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

Congregational church held n meeting
for study with Mrs. Louis Whitney OF
High street Monday evening.
Rev. Il. j. Lewis of West Brattle
boro viii conduct the services NJ thu
Home for the Aged throughout March
The services open at o. clock Sunday
afternoons.
Judge Charles II. Robb of Wash
ngton, ID. c.. will deliver the com
mencement address to the Brattlebort
high school ut the graduation exercises
Tuesday, June 90
Why Brattleboro Does Not Want
the Saloon, will be the subject of thu
sermon by Rev. d. Il. Trout at thu
Universalist church at 1890 n. m. sun
day morning. All men of the parish
and any interested in this vital topic
are cordially invited,
"A public meeting in the interest OF
no.license will be held in the auditorium
Sunday evening at 7.30. The first half
hour will be devoted to music by Lett
singer IS orchestra and male glee club
and will be followed by short addresses
by various local speakers.
The funeral services of Mrs. Jennie
! (Colton) Cook were held at hel
home, the Nauahka cottage, in Dunn
merston Mt o clock Saturday after
noon. Prayer was offered by Rev
Charles N. River and the body was
taken on an afternoon train to lras
burg, VT, for burial,
Vaughan & Burnett will install a
! clock on the cuTbstone opposite Their
store on Main street. The dial will
be 30 inches in diameter and illumi.
mated at night. The clock will stand
about 10 feet above the sidewalk on an
iron pole. The movement, which runs
eiuht DAYS, will be enclosed in the base
of the pole.
"A number of local women are plan
ming to attend the Women 3 Jubilee
! Missionary meetings in the First Con
gregational church in Springfield Mass
! Monday and Tuesday. These meetings
| are part of a series which began last
fall on the Pacific coast in commemora'
ton of the first organized work by
women for foreign missions 90 years
ago.
-Draughtmen, artists and others who
understand the value of well.made
drauehting table should visit the office
of the Boston & Maine engineering
crew in the Market block Last week
there arrived from Boston a table fol-
use of the draughting force and it is
one that would appeal to any person
who has occasion to make plans or use
drawing instruments.
George NJ. Stearns, whose death
occurred Feb % in Winchester, n. H..
was native of West Brattleboro, being
one of the ten children of Emory and
| Olive Mixer Stearns, and brother
Of j. Foster Stearns of this village
He is survived by a daughter, and son
two brothers and four sisters The
funeral was held Sunday. on his 10Th
birthday, at the home of his daughter
"A Brattleboro young woman stem.
ographer at Washington, d. G., writes:
~ had the pleasure of working one
day last week for Champ Clark. He
| is certainly n wonderful character and
has wonderful mind. He dictated a
| long article to me for one of the maya
| zines, and il was Il masterpiece, with
ont any corrections or changes of any
kind He would be an honor to the
country in the president 5 chair.
The recently organized branch OF
| the Red Men 3 league. Stark company
and the Daughters of Pocahontas went
to Newfane on sleignnue Iuesday
| evening Landlord Smiley of the New
| fame Inn served first-class supper
which was followed by dancing until
an early hour Wednesday morning
! Though there were several bare snots in
the road between Brattleboro and New
| fame the party reported n good time
and had all kinds of compliments for
the proprietor of the Inn.
Those who see the comic opera
| The Red Mill, which comes to the audi
! forum Thursday evening, will easily
understand its great vogue at the
| Knic kerbocker theater, New York city,
for one entire year. The absence OF
any suggestive situations, modest dress
ing, the pretty love story, and the ex-
| quste music together with the PIC
| turesque and dainty costumes. the
quaint scenery and the good wholesome
| humor, and, moreover, the thorough
exploitation by the perfect organiza-
! ton of some 30 people, are the basis
of its solid foundation of success.
-Agreeablv to Act. $50 of the recent
! legislature, which was approved Dec
ember 3, 1910, the Brattleboro Street
Railroad company will sell half-fare
| tickets to school children beginning
| Monday morning. These tickets VIII be
! sold in books of 10 each at 80 cents q
| book or three cents a ride. 1t should
be understood by all pupils using these
reduced tickets that they can be used
only from their homes to the school
building and return. The tickets can,
not be used for Joy riding but are issued
| strictly for use as Transportation TO ana
from school. They will be good only
on such DAYS as school may be in ses,,
sion. The pupils of the Incorporated
school district, parochial school, the
Clawson- Hamilton business college or
any public or private school are enti,
tied to buy and use these tickets under
the above conditions.
Sergeant John G. Cody, LIST United
| States infantry. who is detailed TO IN
struct the non commissioned officers
and men of the Vermont national guard
came to Brattleboro this week under
instructions from the war department
to devote his time to guard duty IN
struction and military courtesy. a
school was held in the armory OF com com
pany / Wednesday evening and drlliS
were held last evening and VIII be held
this evening. Sergeant Cody has re-
ceiyed instruction at the Army Service
School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, al
fer long service in the regular army
and is one of the best qualified instruc,'
TORS detailed by the war department
! His instruction to the men and non
commissioned officers Of the First reg
| iment has been of great benefit IC
stimulate craftsmanship the officers OF
| COMPANY | have offered silver cup as
a prize for handicap gallery, shoot
ing competition by the men of the com.
nany. The. cup will be awarded to the
man making the highest aggregate OF
three scores off hand at the 200-yard
target reduced.
A small amount of business was
transacted at the February session OF
the probate court before Judge A. F.
Schwenk Saturday. In the estate OF
Abner B. Bailey of Dummerston final
settlement was allowed and made by
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