The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-02-10
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

hofo VIII conduct the chapel service NJ
the Retreat next Sunday afternoon Mt
3 o clock,
"A food sale will be held ut II. H.
Thompson Is store Saturday afternoon,
Feb. II, from 10 3, under the auspices
Of the women of the Episcopal church.
Ambrose Munsell, 90, who died at
his home in Enfield. Mass. Sunday, was
father Of Mrs. Nathan Hurlburt of this
town. He was n Civil war veteran.
The local camp of Modern Wood.
men of America obligated n class of
six candidates ut its regular meeting
Tuesday evening There are about 20
more candidates TO take the obligation.
During the month of February, the
services nj the Home for the Aged, on
Western avenue, will be conducted by
Rev. d. u. Trout of the Universalist
church. These services are ut o clock
Sunday afternoon.
Rev. Frank l.. Masseck, formerly
of this town but now pastor of the Uni.
versalist church at Arlington, Mass,
has recently written n former parish,
Toner of the society's successful and
encouraging work during his passionate
there of about Il year
The woman's auxiliary of the Y.
Tuesday afternoon, Feb. il, at $50
clock, in the rest rooms. Mrs. J.. X.
Fuller will give pauer, and Mrs. h. ID.
Wilson will recite. The executive board
will meet at o clock.
The next meeting of the w. q. L.
L. will be held in the rest room at
clock next Monday afternoon. The
hour will be devoted to the memory OF
Miss Emma Heath, the beloved matron
of the rest room and member of the
Union, who passed away last week.
The board of managers of the rest
room have secured Miss Addie Fay as
matron. She formerly acted as helper
and substitute for Miss Heath. She is
thoroughly acquainted with the work
and details of conducting the rooms,
and the public is to be congratulated IN
securing her services.
The Grange Dramatic club will give
a moonlight dance in Grange hall Thurs
day evening, Feb. l6. Leitsinger. s four
piece orchestra will furnish music, with
singing by Alison Dugan. These. dances
are OF the same plan as those gwen Dy
the grange marching stan two years
ago. Everybody cordially invited.
The case of the village against Il.
NJ. Angler, to recover the amount OF a
sewer assessment, was called De1ote
Justice l.. II. Lynde of Dummerston, IN
the Office of E. j. Waterman Tuesday
| A settlement was made by Mr.. Angler
who paid $l03. This is one of the con
| tested sewer assessments that nave
been bothering the bailiffs for long
| time.
Ralph Chester Moore and Miss Amy
Marjorie Pratt, both of Brattleboro
were married at the Methodist parson'
age Wednesday afternoc by Kew. r.
A, Wells. They were unattended: MI
Moore is employed by the Brattleboro
Mater Works company. The bride is
| daughter of Barney Pratt, at whose
home on Spruce street the couple VIII
live for the present.
The Crystal Springs Ice company
has still one pond to cut, and Will start
upon it as soon as the ice is Ia inches
thick. On Monday morning IL was
found to be IL inches, and the o-degrees,
below temperature that morning lea
the company to believe cold snap was
due to lnger in. this iocality. HOW,
ever. the temperature climbed upward
fast and at midnight Monday 1T was
showing. The company will harvest
about 5000 tons, which was the amount
of last season s crop.
Our Martyred Presidents, Lincoln
Garfield and Mckinley, BY Key; Is. :
Eaton of Dover, N. H., VIII De the SUP,
iect of the stereopticon lecture AT the
iTniyersalist church Sunday at Z p. M
As Sunday is Lincoln s birthday, tins
lecture is fitting; moreover. 1t follows
logically the lecture of last Sunday, the
Civil War. Mr.. Eaton is a. retired MN
lister who is making a speciality OF mus
trated lectures. His views used to pie
ture the stirring scenes IN these nopie
lives are of the finest. No comment Is
needed. because the subject in Itself APP
meals to all true Americans, for one can
never learn nor know too mucn apou'
the great, simple Amerlcan-Llheoih
The public is welcome.
Mrs. Richards Bradley recently mao
| tested for tuberculosis all cattle OF
the herd managed by Mr.; Barrett OF
| the Bradley farm and OF the nero kepl
at the Rice farm. This test, as carried
out by Doctors Stevens OF Whlte hivel
| junction and Rathbone OF Brattieooio
| is authentic as a state test, Gut OF UT
133 head tested not single developed
case was detected, and but one ANNA
reacted enough to be at all suspicious
The fact that both herds are clean \
yery pleasing to Mrs. Bradley as mucl
sacrifice has been undergone IN mel
smorts to entirely purify these herds q
| +b;s dread contapion. The accomplish
mant of this high standard is not only
If direct benefit to the community, bu'
should 90 to prove to all earnest Iarm
eTs what can be done by such testIhi
| if it be carried out consclentlousiy ant
with vigilance.
The police made capture !hurs
| dav of a Young man who stole plcycl'
in This CITY July 80 last and got away
selling the wheel in Brattleboro, W
lie is Edgar Ferguson OF WaterVllet
n Y. who had lived here. Tor som'
time. Ferguson saw Lewis Shea,
nephew of John Coffey, riding Coneya
bicycle, and asked to be alloWed 10 tiu
it short distance; He TOOK !he "hef
was learned that he sold the wheel IL
Rrattlehoro. getting So for it. Fergu
son returned to this neighborihood
short time ago, and was picked up .,
the police Thursday. At speclal scr
sion of the police court Thursday even
mo he was found guilty and SENTENCED
70 5the county farm at Westmorelan!!
for four months. He was taken up Fri
day by Superintendent Whltmah'-
Keene, N. H., Sentinel.
world q record for doughnut eating
Though hardly up to weight and Gh Win
out any attempt q training npI t%
Hopkins, almost youth, sinas Wadn vm
donohnut eating record to blts Weuness
4 day afternoon at the restaurant or
r. Rice. So confident was MI. hop
kins that he could put one over oh .n
best best doughnut eaters and set up a n ne
n nthlates that he wagered S. on hi
ABILITY ability to get outside of y norma rI;t
doughnuts, including the holes ses on WI