The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-22
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

There will be dance at Island
park tomorrow evening as usual.
Commencement exercises of the
Center Congregational Sunday school
will take place next Sunday.
"A wellattended meeting of the
New England auxiliary was held at the
home of Mrs. Fred Davis on Canal
street Friday afternoon. Plans for
the coming n. E. 0. 7. fair were DIS
cussed.
The sewer on Western avenue
which is TO connect the mains on both
sides of Bonnyvale brook has been com,
pleted and the sewage will be carried
into Milestone brook without the disa-
greeable odor of past dry seasons.
Columbian lodge, +. & A. NJ, held a
snaciol communication in Masonic tenn
ME last evening at which work was
performed in the first degre9 Work IN
the same degree will be exemplltied by
Brattleboro lodge at I3O clock TINS
evening.
Though a heavy shower prevailed
nearly ali of Friday evening there was
rood-sized audience in the chapel Oh
the Centre church to listen to the eN-
tremely interesting lecture. on G9ngre,
gationalism given by Prof. winston
Walker of Yale university
Fred II. Harris of this town. won
the Ohio state tennis champlons1lp ~
Cleveland Saturday by defeating frahH
Marty of Fort Thomas, kyY, ~, Vt
90 Previously in the day Harris de-
foo+od nr, Nat Thornton of Atlanta,
Ca. in the final round of the tourna-
ment. ~
Since the breaking of the drouth
~ +bn last DAYS of August there, have
been II distinct showers in Brattleboro
according to the statistics OF Weath er'
wise, Wise citizen of the North end. Some
| of these periods of rainfall were SNORT
and the precipitation was practleally
notbing while others were almost cloud
bursts. -..,,t
COMPANY and the First Regime mi
Ibond left for the state encampmeht at
Fort Ethan Allen Sunday morning az
: 70 n ,clOck. Three special cars Wer9
nsed Ia transport the men. Inc panu
nIaved on its way from the band rooms
r. the station. Many, early llse SEE
gathered to listen to the panu tr aiu
watch the men Of Company ehIi"in
for camp. :, n pr,
Road Commissioner David i. Perry
comnleted the cement approach W ;nb
| town hall this week. Inc forms w W. q
had been left about the steps aui y
, rl or more were removed MONDAY
WI +be front of the building mas
o ohanoed appearance. While o lew
o eLrapio Lickers are inclined to LOOK lol
trnnhie when the snow falls upon the g.
ment the majority OF people WIZ tHot Us q
iilomO +ha Improvement agree that
GOOD lob has been done.
Only fair sized audience gre &c; :,
mn C;ri in the Taxi at the audltorl91!ii11
6n ne evening but those VINO Hlu
o t.nnd The performance were not ai .I
aanrSneo;nted@that is, if they went t Mion
hppppwledge of the kind of play ened
we're to See. The show was wen s'" and
and the company was aoe VHniton rs
avanlv balanced .Craft "aloon; .1iy
Alexis, the head water, vas 10 6op Tlaved
goou, WE ~ uBirdieD Stewart, dld
o anoa p singing speciality in the secono
act. ,. ovbibit in
-, 80 library was arranged IN cases
tne r;t,3oted as to afford children 9: -
~ ortnnitv to study the specimens ,i !.
op up,Id nrove of ten-fold more 'aou n'
t Moui' Il does under the present co re
1 l!t:ans 81 Manv of the specimens ai 9
u iionnd in lars which are. hlddea ~ Inc
9 9.nil closet-so dark in fact tna ;ar e.
oonnot read the labels upon ny 10 or
o va nnnrranGed in glass case Wh IN - on
oI Io % as to receive only small pohte ose
I p pf'tb e LIGHT which filters INTO inc o"'0
nnent of the building. , -
If is the policy of the slect d inrg ge
~ 10 ali wooden bridges and la ast
TePla1tt with cement structures as mi La are
cult yer olJ ones need repairing, t .nmn
as Ine VT N cement bridges IN the t Nv
are pnroottleboro and it is expeceteu onre
Oh H. vear will see four or nve iio ore
ancuhei Some of the structures or
pull more than five feet from oa sRedd
naruaS and might rightful!y pc ca her
10 SPIT, spath These small bridges w., VIZ ur
cur of cement require practicdhi nl;ove
niauo +;on and the selectmen penT ,,st
a NY = l. far more economlcai " u'>
'eile Though the freeze of last asIds wf the
-,nht min in many corn ne ptr oat
wrought d trIn on the Brattleboro Retr mis,
50-acre ne,n serious damage. ~
farm esed hpod heen practically harvest
field corn i hau amount of the, ensllags
ed ana L I'm cnt. One silo had peer
corn hau p tbe other two would nay,
filled e anu Hhefore the frost arrived i,
been hlieu o eutter had not prokei.
the enslHnh owever. only a small amour th,
down. Vas vas nipped. In, view Oh YIN
or corn we On this farm superb ~
large acte'W ". Roel considers tnae hi Z,
tendeht a. fortunate than many oI III.
is far MOI? n This and adjoining IoMns
nelghpoLi; 10 field of potatoes, amo . I'm,
AS the pie acres. was about III. IIp
to apUu ~ DIG the frost did pu' NUN
20 m that crop.