The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-17
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Norris L. Tibbetts, leader of the Har-
ward Glee club, viii sing at the evening
services in the First Baptist church Sun
day
Charles Howe and Henry j. Allen of
Canal street caught 73 trout in Dunn
merston the opening day of the fishing sea
son. They weighed seven pounds.
The automobile combination fire ap-
paratus answered third alarm for the
day yesterday when late in the afternoon
a call was received for a grass and brush
| fire on a bank on South Main street
The boom on the derrick car which
the Central Vermont railroad is using
on the job at the site of the new rail
] road station broke yesterday afternoon
on one Of the early attempts to make
| use Of il.
/ Mrs. +. NJ. Smith entertained seven of
| her old schoolmates Thursday at a lunch
con in her home on High Lawn road
| Her sister, Mrs W. f. Clark, and daugh-
| ter, Miss Sarah Clark, Of Charlestown, Y
| H., and her niece, Miss Phoebe Clark of
/ Brattleboro, We're among the guests The
| afternoon was spent In talking over old
school days
Jacob Sava and Happy" Atkins had an
alteration today over Atkins taking a
load Of manure that he had been instruct
| ed to get by Warren Doolttle, the owner
| Atkins claims that Sava used a pitchfork
! and rock IN preventing him from get
ting the manure. Atkins finally got the
load and Saya consulted States Attorney
o. B. Hughes.
Mrs. L. F. Adams will have supervision
of the work of costuning the young wo-
men of the company which is to produce
the musical comedy, The Runaways, in the
Auditorium May Is, IA and ID for the
| benefit of the band. Mrs Adams, assist
| ed by several members of the Woman's
club. has already rendered efficient service
in perfecting the plans and details of this
big production.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Exchange will be held Monday afternoon.
April 10, at the rest room. A meeting Of
the governing board will be held at 3
o'clock and the regular meeting at $50
At this time is proposed to amend the
constitution that the meeting of the
exchange will be called by the president
when there is business instead of meeting
every month as in the past.
Mrs. Hannah Taylor was pleasantly re-
mcmbered yesterday afternoon and even
ing in the home of Mrs Ada Hall, High.
land street, where she makes her home it
! being her SD birthday anniversary In
2 the afternoon relatives and old friends
; called to extend best wishes, and in the
evening those who came to see her con-
: stituted neighborhood gathering, She
was presented several gifts, beautiful
5 flowers and large azalia. Refreshments
, We're served, both afternoon and evening
! Mrs Taylor is the last of the Thomas
COSBY family of West Brattleboro.
. Brattleboro people will be interested
to know that the government has lei
V the contract for the construction Of
5 the new postoffiee building in Green
I field, Mass, to the Westchester Engi
: neering Co. of White Plains, N Y Tn,
4 work is to be done in - months. 1t i
: supposed that construction viii begin
: at once. F. NJ. Garthwait, genera
g manager Of the above named company
Il was in Greenfield yesterday. Two car
4 loads of tools have already been start
= ed for that town. This company will
= dc the work without sub-contracts.
The next meeting of the Womans clul
will be held in the Congregational chape
IS Wednesday afternoon, April 21. The pro
/ gram will consist of a dramatic rendering
l. of Zangwill's play, The Melting Pot, b.
I'll Mrs Christabel Whitney Kidder of Som
Of erville, Mass. Mrs. Kidder is an artist i
SIS the fullest sense of the word, and Bosto
r critics have placed her in the foremos
d. ranks of American reciters. The Fran
ot ingham Tribune says of her: "Mrs. KiC
rs der inspired by a great message
r, She was moved to deliver that messag
V. with mingling of simplicity, directnes
ne pathos and charm that is the perfectio
1y of realism and not soon to be forgotten
rs 1t is rarely one hears play so presente
+. by single gifted personality that it ca
ce ries with it serious social and civic lie
nd son and at the same time surrounds I'll
d, lesson with an atmosphere of intellectu
lss dramatic delight. Whoever listened
N, Mrs Kidder's marvellous recital of Zan
Wills marvellous drama will not thin
this is according her overpraise."