The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-07
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Protective Grange Wednesday evening
in Knights of Columbus hail.
A meeting of the members of the
Universalist church will be held in the
church parlors at 7.45 this evening to
vote on new members and transact
other matters.
A. T. Derpres of Westport. n. H..
has sold through c. f. Mann. local
agent for the E. A. Strout agency. his
farm at Westport, to \. Challenger Of
Thompsonville Conn.
The women Of the Episcopal church
will serve a supper IN the Unitarian
parish house Wednesday. April Is. II
There will be sale of aprons and can
dv, and in the evening a short Easter
play will be given by the children 4
The annual business meeting and |
election of officers of the Ladies Aid /
society of the Methodist church will be
held with Mrs. c. D. Smith ON Cedar /
street Wednesday afternoon at ; I
o clock, All members are requested to
be present.
\ deep hole in the pathway leading
/ from Canal street down to the cold /
spring, a route used by many in getting
to and from Elm street and the shops |
i D
has led someone to put a plank we'll |
studded with rusty nails at the Canal
street end of the walk
/ County Agent a W. Swccton will
/ give the first of Il series of SPRAYING
demonstrations en- fruit trees Thurs
day afternoon at Walter Alexander S
in West Brattleboro. He will use sew
eral kinds of nozzles and will conduct
the demonstration all the afternoon,
using lime and sulphur All persons in
terested are invited.
Two or three inches of snow fell this
! forenoon. but it melted about as fast
as 1t fell. People who have been keep
ing watch declare that the prediction
of some alleged weather prophet that
there were to be six more snowStorms
before spring actually started has now
| been fulfilled. The report that there
will be a heavy snowfall OH July 1
should now be recorded on the calen-
dars for verihcation.
The funeral of Lars Anderson, who
| died at Colorado Springs. Col. was held
Sunday afternoon at , clock in the
Swedish lutheran church and was one
of the most largely attended funerals
| ever held III that church. Large dele
cations of the Scandinavian Brother
/ hood and the Modern Woodmen OF
l America, two organizations OF which
| Mr.. Anderson was a member, attended
/ as did many others The floral tri
1 butes were numerous and beautiful, ties
II tifying to the respect in which he wa,
| held. Rev. L. A. Peterson oniciateo
and the burial took place in Morning
L side cemetery.
II While there has been some talk @.
HI clectrifying the West River railroad
so far as can he learned there is NJ
L probability of extending the road, a
Il least for the present. However the fol
lowing from the Londonderry CORE
ii spondence in the Sitter is interesting
| ! = Report has it that the railroad Is t
III be extended from South Londonderry
| to Weston and is to be operated Wit
III motor cars. There is no question tina
III such Il piece of road would pay, as th
ii freight from this locality is Yer
4 heavy It is about time for anothe
ii boom, i'll Londonderry. Tax rate S2.3
II debt $1,l00 One more boom, then tn
III fire works. About as much chance t
I'll sell your real estate as a man with to
II low legs would have to walk throug
HI the fiery furnace.
II One of the candidates for alderma
II in Hartford Is Il former resident c
II this town and n graduate of the hi2
II school here in 1855. The Hartfor
III Couraut SAYS: Henry !. Cudwortl
III candidate for alderman, Is - years Oh
III and was born and educated in Bratt
III boro. Vt. On his graduation from ii
ii high school in that town. he came
III Hartford in 1856. and served fou
II year apprenticeship with the Pratt
IL Whitney company. lie has been el