The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-09-22


brotherhood class are requested TO meet
IN the chapel Sunday morning at 1915
TO march into the church.
Arrangements have been completed
for opening postal savings bank mt the
Brattleboro postoilice tomorrow at 10
o clock in the morning. A depository
for the funds has been secured and the
necessary forms received with which TO
put the new postal department in opera.
tion.
Saturday evening, Sept. 80, Hon. j.
Wilder Fairbank of Boston will give n
stereopticon lecture in the Centre Con
gregational church on Dickens As ! Re-
call Him, using l25 beautiful color
graph slides, There is unusual interest
in Charles Dickens Just now because OF
his approaching centennial.
AT n hearing before Probate Judge
A. f. Schwenk Saturday morning, the
will of George Il. Brooks 'of Vernon
was allowed. An appeal was taken by
Mrs. George Brooks in the interest OF
her children. Attorney Myron i. DAVIS
appeared for the proponents and \. J.,
Carpenter for the contestants.
Brattlehoro board of trade mem
bers and others interested in the com
mercial uplift of New England have
been visited this week by represen.
tative of the Springfield, Mass, board
of trade who is soliciting subscriptions
for Western New England, the official
organ of the Springfield organization.
"A l5-horsepower motor in the grain
elevator of +. Crosby & Co., burned out
Saturday morning. The accident caus,
ed much smoke but the building itself
was not harmed. a new motor was
ordered Immediately by telegraph and
reached here by express Sunday after
noon. As soon as il could be installed
grinding operations were resumed and
during Sunday night over 500 bags
were filled.
Work began on the brick walls Of
the Austine institution building tins
week. Everything was in readiness for
the LAYING of the corner stone Monday
but this event was postponed on &C,
count of the accident which happened
to Howard NJ. Eustis who was TO take
part in the ceremony. However, the
work has not been retarded in any way.
The masons will rush the>brick worR AS
fast as possible in order to get the walls
up and covered before freezing weather
sets in.
-Fortv.fve Minutes from Broadway
which will be seen at the auditorium
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Is
unique in wholesome comedy and heart
interest. There are many new musical
numbers introduced this year, as well as
the ever popular and tuneful melodies
such as Mary Is a Grand Old Name, %
Long Mary, / Want to Be a Popular
Millionaire, and Forty five Minutes from
Broadway.
-Pontius PLAT. who figured in the
snotlipht to considerable extent dur
ing the past fortnight and landed II
Newfaue Jail on a writ of capias, rs a
free man. On Monday afternoon ms
wife produced $24 and an order was
given her for her husband s release
Mrs. plate took up her husband s bust
ness Friday and Saturday of last WeeH
and secured number of advertising
contracts which she negotiated into
cash and thereby freed PLAT from the
county Jail.
Nothing has been done in the mat
ter of relocating the southern ehd OF
South Main street below the Fort Dunn
mer Mills as voted at SPECIAL town
meeting several weeks ago. The select
mon received word from State Highway
Commissioner Charles w. Gates o.
Franklin that he hoped to be in Brat
tleboro the first week in September tt
consult with the selectmen relative tc
the work, but nothing further mas pee
heard from Mr.. Gates and meantime th'
winter is approaching.
Next Tuesday and "Wednesday
evenings the curtain at the AUDITORIUM
win 90 up on Forty.fve Minutes iron
Broadway, George NJ. Conan s clevel
musical comedy. 1t is said that the pro
duction is a fine one, and 1t is eertail
| that an enthusiastic audience VIII VII
ness the amusing recital of the DONG
| of New York suburbanltes, with plo
that develops interestingly ana Ia
! been called George Conan s best eror
IN The way of pIay-writing. Mr.. CohaI
has drawn his characters with grea
| trntbfulness to life and has cleyerly, IN
terwoyen a good story told IN his Jun
NEST vein.
-Brattleboro is to have another
amusement enterprise in the form OF
nanny arcade in the American building
| The store formerly occupied by George
! Gihbs has been rented by the lslah'
| comnanv. and painters have reaecorat
! Cd the interior this week. On TUESDAY
! Ga nenny.in-the-slot machines arrived
and are being installed. There are
mnving pictures, lung testers, puncnlnt
machines, monographs, fortune teileL'
and a half a dozen or more other mover
ties in the form of coin-regulate,5
machines. The Island company Wi
move its stock of postcards, con1eeGoh
erv and cigars from Island Park TO ln'
American building branch at tne clos'
Of The season and a clerk VIII "
employed.
The lecture in the Centre Congreea
tional church Tuesday evening by heV
Gbarios b. Stowe, son of Harrie
Reecher Stowe, drew not only larS'
Int a thoroughly appreciatlve audi
once. The story of the writing. OF oncl'
Toms Cabin by his distlngu i
mother was told in detail by MI. oI4Me
In referring to his uncle, henry wa; wa.
Beecber, Mr. Stowe SAID 1t ml9nL iht ".
est Brattleboro people to know I ina en- sn
prominent clergyman received De AZ AZ
money for public speaking IN n. D af M
boro. Mr.. Beecher was a guese S ~ oa ~,
WasseIhoeft at the water cure ana gav'
. iectnre in that institution. Mr.. stow
"a b;s mother wrote the vision o
In. which Uncle Tom sees IN Tn u
story. as the first chapter ana Dull, tn
story about that chapter
Howard NJ Eustis, of Mobile
Ala. met with peculiar accl9enL ia d
week Thursday afternoon ~ when a I I,
stroyed the sight. of his ie Ms eye, q
company with his s,, niece + p N Nhsmberi,
Minis, and Mr.. and Mrs II. o. e.o 0naahD cIimi
Mr. Eustis was returning lroM Nv nart,
odd ~ nraetieaIly reached the foot of tn
, ~ ain when large dead tree parre'
tho wav. having fallen across the pam
I Me MY M,,Sstis STONED and bowling his heeat
attem nof to pass under the barrier
a a;tt;np his ewes to scan the way aheat
L Ii mas n, strnck in the left eye by
ne ;nt wa ,;mb This he quickly grasp
pa 9ia aud removed it from the eye, but q
t the as stick was withdrawn the e yson
h iaSI bound up the wound as best 4