The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-13
THE BRATTLEBORO REFORMER FRIDAY, JANUARY Is. 1911


the hose team y dance In Grange hall
Wednesday evening, many attending
solely TO enjoy the music.
-Silas X. Richardson and Miss
Annie NJ. Coolidge, both of Greenfield,
Mass, were united in marriage at the
Tniyersalist parsonage by Rev. ID. H.
Trout Wednesday.
The officers of Protective grange
will be installed Wednesday evening
bv c. 5. Hopkins, Supper, will be
served after the meeting All members
are requested TO contribute without
futher solicitation.
The ladies committee of the Brat
tleboro Mutual Aid association VIII be
nj home Tuesday nj the new headqnar'
tiers, No. Canal street. from TO .
and from 10 q u. m, when the house
will be open for inspection. The com
mittee will be pleased 10 receive its
friends and all who are interested IN
the work of the association.
-. Reed Powell, who gave very in
teresting lecture last night In the. Con
gregational church on the subject,
Beauty Spots in America, will give an,
other tonight in the church at sou
o clock. The subject will be Ram
Bile Through Europe, Egypt and the
HOLY Land. There will be no admission
fee. but silver offering will be taken
nj the close.
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Peoples National bank
was held in the banking rooms Tues
day forenoon and the following officers
were elected; President, j. q. Estexi;
vice president and cashier, w. IL.
Bracket; directors, W. II. Brae kett,
]. @. Estey. c. G. Fits, II. p. Wellman;
c. II. Crosby. w. II. Ninton,. The board
of directors reelected c. l.. Stlekney
assistant cashier.
The executive committee OF the
Brattleboro Civic Improvement league
met at the home of the president OF
the league. DR.. Henry d. llolton. Wed
nesday evening and decided to nave
come TO BrattleborO TO give his lecture
When 4 Man Keeps House. The lee
ture will be given in the chapel of the
Centre church. and the date will be an,
nounced soon. The committee voted
TO take up the study of household
economies this winter, and the members
of the league will study this subject in
preference to other subject on its pro
gram.
The annual meeting of the corpora
tors of the Vermont Savings bank was
held in the banking rooms "Wednesday
morning, and was followed by the an
nual dinner at the Brooks House. The
officers elected We're: President, I: H.
Pratt; vice.president, William ,. New.
Ton; treasurer, Harry j. Webster;
trustees. W. S. Newton, j. G. Estey, +.
/. Houghton. c. II. Pratt, w. II. Brack X
EFT, NJ. Austin, f. L. Hunt, c. Q. Rob
bins, and II. =. Webster: board of in
vestment. c. II. Pratt F. l.. Hunt. W.
II. Brackett. c. o. Robbins, II. p. Web.
ster: auditors. +. l.. Hunt. NJ. Austin.
and C. o. Robbins. W. +. Hubbard, ~.
II. Crane, W. 4. SUBWAY and {. f.
Thomas were elected corporators
The auditors report of the Valley
Fair association was issued and mailed
to stockholders Saturday. There IS no
material change in the figures gwen IN
The Reformer the last of November
when the report was briefly sum
married.. The entry fees received IN
the poultry department amounted to
S293.50. The cost of this department
to the association was $29i.0S in 1910
against S66j. IS in 1909, and SS3l69 in
1908. The stock books Of the associa.
ton win be closed for the transfer OF
stock on Saturday, Jan. 81, and will not
be opened until after the annual meet
ing to be held in the Brooks House
Wednesday, Jan. %. 1t will be remem.
bered that at the last annual meeting
the point was raised whether stock
standing in the name of an estate could
be voted Announcement is made in the
auditors report that such stock may be
voted only by legal administrators or
executors.
-Denman Thompson perennial
drama of New England country life, is
the attraction at the auditorium tomor-
row night. The play is now in the 18th
year of its existence. The Old Home
stead is play that pleases all classes.
When ministers of the gospel urge their
congregations to attend theatrical
performance and preach its moral from
the pulpit it follows necessarily that
the play itself is far above the average
rity and truth. Yet, we are told, that
is precisely what the ministers of the
gospel have been doing and are dolno
in the case of The Old Homestead
Not night passes, we are assured,
when the company is on tour, that
clergymen of all denominations, Protes-
tants and Catholic, are not present, IN
terested and enthusiastic spectators
and auditors of this grand old New
England idyl. Like the play, itself the
audiences are study, an object lesson
u
classes are represented in The Old
Homestead audiences-the banker, the
lawyer, the merchant, the plain me
chanic, and the plain farmer. 10 the
Young it is delightful and romantic
idyl, the Youngest child in the audience
enioying its humor, if not its pathos,
quite as much as the older generation.
SYLVIA Ann Clark, 70, widow OF
Franklin w. Clark, died at her home
on Central street late Tuesday after
noon from complication of diseases.
She had been i'll only about a month
aud had recently returned from the Me-
mortal hospital. About two weeks ago
she suffered an attack Of tonsllitis,
which aggravated her disease. Mrs.
Clark was born in Brattleboro, June
20, 1897, and was the daughter of John
Lock and Phoebe Town. Her educa-
ton was received in this town where
she lived until her marriage to Frank.
lin w. Clark, Sept. 2S, 1857 Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark went to Illinois on their
wedding trip, and remained there FOR
a number of years, going from that
state to Kansas. They returned to
Mr.. Clark died in Brattleboro Oct. 2.
1897. OF the seven children born. to
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark three survive,
Frank w. and Phoebe L., both of Brat
tleboro, and Edith, wife of John Lane
of Springfield, vt. Mrs. Clark. also
leaves two sisters. Mrs. E. M. Smith Of
Brattleboro and Mrs. W. E. Clark of
Charlestown, N. H., and brother. Jo-
siah Putnam of Charleston. Mrs Clark
was a member of the Centre Congrega,.
tional church, and charter. member OF
Fort Drummer colony, Pilgrim Fathers.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
Jane Pratt, So, wife of Henry
Pratt, died at her home on Western
avenue Sunday night of complication
of diseases, following an illness which