The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-11-17
BrattIebOrO Local
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

RruttIehOrO chapter, ~ \, IL" VIII
eopduct "A food sale tomorrow AFTERNOON
from 3 To . o'clock in \, y, Miller :
ice cream parlors,
william q. Sargent aud Miss Sarah
Tnlarwood of this town We're married
In Roston last evening by Rev, liefhetl
Handel of fremont Temple
Town Clerk G.. ). Hopkins has ~
su.d 5jo licenses to hunters up 10 TINS
nam hut Is still about 80 behind the
figures for the same period last year
Tho electric arches on Main street
were lighted Wednesday evening iui tue
first time. They add greatly to tue hp'
pcarancc of the thoroughiare after dath'
.-Rev. II. II. Wyckof' of san Fran
cisco. Cal, will give stcrcoplleon
lecture this friday evening ~ t'1n III
the Centre Congregational church iils
subject is, Pilgrims of the Farlh''
The annual foreign missionary
thank altering meeting of the Ladies'
associntion OF the Centre eongresa,
tional church will be held IN the chapel
Thursday afternoon At 3.3O clock
Evening star grange will hold 4
Thanksgiving dance IN the oianSe H'''
al Dummerston Center, Friday evening,
My 81 supper will be served to which
all members are requested to contribute
literally without further notice,
The stcond meeting of the story
Tellers league will be held "Wednesday
evening AT $50 clock in the parlofS
of the Centre Congregational church
The first chapter of DIR. st. John ;
stotics and story Telling will he dis
cussrd. All interested are cordially IN
Nited.
The icwclry store of Henry IT,
Thompson will be continued under the
business name Of II, II, ihoml'S"n
Mr.. Thompson son, Ntred ;, lholiPSuh;
will be at the head OF the business. AIRED
: Thompson has been appointed admihS'
traitor of his fathers estate,
The True Glory of a Nation Is the
subject of the patriotic nd dress ny Wal
fer T.. Howard, ILL. D., dean ana lf"
fessor of history and polltira Selense
in Middlebury college, IN the Neliic
Conversational church Sunday evening
nj T,3O, Professor Howard spent part
of his hoyhood days in Guilford and Is
known bv Il number of people IN Brat
teborO.
Mrs. u. W. Tcnney of Walnut
street observed her 'Oth hirth1aN ! ues
day. She spent the day at the Seott
farm with her son, T.. G.. Tcnney. I pom
how return she found several valuable
Gifts. among them 20 carnations. There
was no gathering but during the even.
inp neighbors and friends called to eN'
tend their good wishes,
The trover ease of Elias ProutN
against Herbert Nichols, appellant OF
HaIifaX. which has been before the
t.AN.a lAnF
hrouoht TO an end this week when Judge
n. l., Waterman decided that no error
had been made by County Clerk +, d, h.
Stowe in taxing the costs upon Charles
$. Chase, administrator of the estate
of Proutv. The ease grew out of the sale
of n woke of oxen and the value OF the
cattle was the amount involved
-----nI.4le4.- Rellegille, employed rs a
slater by f.. S. Torrey, while at work
upon the roof of Kittredge llaskins $
house or Terrace street yesterday after,
noon fell to the ground, a distance of
about % feet, and fractured his right
elbow. Mr.. Torrey was at work upon
the opposite side of the roof when the
accident happened and the only persons
who saw Belleville fall were some chll-
dren playing near. Belleville was taken
to the Memorial hospital
Oscar Leonard s sugar house and
contents were burned last evening ana
the origin of the fire is mystery ms Mr..
Leonard had not been to the building
for several weeks. 1t was located near
his other buildings but they were not
damaged Mr.. Leonard lives alone on
the upper DummerSton road IN district
No. Is, and did not know of the fire un.
Til his nearest neighb0r Nelson Parker,
went to his house to notify him. Other
neiphbors also went to Mr.. leonard S
assistance. II is probable that hunters
had visited the place and were careless
in the use of matches.
Mrs. Timothy Bestick died at her
home in Bridgeport, Conn, Wednesday
after an illness Of about two years with
Bright s disease. She was born in Whit
ingham Jan. Is. 1854. and was the
Youngest of IL rasaily of nine children
born to Mr.. and Mrs. John Pike. She
moved to Bridgeport Mt about the age
of % and had lived theta continuously
since. She was married to Timothy
Bestick Of that city in 1881. She is sur
vived by one daughter, Miss Grace Bes
tick, her husband and one sister, Mrs
Lucinda Wheeler of Nottingham, also
six brothers, Samuel Pike of Whining.
ton, Hartwell, John and Arvine Pike of
this place and Sylvester and Stillman
Pike of Bridgeport. One brother, Lewis
Fl IKE, r4ifrrt ribuut II years ago. she was
a member of the Olivet Congregational
church of Bridgeport of which she was
a loyal attendant as long as her health
permitted. The funeral will he held to-
morrow at . O'Clock at the home and
burial wilt be in Mountain Grove Gene
fiery, Bridgeport.