The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-23
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

William Huntress and Victor Space
spent Sunday in Keene, y. II.
A telegram from the Hartford wealth
er bureau to the postmaster says mod
crate floods III this locality NAV be ex-
pected in the next few days on account
of warm weather and melting SHOWS in
the upper Connecticut valley.
Arthur n. Cain, former porter at the
Brooks House and recently captain of
bell bows at the Yale club in New York
city, who failed to pass the physical
examinations for Company l, Y. n. G..
last week, has taken position at the
Brooks House
The first thunder shower of the
season rolled over and around Brat
tleboro Saturday afternoon without
doing any damage except to put one
telephone line out of commission and
wet mp gardens so thai a lot Of con
templated Sunday work necessarily
was put over.
| Windham county cases on the docket
| for the May term of the supreme court
at Montpelier are as follows: Ethel f.
Cutler VS.. Merton A. Doolittle; H. A.
Staten VS.. Central Vermont Railway
company, action under section 1906 of
Public Statutes; Wilson ]. Brown vs..
Connecticut River Power company
Richard II. Reed VS. Ilium Lumber COM
pany.
Archie Gandreau, who was arrested
in the railroad station Saturday after
noon by Police Chief George Wilson,
pleaded guilty in the municipal court
this morning to a first offense of in
toxication. Acting Judge c. NJ. Miller
imposed a fine of So and costs of 500,
in default of which Gandrcau was
taken to Ncwfane Jail to serve -
DAYS.
Mr.. Wright, who is sent out by the
agricultural department of the Uni
versitv of Vermont, will give an Illus
trated talk on gardens this evening at
80 in the assembly room of the high
school building. The parents OF the
school children are especially urged 10
attend. The talk is expected to give
definite help on the subject of garden.
ing and to prove very instructive.
Community action can remedy many
conditions dangerous to the lives of in
ifants. The purity OF the water, the
milk, and the food supply, the cleanH
ness of streets and alleys; the disposal
of waste-all these are within the con
) troll of the community. And il is tc
stimulate interest in these things that
the Brattlcboro Woman s club is te
; observe baby week in this town tho
; next week.
; The corner stone Of the new church
of the First Universalist society oil
Somerville, Mass, of which Rev. Har
LEY ID. Maxwell, formerly of Brattle
Fboro, is pastor, was laid with impress
sive ceremonies yesterday afternoon il
the presence of large gathering. 4.
a patriotic prelude q flag raising wa
: held outside the building which ha
: been used since the old church wa
: sold. Rev. Mr.. Maxwell made an adj
: dress at the flag raising, and at tn
corner stone laying he gave the invoca
ton and with silver trowei place,
! the mortar and laid the stone. Rev
e DR., Lee S. McCollestcr, president o
the Univcrsalist general convention
and dean Of Tufts college, dclivere,
1.-THE address, \ picture Of Rev. Nj
Maxwell laying the corner stone wa
s!pubished in the Boston Globe toda,
Carnations, 65c doz.; snapdrago:
e 35e. ana 50c. doz., very fine; swec
Is peas, $3.50 per hundred; marguerite
e l5c. doz.; daffodils, soc. per doz; rose
" $50 doz. c. n. Bond, Tel. 231-X. 39-t