The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-06
BRATTLEBORo LOCAL.

A large flock OF wild geese flew
south over Brattleboro this noon.
Dana Stafford OF Vest Brattleboro
shot doe in Stratten Friday tina
weighed lao pounds.
There will be a regular meeting of
Bingham chapter o. f. S. at the Mason
ic temple tomorrow evening, Dec I.
The Modern Woodmen of America
will hold their annual election of Off
GERS tomorrow night in Red Men 3 hall
George Clifton Worden of Guilford
died this morning at $40. The funeral
will be held Wednesday afternoon at
clock.
Mrs. c. H. Thompson s class of the
Centre Congregational church, will have
tea and sale in the church house Sat
urday afternoon from 3 to clock
At the Empire today The Castaways,
episode II in The Broken Coin, de-
picts the sensational destruction of an
ocean liner by a boiler explosion, the
light for life in the wreckage and the
thrilling rescue of Kitty.
The Park Drug Co. has displayed in
its south window an attractive line of
toys made by the S. A. Smith Mfg.
Co. of Brattleboro, which includes the
Bart Kon=Struct-It and Bart s Toy
craft toys. These toys are designed by
Walter Z. Bartholomew
The board of selectmen in their meet
ing Saturday evening settled the claim
CT Robert L. Williams of West Brat
tleboro for eight sheep killed and two
lambs badly injured by dogs. 1t was
| the only claim of the kind against the
town this year and was settled for SOL.
Today the Princess theatre will pre-
sent Maude Allen in the Paramount
production, The Rugmaker IS Daughter
Some of the many interesting scenes
| in this picture reveal the graceful dane
| ing for which Miss Allen is renowned
Tomorrow Neal Of The Navy will be
the special attraction.
A telegram was received in town
this morning by A H. Harvey from
| ApOpka, Florida, announcing the death
of Mrs. Harvey at that place yester-
day. The body will be brought here
| for burial, the services to be held at
the Universalist church, Wednesday
afternoon. Rev. D. f. Trout will Off
ciate.
Telephone operators in Vermont re-
| ceived, beginning Oct. 4, increases in
{ their wages which ranged from 80
|
tors in Brattleboro who are employed
on the evening tricks received 81 adj
ditional fer working evenings. An in
crease in wages has just become effee-
| tive in Massachusetts.
The 5. A. Smith Mfg. Co. began this
morning to run on an eight-ho
schedule instead of the schedule of 10
or more hours which has been in fcrce
4 70
| dent, said this morning that the change
in time was exactly what is done the
first of December each year when there
is not so much of a rush in the manu-
facture of their products.
The inmates of the Home for the
| Aged appreciated very much the kind
| ness of the members of the high school
east of Mr.. Bob, who gave the comedy
in the home Friday afternoon. The
rather personal relation between the
actors and the audience, due to the
small space which could be allowed for
a stage, made the presentation more OF
an intimate affair than is the case in a
larger place.
During the hunting and fishing sea
sons TO date n total of 1881 licenses
of all kinds have been issued at the
office of the town clerk. Of these 90
were resident fishing licenses, 500 res
ident hunting licenses, 270 resident
combination hunting and fishing licen
ses, 10 combination hunting and fish
ing licenses for non-residents and TIVE
hunting licenses fer nonresident prop
erty and two fishing licenses for non
resident property owners.
Sedgwick post, G. a. R., held its an
nual meeting Dec. l and elected thes,
officers: Commander, Sidney L. May
S. V. c., Frank Stockwell; j. V c., n
B. Phelps; @. NJ, H. p. Hunter; sur
geon, DR.. Henry Tucker; chaplain, II
H. Miller; officer of the guard, w. II
Fisher; delegates to the department
cncampment, II. ?. Hunter, Jonathan
c. Howe and Kittredge Haskins; alter
mates, p. S. Chase, Luke Ferriter an,
| 2. j. Fenton.
A party of friends called on Georg
| A. Weldon at his home on Moorelan
avenue Saturday evening and present
/ ed him fine mahogany writing des
| as token of friendship. The evenin
4 was very pleasantly spent and thos
: present were entertained with reading
y sketches and singing by the Ainswort
brothers and John Whitaker. Mrs. We
y don served sandwiches, cake and co
4 fee and the men received GOOD Fayan