The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-06-07
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.


The regular meeting of the w. c. T.
e. which was to have been held next
Monday has been postponed until fur
Their notice.
The Sunday evening meetings of the
Methodist church will start the usual
summer schedule next Sunday. The
Epworth league will begin at $50 p. m.
and the church service at 100 D. M.
\ regular Red Cross sewing meeting
will he held tomorrow afternoon in the
federal building from $50 to ) o clock
\ meeting Of the directors will be held
at 3 j. m. in the civil service cxamina-
tion room.
Mrs f. +. Reed of Putney road is the
owner of toddy mug, one of the four
with Washington = picture made in
1900. 1t has the motto, ''By Virtue
and Nalour we have freed our country,
extended our commerce, and laid the
foundations Of great country
The women of Townshend belonging
10 the Brattleboro Red Cross branch
sent Yesterday their first lot of knitted
work, including one dozen pairs of home
knit stockings one sweater and Is hos.
pital wipes. The Red Cross member
ship in Townshend numbers over 100.
The store Of II. II. Hacklev has been
closed since Saturday and will be re-
opened tomorrow morning for an auc.
tion sale of the stock. Mr.. Hackley is
to retire from the business and the auc-
tion is held under the management of
Ncwall Atwood of Boston.-South Deer
field correspondence in Greenfield Re-
corder, June 6.
Next Sunday morning ut 1890 the
services at the Methodist church will be
i'm charge of the Sunday school. The
annual Children s day program will be
given and the collection will be taken
for the Students Aid Fund of the
church. The pastor, Rev. Douglas G..
Guest, will preach a special sermon to
the children on the subject of Giants.
The play, Enlisted for the War. will
.he given for the heneht of the Red
Gross Society In Grange hall. Dumners-
ton Center, tomorrow night at o clock.
Following is the east: Robert True
worth, W. ). Armand; Wilder Rowell.
Albert Newton; Hosea jerks. Charles
Laughton; IIiram jerks, Harry Brown
CrimP, darby, Harry VIM; Gen.
Grant, Don Hewitt: GAYLE Clifford. Mrs.
Don Hewitt; Mrs. Truesworth, Mrs. Al
bert Newton; Matte Trueworth, Miss
Mary j. Turner. \ ehicken-pie supper
and dance will follow the play
DR., Frank ID. Stafford. former MAYOR
of North Adams, Mass. and DR.. NJ. NJ.
Brown of that city, both former resi-
dents of Nottingham, were at the
Brooks House yesterday afternoon with
party of 10. nurses from the North
Adams hospital training school The
party includes the superintendent. two
assistants and the members of the grad
uatins class of the training school. They
enjoyed an early supper at the hotel
and returned by way of Mortified.
Mass. Ii has been customary with DR..
stafford for the last eight wears TO Give
the members of the graduating class an
outing the day following their gradua-
tion.
Capt. i. w. Gibson of Company I.
VIII be In Bennington again i'm n few
days. In the meantime any young men
who are thinking of enlisting are iuyit-
c,-tt. 80 Is Howe AT the Banner of
flee or George Y. Williams M los
Pleasant street. Company / now has
~ young men from Bennington while
two more are going up for examination
FRIDAY. This makes the largest group
from Bennington in any one organiza-
tlon and if the remaining places i'm the
company can be filed from here, il will
make Company ! almost as much Ben.
nington as Brattleboro company. The
company now has l2o men and needs
30 more to bring it up to war strength.
Bennington Banner, june q.