The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-10
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

| The Grange Dramatic club will
give q moonlight waltz party in Grang,
hall Monday evening.
The regular meeting Of the w. G
7. U. will be held Monday afternoon al
o'clock in the rest room.
e. s. Harrison of West Brattle
boro will conduct the chapel service al
the Retreat next Sunday afternoon al
3 o clock.
The first genuine sign of spring
was reported Yesterday morning by w
Z. Horton who saw bluebird. The
temperature nj the time was s degrees
above zero.
The grange dramatic club will hold
a dance in Grange hall Monday even.
ing. March. IL. Leitsinger' s orchestra
will furnish music and Alison Dugan
will sing. Everybody is cordially in.
vited.
Town Clerk C. s. Hopkins has not
as yet received from the office of the
secretary of state the cards upon which
to arrange the vital statistics of the
town as provided in a recent enactment
of the legislature.
Funeral services of Joseph Denzil
Roadway were held from the home, II
Grove street, at IL o'clock Saturday
morning. Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton off
ciated and the BODY was placed in the
vault in Prospect Hill cemetery to be
taken to Newfane for burial this
spring.
Tony Albaneso of Bellows Falls,
employed as a section man by the Bos-
ton & Maine railroad. was thrown from
a handcar near Putney Saturday and
one of his ears was severed from his
head. He also received numerous
bruises. He was brought to the Brat
tleboro Memorial hospital.
-Herm0n r. Erickson, while carry
ing several articles on High street Mon.
day, slipped and struck the back of
his head on the sidewalk. He was
taken to his home on Williams street
where he had several commissions that
afternoon. He is recovering and will
soon be back at his work on laying
floors.
An intoxicated attendant at the
Brattleboro Retreat Wednesday created
bit of excitement and gave the author
tiles at the institution few minutes
practice at iiu iitsu. Before the police
could arrive on the ground the offender
was seen in the village evidently wear
Manager George +. Fox of the au-
ditorium has inaugurated new rule
about reserving tickets. In the past
many reserved seats have never been
called for. At one performance Mr..
Fox lost the sale of $50 worth of tickets
in this way. He PROPOSES in the future
to reserve seats until 7.30 p. m. of the
evening of the performance. If reser-
vations are not called for by that
hour the management will offer the
tickets for sale again.
Education dav will be observed by
the Brattleboro Woman 8 club Wednes-
day afternoon. March Is, when James
p. TAYLOR, the assistant principal of
Vermont academy. will speak upon The
Mountains of Vermont as an Educa-
tional Resource. This talk will be a
study of the mountains of the state and
their influence upon the life of the peo.
pie. Mr.. Taylor. who is the president
of the newly-organized Green Mountain
club. believes that notable asset has
been overlooked in the failure to real
ize the value of the mountains in con
nection with educational work.
The woman s auxiliary of the n.
+. o. p. will hold a public dance and
supper in Red Men 8 hall "Wednesday
evening. supper wiz NC ~ 'cu ii'"i
6 to 7.30. A small fee will be charged
for the supper and the usual price for
dancing. The supper will be in charge
of Mrs. Fred Davis. The floor direc,,
TORS will be Mrs. Jane Brockington and
Mrs. Graves. The cold watch. which
has been on exhibition at Root s drug
store for the past two weeks, viii ne
awarded that evening and the half,
dozen silver spoons will be presented
to the woman selling the largest num-
Der of tickets.
Oscar F. Benson attended a meet
ing and banquet to the SECRETARIES OF
the International Racing CIRCUIT OF
Vermont and Eastern Canada in st.
Wednesday evening, Ihere
were about $50 men present. IL Is ex-
pected that Barton will drop out OF me
circuit as the old management OF tne
fair in that place has signlfled lts IN.
tention of so doing. The secretaries
of The several fair associations com
nrisino the circuit were treated TO
PROGRAM of matinee racing "Wednesday
afternoon on q snow path. Mr.. Benson
was one of the officials in the Judge s
stand, pung sleigh.
Morris e. Bancroft of Boise City;
Td.bo q brother of Carmi Bancroft OF
died at the soldiers home
in Boise City Feb. 90. 1t has been
claimed that he was the. youngest
soldier in the Union army as ne enlisted
at the age of IL years from the state
of Maine. While a number OF drum
mer boys entered the service IN thelr
twelfth year it is said that Mr.. Ban
croft was the only 12-year-old soldier
who carried a musket. lie, was a rug
ged youngster who looked to pc az
least Is years of age when ne enisteu,
Besides the brother in Brattiepot4t n nf
Worcester, Mass, and sister. Agnes
of Yale, Idaho.
This is the stamp of approval put
on Seven Days by Ainslee's MagaHlne;
IA veritable scream from y, tne ras!hS
Of the first curtain to the 1alil1 H. % fo n
anal curtain.o The writer OF the foIe,
onn might have added that the
1anahter doesn t end with the play but
racnrs whenever one thinks of the VII
and fun in it. This comedy is all ne
,,,nro attractive from the fact that its
narsons are of the twentieth century
smart set, It's fun is drawing room run;
II he sure it gets into the kitchen ana
cIimhs to the roof, but it carries rGe
drawing room folk along with IL y. "
deriving the laugh-creating dual,tless; ~
ssorv Of love and lovers. such as all the
m s.orE h has liked since the beginning OF
t;me Seven DAYS will be acted at the
= ,d;torinm Wednesday evening ny
Mnm York cast. Messrs. .Wagenha!s
1xew ~ are sending the play here from
the Aston theater in New York.
William Henderson of Washing
ton n q. an attorney for the. SOUTH
son' Do -; , w. company, has been in Brat
e 1ahd ma'' several DAYS this week in con;
aeat;ou With the case of Nellie Harwood
ae ee;nst The Southern Railway comnanny
for damages accruing;; it is srr al'e Tep,