The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-06
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

pal church will meet at the rectorv TO-
night at 8 clock.
The storm Saturday night made tel
ephonic communication between Keene
and Spofford lake impossible.
The first quarterly conference of the
Methodist church will be held tomor
row evening at 7.45 O'Clock, in the
church.
Mosher & Tucker have sold to Henry
r. Brown a six-cyinder Overland tour
ing car, and an Overland truck to the
Connecticut River Power Co.
Rev. +. S. Hewitt, pastor of the Ad.
vent Christian church will begin hold
ing evangelistic services in the An
drews district schoolhouse in Guilford
tonight.
There will be party on the lawn
at Llndenhurst Wednesday, July IA
for all the children of the Congrega
tional Sunday school and their friends
The children will appear in the Kate
Greenaway costumes which they wore
at the children's fair.
party of young people enjoyed al
pleasant Fourth of July picnic at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Thomas
in Chesterfield. Those from out of
town were Harry Wilkinson. Peter
Wagner, William Bedworth and Ger
aid WEIGH, all of lion, N. Y.
Harry Vincent Jerrold and Miss
Dorothy Belle Mayo, both of Spring
field, Mass, were married in the Uni
versalist parsonage at $50 O'Clock
Saturday afternoon by Rev. Delmar f.
Trout The single ring service was
used and there were no attendants.
Bert Ober, riding a motorcycle, and
Nicholas Biagi, boy who was riding
bicycle, collided on Green street Sat
urday evening. Biagi was thrown some
distance and his wheel was wrecked.
but he escaped serious injury, although
cut about the back of the head and
bruised Ober was not injured
1t was announced from the pulpit in
the Centre Congregational church Sun
day that there was a person in the
congregation who had been q member
OF that church 63 years, having united
on July 4, 1852. That person was
Mrs. Elizabeth (Cune) Thompson of
Oak street. widow of Charles F..
Thompson.
Chief-of Police George Wilson re-
ceived a telegram Sunday from the po-
lice of Southbridge, Mass, which read
as follows: Frank Herbert drowned
yesterday. Notify father and mother
of your city Chief Wilson made in
quiries of members of the only Her
bert family he ever knew here, but
could not establish any definite rela-
tionship between them and the drown
ed man and could not find that the
man ever lived here.
The United States civil service COM
mission announces that regularly prac-
Using physicians of good standing in
Brattlcboro, who are willing to fur
nish medical certificates at the Gus
tomary fee of 81 to applicants for
examination or appointment to posi-
tions in the classified federal service
may file their names with the secre-
tary of the civil service board at the
Brattleboro postoffice. when they will
be brought to the attention of per-
sons from whom such certificates may
be required as requested.
The funeral of Mrs. Martha (How-
urd) Tyler was held Saturday after
| noon at 3 clock in the chapel of the
Centre Congregational church, Rev
NJ. Houghton, pastor of the church, Of
| floating. Frederic G. Adams sang
Sometime Wen Understand and Abide
| With Me. The burial took place in
| Prospect Hill cemetery. Among those
| from out of town at the services were
| Mrs. John Montgomery of Somerville
| Mass, Mrs. Frank IIoughton of Re
we're, Mass, Fred Tyler of Charlemont
| Mass, and Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert How
ard of Putney.
A representative of q lumber firm
in Springfield, wishing to spend Mon
| day at his home in Brattleboro, VT,
decided to try the telephone as a
salesman, with the following results as
told Manager Eldridge He selected
a list of people whom he thought
might buy and called them, spending
% cents for toll service and selling
two carloads of lumber. He said that
it usually took q week to visit these
people with an average hotel expense
of So per day besides car fare and
that the average sale was three car
loads of lumber per week.-New Eng
land Telephone Topics.
In spite of the rain yesterday fore
noon, % of the residents of Estey-
| vile enjoyed an automobile ride to
the home of M. w Bingham in Gull
ford, where the time was spent with
| AS soon as the sky cleared a bounti-
full dinner was served on tables in
the shade Of the old apple trees. The
neighbors in the Andrews district join
ed the crowd until there were 50 pres
cnt. A baseball game, quoits and
croquet were played. Thanks are due
R. G. Boyd for the ride and Mr. Bing.
ham s family and the neighbors in
Guilford for their hospitality.
Walter c. Piper of Detroit was
chosen to succeed Thomas Shallcross
jr., of Philadelphia to the presidency
of the National Association of Rea
Estate Exchanges at the conclusion OF
the official program of the great real
ty convention in Trinity auditorium
, in Los Angeles. Mr.. Piper formerly
was president of the Detroit real es
, tate board and is one of the best