The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-08
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Brattleboro lodge, \. f. 0. P, will
hold a regular meeting this evening in
Grand Army hall at clock
| Eleven of the ). Dung women employees
of the Holstein Friesian offices went on
tramp to Hinsdale yesterday after
noon, returning on the evening train.
The funeral Of Mrs Albert G. Brown
of Marlboro was held this afternoon at
100 O'Clock at the house, Rev. H. H.
Shaw officiating. The burial took
place in Guilford.
Mary Pickford will be seen today
at the Princess theater in the Para
mount production, The Dawn of To
morrow, drama of unfaltering faith
and triumphant love.
\ box of ripe strawberries picked
| Saturday by Enoch Ainsworth at the
! Chestnut Hill poultry farm is on exhi-
bition in the Boston Fruit market Mr..
Ainsworth still has green berries and
/ blossoms.
War, episode Is of The Broken Coin,
will be one of the strong features at
the Empire theater tonight This cpl
sode features Francis Ford and Ro-
leaux in one of the most interesting pic
lures of this serial yet shown.
The Woman s society of the Baptist
church will serve its annual chicken
pie supper and hold sale of aprons,
toys, candy and fancy articles, suitable
| for Christmas gifts, Nov. Is. The sale
will open at 3 'clocF and continue
through the supper hour
a case of smallpox in the state pris-
on at Windsor has put that place off
the map as far as a commitment is con
cerned and for the next several weeks
/ prisoners who are sentenced to the
state prison will serve the first part of
H their time in the house of correction at
Rutland.
Charles p. Spencer has bought of Mr.
and Mrs. B. NJ. Switzer a strip of land
/ adjoining his cottage property on the
south side of the New Hampshire side
of the Connecticut river. The newly
acquired land has frontage of 175
feet on the river and runs back to the
line of S. L. Rice s property.
H A junior Christian Endeavor society
has been formed among the boys and
/ girls of the Congregational parish,
between the ages of nine and Is years.
The first meeting was held yesterday,
Miss Jessie Ransom leader, about 25 be-
ing present. 1t is expected that officers
will be elected at the meeting next
Sunday.
The sessions of county court were
resumed at Newfane this afternoon at
O'Clock, when the case of the state
against Clara Boyd of Wilmington,
who is charged with a statutory of
Tense, was taken up. State s Attorney
o. B. Hughes appears for the state
and Chase & Chase for the respondent.
The annual entertainment and dance
by the three upper classes of the high
school to the freshmen was given Sat
urday evening. The first part was in
the high school building where Mrs
I Christabel ". Kidder of Boston, dra
] matte reader who is to appear later this
Il season before the Woman S club, gave
I readings from Rudyard Kipling. The
! party then went to Harmony Hail
where dancing was enjoyed until 11.3(
Z clock to music by Leitsinger s or
: chestra. The members of the faculty
: were chaperones.
The cement retaining wall which ha'
been in course of construction on tn,
:, edge of Milestone brook east of tn,
! Main street bridge to protect the foun
dation of the Odd Fellows building
he has been completed to height of min
n. feet above the normal surface of tn
k water. 1t has not been definitely de
r cided whether the wall viii be il
creased further in height. The wal
would serve not only as a protectio
to the foundation of the present buil6
5 ing, but would make good founda
ton for an addition to the building
= the Odd Fellows cared to build til
L
4 fed their willingness to take a leas
OF such an addition.
The funeral CT Charles Henkel w;
4 held yesterday afternoon at $50 cloc
Il at the house, % Frost street, Rev Re
NJ. Houghton, pastor of the Cent
Z Congregational church, officiating. II
\ Knights Tenplar service was used al
n Beauseant commandery escorted Il
4 body to the grave in Prospect Hill eel
\ etery Edward H. Miller sang Beaut
4 full Isle of somewhere and Lead, Kin
" Light. The bearers were Augu
4 Hollander, Carl Hollander, Augu
\ Rohde and George Broc kington. Tho
Il from out of town included John Henk
d of Springfield, Mass, brother of t
4 deceased; Walter F. of Schenectady
Y. and Dr. E. J. Henkle of New Yor
sons; Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Lillis
3 Rutland and Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Xii
bah of Hinsdale, n. H.
The following is from the last iss
of Editor and Publisher, New Yo
4 publications: M c. Robbins, manag
of the David Williams company,
4 New York and 7. B. Van Alstyne, ma
ager of the class Journal compar
have been elected directors of t
United Publishers Corporation. \
Robbins was for years western manag
of the Engineering News, and for t
last FIVE years has managed the II
Age Properties. Mr.. Van Alstyne /
been associated with the Glass Jour-
company in its different automob
publications for many years. T