The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-20
BRATTLFBoRo LOCAL.

Carl Nelson, Clarence Shaw and John
NJ Blake enlisted Saturday evening in
Company 1, v. y. G.
A runner chain has been picked up
w the street and may be claimed by
the owner at the fire station.
Owing to target practice in the
Armory the basketball squad will prae
tiee tonight from Z to s o clock.
The women of the Unitarian parish
will conduct an Easter sale in the
parish house on the afternoon of April
IL.
The Franklin County Agricultural
society of Greenfield, Mass, has voted
to raise $4,000 to spend on changes
and improvements this year at the
fairgrounds.
William Z. Haskell, superintendent
of the pipe organ department of the
Estey organ plant, has just been
granted letters patent for harp stop
for pipe organs.
The 0. n. c. cub will meet with
Mrs Willard Bemis of Maple street
this evening instead Of Tuesday even
ing. Members arc requested to take
notice of the change of day.
The driver of the jacksonville stage,
Saturday getting TO Brattlcboro and
did not return until Sunday morning,
reached here this morning only about
two hours late and returned this after
fioon.
Town Clerk Carl $. Hopkins has re-
ceivcd q supply OF hunting and fishing
license blanks. Old ones will be out of
date after March 81. Up to this noon
only SO dogs had been licensed. On and
after April l the rate fbr licenses for
dogs jumps.
Today the Empire presents the Will
liam Fox feature, The Two Orphans,
with Theda Bara, William Shay and
Jean Sothern in an elaborate screen
version Of the world known drama.
Tomorrow the seventh episode of Graft
will be shown.
The case against NJ. Hirsh of Boston,
charged with promoting lottery by
obtaining members for furniture club,
which was to have been heard this
morning by Judge Frank E. Barber in
the municipal court, was postponed to
next Monday morning.
John Turner pleaded guilty this
morning in the municipal court to q
second offense of intoxieation and was
arrangements to pay. One other man
pleaded guilty to first offense of in
toxication and was fined So and costs
of S4.45. He paid
With the official temperature thi
morning two degrees above zero anC
Yesterday morning only seven abovt
that mark, it might be said withou
much fear of contradiction that winte
=. - 81 L., e -. al
began officially at 5.47 O. clock this af
ternoon.
In the regular meeting of Protective
Grange Wednesday evening Miss Flor
enee Wellman and Mrs. F. w. Pier vii
speak ON the new industrial actiyitie
among the school children. There vii
be also the Grange Husbandman, edite
by Mrs. c. S. Hopkins and Mrs. E. i
Convey, and a short farce entitled TIL
Jonesville Sewing Society.
Men who have been engaged i
breaking the old south road to Guilfor
Saturday and today report that the
encountered drifts II feet high an
that the snow fills in almost as rapid
as it is shoveled out. At noon toda
they reported the road open, if tn
wind does not continue to blow har
enough to fiji it up again.
Twenty-Five former guests of tn
Palmetto hotel in Daytona, Fla, hel
reunion at the hotel recently, c. {
Chamberlin, former proprietor, brotl
err of T.. A. Chamberhn and Mrs. r.
Gordon of this town carrying the plan
to completion. The Morning Hot
News of Daytona speaks of the CAT he
ing as ca deserved tribute to NJ
Chamberlin, Senator Magee of Ind
ana made speech which W;
an interesting feature of the o
casion. The News says: After Il
dinner photographs en-group we
taken of the guests and q
hour spent in social converse. 1t W.
the unanimous opinion that there W;
never a more enjoyable event, or mo
welcome break in the monotony of
tourist s experience. 1t was wortl
tribute TO worthy man, who, for
many years, ministered to the man al
woman away from home, and who ma
them feel that within the hospital
doors of the Old Palmetto they -four
there the warmest welcome.