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

Z -Brattleb0FO lodge, n. T.. o. p
n gave well,attended dance in Re,
Mems hall Wednesday evening.
= The annual meeting Of the Pros
}: pect Hill Cemetery association will b.
i held in the town clerk Is office Tuesday
: evening.
The Hooker, Corser 4 Mitchell
overall factory resumed work Tuesday
following the annual shutdown for Oh,
holidays.
-Windham county supreme court
! cases are marked for trial Tuesday
and several local attorneys will 20 10
Montpelier.
The week of prayer has been OBJ
served this week by the Baptist
Methodist, universalist and Congrega'
tional churches.
Dancing and cards were the pro.
gram of an informal social held by the
members of Bingham chapter, o. Il. s.,
in Masonic hall Tuesday evening
Rev. +. w. Sharpe is finishing an.
other apartment house ON Prospect
street near his home. He has prac.
tically completed the Outlook on Cen.
trail street.
The officers of Dennis Rebekah
lodge, No. l. will he installed next
Tuesday evening by District Deputy
President Lila Reed of South London
derry. A banquet will be served after
the meeting.
The clock ear from West Brat.
tlebOro did little stunt Wednesday
afternoon, when IL was coming up the
hill from the creamery bridge. lt left
the rails and before the brakes held
the wheels the front end had crashed
through the fence beside the roadway.
Peter Biagotti, proprietor of the
Boston Fruit company s store, has re.
Gently bought the store he sold mt st.
Adams when he came here several
months ago. He has put the store in
charge of a friend, and will operate IL
in connection with the Brattleboro es.
| tablishment.
Grocery teams owned by Freeman
Scott and Il. G. Clark suffered consid
cradle damage by a collision ON High
street Saturday afternoon. The col
lisiOn occurred in front oy c. II. Cros'
| by Is house, and Mr.. Clark's horse ran
| to the foot of the hill near Main street
before il was captured by +. j. Water
man.
While looking through an old chest
recently j. b. Dunton came across two
extremely old newspapers copy of
the Boston Gazette and Country Jour
copy of the New York Morning Post
of Nov. Z, 1888. Both are in a good
state of preservation and are interest
ing relics of oldtime journalism.
Fred V. fuller of Tunbridge, |
commander of the Vermont division, |
Sons of Veterans, has been in town this |
week in an effort to organize n branch |
of the order in Brattleboro. A camp |
was instituted in this town q years |
ago, but for the past 10 years it has !
not been in existence. Twenty names J.
are necessary in order to make appli' |
cation for charter.
William II. Bond, who for Il mum
Der of years has been a salaried EN-
plove of his father, Henry +. Bond, the
undertaken became a half owner of the
business Monday. He will have charge
of the business. Besides the numerous
alterations and improvements which
this establishment has undergone dur.
ing the year Just closed it is planned
to make others the coming spring
The rain of Monday afternoon and
Tuesday morning softened the ice in
MILESTONE brook sufficiently to break
it up and for some distance up that
stream open water boiled like huge
caldron for a number of hours. The
drop in temperature Wednesday morn
stream, which again looks and acts like
winter.
Though Assistant Town Clerk Carl
s. Hopkins has not made an estimate
vet as to the number of cards he will
need to make the index of vital stats.
ties for the years prior to 1857, as
called for by n law recently passed, he
will probably have to have as many as
the neighboring town of Guilford.
That town will need about 5000 cards,
according to the estimate by Town
Clerk John E. Gale.
-Manley Brothers have sold their
garage in Bennington to +. w. Viii
liams, who has been in their employ for
some time. Mr. Williams, who lives
in Brattleboro, came here from his
home in Montpelier, and has been a
salesman for .Manlev Brothers. He is
also a mechan1cian and operator of the
topnotch class. He took possession of
the Bennington garage last week, and :
will take his family to that town
within a few weeks.
With the reorganization of the fire
department. the Hydrofountain club (,
passed out of existence as the mem )
Ders soon after voted to disband. The !,
oailiffs voted to buy the furnishings i,
md other equipment of the club, and . ]
keep it in the engine house. Last week :
In inventory was made of the furnish :.
ngs, and the bailiffs paid for the prop !
,rty. The money received from the !,
sale of the furnishings was divided !
lmong the members of the club.
The town clerk s office is in receipt
If letter from Guy w. Bailey, secre =
AIRY of state, regarding the matter of
lutomobilists taking out licenses to
operate and use motor vehicles on the :
highways of Vermont. Mr.. Bailey is /
Inclined to think that it will be neces- 4
airy for all autoists making application !,
or licenses to make oath to their state y
nents in the application blank. As y
Don as the legislature disposes of the u u
everal automobile measures which it =
5 considering Mr.. Bailey will prepare !,
he new blanks. y
The Harmony club gave an enter G
ainment in the Baptist church Satur- fl
ay evening in the course under the a
uspices of the young people of the b.
'aptist and Congregational churches b
hat was up to the standard of the pre- p
ious numbers. The attendance indi- n
ated that Brattleboro people appre- m
late the kind of entertainment pre- al
ented that evening. Miss Gertrude
IcKinstry, the reader and contralto of n
ne club, received applause each time n
ne appeared and each time responded l.
, encores. Miss Helen Fuller as a "
iolinist, accompanied by Miss Helen 10
perry on the piano, was enthusiast s et
ally applauded. ~
That rare combination of delight he
IL music, witty dialogue, originality of tie
leme, brilliant lyrics, clever com ell
any, beautiful musical chorus, and a be
enic environment which has been tn
,scribed as dream of scintillating, ev
descent color, are said to be some of be
10 nnalitins resnnnsihln for the nhe- ri