The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-21
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The Prospect Hill Book club viii
hold meeting this evening at 7.3O
with Miss Lillian c. Newton of Thorn
as street.
Glass No. y of the Baptist Bible
school will have a sewing meeting IN
the home of Mrs. G.. II. Wilder,
North street, Saturday afternoon.
There will be a Halloween supper,
dance and candy sale for Masons and
their families at the Masonic temple
Friday afternoon and evening, Oct. 80.
The annual meeting of the Masonic
Bowling club will be held in Masonic
temple tonight at 100 O'Clock. Officers
viii be elected and other important bus
mess transacted.
c. J. Goodale is the first of the local
hunters to report the death of a coon.
He secured a large one last night, the
first of the open season on this class
of game, in West Brattleboro near the
Marlboro line.
All Modern Woodmen who wish to
go to Keene next Monday evening are
asked to notify Chief Forester Charles
Clancy at once, as only a few seats |
are now available in the automobiles |
that are to carry the members.
| The home club enjoyed a very pleas |
ant afternoon with Mrs. F. P. Hopkin-
son yesterday. The afternoon was
spent socially and with vocal and in
strumental music and at ) O'Clock a
| chicken-pie supper was served.
DIR. L. C. Holcombe of Milton, grand |
master of the grand lodge of Odd Eel
| lows of Vermont, arrived in town this
afternoon to attend the district meet
| ing to be held in the rooms of Wan
tastiquet lodge this evening. 1t is ex
pected that several other grand Of
fcers will be present.
At the annual meeting of the Fire
men s Relief association last evening
the old board Of officers was reelected:
President, Fl. L. Harris; vice president,
| w. H. Richardson; secretary and treas
urer, Leon c. White. The reports Of
the secretary and treasurer. were read
and accepted. They show the associa-
tion to be in a satisfactory financial
condition.
A husking bee was given last even
ing at the Rice farm by Mrs. Russell
Tyson in honor of her guests, the
Misses Marguerite Bond, Julia Thomp-
son and Edith BOynton of Chicago.
About 25 were present and 100 bushels
of corn were husked in two hours.
Supper was served after the husking
Yesterday was the anniversary of Mrs
Tyson s birth.
With the purpose of diverting as
much as possible the course of Whet-
stone brook east of the Main street
} bridge from the foundation of the
, building owned by Wantastiquet lodge,
: |. 0. o. F., men are engaged today
in deepening the channel near Bridge
2 street. A cement wall is being con
: structed to keep the water away from
t the foundations of the buildings, and to
facilitate this work the channel is be-
ing deepened.
2 Norman Prince, the French aviator
: who has been connected with the avia-
: ton corps of the French army and who
t has been reported as captured by the
/ Germans, made his first trip above land
e in a balloon. The flight was from
S North Adams, Mass, when he accom-
i panied Mr.. and Mrs. n. H. Arnold, now
of Brattleboro, on a long flight into
Connecticut, the ascent being made be
fore daylight in the All America, the
largest balloon in America.
Ceres and Pomona presented the fol
d lowing program in the meeting of Pro
tective Grange last evening: Song
le Grange chorus; reading, Mrs. Mary
S. Wilson; song, Oscar G. Convey; reading
Mrs. Bessie Franklin; duet, Mrs Cols
e c. Morse and Carl s. Hopkins; reading
m c. Warner Hopkins; paper and music
Mrs o. G. Convey, followed by an ex
hibition of musical art museum; solo
~ Mrs. Cola c. Morse; reading, Mrs. Jes
= sic Metcalf; song, Grange chorus The
i. first and second degrees will be con
ferred at the next meeting, Nov. 3.
An audience that taxed the seatin:
: capacity of the Congregational chape
= and parlor greeted Miss Grace Sage o
Rutland yesterday afternoon, when sh
\ gave Daddy LongLegs before the Brat
4 tleboro Woman's club. Few peopl
n realize the work required to memoriz
whole play or the versatility tina
must be possessed by the impersonato
to portray each one in the cast Mis-
4 Sage's reading was delightful and sh
made much of the pretty little comedy
A young woman of charming personals
ty, with good voice and rare talent
Z it is not strange that she has booke
nearly 200 engagements for this sca
Z son.
4 Capt. Dibble makes a special appeal 70