The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-01
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The Brattleboro Savings bank today
declared its usual semi-annual divi-
dend of ? per cent, payable Jan. l.
Mrs Floyd Barbetti of Houghtons
Vile was operated upon by DR.. E. r.
Lynch Monday i'll the home of Mrs.
Thomas Doyle on South Main street.
Barney Mead has leased the old
Phoenix No. hose house ON South
Main street for a Chalmers service sta
tiCn.
\ supper viii be served tomorrow
night from 6.15 to 8 O'Clock, under
the auspices cf the Ladies' Circle of
the Univcrsalist church, in the vestry
of that church.
Loon Cushman, Il, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. L. Cushman of Thomas street,
shot his first deer Tuesday, Nov. %,
in Wilmington. 1t was a buck aud
weighed 200 pounds.
The main attraction at the Empire
tonight is Herbert Rawlinson i'll Il
three-part society drama, The Queen
of Hearts. Tomorrow, Coral, a special
feature in four-parts, will be shown.
A. NJ Bennett, the local Marconi,
succeeded in receiving standard time
and messages from other stations at
the High school wireless station Mon
day evening This is the first time
that messages have been received by
wireless at this station.
The New England auxiliary held a
social and card party last evening in
Grand Army hall with about 80 mem
bers present. Five hundred was play
ed and the prizes were awarded as
follows: First woman s, Mrs. Frank
Willard; first man s Stillman Graves;
consolation, Robert Wilson. Refresh
ments were served.
The funeral of George II. Niles. who
died in Springfield Monday morning,
will hc held in that place tomorrow
morning at $50. The body will be
brought to Brattleboro on the 0 'clcvk
train and services will he held at
Moran x Rhode $ undertaking rooms
at 80, and the burial will take place
in the West Brattleboro cemetery.
Work was begun this morning on the
east side of the tracks at the railroad
station, and the platform and approach
| from the grade crossing is torn up in
several places for the laying of pipes
, and digging Of trenches for the plat
/ fern foundations. The flagpcle on the
| station was put in place yesterday and
an American flag promptly raised to
! position.
| Paul Chamberlain, Is, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice Chamberlain of Dunn
merston hill, who was operated upon
| sometime ago III the Memorial hospital,
underwent a second operation in the
MelrOse hospital yesterday. He was
| injured about three months ago, hav-
ing been struck just below the right
eye by some foreign substance dis
| charged from an anvil fired by some
! boys during a corn roast celebration.
An incision was made Just below the
lower eyeid, extending under the eye
ball and coming out into the throat
two inches back of the palate. Sever
al pieces of fractured bone were re-
moved, together with small stones, two
of which were about the size of a split
pea, also a piece of battered lead
somewhat larger than a buckshot. Dr.
Lynch expresses the opinion that the
stone entered the eyelid intact and be
came broken when it passed through
the bone. DR.. Lynch was assisted by
DIR. Hunter. The boy is comfortable
today.
Cottage house with electric lights, bail
and garden to rent on Chaplin st. Mrs
J. /. Martin. 2332233S
Miss Abbie Griffin will have her annua
holiday sale of fancywork and Christina
things at Miss Mary Griffin's shampooini
parlors Adv. 229-23-
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