The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-17

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that wiz arrive next week.
Joseph Nichols, who has recently
sold the Decrdeld Stock farm, will sell
ton tomorrow,
"A foreign missionary meeting will
be held in, the chapel of the Centre
Congregational church Thursday after
noon at $50 clock. Subject, Mission
aries at Work.
w. G. Doolittle has sold 10 Mrs.
Matte Williams Ingram 207 acres OF
pasture and sprout land in Marlboro,
| known as the Charter land. Mr.. Doc
little cut the large timber on It.
Ivan Augustson and Miss Emma
/ Anderson, both Of Brattleboro, Were
married nj the Universalist parsonage
March o by Rev. ID. Il, Trout. they
will make their home in Brattlebofo.
The case Of Nellie +. IIarwood, adj
ministratrix of the estate of Gilbert i.
| Harwood, against the Southern Rail
I way company has been removed TO the
! United States court on the ground OF
diverse citizenship.
J The regular March meeting of the
! Woman S exchange will be held ~ the
rest room Monday afternoon, March
20, at $3.50 O'Clock. The governing
board will meet at 3 o clock. At this
meeting nominating committee will
be elected. The proposed amendment
to the constitution, making the tinan'
cial year of the exchange end one week
previous to the annual meeting, will be
voted upon.
The monthly meeting of the Brat
tleboro Sunday school union will be
held in the Centre Congregational
church vestry Wednesdays evening.
Supper will be served al o clock All
members of the union as we'll as officers
aud teachers of the various Sunday
schools are requested to be present. 4
committee from each Sunday school is
expected to provide food, and there
will be an entertainment.
The managers of the entertain.
ment to be given by the pupils of 81
Michael s parochial school in Festival
hall this evening were busy all day yes
terday getting things in readiness for
the affair. and the finishing touches
will be added to the various booths to-
day. The decorations are suggestive
of st. Patrick s day, and the shamrock
is used unstintingly. The program OF
the entertainment was given in full in
last week 5 Reformcr.
In selecting the chorus for his new
musical comedy. The Campaigners,
which is slated for early Broadway pre-
scntation, Willis Maxwell Goodhue, the
author has paid as much attention to
the voices as to beauty and 'ginger.
Voiceless choruses seem to have been
the rage in New York of late years, but
Mr. Goodhue declares that it is as easy
to get pretty girls who can sing as
pretty girls who can Z, and the result is
that The Campaigners will enter New
York with the best singing chorus
heard in the metropolis in years, while
Mt the same time rs beautiful, shauely
and magnetic as any bevy of girls that
has descended on Broadway in many
moon. This company is booked in
Brattleboro for late spring appear
ance before going in to New York.
The case of State VS.. II. K. Brown,
Illegal killing of deer, which was set
for hearing Monday morning, was
again continued by Municipal Judge
Daley until Tuesday next. Judge Daley
announced Monday that he overruled
the demurrer of Clarke c. Fits, and
that the case would be tried upon its
merits Tuesday was set as the date
for trial. but the case will probably be
continued again as it is doubtful
whether Mr.. Fits, attorney for Mr..
IL.
tiers as to take up the case at that time.
Mr.. Fits demurred to his client plead !
ing to the charge made against him,
and said that if his demurrer was over
ruled the ease would be taken 10 the
supreme court to determine whether
Mr.. Brown should be obliged to plead
to such a charge as was made against I
him in view of recent changes in the
game laws Of Vermont.
The fest of the 1911 crop of maple |
sugar and syrup arrived in Brattleboro
Saturday. The sugar commanded a
price of 30 cents pound. but that fig !
ure was maintained only day or two
and today % cents buys pound of the |
offered for sale thus far. and so cents /
for half gallon can has been the |
prevailing quotation since the product |
came into the market Saturday. The |
Dickinson farm in Dummerston and W. |
d. Newton & Son of West Brattleboro |
were the first contributors to the local 1
market. Saturday was the first real I
/" sap day, and sugarmakers predicted /
a good week. but the temperature I
dropped Tuesday and until this morn
ing but little sap has run in this sec I
ton. Sugarmakers are looking for a /
good season in view of the conditions |
that have prevailed in this part of the |
state during the winter. 1t has always |
been held by veteran sugarmakers that !
a snowless winter with a great depth /
of frost brought an early and good run |
of san If this proves true this season I
ought to be productive
A telegram was received in Brat :
tleboro Tuesday containing news OF /
the death at Omaha. Neb., of Ada L.. |
wife of Sidney A. Miller. who was for
many years resident of Brattleboro.
The body will be brought here for |
burial, and funeral services will be
held in the Unitarian church at 3
was born in New York city and was so +
years of age. Her parents were Rev.
and Mrs William Delos Balch. She
came to Brattleboro when a young girl /
and completed her education in West I
Brattleboro seminary. She first mar
RED Leonard Wheeler of Brattlehoro,
who died in the early SOS. In. 1887
she married Sidney A. Miller of this
town. who was a we'll known carriage
civil war. About 30 years ago Mr.. and
Mrs. Miller left Brattleboro going to
New Haven, Conn. where thev lived
for time. They went from Connect.
cut to Omaha. Mrs. Miller is survived
by her husband, who in company with
her visited Brattleboro for month
last summer. She also leaves one son.
Harry C. Miller, assistant cashier of
the Stock Yards National bank of
South Omaha; one grandson. William
Delos Miller; and two brothers. Ed
ward Balch of Omaha and John Balch
of Chicago Burial will be in the fam
lily lot in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Assistant PRINCIPAL James P. Tay-
Tor of Vermont academy gave an ad
dress Wednesday afternoon at the reg
ular meeting of the Brattleboro Wo-
man Is club ON the Mountains of Yer