The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-24

will confer the third degree NJ its regu
lar meeting Monday evening
The schools of the incorporate
school district will close today for Oh
spring vacation and will reopen April
AT meeting Of Stark company
Red MEMS league, Monday evening
number of applications for degrees wer
received.
--Quonektacat tribe of Red Men viii
work the chiefs degree this Frida,
sleep upon a class Of brothers. Corr
and venison will be served.
"A meeting of the women Of the Cen
tire church TO discuss matters pertain
ing TO foreign missionary work wa
held in the chapel yesterday afternoon
Rev Il. ]. Guthrie. pastor Of Oh,
First Congregational church in Bur
| lington. will preach in the Centre Con
gregational church Sunday morning II
exchange with Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton
The Young Women 5 association
of the Centre Congregational churcl
will sell homemade candy in the chape
next Thursday evening nj the supper
The proceeds will be given to the fund
for the chapel.
The Ladies circle of the Univer
salist church will hold their monthly
business meeting in the church parlors
Thursday afternoon AT 1 clock. The
men of the parish will serve their an
nual sugar supper at $50.
"A meeting for mothers will be held
in the Congregational chapel next We'd
nesday afternoon AT $50 o clock. Miss
Charlotte Macleod will speak on the
subject. Children Is Habits. All moth
ers and teachers are invited.
The question of ornamental electric
light poles for the business section,
which the village bailiffs have had
under consideration for some time, will
be made a matter of business at the
annual village meeting next month.
The nurses of the Brattleboro Me.
mortal hospital will give a waltz card
party at the Brooks House Tuesday
evening, April IS The names of the
patronesses will be announced next
week. The proceeds will be devoted
toward the purchase of a piano for the
nurses quarters.
A meeting was held last evening at
the home of Mrs. j. d. Barrows TO ar
range for series of meetings to be
held by the women during the week of
the Better Brattleboro campaign. The
following committee was appointed to
have general charge of arrangements:
Mrs. C. II. Thompson, Mrs. y. B. Smith,
Mrs. J. J, Estey Mrs. G.. E. Warner and
Mrs. Bartlett.
"A masquerade ball will be given by
Dennis Rebekah lodge Wednesday even.
ing in Odd Fellows and Friendship
halls, to which the public is invited.
The grand march will begin at s
o'clock. Refreshments of iee-cream.
coffee and lemonade will be served, and
n committee will be in the Rebekahs ,
parlor to assist in arranging sheet and
pillow case costumes.
The Magnet club is planning to
give a public exhibition in the audito-
rum April II. The program will in.
clude setting up exercises, dumb bell
drill, club swinging, tumbling, pyra.
mid building and work on the parallel
bars. The object of the exhibition is
to show what the boys have been able
to do in the way of gymnasium work
the past winter in spite of limited time
and lack of adequate apparatus.
--Rehearsals are progressing finely
for Charley's Aunt, which will be given
in the auditorium April 10 and 90 under
the auspices of the First Regiment
band. The stage direction is entirely
in charge of Myron p. Davis. whose
work with the various members Of the
east ensures a. finished production.
Slight changes have been made in the
east as announced last week, Onslow
Thompson taking the part at first as
signed to Kendrick harrington and Y.
NJ. Miller the part at first given to Mr..
Thompson.
The new hose wagon ordered by the
village bailiffs several months ago was
received this week from the Combina.
ton Wagon Co. of Providence, X. /.
This new piece of apparatus weighs
9 $50 pounds unloaded against weight
of $500 pounds for the old wagon
loaded. With full equipment of hose
the new wagon will weigh over loo
pounds less than the old wagon. This
decrease in weight means much to the
to alarms within the business section.
The wagon, which is of bright red
with trimmings of brass, carries four
small ladders. lanterns and hand ex-
tinguishers. 1t has been placed in the
central fire station on Elliot street.
Evidently Bratheboro is considered
virgin soil for amateur flim-fiam artists
10 operate in. No sooner does the story
leak out that two attempts have been
made to bunco the inhabitants of this
section with worn.out magazine sub
,cription game than along come a cou-
pie of chrome merchants who have a
yauzy sort of a proposition. These last
,wo individuals appeared in town Mon
lay, as told elsewhere in this paper.
yesterday a solicitor for another pub
ication was reported doing business in
own on basis that looked as though |
MS proposition was hardly Legitimate.
L was rumored last night that repre-
of LLOYD s would locate here
oon to issue policies to protect the ma
ives from the crooks who come here
With shop-worn schemes to- defraud,
md get away with few dollars every |
line they visit the place.
Work on the Masonic temple and
hub house, which was pushed to the |
init last week. will not be allowed to
lacken until the interior of the tenn
lie is completed. It is expected that |
he several Masonic bodies will leave
heir old quarters in Market block a
week from today and while the temple
will not be in complete readiness on ]
hat date it will be habitable and both |
Columbian and Brattleboro lodges will
doubtless endeavor to complete their
pring's work in the small lodge room
n the new building The floor and
tations in the large lodge room were
completed last week and the property
DOM is practically ready for occupancy.
'he hardwood floor in the billiard room
vas laid last week as was the floor in
he banquet room. The floor in the lat
er room is laid in such way that when
sed for dancing the dancers will al
Ways travel in the direction the floor
5 laid.
One of the largest meetings in the
history of the Brattleboro Sunday
school Union was held in the Congre-
,ational chapel Wednesday evening