The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-06

There will be drill of all officer
of the w, X, q. in q. A, H. hall Sntur
day evening, Jan. Z, promptly Mt 7.3l
o clock.
The regular monthly meeting o.
the BrattlebOro Mutual Aid ass0eia
tion will be held Monday at $3.50 n
the new headquarters, ! Canal street.
The women of the Universalist so
ciety will hold their annual fair Thurs
| day evening, Jan. 10. IL will be called
a Winter Carnival of Sense and
Beauty.
The annual roll call and dinner
| of the Methodist church will be held
in the yestry Monday evening mt
o clock. All members and attendants
viii be welcome.
The annual meeting of the visit.
ing committee for the Home of the
Aged will be held at the Home Wed.
nesday at $3.50 o clock Every mem.
Der is requested TO be present.
1t is said that the gross receipts of
Denman Thompson s Old Homestead in
Boston and New York alone during the
% years of its existence has aggregat'
ed more than two million dollars.
The regular meeting of the Wo.
man 5 auxiliary of the Y. NJ. c. A. will
be held Tuesday at $3.50 o clock in the
rest rooms. There will be n musical in
charge of Mrs. j. ID. Barrows. Refresh.
ments will be served.
Religious insurgency will be the
general subject of a series of sermons
by Rev. ID. Il. Trout, pastor of the Uni
versalist church, TO be delivered during
the winter. The Insurgency of Jesus
will be the subject Sunday morning at
1890 o clock.
The funeral services of Aurelius
Pettee were held at the house on Canal
street at 2.30 Saturday afternoon.
Rev. John X. Cow Oiliciated and the
burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery.
A detail from Sedgwick post, G.. A. r.,
acted as bearers and the post bugler
sounded taps.
The G. \. r. and W. X. C. will
hold a Joint installation of officers for
the coming wear in G.. A. X. hall We'd
ncsday evening, Jan. II, to which all
members, associate members and fam
lilies are invited. Mrs. Ida Goodenough
and Col. II. +. Taylor will install the
officers. Refreshments will be served.
Lydia Cummings, 50, widow OF
Lemuel Cross, died at her Ashfeld,
Mass. home last Sunday. She was the
daughter of John and Abigail Cum
mings, for many years residents of
the Castle district in Wilmington,
where her grlhood was lived. A sister,
Mrs. Mary 4. Thompson of Brattleboro,
---Girard, Pa, laws claim to the title
of birthplace of Denman Thompson,
but it was in the little town of West
Swanzev, n. H., that he spent his boy
hood days, and there are located the |
scenes and characters in The Old Home |
stead. Swan2ey is also the home of |
the grand old man, and has been for I
4 generation.
Things Worth Seeing in Our Coun.
try will be the subject Of the stereop. |
icon lecture in the Universalist church |
sunday evening at Z clock. This lee
.ure will he a study of our own land as
with many countries of the
I'D world. A number of beautiful
'lides absolutely true to the subjects
hey portray will be shown. The pub.
ic is invited.
"A delegation of Gil members of
lodge of Odd Fellows
vent to llinsdale, \. H., Wednesday
'vening to attend the district meet.
ne held with Unity lodge. There were
go visitors, representing l6 different
edges and four jurisdictions. Wan
astiquet lodge conferred the first de-
,ree on class of nine candidates. A
banquet was served the visitors in
J. a. r. hall
An alarm from box IS on Western
venue AT 1890 clock yesterday af
ernOon called out the department for
slight blaze AT the home of George
Vitte on Myrtle street. Hot ashes
Jumped earlier in the day beside the
al I,n 10 L.
nd damaged it slightly. The hose
wagon and chemical reached the box
and the hook and ladder was
n its way when stopped
Special meetings will be conducted
n the Salvation Army hall on Elliot
trect Saturday and Sunday. Staff
'aptain Arthur Pierce of Hartford,
'onn., divisional secretary of the Con.
ecticut and Vermont divisions, will
e in charge of the services, The
leetings will be at $ p. m. with an ad.
itional service Sunday Mt p. M. The
peal corps will move into its new hall
. the Retting block Saturday, Jan. 81,
t p. NJ.
Basketball fans are promised
God game this evening in Festival
all when the Independents of this
lace meet the Runabout Athletic
Tub IS squad from Bellows Falls. The
isitors defeated the Brattleboro team t
Bellows Falls Christmas day by a
core of 80 to 30. The Independents
re composed of Oscar and Orlin Whit. /;
ey, Ellis, Niles and johnson. rhe
amblers from Bellows Falls and a :
lcked team of Brattleboro men will y
lay between periods this evening. 4
William w. Henry, rs, died at his j
ONE in Detroit, Mich, Dec. q after a
brief illness from acute Indigestion. r
II. Henry was born in Brattleboro n
IN. "a, 1886, and was a son of Col. ?
evils and Mary (Young) Henry. BY IL
S death the last survivor of the fam o
Y is removed. Mr.. Henry's early life y
as spent in Brattleboro and he '
, followed for several years, and at y
le time was proprietor of a shoe fac |,
ny in Detroit. During the last 20 q
,ars he had been engaged in the mer-
ntile business with his nephew, T. o
Pratt, in Albuquerque, N. Mex. The Il
neral was held at his home Tuesday q
ID his body was brought to Brattle II
no Wednesday evening, accompanied 81
: +. G. Pratt. Burial was in Pros r
ct Hill cemetery yesterday after n
on in the lot with his father and W
other. Mr.. Henry was not married, Re
d leaves only nephews and nieces. ct
The present season is the 25th of tt
,nman Thompson s Old Homestead &C
lie play is still eagerly looked for Sc
lrd to by theater goers wherever it 81
announced for production. The ex- NJ
long life of The Old Home to
lad is a striking tribute to its power DC
entertain playgoers, who find in it's 81
mely sentiment, its lovable charac- OF
IS and rural atmosphere refreshing
ange from the conventional. 1t is w
yond question the most perfect pic en-
.e of simple country life that has w
ar been presented on any stage. The ki
ne-bred love of home, of justice, of al
ht liuinn temnerad with sunny wit | ~