The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-21
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Der of the Washington street playground |
committee
Sedgwick Woman's Relief corps will !
hold no sewing meeting tomorrow after |
noon, but the regular meeting viii be held |
in the evening when delegates reports |
will be given.
Clarence Meanwhile, clerk in A. T. |
Woods hardware store, received news yes
terday that he had been awarded the |
fourth prize from j. Wiss & Sons of New |
ark, n. j., for window display of cutlery
which appeared in Mr.. Woods store win
dow recently.
The> Acting Pictures company which
was to have given a performance IN the
Auditorium this week Friday and Satur-
day, has cancelled the engagement The
company closed at Barre last night, but
Manager Fox of the Auditorium has not
yet learned the cause
Mrs. George +. Barber, Mrs O. Fl Stick
ney, Mrs Myra Stone, Mrs Ella Warner
and Mrs. Freeman Scott will give a social
and thimble party in the parlors of the
Universalist church Saturday afternoon
from 3 to $50 clock An invitation is
extended to all women interested IN the
Universalist church to be present A large
attendance IS desired
The Boston Transcript of yesterday
said, in its account of the presentation of
Tales of Hoffman by the Aborn Opera
company at the Boston theatre: William
Schuster as Crespel, the father of Antonio,
sang with distinct enunciation that was
a delight and acted as if Antonio We're
really his daughter and not a mere lay
figure that was to assist him in singing
William Hudson, driver of the Brattle-
Ra1ri ,Jolix
met with slight accident Yesterday after
noon on High street. when the king
bolt broke, letting the wagon onto the
horse. Mr.. Hudson held to the reins, but
the sudden drop of the wagon threw him
out and he struck on his side and was
somewhat bruised. He is at his work to-
day.
A recent issue OF the Portland Orego-
MAN contains an account of the opening
of Portland's new city baseball league. In
the curtain raiser the East Side Red Men
walloped the Sellwoods to / Jack Grady
Of Astoria, pitcher for the winners, featur-
ing. Grady allowed only three hits The
0regonian contained a picture of Grady,
who is a Brattleboro boy, comforting with
the manager.
Thursday night viii be country store
night at the Princess theatre and over 80
prizes will be given away, including eight
bags of Gold Medal flour, making one bar
rel in all, six baskets containing groceries,
and a lot of Sugar Loaf bread, kitchen
utensils and other articles. The prizes are
on display in the windows of the Brattle
| boro Baking company, the home of Sugar
| Loaf bread
| Practically the full chorus for the band
show, The Runaways, attended the first
IL II T.
mory and met Mr. and Mrs Louis Phil
brook Of New York, who will stage the
production The members Of the chorus
were greatly pleased with Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Philbrook, and the result was an enthusi-
astic rehearsal. The next chorus rehear-
sal will be held tomorrow, Thursday, night
at the Armory at 40 o'clock.
A committal service over the body Of
Henry d. Whitney of Bennington was held
this morning at 1130 o'clock Rev.
Thomas w Owens officiating The burial
took place at Morningsde cemetery. Mr.
Whitney was a veteran OF the Civil war
and had lived a number of years at the
Soldiers Home IN Bennington. Col
Thomas Harmon Of Bennington, FranE
StockweT, Barney Pratt, T. w Eason
Patrick Fenton, George d. Odell and Gen
G. II. Bond attended in a body, repre-
senting Sedgwick post G. A. r.
Bingham chapter, No 30, Order o.
the Eastern Star, held It's annual meeting
in Masonic temple last evening anc
elected these officers: w. NJ, Marion c
| Combs; W p, William H. Haywood; 4
! NJ, Minnie f. Haynes; sec, Eugenia NJ
= Pettee; treas, Mary A. Randall c., CLAIR
: B. Miller; A. c., Nelma H Wilcox Thes
and the appointive officers will be in
stalled at the next meeting, May 4, whel
the 10Th anniversary Of the chapter vii
be observed, for which invitations to Ma
sons and their wives will be issued soon
y County court at Newfane has been occu
pied today with the case of Edward
Zeno of Bellows Falls against Deput
j. Sheriff A. c. Mason of Windsor county
q an action of replevin. A jury was secure
and the testimony of the plaintiff wa
taken this forenoon. The testimony wa
to the effect that Zeno bought a horse
N S F. Cray, meatman in Bellows Fall
f and paid for it, The officer took the hors
j away from him, whereupon he brought a
action Of replevin Ryder & Graham an
u I. E. O'Brien of Bellows Falls and A.
Schwenk Of Brattleboro are counsel for tt
le plaintiff and G. A. Weston of Below
"a Falls and E. w. Gibson Of this town f
I the defendant The Bellows Falls case
d. Lowell against the New England Telephor
& Telegraph Co. has been settled and di
IN continued.
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