The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-14
BRAITLEBORO LOCAL,

The J. f. Hall Bible class will have a
sale of food, candy and aprons in the
Baptist chapel Saturday afternoon from
80 until Is.
The tree for the municipal Christmas
celebration was put in place this morn
ing under the direction of L. f. Holden
on the plaza at the foot of Main street.
The woman s guild of St. Michael $
Episcopal church will have regular
monthly meeting tomorrow afternoon at
; o clock at the home of Mrs. W. II.
Haywood.
Mr. and Mrs Ernest J. Waterman
entertained a party of friends last
evening in Odd Fellows banquet hall
Leitsinger' 5 orchestra furnished music
for dancing.
The united choirs will hold a rehears-
al tonight at 7.45 clock, in the Con
gregational chapel. of the Christmas
cantata Bethlehem, to be presented IN
that church Sunday evening, Dee 81.
II is expected that an electric motor
will be installed in St Michael 5 Epis-
copal church in time for use Sunday
Ill furnishing motive power for the
church organ. Heretofore the organ
mas bC'H ptIhItV ny manu-.
f. NJ. Feeny, instructor of manual
training in the public schools. will
give an illustrated talk on forestry
and manual training Friday evening at
80 in the high school room. The up
per grades and high school pupils and
their parents are invited to attend.
An expert of the General Electric
Co is to be in Brattleboro Monday 70
confer with the officials of the Twin
State Gas and Electric Co. and with the
village commissioners about the prob
lem of lighting the business streets OF
the town with a different system than
that now III use.
AS Horton sheldon. driver for the
American Express Co., was driving a
wagon loaded with cases of shoes down
the Main street hill yesterday after
noon, the wagon slid Sidewise, hit the
curbing and upset. The horse was
thrown and one shaft was broken. but
Mr.. sheldon jumped and saved himself
from injury.
AT the meeting of the Mutual Aid as
ISOLATION Wednesday the secretary re
ported IS calls for help received in
November. Sixty-three of these were
for sickness and emergency and all
We're filed hut two. The supervisor
had SO patients under care and made
/ l5l calls. The district nurse had % pa
| tients under care and made 131 calls.
The funeral of George W. Burnham
was held i'll his home in West Brattle-
| boro Yesterday afternoon at o'clock,
! Rev. D. +. Trout, pastor of the Univer-
salist church, officiating. The bearers
were W. +. Pellerin, c. II. Aiken OF
! Orange, Mass, c. NJ. Braser and C.. w
| Sargent. The burial took place in Pros.
pect Hill cemetery Among those from
out of town who attended the funeral
We're Mrs. Charles Simpson of Hartford
! Conn, and c. H. Aiken.
/ Lyman Heath. ., the third victim oil
trlchinosis as the result of eating beal
meat, died in his heme III Orlean.
Tuesday afternoon after an Illness OF
five weeks. He was assistant treasure
of the Central savings bank and trus
company Of that village several years
He left the bank in 1911 and sine,
then had conducted successfully tWt
/ farms which he bought. His father-in
law in Canada was the first victim O
trichinosis, and the second victim wa
Heath S wife, whose death took plac,
last week. MIR. and Mrs Heath. leave ,
boy four years old and a baby Dir
only four months old. The Heaths wer,
cousins of Frank A. Shaw of Contra
street, who is employed as composite
in the E. l.. Hildreth & Co. printing of
flee.