The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-10

The woman 3 auxiliary of the n
z. .. y. will meet with Mrs. Ere
Davis, 7 Canal street, next Frida,
afternoon.
The school in town district No.
taught by Miss Mabel Winchester
closed Monday on account of an cpl
demic of pinkeye among the pupils
| The regular monthly meeting o
the Brattlebor0 Mutual Aid association
will be held Monday at $3.50 o'clock n
the headquarters, Canal street.
Protective grange will give the lit
erary entertainment at Guilford grang
tomorrow night. It is hoped goo,
number Of Protective grange member
will attend.
Road Commissioner David II. PER-,
and a surveyor were busy YESTERDAY
getting levels on Main street from
which to figure in case the road com
missioner decides TO do anything. IL
the way Of work on that thoroughfar,
this year.
A meeting of the road commission
ers of Windham county will be held II
Brattleboro Thursday, March %. AZ
that time State Commissioner G. w
Gates of Franklin will be present ans
plans for the coming season Is work vii
be outlined and discussed.
A largely attended meeting of the
woman Is auxiliary of Brattleboro lodge
N. Il. o. F.. was held at the home OF
Mrs. A. j. Bracket at 30 Canal street
Friday afternoon. Routine business
matters were discussed and many plans
for the spring and summer talked over
State Fish and Game Commissioner
John w. Titcomb of Lyndonville.. calls
attention to the fact that the close
season on rabbits this year began on
March ], one month earlier than last
year. The change from April ia
March | was made in order that the
animals may have proper time to breed
ID. w. Finn of Keene. deputy or.
ganizer for the fraternal order OF
Moose, has already received large
number of applications from Brattle-
boro men asking that branch of the
order be established in this town. Bel
lows Falls has charter list of about
100 names and the lodge will be insti-
tuted in that village within few
weeks.
There was large audience in the
auditorium Sunday evening to listen
to the speakers at the no-license rally.
Music was furnished by the men s glee
club and Leitsinger's orchestra. Prinei-
pal +. b. Smith of the Brattleboro high
school presided. The speakers were
Clarke c. Fits. George l.. Durham. j.
Gilbert Stafford and John KANE. The
arguments were not sentimental but
upon the ground that Brattleboro could
not afford to support saloons or to Ii
cense the sale of liquor.
Prof. L. B. Patton of Hartford,
Conn, will be unable to give his lee
ture on Jerusalem In New Testament
Times Friday evening in the Centre
Congregational church, on account of
the recent death of his father, Rev. X.
Il. s. Patton. A stereopticon lecture on
Bulgaria. will be given in place of It..
The subject will be, New Life In The
Near East. This lecture was recently
arranged by Miss Ellen Stone who was
in captivity and is exceedingly interest
ing. The lecture will begin at 7.45
o clock.
1t is officially denied at the offices
of the New York, New Haven Hart
ford Railroad company that there nave
been purchases of New London North
ern Railroad company stock in the in
terest of New Haven company. The
stock of the New London
Northern is $1.500000. scattered among
400 holders. The only effect of secur-
ing control of the stock would be the
election of the board of directors, who
would have no power of changing tine
present 99year lease of the property
to the Vermont Central and Grand
Trunk.
Reduced rate tickets to school
were offered for sale by the
local railroad company Monday and
there was liberal patronage of this
kind of transportation. Some OF the
were not supplied with the
three-cent tickets on their early trips
Monday morning and several young
sters were disappointed in not being
able to buy a book of 10 half'fare
tickets as promised by The Reformer
last week. An hour or two later the
tickets were issued to the conductors
and all pupils wishing to buy them were
an opportunity.
Health Officer Henry Tucker will
begin a crusade within a few weeks
against those who disfigure the appear,
ance of the embankment in the rear of
the buildings on Main street, The
health officer has many times called at
tention to the debris thrown from win
dows and back doors and allowed to
roll down to the tracks of the West
river -TdllTUdu. u HIS 1thi
will doubtless drop. DR.. Tucker can
not devote his time to watching for
violators of the law, but he can make
the owners of the buildings remove the
debris in the rear of their respective
blocks and will quite likely ask such
owners to busy themselves as soon as
the frost gets out of the ground.
An evening with Elijah will be OBJ
=, ,npn ap1 illustrated lpeturp
MT the Universalist church Sunday at
7 D. m. The church choir will render
the following selections from the, IA
nous oratorio, Elijah: Organ prelude,
He That Shall Endure; quartet. If With
All Your Heart; solo by b. n. Crane,
0, Rest in the Lord; quartet. he watch
inc Over Israel; organ postlude, Then
Shall the Righteous. The ~stereopticon
lecture will picture the places in which
The leading events of Elijah g life were
enacted. The Sunday school lessons
for the past few weeks have been upon
this subject, and it will be a splendid
and fitting climax to the series TO near
in song and to see in picture the story
IF this wonderful man of God.
James Donahue Of the st. Mary
basketball squad of Turner's Fails, VINO
,ame to Brattleboro Friday evening and
played with his team against the Brat
tleboro Independents, is at the Me-
mortal hospital recovering from an
,peration for strangulated hernia Dona-
hue returned to the Brooks House after
he game Friday evening and com
q his room. Shortly after he called a
,eliboy and asked for a physician; DIR;
George r. Anderson was summoned ana
3rdered the man removed to the hos,
,ital where an operation was performed
.bout one O'Clock the following morn
I NO. He was reported Monday as re-
Covering from the effects of, the, opera
ion but the quarantine placed upon
,be institution, because Of the several
,ases of diphtheria which developed
saturday and Sunday, will prevent him