The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-27
BRATTLEBORo LOCAL.

the series, will be held in Academy |
hall, West Brattleboro, tomorrow even
ing.
The annual meeting of the Brattle |
boro Country club will be held in the |
Brooks House parlors next Monday
evening, April 3.
| One of the trolley cars partially got
/ off the track on the Main street hill
Saturday afternoon. Traekmen were
engaged in making repairs to the track
there today
4 The first of the blasts to be made in
the rounding off of the corner of the
ledge at Vernon and Bridge streets was
set off this morning shortly after IL
0 clock.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Methodist church will meet with Mrs.
Emogene White at Rev E. w. Sharp's
meeting will vote ON the proposed new
bylaws.
The Brattleboro board Of trade has Sc
cured George b. NJ. Harvey, formerly with
the Harpers and now editor and publisher
of the North American Review, to be the
speaker at the annual board Of trade ban
quet in the Brooks House on some date the
last week i'll April
Mrs. II. E. Baseom had a very sue
cessful millinery opening on Friday
and Saturday. One hundred trimmed
hats were on exhibition and were beau
tiful, both in design and workmanship.
The parlors were well filed both days.
Fruit punch and waters were served
Saturday afternoon.
Company A, V. \. g., with headquar-
tiers at Rutland is short 4 men of the
required minimum number of So. Lieut..
j. G. Waterman, the inspecting officer,
recommended strongly that the com
pany be recruited Immediately to the
required minimum number. COMPANY /
of Brattleboro had met that requirement
before the annual inspection.
I Today the Empire presents Betty
1 Nansen in the William Fox feature,
4 The Song of Hate powerful drama
] based on La Tosca, in which Miss
q Nansen's superb art and wonderful
D command of dramatic emotion rise to
great heights. Tomorrow Graft win be
shown and Mary Fuller and Ben Will
son viii be seen in different selected
s subjects.
An every-member canvass for fnan-
I ces was conducted yesterday after
E noon by the Methodist church, the first
canvass of the kind to be made by
n tHdt CAuIGI. Inc results were very
pleasing, the pledges aggregating con
& siderably more than has been pledged
i heretofore. After Sunday school q
luncheon was served in the church, fol
lowed by a devotional service in the
h vestry. About 35 canvassers then
4 started out to secure pledges.
An order from the secretary of war
4 issued March %, 1916, designates Wal
3 lace Batchelder of Vermont for appoint
4 ment as a major of cavalry. It is no
4 understood that this necessarily involve
4 his being called to the colors or inter
I feres with his law practice unless al
! emergency arises calling for NOR
a troops and officers TO Command them
4 Major Batehelder is the senior membe
1 of the law firm Of Batchelder, Thomp
z son and BatcheIder of Bethel He for
3 merly lived in Brattleboro. where h
3 studied law in the office If Waterman
4 & Martin.
i Rev. Roy NJ Houghton of New Ha
! ven, Conn, formerly pastor of the Ger
4 tire Congregational church, was greete
I by a large congregation yesterday
3 that church, where he supplied tn
4 pulpit He made some very compl
D mentary remarks about the Cent?
church, also about the new pastor VIII
Will take tudT5e next sunday, D.
Z speaking for him hearty cooperate
] and loyalty. He preached a stron
sermon on The Call of Isaiah. Re
Y Mr. Houghton viii return to New II
ven tomorrow The Church of the r
- deemer, of which he is pastor, haviI
sold the lot where the church buildir
is now located, will erect a new bull
ing in another part of the city. re:
ef- Dental section. This will not be COZ
pleted for year or two, but a chap
ng will be built soon, in which chur
to- services will be held
- The Childe Hassam, the artist vi
=. used to come to Brattleboro to Wis
. the late Robert Gordon Hardie, arti
an unusual tribute has been paid
- the San Francisco Society of Arts
This society is in process of amalg
O. nation with the San Francisco Art
es- ISOLATION. To mark that amalgan
Vho ton, and as its last official act befC
led ceasing to exist as a separate organi;
ton, the San Francisco Society of
ay fists decided ON some painting of pl
rus eminence for purchase and presen
Ed tion to the San Francisco Art assoc
ton for continuous public exhibits
gh- After a careful survey of the field
Tea American painting, the members of
at society have chosen and purchas
the picture entitled The Yachts, Glou
,rds ter Harbor, by Childe Hassam. T
mes work was one of a special group of
d a Hassam S pictures shown at the p
ama-Pacifc exposition.