The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-22
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

There will be n subscription dance
in the Brooks House the evening of
Thursday, Dee. 2s.
Rev. f. ;. Harrison will conduct
the chapel service at the Retreat sun
day afternoon at > o clock
The Story Tellers league will meet
in the parlors of the Congregational
church next Wednesday evening at 40
o. clock.
The next meeting of the Sunshine
society. branch /. will be held with Mrs.
Frank f. Barber on Western avenue,
Friday. Dec. 90, at $50.
A pleasant meeting of members or
the New England auxiliary was held
Friday evening with Mrs. Jane Brock
ington on Chestnut street.
The Methodist society will have a
Christmas tree and social Monday even
ing in the church. A program Will be
rendered and all are invited.
The Woman s Exchange will hold
not hold the special Christmas food sale,
hut the usual Saturday sale OF food ana
candy will be conducted tomorrow.
-Gino f. Riccetti and Mary L.. Stin-
son of Norwich, Conn, were married IN
the Episcopal church in Springfield,
Mass, Oct. 81, by Rev. William Austin
Smith. :.
The special Christmas sale of handi.
work nj the Woman s Exchange on Dec.
Q was the largest in the history OF the
and the business since mas
far exceeded that of any present year.
The annual Christmas supper ana
entertainment for the members OF thee
TTniversalist Sunday school Will be helM
in the church this evening. supper VIII
no served at $50 clock this afternoon
There will be no lecture in the Uni
versalist church Sunday evening De.
canse of the union Christmas cantata AZ
the Congregational church. The FOLLOW
mo sunday, Dec. 81. the subject OF the
lecture will be California, illustrated
with colored slides.
The Springfield Sunday Republican
contained an interesting illustrated ar
t;cIe bv Fred II. Harris of this, town on
the activities of the Dartmouth outlhg
club of which he was one OF the ne, io Mar
ers. Two of the pictures snow MT ma
ris himself on skis.
The annual meeting of the Home
Sunshine society will be neld AT t 5s
Home for the Aged on Tuesday Dec. 81
at 3 clock There Will be tne usuul
Christmas entertainment ana treg' a1 ~
anyone wishing to send glfts Is asH Mon, ~
do so by Tuesday morning at the iio!ne
A novel arrangement Tor na Pnnt
hot soda has been installed Az tne h ao
W. W. n The shape of a glass globe. Inc
racentacle is filed with cold water ano
tbe turning of a switch causes the cor
tnn+s r. steam within half minute, aho
% soconds later to boil furlously.
The illustrated lecture. on Ben ho l
at the Centre Congregational chur Z,
Sunday evening was pronounced ~
thnSe attending the best of the serieS
t Inns far. The slides depicted the pin
c;nal scenes in this masterpiece OF oem
lew Wallace and the lecture was an "a "a
centionally comprehensive apst 5noo "
The book. There was a large auoienoo'
As sample of speed IN rallroat
instruction Crosby e. Parker 8 force ~
Iinemen erected 25. poles, on the n SUI,
Main street extension OF the T, eioi np
road in six hours Saturday. lle 9 q
started to raise the hrst poie AZ Mace .,
d. ao NJ, an ~, Tn addition to setting I'M
IL a number of cross arms were place'
in position. Ill, .hoo, will
The Unitarian Sunday school WI
Re usual Christmas celebratloi
t ihso vaar at the home of Mrs. CnaTie G.
W TUi'D unbam on Linden street instead y
W. wills hall. Mrs. Durham hav II,
a.: a w o thrown open her home for IN,
f hlnuis supper will be served Saul sIl
9uI, p ofternoon at $50 O. clock, to pc lol
low by a Christmas tree ana CAN'T 81
Parents and friends are lnVlteu " ~
tend. 20 Tho Sun
d.v school board of the MethodisG 40
co COR church in the. vestry 49,, MoH wer
eyeninp the following olnceis ,;th
elected: Superintendent, Erwin P PlIh,e
I1st assistant superlntenuen.;, onden,
Mitchell; I'd assistant s4 m;ls Mimi
Ia D. Smith; secretary, miss MISS MnnH;r
D. D. , D treasurer, F. A. Shaw; superb
t h%Tet of primary department. MS ~
IIto Nf;ner. Superintendent OF nome ue
EtC t, m Mrs. Eliza Adams: librarian
Miss Gertrude Nichols. -
Tho case of State VS.. William oea
ahoroed with breach OF the pea
Ton; 'It ni with his divorced VII
In nrtino her letters and in other way way
by "li Ianad on file in municipal cour
was Iu LEW w. r. Daley Monday ana WI
py bahi not be brought on 1or .ii 10
p.o no further complaints are maoe "
II ~ ,,,oman. Tt is likely thar the ~,
Ine " court will be petitioned TO lou
; INTO the matter of the care ol abe Ie cns
lnIo .n children who are now IN tne ca q
minor 1ndT Of fnt their mother Mr.: Sexton oron "a
1 toay Ii they are not receiving prope
care. ,r,+ro,
1obn w yogel's Big City Mlnst IRE
..ovol in private cars, and Wne. tn;
en % here Jan. 6 they VII fnrt arne'9 an
raIi;ng palaces that cost a 1orn Tho mil
afford comfort ana lutuff y.bv.night t
they tour overland by h @nnT Ve az "a
the dinners .ov f0r many b1 references
MANY tales ar of feti if t heo stage An
the r Iil tbe er fame of the ssroad pit
, neefS money none in week as Vogel gatne'