsel \. 7. Carpenter, had not
! been returned to the selectmen ana
nothing could be done. number of
bills were approved and paid.
The Red Mill, the comic opera
which is TO be seen here for the hrst
| time at the auditorium Thursday even
| ing. certainly has been provided with
! all the elements of success The music
| is by Victor Herbert. by far the best
of the composers of light music in this
country; the book is by Henry Blossom,
who always writ ties clever dialogue, and
the presenting company is, from all ac-
| counts, an exceptionally clever one.
The Red Mill will be presented here
| after a season : run at the hnlcker'
| booker theater. New York city, which
was followed by engagements of three
months in Chicago and Boston, where
! it proved to be one of the most impor-
tant musical successes in many years
byron G. Piatt held the closest at
tention of large audience at the
congregational chapel Wednesday after
| noon at the meeting of the Brattleboro
Woman 5 club. His subject was Beauty
and the Beast. or American Morals.
Mr.. Piatt stated clearly and frankly
some of the in fiuences which have pro
duced the problem OF human society;
emphasizing the, fact that indlvidual
morality is abs olutely essential to the
maintenance and growth of our Ameri.,
can civilization. His sincerity and
earnestness strongly impressed his
| hearers with the importance of his
subject. Previous to the lecture Miss
Katharine Martin sang two songs IN a
very pleasing manner. She was ac'
companied by Mrs. A. H. Brasor.
Miss II, Elizabeth White, "a, died
Wednesday at rs Linden street after
an illness of nearly three years which
resulted in general breakdown. she
was born in Readsboro Oct. %, 1886,
and was dau ghter of Levi and Joseph;
inc (McCris) White. She. attended
school in Wilmington and took up
school teaching Immediately upon leav-
ing her studies For 40 years she
! taught In the schools OF Colraln ana
boro and Wilmington. Miss White
came to West Brattleboro in 1891 and
for five years previous to the death
of Rev. Lewis Circuit she was
with him as "a nurse. She is survived
bv sister, Mrs. Elnora Donelson, OF
Bernardston. Mass, and a cousin, Enos
White. of Bratteboro. Funeral ser.
vices will be held at her home in West
Brattleboro at $50 o clock tomorrow,
Saturday, morning and burial will be
! in Wilmington.
Simon de vries, about 80 years
old, evidently a Hollander,, was in
iured about the head by falling on
| Min strnnt w ednesday evening abom