The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-15

'"' chtercu apprentice degree,
The women of the Methodist churcl
neld q food sale in Retting block Satur
day afternoon from to q o clock whicl
was well attended and which Melted {
considerable sum for the treasury OF
the women s association.
-, c. Rockwell's Sunny South com
pahy NJ the auditorium Friday evening
drew good attendance. The Rockwell
snow never fails TO attract though il
mas long since ceased to be stranger "a
New England theatregoers.
The funeral of Frederick +. White
was held mt $50 o clock Sunday after.
noon mt the home of his daughter, Mrs
Addie j. Butterfeld. Selections were
sung by Miss Caroline Clark. Rev.
John X; Cow olliciated and the burial
was in Prospect hill cemetery.
Potatoes and sugar are two com.
modities with an upward tendency in
prices. Sugar is quoted at eight cents
a pound against six cents, which pre-
varied for n number of years up to 4
lew weeks ago. Potatoes command 30
cents peek or Sl.20 bushel, which is
an unusually high quotation for tubers.
Following q meeting of the execu.
tive committee of the Young women s
association of the Centre Congregational
church in the church parlors Tuesday
evening Miss Maud Brown of North
held, Mass, gave an interesting account
OF the student conference of the Young
Women S Christian association recently
held at Silver Bay, n. Y. Miss Brown
was delegate to the conference.
-Brattleboro telephone subscribers
received supplement to the summer
issue of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph company S official direc-
tory Saturday. Owing to the recent
Encouragement of the local service by
the changing of two-party lines to
private lines and relieving the loads
upon many farmers lines by making
them two party lines about 200 changes
in numbers were made at the local eX-
change. The supplement to the direct
DRY contains all of the changes up TO
the last day of August
The final hearing in the chancery
matter of j. O. Frost of Vernon against
the Connecticut River Power company,
relative TO the cutting of trees upon
the orator s land by the defendant, was
held before Special Master t. E. O 'Brien
of Bellows Falls in the office of County
Clerk +. d. f. Stowe Monday. Several
witnesses were examined. Davis
Bacon and II. G. Barber represented
the orator and c. c. Fits and Harold
+. Whitney appeared for the defendant.
The special master 5 report is to be
filed with the chancellor at the opening
of the fall term of Windham county
court which has been adjourned to
Oct Il.
Jacob Dunbar, demented man,
who left the Poughkeepsie, \. y. insane
asylum June II, was found Tuesday
evening wandering about the streets
carving his shoes in his hand. The
man did not know where he came from
or in what town he was. Chief of PO-
lice George Wilson took him to the pO-
lice station and learned from a Brattle-
boro man, who had been living in
Poughkeepsie that the stranger belong
ed in that city The authorities at the
Poughkeepsie institution were c0mmuni-
Gated with and an attendant came TO
Brattleboro Wednesday evening and
took the man back with him. Dunbar
had a few nails and an apple in his
pockets. 1t was learned from the at.
tendant who came for him that he was
a member of a well-to-do family.
The Both annual meeting of the
Vermont Branch, Woman s Board OF
Missions, will be held in the Bethany
Congregational church, Montpelier
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 20 and
81. Interesting speakers on missions
will be present. and on "Wednesday
evening pageant will be gwen, Illus
tratinG what Christianity has done for
the women and children of the Orient;
The women of Montpelier are prepared
to entertain all officers and delegates OF
the branch. Each auxiliary and young
ladies, society is entitled TO TWO deie-
gates to this meeting. Applications Tor
should. be made by sept.
10th to Mrs. H. NJ. Odeli, 4S9 Liberty
street. MONTPELIER. The delegates
meot;no in Bethany chapel Tuesday
a fternoon at $50 will be open to all
women interested in discussion of
methods of work.
-Brattleboro and Keene had an IN,
teresting tennis match on the courts ol
The Keene Country Club Wednesday
afternoon. In singles Allen peat A. ,. |
THOMPSON Sc, SO; w. Faulkner DeaI
Greene -. Ga; Roger Bracket beat T.
Ea TJI 60 60; Haskell beat Up |
ham 6.3, GA. The singles match be-
ween q Fl. Thompson and John Colony |
was stopped after each had won set
IN order to allow the doubles matches
IN he PLAYED. In these Porter ana w.
Faulkner beat Greene and Haskell 10,
81 while the Allen and Colony-Thomp-
.on and Thompson match was called on
,ccount of darkness after the heene
aair had won the first set So with the
,onre in the second standing AZ In favor
a. Rrattleboro. The Brattleboro team
ras entertained at dinner after the
match return match will be played
# Spofford lake next week.
The fact that this is the centenary
year of the birth OF harrIet
ooocber Stowe gives an added interest
- The lecture which will be given in
be Centre Congregational church, tues
lay, avenino at O clock by Rev. Charles
Edward IA Stowe. His subject Will pc
How Uncle Tom IS Cabin Came 70 Oe
Written, The lecture begins with an
,ccount of the sensation this poIN
reated and then proceeds TO snow tne
ocial and economic causes uhaeriyihS
he civil war He also shows that w
onditions which made slavery pro-
tnhia in the South would have proved
,,onoiaI min in the North. In giving
ni.a+cb If his mother S life, Mr.. stowe
,soS some unpublished material lnclnd-
,eG' q graphic and vivid account OF the
r ~ of Uncle Tom s Cabin, me lee.
,rle'i IS nnder the auspices of the Young
W Vi1 Association of the Centre
Ds church. Tickets N may Mi be
d tartan Baker at Roots pharmacy or
t the door.
pontius PLAT. who figured last
,o coll man in an alleged dog stealing affair
WI v which R. B. Thomas of Gulltord lost
VIZ" 49,, terrier nups, was taken INTO
w Wsto 1oS' Tuesday evening on q writ writ Of
7 VAS ny necessary for Pontius to fur, fur
! ~ was hsil or spend the night in the local
i nat;I Ha'; IN - company with Ralph Visei-
aiello who was also detained. while lie
s sSaF "a Though Deputy Sheriff Mann IN