The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15


The free kindergarten will have, n
1 Christmas tree and exercises for the
children Thursday, Dee. 81, and close
that day for vacation of 10 days.
AT the regular meeting of Dennis
Rebekah lodge Tuesday evening the de-
gree was conferred upon two candidates
and nominations for officers, to be voted
for at the meeting Tuesday evening,
/ Dee. 20, were made,
| With several counter attractions on
/ the schedule Wednesday evening the at
/ tendance at the third O. II. $, social was
4 diminished from that of the two pre-.
NiOus occasions. The evening was spent
| in dancing and bowling,
AS Quonektacut tribe of Red Men
4 has several palefaces waiting to take
4 the different degrees rehearsal of the
adoption degree has been called this
evening. Every member of the degree
/ team is requested to be present.
The annual meeting and election of
officers of Valley lodge, No. ~, knights
of Pvthas, will be held in the Is. Of G.
4 hall Tuesday evening. Dec. 20. At the
regular meeting Tuesday evening nomi-
nations were made for the coming term,
While experimenting the unload,
+ ing of logs from wagon in the mill
/ yard of the $. \. Smith company Satur.
+ day Frank l.. Hunt received painful
injury to his left foot. 4 log rolled
/ from n pile and crushed the great toe in
addition to badly bruisng his foot.
There were 90 present at the meet
/ ing of the officers and teachers of the
/ Centre Congregational Sunday school
/ in the church parlors Friday evening.
/ Supper was served before the business
meeting and at the close of the meal
plans for Christmas were discussed.
-Pocahontas council will give an.
other dance tomorrow evening in Red
/ Men s hail. As the committee in charge
/ of these dances has decided that the
popularity of the events warrants their
continuance during the winter, plans
I have been made for holding one. every
Saturday night until further notice.
--.Janitor II. +. Harris wishes it dis.
I tinctly understood that he knows the
name of the persons who got into Fest
val hall Tuesday evening during the
4 basketball game by forcing a door into
4 the auditorium and entering the outside
j hall from the fire escape on the north
side of the building. The second otfense
+ in this line will doubtless result in bring,
ING the offenders before the municipal
court.
j Three eases have been entered in
/ Windham county court in the estate OF
Elias Prouty, late Of Halifax, two of
them being appeals by Minerva and
Clarence Bliss from the disallowance of
their accounts by the commissioners OF
the estate. The other case is one in
which Minerva Bliss appeals from the
allowance of Ossie Proutys claim
against the estate.
--Rev. Virgil johnson. executive. sec
IL. E.Il 20 Of hn
Men and Religion Forward Movement,
will speak Sunday noon in the congre-
gational church to the men of the Bap,
fist. Congregational Methodist and
F., Universalist parishes OF this town with
n view to finding out if they wish to be-
come auxiliary to the Springfield center,
which is to receive a visit from corps
of experts for a campaign from Jan.
to IA,
AT the monthly meeting of the
Mutual Aid association in its rooms on
Canal street Monday afternoon the sec
retary' s report showed that the assocla'
! ton received SO calls for help during
/ November, of which 80 were for sick
ness or emergency. With one eXeep-
/ ton these 80 calls were answered. Ihe
supervisor had Is patients under care
during the month and made 80 calls.
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her charge and made 12S visits.
A new form of vestibule has been
placed on the town building this. week;
and there is little doubt that it will
proye great Improvement over the
| storm door that has formerly served
t(9) to keep draughts away from the
corridor The entire porte-cochere has
\ been enclosed, the top with sections OF
waterproofed duck and the lower part
with sheathing. This arrangement keeps
out the cold without keeping out, the
light. There are three swinging doors
i in the vestibule.
-Brattleboro chapter. Daughters
of the American Revolution, held its
December meeting at the home of Mrs.
IC. b. Lamson Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
IIamson and Mrs. Emogene White were
hostesses This was a Christmas sew
ing party and a large number OF the
members were present. Opening eH-
ercises, roll call and other business be-
ing over dainty refreshments were
served while Mrs. A. 7. Carpenter IA
yored the company with delightful piano
selections. The meeting was a very
| informal one, but none the less en-
ioyable on that account.
John w. vogel's Big City Min
!
Saturday. Jan. 6, and will present one
of the most novel and pleasing enter
tainments ever offered the amusement
loving public. The program is over
flowing with rapid-fre fun and genuine
surprises; pretty music and dazzling
scenic and electrical effects form an
important part of the entertainment.
/ The entire program is everywhere pre-
sented in absolute perfection, never
curtailed in any detail, fact that makes
this organization still more successful
each successive season. The manage
ment IS motto has been, "Pertection
Makes Perpetual Popularity.
Health Officer Henry Tucker re-
ceived word from, the state laboratory
at Burlington Friday of last week that
the sample of water sent there for
lanalvsis the latter part of November
has been found "wholesome water. 4
| A number of weeks ago samples of water
taken from mains in different parts Of
! the town, but both from the Pleasant
Valley reservoir, were found to be
slightly polluted by the. wash OF pas
lures in the vicinity of the reservoir
during the extremely rainy weather last
! fall AT the time the report came that
the water was polluted Health Officer
| Tucker advised that water for, drink
/ inc be boiled. There is no further ne
cessity for that now.
Mrs. O. II. Stickney left. Brattle-
boro Tuesday evening for Toledo. Ia,
| to attend the funeral of her mother,
Mrs. Sophronia P. Houghton., Mrs;
Houehton, who was the widow of David
Houghton, died at Lyford: Tex, Mon
day, at the age of S4. She was born porn
in June, 1927, at Sutton, Mass, but
moved with her parents to Nottingham
w. VI, when a child. ABOUT 40 years ago
she went to Iowa to live though she
had made frequent trips east, spending
last summer with her daughter, in Brat
tleboro. The telegram received. by Mrs.
81. al.nnr- Mnndnv did not give the