The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-30

Outside OF the tact that 1t y the next gay |
to the last OF the month and | won't get
check for January if don't put something
over today or tomorrow, ! can't think OF
an excuse to write from this town. You
sent me up here and told me to find some
thing to write about and I've been hunting
! ever since | got here
\ few weeks ago the regular correspond
ent sent an item from this town saying |
| that perhaps something might be done to-
ward organizing club for the youths OF |
Bellows Falls 1t was founded, perhaps |
on fact, and So | looked the matter up. | |
| guess the regular writer believed what he |
was writing. all right, when he wrote it, |
but since then there has been much GO |
| ing on everyone who was interested IN II |
has been Just enthusiastically interested in
a dozen other things For becoming en- |
| thusiastic over more things III a given
number Of minutes than any other people |
give me our dear old New England folks.
\ | don't care whether it is deciding on a
new way to run town or new way to
/ fish for mackerel through the ice, they go
to ii with great animation until somebody
comes along with new plan to prevent
unhappy marriages or perfectly novel
scheme for paving ten-tifty for a seven
fifty ton of coal.
The latest idea in town is an athletic
club 1t reached the point where the II
or II prospective members and potential
athletes have decided they viii have medi
cine balls, punching bags, boxing gloves
and shower baths. rs | understand it, the
club will be ''rawther' exclusive and IN
the Union block, where the Armory used
TO be. With such thing to talk about,
the uplift club for young men has been
neglected, to say the least.
| | mentioned coal a minute or two back.
| Fred IL Hobson, aged IS and as spry as a
| man of 10. is janitor Of the town ball
| building lie tells me lie has been on the
| Job. with the exception OF a two-years'
| rest, for II years. This winter he had
| more trouble with coal than he ever had
| and was burning more than he ought lie
/ decided he would investigate. Seven weeks
II ago he found that there was good
II amount Of stone and slate in each shoveltul
II he pokcd Ito be poetjcal into the hungry
: NAV of the consuming demon in the base
: mcnt of the town hall building Forth
with he began To pick ont the slate and
rock and he has been at it ever since. BY
weighing sundry pals of the wasteage he
P has found that he j. removing about $50
/ pounds OF rock from every ton he takes ont
O. Of the bin The last load shoveled into
II l4lt IluS AdS a Atl 81 =" TONS 81 tldIN GOAL.
n Ii the ratio holds good throughout the load
/. the town shall have bought ll,25o pounds.
! or four and halt tons of rock and slate,
No. and 80 II tons Of coal
Gretna Green marriages continue here
y: with unrcmtting energy. ! have reason Il
40 believe that certain ministers and some o.
the Justices can now icclte the solemn
marriage ceremony backwards and for
Y. wards. ] notice The Ecformer last even
irg reprinted an editorial from the Bellows
re Falls Times One or two of the minister,
here think the editor of the local paper
rather rough on the churches. declaring
M they have sent resolution to Representa-
al tive F. J.. Osgood asking cor new deal il
~. the marriage laws Until that editorial ap
80 .pcared do not know of anyone who knew
the ministers had taken a single step to
= ward doing their part toward clmnatin,
l the Gretna Green marriages from tn
~, state Unless it was the doe" 80 far a
WI | can learn it was done very quietly A
,-' one minister SAID. We were not blowing
ne our own horn." Whatever that has to d
hy with creating Il sentiment against the IN
ny holy condition of affairs brought about b
Ge tmeworn marriage laws, | won't attemp
TO explain.
he Rev. J. d. shannon OF St Charles r.
as mar Catholic church Is unrelentng in hi
,ut desire to see the marriage laws changed 5
he that Grena Green marriages will ceas,
he He has spoken about the matter time ate
ill time in his sermons and no later than SUI
,ct day again declared against them.
ed. The most interesting type | have disco'
an cred IL TINS town are the persons, an
no there are several Of them, who, with tea1
in their eyes, will deplore the ''undesirab
publicity the community Is receiving l.
,,f
has gained. and at the same time declal
that the present law is all right Ii Il
mrs marriage laws are all right surely
doesn't do the town any harm to have Il
names OF these paIagoEs OF virtue pu
tor lished daily III the newspapers. The blu
:; that the couples come to Vermont t. :,
ov cape publicity" is amusing, to say Il
IA least. With Boston and Springfield pape
.as, publishing the lists every day it s fine !
30 Of publicity they escape when they con
,,iI here. It's on a par with the famous p
.tas vacy OF goldfish.
- Society, and everyone else. Is interest
this week in the Charity ball to be he
NJ in Union hall Friday evening" 1t will
~ for the benefit Of the Rockingham hospit
'5ao and viii be quite an affair, SO they t
oe me.
lPa The basketball team of Company f a
10 pears to he in good health | watched
var trim Gus Bothwcl's Iaconia. y H., tea
VIZ which is some aggregation, Friday event
ace by the score Of 80 to 81 Gussy is sol
fhi5 Older than when tie used to play on t
otla Bellows Falls team with Dan Thomps
and harhe Frost, against Dan Riley, Ia
Clune, and the other old-timars. 7
local team is attracting good sized crow
too. Next Friday they play the Da
mouth Reserves and the Bellows IA
yra- Girls team will play the Windsor Gu
team
Financially this village has Jared v
The within the past week The fair of
IN Charles Roman Catholic church par
n OF Melted the parish a ter the bills are pa
nifty about $1,000, which will 20 toward pay
cusc off the church debt Ira C. Calcf Of Wa
cur ington tNt) has given $500 to the !
lcor- pital and with $500 more this has Q
de- to pay of the mortgage on the proper
RENE In addition to this Mrs Mary H. Pow