The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-11
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL,

A consignment of $500 lingering
trout for South Londonderry brooks |
went up this morning from the Vernon
hatchery.
The Woman S Relief corps will hold |
their regular business meeting Thurs
day evening, July y, at 80. There |
will be initiation.
The Mary Geddis class of the Metho |
dist church enjoyed picnic Monday |
afternoon in the pine grove on the Put |
nev road. There was a good attendance. |
Local coal dealers have received mott
fication this week of a drop in the price
of soft coal which is now $500 in car
load lots f. O. B. Brattleboro. Previous
lv it had been selling from 81 to 81
above this figure.
Mr.. and Mrs Carl Gustafson will have
a lawn party at their home on Fairview
street tomorrow evening at Z o'clock
Strawberries and cream, coffee and cake
will be served and music will be rem
dered. All are welcome.
Mrs. John Barden pleasantly enter
tanned the clerks of Houghton & ST
monds s store yesterday afternoon at the
Barden camp on the Connecticut river.
| One Of the BgelOw boats took the party
! there at clock. Dinner was served.
4 Packard roadster attracted no little
attention on its way northward through
Brattleboro Yesterday afternoon by rea-
son of the fact that il bore Vermont IL
cense No l. The ear is owned by G. c.
Warren of Waterbury, one of the states
pioneer automobilists.
William Riley. laborer, well
equipped with liquor, was arrested near
the Centerville bridge yesterday by
Chief George Wilson. He pleaded guilty
to a charge of intoxication before Acting
Judge r. d. f. Stowe yesterday after
moon. 1t was his second offense and he
paid a fine Of $l5 and costs. The liquor
was confscated and destroyed.
Harriette Dunklee Puff has feled in
the county clerk s office a petition for
divorce from Fred Joseph Puff, whose
present whereabouts she does not know.
They were married in South Vernon
Nav -, 1912. and lived here, in Green
! field and Boston until at Boston, All.
gust Is, 1913, she alleges he deserted
her. She charges also neglect and re
fusal to provide and asks the right tt
resume her maiden name Chase &
Chase are attorneys for the plaintiff
Along with other damage caused BY
the fire yesterday in the DeAngelis house
on Reed street Yesterday was that to tive
. good suits Of clothes Of clothes worn by
Robert Fits and K f. Mosher. They
: were standing near the hose when tn,
: compiling blew off. The water frs
. struck Mr. Fits, thoroughly soa king b.
garments and as he sprang back he npse
Mr.. Mosher, who landed in a mud mud
die. Two children Of Mr.. and Mrs. POI
karo, in whose tenement the tre started
> were rescued by Mrs. L. +. Tubbs.
:. The annual meeting of the Society q
i SeamstresseS, Needlewomen and Sho,
Girls of Brattleboro will be held in tn
= rest room tomorrow evening at 1.
> 0 clock. All those who have anv in
d terest whatever in the Thompson fund
n who have received any benefit through
5 this fund either at the hospital or III
% vacation house in the past or hope t
r III the future, are urged to show thei
appreciation by attending this meet
n ling, i is imuGratWe,t that tho organize
). tlon be kept up III order TO hold tn
y fund here. 1t is only once n year tina
i. this meeting is called, and it is hope
" that there will be the largest att,sn,
ance tomorrow in the history of the 81
Is cietv.
V Private sale of household goods frol
2 : a. m to 40 ?. m at 1873 South Mai