The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-24

BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

The free kindergarten closed yester-
day for vacation of two weeks.
Miss Hortense Hall will open her
kindergarten. on High Lawn road for
the spring term Monday, April ,.
There will be no evening service in |
the Centre Congle gational Church to-
morrow.
At the council Gy. of Quonekticut
palefaces were adopted, after which |
corn and venison were served.
The owl train from the north. due
here at $40 this morning, was three
hours late. Hard going in Canada and
northern Vermont was given as the
reason.
Bishop Arthur G. A. Hall Of the
Episcopal diocese of Vermont will
preach in St. Michaels Episcopal
church at 1890 O'Clock tomorrow
morning.
An excursion party of from 100 to
100 from points in the northern part
Of the state for. Washington will 90
through Brattleboro this afternoon on
the 4.36 train
A very important rehearsal of the
united choirs will be held in the First
| Baptist church this evening at s.
o clock. The choirs are rehearsing the
| Easter cantata, Olivet to Calvary, by
Maunder.
The governing board of the Wom
an S Exchange will meet Monday aft
ernoon at $50 in the rest room to elect
q nominating committee and to trans
act any other business that may come
before the board.
Or. Samuel McChord Crothers. for
mer pastor of the Unitarian church of
Brattleboro, and now pastor of the
First church of Cambridge, Mass, will
be the speaker at the Men 'ssForum in
the Unitarian parish house Wednesday
| evening. His susIjees has nett heen
| announced.
| All Boy Scouts Of Brattleboro are
invited to be present Monday evening
at Z clock in the Main street school
| building for the illustrated talk on
aeronautics by y. H. Arnold. Many
pictures of old time aircraft and some
of modern ones will be shown and the
construction and methods of operating
the craft will be explained. Mr.. Ar
mold will tell the boys some personal
experiences that will interest them.
Mrs Eliza (Knight) Lawson, -,
wife of Rev. Albert G.. Lawson, pastor
of the Baptist church at Woodside, Ii,
died in her home in Jamaica, n. Y,
Wednesday. March 81. The funeral
was held at ; clock today. Mrs.
Lawson was born in Brooklyn. Be
sides her husband. she leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Harold Murdoch and
Miss Martha X. Lawson, and a son,
Rev. George b. Lawson Of the Penn
sylvania College for Women at Pitts
Lburg, formerly pastor of the First Bap-
fist church of Brattleboro.
A Mile and a Half High in Mexico
, will be the subject of a stirring ad-
dress b. Miss Clementina Butler in the
: Methodist church tomorrow morning
1T 1890 clock. Miss Butler has been
seven years il Mexico, has spent two
winters in India and has visited mis-
sion fields Of several other denomina-
tons Her escape from Mexico in dis
guise, after staying alone to protect
the students of the Methodist schools
/, in the troubled days preceding the oc
cupation of Vera Cruz, is thrilling
tale Miss Butler 5 parents spent 90
. years in missionary work and founded
two missionary fields of the church il
India and Mexico.
Pollyanna, the Glad Book, will be
the subject of the stereopticon lcctur,
/, by Rev ID. L. Trout in the Universal
t ist church Sunday at p. IN. Thi
: book has been read by thousands, VIII,
+ have been made happier and better b.
g its reading. The slides illustrate thi
beautiful story of a child s absolute
faith III goodness, and her undyin,
spirit of gladness, until all with whom
; she comes in touch are made Cheerful
y and glad like herself. The book wa
! dramatized, and many Of the views ar
!, from the dramatization as presentc
! in New York city One writer says
"Pollyanna is great tonic for blue
and pessimism This same lecture b
request was given in one church by tn
same minister three times to a tota
congregation of 2,l00. The choir wi
yinU Everyone welcome