The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-10-27

, stated communication Of Brat.
tieboro lodge, +. and A. NJ, was held in
the Masonic temple last evening.
The women Of the Methodist church
VIII nave rummage sale in the Emer.
son building on Elliot street Thursday,
FRIDAY and Saturday of next week.
Three prospective citizens took ou,
thelr hrst papers in n court Of NATURAL.
zation held before Judge j. l.. Martin
IN ms chambers In the American building
Friday afternoon.
The Brattleboro Transportation
company, successor to Mosher & Cobb,
has taken the agency for Cadillac auto,
mobiles in this town. This make has
heretofore been handled through the
Brattleboro garage.
The Wantastiquet Lodge of Odd
Fellows will hold its annual roll call
meeting Monday evening, Oct. 30. A
banquet will be served by the Rebekahs
NJ l.i5. Every member of the order is
invited to be present.
Funeral services for Edwin G..
Wilder were held Saturday afternoon
nj the funeral parlors of Bond 4 Son.
Rev. +. w; Sharp and Rev. +. A. Wells
oiheated Burial was in Meeting House
Hill cemetery Sunday afternoon.
The hearing on the extension of
Blakeslee street will be held at 100
o clock this evening in the office of the
seleetmen. IL is expected that all of
the interested abutters will either be
present or represented at the hearing.
The Woman s club will hold its
next regular meeting Wednesday after.
noon in the Congregational chapel. Five
club members will furnish the program
which will consist of papers describing
recent European trips. There will also
be music.
-Raccoons are reported unusually
plenty this season, and the number of
local hunters who have been successful
is larger than for several years. Roy
Jones secured four whose total weight
was 60 pounds in the course of one
night s hunting in Guilford last week
"A class of three took the degree at
a special meeting of Brattleboro lodge,
y. +. o. p, Monday evening. The work
was exemplified by degree team from
Bellows Falls. Refreshments were served
at the close of the work and the remain
der of the evening spent in social way.
-" Johnnie Bosk, the former Brat
tleboro pitcher, who was dangerously in
iured as result of being struck on the
head by pitched ball thrown by Joe
in game at Fitchburg sew
eral weeks ago, has been discharged
from the Burbank hospital and he is now
rapidly recovering.
Mrs. Nellie NJ. Coolidge has sold
her house on South Main street TO Mr..
and Mrs. Edward V. Morse who will
move there about Nov. 15 Mrs. Coo
lidge is going to Springfield, Mass, to
live with her son who has a business
there. The property was sold through
William c. Horton s agency.
A suggestion has been made by an
upstate farmer that the Brattleboro
board of trade can turn good stroke in
The interest of the farmers of this and
towns by securing the loca.
ion of condensed milk or evaporated
,ream factory near here. Such an in
lustry pays prices that make the pro-
lucton of milk amply worth while al.
.hough il is possible that the price of
milk would be raised by local milkmen
Is their goods would bring better prices
1t the milk condensing factory than if
old by the quart
The work of pouring the cement |
INTO the forms for the retaining wall
o be built east of the new roadway |
eading from Vernon street to the |
reight station began Tuesday morning. |
The wall is ~ inches thick at the top |
md nearly twice that at the bottom. |
{ is likely that wall will have to be |
,uilt west of the road to hold the side
walk and east side of Vernon street |
rom sliding into the new roadway. At
hree places ON Vernon street the road.
way and sidewalk have given away by |
he removal of soil from beneath and 1t
las been necessary to fence off portions
f the sidewalk.
e. II. Putnam, for many years the
anitor of Masonic hall and in charge
f the temple since its dedication in
une, has resigned his position and his
uccessor will be A. l.. Billings, who. is
mploved by the c. II. Grant Granite
ompany. Mr.. Billings will work part
f each day for Mr.. Grant. Mr.. Put
am has found the duties so numerous
bout the temple that he has decided
0 give up the work November l. Mr..
Billings is senior warden of Columbian
,dge. 1t is likely that each of the
everal Masonic bodies will designate
,ember to have charge of its property
Dom, thus relieving the ianitor of any
responsibility in the matter of arrang-
no paraphernalia at times when the
odies are working degrees.
II. M. Crepar of Green River, in;
entor of the Crepar biplane, a model
f which is on exhibition in the office
T the Twin State Gas & Electric COM
any. saws he will probably make some
,oye next week toward building
lachine large enough to carry. passen,
ers. He has tentative plans in mind
or the work and can secure building
rye enough to construct machine in.
he can secure some financial assist
nee from Brattleboro people. he says
q will remain in the east and build a
wing machine. If he does not meet
18th sufficient encouragement here he
ill probably return west Tor rev
lonths as he has a number OF frlehds
! railroad circles willing to back nm
nancially in limited way. he wonld
refer, however, to remain IN hall1a3
n the farm he bought last spring ana
nere perfect his plans and build a
iplane.
Silently. like the Arab, Rev. j.
rall Long, a Vermont clergyman who
as long been innoculated with the virus
4 nolitics, came into Brattleboro wed /
psday afternoon and without disturb
10 the serenity of an ideal, october
fternOon passed from view dp0uI sun
own. The Rev. Mr.. Long will be re-
embered as an aspirantt for the tn rs posa.
on Of chaplain OF the s mouse OF he repT re-
q, emhered as twice or thrice an aspirant
" the same Job. His MISSION here
2ednesday afternoon was to feel the
,blic pulse and notify the Hon, Joseph
DeIsoer of Montpelier whether the
irobs had been accelerated by his en-
r. Long did not explain why it was
,cessary for the people S candidate, to
nd ont scouts. There were number
questions that he did not have
,ance to answer for the reason ne ga
IT give the people here an opportunity
ask them. !.
Two hundred and fifty knights OF /
plumbus witnessed a highly successini