The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-04
BRATTLBBORO LOCAL.

The annual village meeting viii be
held in Festival hall tonight at
| 0 clock.
A meeting of the K. o. K. A. win
be held tomorrow evening at 7.15 in
/ the Universalist church.
| James Sullivan, who is employed at
the Brooks House, slipped from lad !
/ der on which he was washing windows
yesterday, fracturing his left wrist.
/ The second of the 10-string matches
/ between Masonic bowlers was rolled |
/ last evening by Howard Wellman and |
/ Fred Hail. the former winning S64 to |
/ $40. Wellman had 101 and 103 as |
high strings and Hall %.
Mrs. Fremont Hamilton invites the
women of Bingham chapter, O. f. s.,
to an informal reception in her home |
Wednesday from to 5 O'Clock to
meet Mrs. Laura B. Cole of Benning- |
ton, assistant grand matron, and Mrs |
Olive j. Stowall, grand secretary of
the grand chapter Cf Vermont.
Mrs Elizabeth Brockington reached
her SD birthday anniversary yesterday
and was generously remembered by
many friends with q, shower of post
cards and gifts of money and flowers.
all of which she greatly enjoyed and
appreciated. Mrs. Brockington and
her daughter, Mrs. John Butterfela
spent the day pleasantly in the home
of Mrs. c. G. Hosley on Central street.
The annual meeting of the Young
People s Union of the Universalist
church was held Sunday evening in
the vestry. The following officers for
the year were elected: Pres, Miss
4 Maybelle Spaulding; vice pres, George
8 Thompson: sec, Miss Ruth Sargent;
treas. c. F. Barrie; Miss Hazel Clark
was elected chairman of the two
4 cents a-weck offering. Miss Spauld-
ing and Miss Clark were elected dele
gates to the state convention in August
with Miss Grace Cooper and Miss Ruth
Il Sargent IS alternates.
Mrs. Charles Newman, formerly of
4 this town, died Sunday night in the
y home Of her daughter, Mrs. Alice New
man Willis, in Middletown, Conn. Mrs.
: Newman was the widow of a brother
of the late John L. Newman of Brat
tleboro, and was over 80 years old. She
went from here to Saxtons River, and
after q period of years moved last
fail to Middletown to live with her
+ daughter. The body viii be brought
in here tomorrow and funeral services
Or viii be held in Bond & Son 8 under
he The Woman S club Will hold its an.
;, nual meeting tomorrow afternoon. At
ia tention of members is called to the
= fact that there is a proposed change in
~ the constitution to be voted on at this
time, relative to increasing the dues
There seems to be a belief in some
quarters that the informal ballot cast
on this question at the meeting Apri
70 settled the matter. This Is not thu
It case; therefore large attendance !;
greatly desired that every one may
" vote on this proposed amendment
which is of Importance to the club.
Patrick Austin, IS, died late yester
day afternoon at the town farm. where
he had lived since last July. He haC
~ a complication of diseases. Mr.. AustiI
was born in Nova Scotia, but had live
v in Brattleboro a large part of his life
being employed on the Central Yer
1T mont railroad about 80 years. IL
). leaves two brothers, John P. and Jane
S. Austin, both Of this town. The FIJI
IN neral will be held Thursday morning a
10 o'clock in st. Michael s Roman
n Catholic church and the burial vii
ttake place IN the Roman Catholic Gem
'e eterv.
IA Edward P Harwood, 80, residen
of Keene for number Of years, wher
he worked in a meat market and as
tle fireman on the Cheshire railroad, die
April 20. in Rotterdam, n. Y. wher
RI. he had lived several years He ha
been an engineer on the Boston
- Maine road more than % years. Fl
Ha was born in Brattleboro, and so far 9
known. had no near relatives livin,
He had been i'll two years with bright
disease He left Keene about 1S9
. He was an Odd Fellow and memb'
" of the Brotherhood of Locomotive E.
q gineers.
Considerable amusement has bee
81 caused lately by a letter received
B Major F. w. Childs, candidate f
"a the postmastership of BFattleboro.
81 his mail the other day he found le
III ter from a western city addressed
POSTMASTER, Brattleboro, W.T. 4
q this had been placed in his box
n friends hold that there is some dou
d in the minds of the clerks in the pc
office as to whether the Job of pos
master has been finally settled In Il
81 connection it is to be remember
that Rollin S. Childs not long ago 9
vised the public to ''keep its ear
the ground.
A Spring Medicine - Nearly eve
person needs a good blood-purifyi
medicine in the spring. This time
year fnda one debilitated, tired Q
with weak and irritable nerves.
Just these troubles B. D. G. Blood a
Nerve Tonic is especially adapted.
aids nature in throwing off impurit
81 which have accumulated in the syst
h during the cold winter months; WI
n it imparts to the body just that TO
and vigor so much needed at this ii
n of the year. This valuable tonic n
be procured at the Brattleboro b
81 Co. and is guaranteed by them to g
beneficial results or money refunded
ADV. 81