The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-02-03

evening,
LYMAN Howe pictures will be
seen NJ the auditorium next week Sat
urdny afternoon aud evening
The Daughters Of Poeahontas will
hold dance in Red Mems hall tomor'
row evening. The public Is cordially
invited. Music will be furnished by
Hines and Dugan.
The Vermont Wheel club s annual
sale OF magazines will take place this
evening in the club rooms. After the
auction supper will be served in the
Grange dining hall.
The auditors started Wednesday
upon their work Of auditing the town s
accounts aud preparing an itemized nc'
count of the financial affairs OF the
town for the year ending Feb. i,
A meeting of the subscribers to the
local baseball fund will be held in the
county clerk s office in Crosby block NJ
Z 80 this evening for the purpose OF
completing the organization of local
association.
Rev. y. A. Wells, pastor Of the
Methodist church, will give series OF
addresses sunday evenings at on the
general topic. Ancient Men in Modern
Guise. The first will be given next Sun.
day evening on Abraham, the lnsurg
ent.
An members Of the w. II. 9, are
requested to meet at g. A. II. hall next
Thursday afternoon, Feb. Q, for social
time. There will be short entertain.
mcnt. Games will be played followed
by a supper and the regular meeting IN
the evening.
-Brattleboro people who patronize
the sleepinp ear for New York which rs
attached to the train which leaves here
at S.3I y. m. week days and s.2s sun,
DAYS will be glad TO know that section
will hereafter he held for reservation
mt the ticket office of the local station
Lyman Howe + ever popular NOV.
ing pictures will he the attraction at
the auditorium next week Saturday
afternoon and evening. The program
win include an intensely interesting
series of pictures of the launching OF
the world Is largest steamship, the
Olympic.
bingham chapter, O. +. s., will hold
its usual monthly social after the husl'
ness meeting Tuesday evening. Enter
tainment will be furnished by DIR. y. l..
Pettee with his Victor Nictrola. There
will be cards and dancing, and the mu'
sic for dancing will be a novelty in the
shape of selections on the Nictrola.
1t has been a dun week for the
hedgehog department nj the town
clerks office. Even the top quotation
of 30 cents for each pair of ears has
failed 10 bring in a single set, and the
pipeonhole in the big vault set aside for
hedgehog ears has had no addition
made to its contents this week.
The basketball fans of Brattleboro
will he afforded an opportunity. to see
a fast game Tuesday evening when the
Runabout Athletic club team of Bellows
Falls and the Crescent Athletic club
quintet of Keene will meet in Festival
hall TO play Off the tie in their series of
games. Both teams have played in
Brattleboro this winter.
The Brotherhood class of the Cen
tire church having completed the study
of housing conditions, has taken up the
subject of temperance. DIR. Richard g.
Eaton Of the Brattleboro Retreat stan
Of physicians addressed the class sun.
day, his subject being the Physiological
Effects of Alcohol DR.. Eaton read an
interesting paper much of which was a
startling nature to laymen, and OF es-
pecial interest to one engaged in a
study of this vital social problem.
-Streeter s variety show of NOV
ing pictures and vaudeville opened a
3-days engagement in the auditorium
Yesterday. playing to good-sized audi
ences that seemed to enjoy the bill keen.
lv. The specialties include Harry Mantell
in dialect limitations. Dacev and Don
aldson in a verv funny sketch. and Mar.
coux and Coyne, dancers. There will
be performances this afternoon ano
evening and tomorrow afternoon aud
evening, with change of pictures at
each.
A small amount of snow came yes
terday morning so that everything put
on n general appearance of winter, and
sleighs were used Lumbermen have
been unable to move their supply of
logs to the mill on account of the
scarcity of snow, and many have suf-
fered a large expense in keeping teams
without being able to work them.
Handling the winter S cut of logs by
moving them on wheels is expensive.
Usually the yards of the S. A. Smith
company and Holden & Martin are well
filled at this time, while this year few
logs have been drawn from outside
towns. It is expected that there will
be big rush of business if shedding is
good from now on.
The annual meeting of the Inter
national circuit of Vermont and East
ern Canada was held in the Brooks
House Yesterday afternoon when plans
for the stake races at the fairs of next
fall were discussed and perfected. Pre-
vious to the business session an elabor'
ate banquet was served, followed by
informal exercises at which DIR. f. IL
0 Conner acted as POSTMASTER. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, H. +. Chan
j. W. Ball of Stanstead, 7. Q. After
considerable discussion the following
stakes were decided upon: $50 pace
2.30 trot, 2.25 pace, 900 trot, PIT pace
2.l3 pace. 1t was also decided to en-
gage one starter for the entire circuit
which includes Sherbrooke, Morrisville
Barton, st. Johnsbury, White River
Junction and Brattleboro. The visitors
present at the meeting included H. E.
| Channel. secretary of the Sherbrooke
fair, +. l.. Davis of White River June
| ton. secretary of the State fair, DR.. j
H. Gaines of Newport, o. NJ. Waterman
of Morrisville, and J. M. Cady of st
Johnsbury. All of them were enthusi
astic over the treatment they received
at the hands of the local men.
Business and economy have now
reached a point in the postoflice de
partment where the loss from the min
ute or minutes Of the postman s wait
ing at the house door for some one tt
| answer the ring is being calculated. II
/ the average wait is only one minute
the annual loss for the whole service
over the country is placed at million
dollars. If there were no waits fewel
carriers would be needed, and that sun
could be saved. Accordingly, on rec
ommendation of the postmaster-gene,ral
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