The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-22

Town Clerk NJ. l. Lawrence of F.
Springfield was guest over Sunday in
the home of his daughter, Mrs. W.
II. Tinker.
The Boston Opera company drew a
large audience Friday evening, and the
universal expression Of those who at
( tended was that is was the best thing
of It's kind that ever came to our
place. All the surrounding towns sent
unusually large delegations.
/ Lewis A Day Of the dry goods store
of the Dav-Pollard companw has been
i'll with pneumonia since last week
Wednesday. His condition developing
serious symptoms, a consultation Of
/ physicians was held Monday morning
at his home in North Westminster
A petition to be presented to Con
gress through Senator Carroll s. Page
! has been circulated among the paper
mill men of our village the past week,
touching upon the matter of tariff on
paper and wood pulp. This has been
very generally signed by our paper
manufacturers.
The appointment as superintendent
of schools at Burlington, for which the
former superintendent here, B. f. Mer-
riam, was an applicant, was not Sc
/ cured by him, the appointment of an
other man being made Saturday. Mr..
Merriam holds the position of educa-
tional director of the New Jersey state
reformatorv at Railway.
The interchureh federation meeting
of the different churches at the Method
ist church Sunday was well attended,
the services being in charge of II. c.
Bacon of the Baptist church. The
different pastors took part and the
principal speaker was Byron A. Clark
of Windsor, state secretary of the Y.
NJ. c. A, his subject being Boys.
Rev Arthur F. Pratt of the Congre-
gational church has gone to Burlington
to speak this evening at a meeting
called to hear his description of the
methods used here by the citizens
committee in our successful efforts TO
keep our town in the no-icense column.
The good work of our citizens com
mittee, of which DIR. Pratt is chair
man, has made phenomenal success
as an effective organization.
The Boston & Maine railroad com
, tpany are attaching a six-inch water
5 pipe on the lower side of the entire
/ length of the Sullivan bridge across
the Connecticut here. 1t rests on steel
brackets running out from about the
- level of the rails. This is being con
nected with the large pump run by a
gasolene engine at the north end of the
= bridge and will furnish water for loco
, motives in the Fitchburg yard near the
end of the toll bridge.
Our business men have not ceased
to congratulate themselves upon the
narrow escape which our village had
from the doomed Oxford Linen com
pany a few years ago, which has made
so signal failure. Extensive build
ings and property of this company
erected at North Brookfeld, Mass, at
an expense of over S250,0OO are adj
vertised to be sold by auction May IA
to satisfy a mortgage of $4,000, held
by William B. Plunkett.
Henry c. johnson. administrators of
the estate of A. \. Swain, has leased
the Swain residence on Westminster
street to the family of Herbert p.
Bancroft for the summer, beginning
with the month of June Mrs. Ban
croft, having sold her residence next
north to the town for National Guard
armory, is obliged to give possession
in June, and not wishing to take uF
her residence in Brooklyn until au
tumn, they have made this arrange
ment for several months.
Miss Lydia Frances Howard, 65, {
j sister of Charles E. Howard of the
q Howard Hardware company, who fol
q many years made her home with he
& brother here, died at a hospital in Wor
81 cester, Mass, Saturday of paralysis
4 Since leaving Bellows Falls she ha
4 lived several years in the vicinity o
Worcester The funeral was held il
the home of her brother here this after
noon at 1.30, services being conducte,
by Rev. A. p. Pratt of the Congrega
tional church. The burial took place il
the family lot in Oak Hill cemetery
The funeral Mrs Martha Bixby Ram
sey, 70, widow of George H. Ramsey
took place Friday afternoon in tn
home of her son, Ernest E, on From
street, Rev Walter R. Davenport o
the Methodist church officiating. TIL
bearers were Edwin L. Baker, Oh
Charles F. Meacham, Oliver NJ Gus
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