The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-06
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.


Rev. Il. NJ. loughton will conduc
the chapel service ut the Retreat mex
Sunday afternoon Mt 3 o o'clock.
The Estey Organ factory, whic
was closed for the annual inventor,
during the holidays, started up Tues
day morning.
Health Officer Henry Tucker insist
that no pupil Quarantined for chicken
poX shall return TO school without
permit from him.
DR.. f. II. o 'Connor moved his Office
Saturday from the American building
TO the new building adjoining his hom'
ON North Main street.
AT meeting Of the directors OF
the Peoples National bank Dec. 20 1
regular dividend of So and an extra
dividend of - a share was declared.
The class of seven candidates that
recently received the first degree il
Wantastiquet lodge of Odd Fellows was
given the second degree Monday even
ing.
A few neighbors of Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Butterfield called upon them
| Monday on the occasion of their Goth
wedding anniversary. Both Mr., and
Mrs Butteriield are enjoying better
health than they did upon the occasion
of their anniversary last year.
The membership roll of the Centre
! Congregational church was increased
by the addition of 10 new members
| Sunday morning. Ten of these new
members were received by confession
and the others by letter. OF this class
of 10 eight were young men about ii
years of age.
Stark company, Red Men IS lea"ue,
| gave n New Year. dance in Grange
hall Monday evening The weather and
the travelling prevented as large an at.
tendance as was anticipated, but the
event proved an enjoyable one, and
dancing was INDUCED in until an early
hour Tuesday morning.
The sale of the blooded Shropshire
sheep at the d. S. Pratt farm on West
ern avenue afforded local breeders, who
20 in for sheep in small way, an oppor-
tunitv to obtain some exceptionally fine
specimens. f. ID. +. Stowe has selected
from the Pratt flock a ram and several
ewes which he intends to turn out next
season in his apple orchard on Ames
Hill.
-Adiutant General Lee S. Tillotson
of the First Vermont regiment has
issued au order disseminating all local
rifle ranges throughout the state, so
that in the future the only outdoor prac-
tice members of the several companies
will have will be at the four days
shoot at the state range in Northfeld.
Company ! of this town has not main
tanned a local range for several years.
Owing to the illness of Judge Kit.
tredge Haskins, Chase n Daley, attor-
news for Antonio Corbelli, entered into
a stipulation Jan. 3, with Myron 7.
n EA he doh gVG
Chair company, wherein judgment was
allowed for the plaintiff to recover
$4l2 and costs. This is case where
the plaintiff claimed damages for in,
iuries sustained while in the employ of
the chair company.
The December number of the No
tional Society of the United States
Daughters of 1872 announces that Mrs.
G. Il. II. JENNIE, formerly of Brattleboro, |
and now of Hartford Conn, the organ
izer and eX-president of the Vermont
society, has been elected honorary |
president for life. Mrs Jenne was thus
elected at the meeting of the Vermont |
society at the home of Mrs 5. S. Bal |
lard in Montpelier some weeks ago.
The Methodist parsonage on High
street was the scene of quiet we'd
ding ceremony Saturday evening at
o clock when Rev. F. A. Wells united
in marriage Mrs. Bertha G. Dean and
Edwin c. Wilder, both of Brattleboro.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilder left on the s.34
train that evening for a short trip.
They will make their home in Brattle
boro. Mr.. Wilder is a carpenter by
trade, and for a number of months has
been employed on Rev. +. w. Sharpe's
apartment house, the Outlook, on Cen
trail street. The bride has many friends
and acquaintance in Brattleboro, and
is well known in Methodist church cir
rles through her activity in church
work.
The rummage sale of the local Sal
walton Army corps in the armys hall
On Elliot street Saturday afternoon and
~ ening drew many people. While the
ordinary individual is inclined to turn
aside from the bargains to be found
1t a rummage sale, there were score
IF women and a number of men at the
sale Saturday afternoon who evidently
,ook another view of the matter. If
very person who contributed articles
o the sale could have overheard some
If the ordinations of satisfaction ut
cred by those who were permitted to
urchase cast off garment for few
ents there would be much larger
next year.
The annual meeting of the Wind
IAN County Rural Letter Carriers as
ocation was held in the selectmen s
Dom in the town hall Monday fore ,
loon. Reports were submitted by the
,arious committees, and informal dis ,
ussion was INDUCED in concerning !
matters now before congress and under !
consideration by the postoffice depart !
nent. The following officers were
lected: President, p F. 0 Conner, of
'utney; vice-president, M. II. ingalls,,
f Windham; secretary and treasurer, t
red Vale, of South Londonderry; del {
vaile. At the close Of the business !
netting the visiting carriers took din t
er at Hoadley s cafe. Y
-Brattleboro may have wireless =
elegraph station. If it does the send .
louise with the two poles to carry the +
Inside equipment situated on the top :
the hotel and upon the hill near the +
esidence of Mayor Waterman. An in v
crested individual has been in town s
his week. making study of the con- =
itions, and he is sanguine that he can '
lstal a station here to communicate
18th Springfield, VT, Portsmouth, N f
l., and other nearby places. This Il
'ould enable Brattleboro people to p
communicate with their friends arriv- S,
lg from or departing for Europe, and d
is not out of the question to look into il
lie future bit and imagine Brattle- Il
ORC people as the first to get Mars on n
le wire. C;
The annual meeting of the Univer- q,
list Sunday school was held in the 4,
lurch Sunday forenoon at the opening e.
the regular session. The reports pre- II
nted by the secretary and treasurer ~
dicated increased interest in the e
ork of the school by the increase in Il
e average attendance for the year
rer past years, and the showing made ii