The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-10-27
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Rev F. @. S. Osgood will conduct
the chapel service at the Retreat Sun,
day afternoon at O'Clock.
The second in the series of fall and
winter dances given by the Daughters
of Pocahontas was held in Red Men I
hall Saturday evening.
"A set of steel compartments for the
valuable records of the several Masonic
bodies has been placed in the vault under
the southeast corner of the Masonic
temple. The records which have been
stored in the vault at the Vermont Ma
tional bank for a number of years have
been transferred to the temple.
The football game between the Brat
tleboro and Greenfield high schools
scheduled to take place on Island park
last Saturday was cancelled on account
of the rain. The schoolboys will 20 to
Saxtons River tomorrow for their second
game against Vermont academy. In the
first game the academy team won by a
score of to 0.
AT a meeting of the board OF
governors of the Vermont Wheel club
Friday evening the following commit.
tees were appointed: Entertainment,
W. o. Cooley, Houghton Seaverns and
H. C. Rice ladies' night, Lawrence
Barber, Dana Gilman and DR.. Il. p.
Greene; billiards and pool, A. H. Brasor
and Eric Landry.
The Daughters of Pocahontas, will
hold an old-fashion Hallowe Zen dance
| in Red Mems hall Saturday evening
with suitable decorations for the occa;;
sion. Everyone is invited to come and
bring friends. Good music will be fur
nished and a good time is assured to
all who participate.
The students of the Clawson- Hamil-
ton Commercial college held q meeting
October is. and chose officers as
follows: President, Carl Sargent vice.
president. Irene Mather; secretary,
Clara Betterley; treasurer, Ralph, Pei
tier. A social committee was chosen
with Reuben Brown chairman and Ar
thur Gale, Irene Mather, Charlena Bemis
and Clara Betterley assistants A soelal
will be given at an early date.
1t has been definitely decided that
Rrattleboro is to have basketball team
this winter. Manager Henry Whitney
Of the Independents, after several trlps
in search of material, has decided to
organize strictly local team and TINS
will be done within few weeks Ihough
announcement is not made OF the lineup
II will include men who have estaphsned
a reputation with local fans; Manager
whitney will arrange schedule ana
practice will begin as soon as arrange
ments can be made.
Robbins & Cowles are advertising
Liberty lanterns made by the keen kut
ter people and Friday they hgnted a
lantern in one of the windows OF tneir
store. Announcement was maze OF tne
time the lantern was hgnted ana eyeiI
nerson coming into the store was asked
- 1,ess how long it would burn. There
were guesses ranging from 10 hours TO
10 hours but the winner was DANIEL ray,
terson who thought the lantern womld
bnrn II hours and 35 minutes. Inc
i;eht burned IS hours and seven minutes
Road Commissioner David I. Perry
saws he will abate the smoke nulsahte
S d of will wait few days before
cremating them. The road commits
sioner plans to make trip through tne
streets of the village as soon as PIac-
ticallv all of the leaves have Ialien,
and his men will cart away the leaves
and other debris. He does not lntend 10
make three or four trips gathering
laaves however, and is accordingly
waiting until the entire crop can De
harvested.
The third in the series OF stereh,
opticon lectures at the Centre chnrcff
was given Sunday evening. ,by froi.
William s. Burrage, head OF the urgGh
danartment at Middlebury college his
,,b;ect was Pictures of Life in Ancient
Greece, A large audience was present
Tho Iertnre was extremely entertalnlnS'
so from the fact that 5I FOL
Rnrrage has Travelled in Greece ana mas
a first ,band knowledge of the county
he described The. pictures snowh hob bi
tanned largely to the dress anu n'''''
of the Ancient Greeks.
The Fl. A. Manning company Oh
nofield, Mass, has begun the can
ass for names for the 1917 BraItlepoIu
directory and states that it mas I., nlano
new people have come to blae.,eo oro
during the last year. lndleathLo otsnt ia.
that there has been =; supstan the
growth This. issue VIII co4 touns Of
Suburban territory for the Towns M.r u
SnGui Newfane, Dummerston, MARI
ho u Guilford. Vernon. Hinsdale, Cnes
.orsa1d and possibly few others.
: .e ar n featnre of the suburban terrltoiy
neW ;nsertion of the wives names ~
Is . .ne hosts following the. husbands
panas Nothing but expert enumera.t,
ors are employed and it Is piafRH rsttl IT,
has had # The tb Maasos sG@
IF american Directory PupIisneisf the
II through this association copies str Il
Brattieboro directory are uis l;braries
into all the public n fiFs''ssa States The
Of the e., hi Is now working on direct
same III mHLsh;ra county. Bellows FANS