The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-09
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

/ Officials of the Cent? Vermont rail
road went south lis morning on the
| early train.
The annual meeting of the board of
trade directors for organization will be
held this evening.
The L. c. b. A. will serve suppeg
in Grand Army hall Wednes lay even
ing from 80 to O'Clock.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Mutual Aid association will be held
Wednesday at $50 at the headquert
ers, II Canal street.
A meeting of Triumph lodge, Seen
danavian Fraternity of America, will
! be held tomorrow evening at o',lock
IN Red Men s hall,
| The body of Sally Clark Barstow
will be brought here from Portland,
Me, for burial in the Rufus Clark LOT
Wednesday afternoon.
Today the Princess theatre will pc
sent Adele Blood, Edwin Stevens ANA
Montague Love in the Shubert feature.
The Devil s Toy. Tomorrow William
Faversham in One Million Dollars will
be the attraction.
j. S. Patterson of South Londonder
~ shipped this morning to Providence.
K. l., q valuable Great Dane dog which
will be entered in the coming bench
show. The animal has won two first
prizes in big shows.
y large architect s wash drawing of
the proposed Holstein- Friesian office
building to he erected at the corner of
Main and South Main streets by \. b.
Clapp is on exhibition in one of the
windows of the Brattleboro Trust Co.
Today the Empire presents the varic-
ty program headed by The Iron Ring.
an exciting chapter Of Graft including
also the Animated Weekly News, Gin
ders, drama, and an l.. X comedy. To
morrow Kathryn Osterman in The
BludgeOn viii be shown
In a meeting of class No. 10 of the
Methodist Sunday school last evening
in the home of Mrs. E. E. Covev, It
was voted to name the class the Mary
Geddis class. After the regular bust
ness meeting refreshments were serv-
ed and social hour followed
The No. plant of the New England
Power company, located in Readsboro,
was put into commission within the
last few days, so the five stations on
the Deerfeld river are now grinding
out power. The electricity from these
plants goes as far as Providence, r. l.,
where large contracts for power ana
lighting have been secured.
Brattleboro witnesses who went t.
Burlington last night or this morning
to testify in the trial of George c.
Averill now in progress before the
. United States court were Charles A
Harris, w. T. Stellman, w. II. Proctor
C. B. CroweH, George L. Durham,
Charles H. Pratt, T. A Thompson and
Superior Judge Z. L. Waterman.
Charles B. Strickland, an employee of
the Vermont Last Block Co., is in the
Memorial hospital with his right leg
broken in two places. He says he met
with an accident Sunday in North
Bernardston, Mass, the details of which
he does not clearly remember He was
brought to his home here yesterday. DR..
II. 2. Greene reduced the fractures to-
day.
w. B. Vinton said this afternoon over
the telephone that he had nothing TO
say about the strike iRaugurated YES
tcrday by five women employees of his
paper mill except that they are all at
work. The women quit because they
claimed that a raise in pay to $125 a
day promised them beginning MAY ! !
did not come up to expectations as time
consumed in cleaning up was deducted.
Fred II. Harris, representing Baker, |
Ayllng IL Co, bankers, says there is
value attached to the subscription /
rights of the New England Power Co
preferred stockholders. In case thew do |
not wish to take advantage of their
right to subscribe to new stock at par
they may may sell their subscription
rights before May p and receive cash
therefor. The rights are worth 80 cents
share; that IS, If person owns 10
shares he can receive 50. This will make
their dividends s 1-2 per cent instead
Of the usual 6 per cent for the year.
James Irish u, one of The Reform
er route boys, who while riding bicycle
last Tuesday on Main street in front
of the Wilder building, was in coils
ion with an automobile driven b. Alb
bolt b. Richmond, is still suffering sew
erelv from the nervous shock, and the
injuries to his left leg are more severe
than at first considered. There were
four puncturcs on the shin bone of his
left leg and it IS probable that an X
ray photograph will be made Of one of
them to determine whether the bone is
splintered there. The wound does not
heal readily.
Former City Comptroller James F.
Hooker of Schenectady, \. Y, former
lv of Brattleboro, who made such q
strong run in the state primary two
years ago for the Republican nomina-
ton for state comptroller, says that a.
600 petitions are being circulated
throughout the state for his nomination
to that office this fall. He says he found
many prominent Republican leaders who
We're tied up to another candidate in
1914, now declaring themselves openly
for him Mr.. Hooker says he is MAX
ing an aggressive campaign and expects
to be nominated in the September pri-
mary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Philbrook arriv-
ed in town yesterday and the first re-
hearsal of Honeymoon Lane, the must
cal comedy to be presented under the
auspices of the First Regiment band
! My o 2G and y 1ras hold last .,1.en-