The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-03-31
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Rev. George E. Tomkinson will con-
duet the chapel service at the Retreat
Sunday afternoon at o clock.
The Island ball field was occupied
this morning by boys at baseball prac-
tice, the first of the spring season.
The storm lobby on the town build
ing was removed yesterday. With the
exception of the storm doors of the
Brooks House this is the last necessary
sign of the arrival of spring.
The check list of voters to be used
at the coming regular annual village
meeting has been posted in the town
hall corridor. The meeting will be
held Tuesday, May 2, at s p. m, in
Festival hall.
Arrangements have been made for
troop No. l of the Boy Scouts to hike
TO the Scott farm tomorrow. The
boys will meet at headquarters in the
Centre church home at l O'Clock. The
Scott farm is one of the largest sugar
farms in southern Vermont.
The attraction at the Empire today
is Pearle White in The Cognac Cask,
the third episode of The Iron Claw
and Cyril Maude in The Greater VIII
in five acts. Tomorrow Tom Wise
will be seen in A Gentleman from
Mississippi, a fve-aet comedy drama.
Rev. c. l.. Evarts, who spent twc
weeks in Brattleboro preliminary to
| the Chapman-Alexander evangelistiC
meetings, is now n Wilmington, N c.
making preparations for series OF
meetings, which will be the last be
fore the evangelists come to Keene
n. H., in May.
The official list of tennis fixtures fol
the coming season was announced al
New York yesterday by the executive
committee of the United States Ma
tional Lawn Tennis association. Tht
Vermont state championship is sched
uled to be played on the courts of tn
Brattleboro Country club August Is.
! Glass No. 10 of the Methodist Sur
day school met and organized las
evening in the home of Mrs. Col
Morse of Harris place. The follow
ing officers were elected: President
Mrs. Cola Morse; vice president, Mrs
; +. b. Covey; secretary and treasurer
Mrs. D. H. Fraser.
The special V. L. S. E. production
Ny Lady's Slipper, with Anita Stew
art and Earle Williams supported b
an all-star cast, will be the attraetio
,, at the Princess theatre today Their
will be special music by the Princes
orchestra. Tomorrow Charlie Char
lin in a one-reel comedy with a spec
ally selected program and music by til
Princess orchestra will be the Offering
Australia will be the subject of th
stereopticon lecture by Rev. D. ]
Trout in the Universalist church Sur
= = day at 7.30 p. m. The slides reveal th
beauties and growth of the chief cite
|, as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, PERT
Ballarat, Hobart and others. The V;
) rious industries are made a speci;
: study, chiefly gold, sheep and woo
I wheat, butter, fruits, vineyards, ct
s The lecture treats of the life of Il
y people from the daily occupations
! the sports, including cricket, and Il
u famous horse races, with the Melbour1
. Cup day at the Pennington race cours
Australia is new country in man
respects, with its marvellous develo
d ment and expansion, beautiful bull
n ings, great bridges, irrigation systel
,e and one about which many peop
know little. The slides and lectu
acquaint one with the interesting fe
lures of this Australian continent, OF
oil of which is the advance step taken
rt the government in helping its peopl
DR. through industrial cooperation. T.
lpublic welcome.