The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-01
BRATTLEBORo LOCAL.


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The ground was covered with white
frost early this morning but so far as
has been learned the damage was not
serious.
Bingham chapter, o. f. s.. will hold
military whist party tonight for Ma
sons aud ladies. Ticekts viii be on
sale at the door.
Mrs. Julia Rice Miller is having her
cottage at Locust Grove rrInodeled for a
bungalow, Charles Rice is IN charge of
the work and L. T. Reed is assisting
him.
Charles Fisk pleaded guilty to drunk
enness IN the municipal court today,
and Judge William r. Daley imposed
the usual fine of So with costs of 1894
which Fisk paid.
Thomas Ryan of | Canal street, for 40
years with the Western Union Telegraph
companys was retired on a pension by
the company yesterday. He has been a
travelling wire inspector
The body of Mrs. Jennie Mason
Clark, a former resident who died in
Newton, Mass, several weeks ago,
was brought here this afternoon and
buried III Prospect Hin cemetery.
f. f. Gobie is having the store which
lac recently bought of Equi Brothers
thoroughly renovated before installing
new and up-todate equipment New fur
nishings for his ice-eream parlors have
arrived.
The body of Mrs Jennie Mason Clark.
who died several weeks ago at her home
in Newton Mass, was brought to Brat.
tleboro this afternoon on the 21O train
and taken to Prospect Hill cemetery for
burial
The body of Mrs. Mary Orcutt was
brought here from Greenfield, Mass.
this morning and taken to Prospect
Hill cemetery, where Rev Thomas w
Owens, pastor of the Methodist church,
read the eomittal service
Anyone having articles to contribute
to the Sunshine society's annual rum
mage sale Friday and Saturday, Nav
and ,, at the Brattleboro House,
may notify Mrs. A. w Rockwell of
Canal street and they will be sent for
William Thayer of Elliot street has
sold his pool room equipment TO George
Danyew, who will conduct pool room
in connection with his barber shop in the
Emerson building on Elliot street Nh
1hayer has no definite plans for his fu
ture employment.
Rehlander 5 trained pigs, eight in
number and all funny, win be seen at
the Princess thearer today and tomor-
row. They were big card with the
Barnum x Bailey circus two years
Many people are planning to see the
pictures depicting the fly pest, which
will be shown in conjunction with the
Civic Improvement league.
The May breakfast served this
morning from 6 to 9 clock in the
Cniversalist church vestrv by the wo-
men of the society was literally pa
tronized. Fifteen were waiting when
the doors were opened and extra tables
had to be set to accommodate the
number that came between $50 and
9 o clock.
Arthur William Pierce, >, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank ID. Pierce of los Elliot
street, died last evening of complica-
tions of diseases. The funeral will be
held tomorrow afternoon at > o clock
at the house. Rev. Roy NJ. Houghton
conducting the service. The burial will
take place in Meeting House Hill
cemetery.
local ball players exclusively, is ready
to meet at any time the Fort drummer
Mills team. These teams met Sunday
and the Athletics won an easy victory.
/ They would be glad of the chance to
allow the Fort Dummer Mills team an
! opportunity for revenge and are not
fussy over the character of the stakes.
/ Merton C. Robbins, formerly of Brat.
/ tlebOro and summer resident of
i Dummerston, was elected president of
i the New York alumni association of
i the University of Vermont in the an
nual meeting held Tuesday evening
/ The association is interested in a plan
I for the erection in New York by the
alumni organizations of many colleges
of a joint clubhouse at a cost of $3.50,
+ 600. Plans were also made for the
alumni to help the students of the Uni
+ versity of Vermont in rebuilding the
i grandstand which was burned on Cen
/ tennial field in Burlington.
I \ special clerll-carrier examination fol
the Brattleboro postoffice will take plac,
+ May "a at Brattleboro Applicants must
have reached their 18th birthday. but
not their 43th birthday. on the date o
the examination They must be citizens o
the United States, and those Of the NAL,
sex are required to be at least five fee
four inches tall without shoes. Men
whose normal weight is less than II:
pounds should not make application a
no male. eligible will be appointed, eithe
as clerk or carrier who is under thu
weight Full particulars in regard to thi
Z examination, with specimen questions
are furnished with each application blanl
and may be obtained from Miss F. +
Guild local secretary at the Brattlc
boro postofiice.