The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-16
BRATTLEBOROLOCAL.

The funeral of Joseph H. Brazer win
be held Monday afternoon at l.30
0, clock at Bond & Son s undertaking
rooms and will be private. Rev. d. E.
Trout, pastor of the Universalist church
viii otficiate
l.. II. Nixon, harness maker, has
bought of Miss Caroline Dutton the
house at 70 Oak Grove avenue, occupied
by Attorney John n. Harvey, and will
move there about May ! from the
Miner building on Terrace street.
The first of six Sunday evening Len
ten services, conducted by the pastor,
| Rev. Richard II, Clapp, viii be held in
| the chapel of the Centre Congregation
al church tomorrow evening at 80
| The subject will be The Scope of Re
dcmption.
w. G.. Shaffner of Brattleboro was
the recipient of the pig disposed of at
| the Foresters meeting in Hinsdale
| Thursday night. The pig brought
| Sl2S.75 for the Hinsdale branch of the
| Red Cross, and Mr.. Shatfner donated
| the porker to the branch to be sold
again.
| Charles A. Perry of 81 Oak Grove
avenue will open a real estate and insur-
ance office next week on the third fiool
| OF the new Barber building on Main
street His son, DR.. w b. Perry, den
fist, is fitting up dental Office in the
building and plans to open It in about
| two weeks.
Mrs. George Prouty. about 76, for
merly of Guilford, died this morning in
Pittsburg, Pa, where she had made her
| 60 ha Of ~
with her daughter, Mrs. Abbie Cahl The
funeral services will be held Tuesday at
u o clock in Moran & Rohde s under
taking rooms.
A new plate glass window has just
been set in the south store OF Il. G.. Bar
ber's block on Main street, making the
eighth window set to replace broken win
dows in that store and the one north o
it since the first one was put in last fall
The eight windows broken cost IN the
ncighborhood OF 500.
John L. Howard. the well known rea
estate agent, has engaged rooms in the
new Barber building and will move
there from Crosby block on or about
March /. His main office will be on the
Main street side, two doors south q
Pipers law office, and he will have
another room directly across the hall
both on the second floor
\ load of logs got into difficulty thit
noon on Main street in front Of JOIN
B. Manley's house 1t plunged into
a deep dip-holc and when the from
sled emerged on the other side thu
kingbolt came out, letting the from
end of the load drop down. 1t was nee
essary to unload, and the task Of load
ing again was anything but easy.
The West River passenger train from
South Londonderry reached Brattle
boro this morning exactly on time The
mixed train has been having variou
troubles and has been very late 1t i
due here around 1 clock in the aft
ernoon, but it did not come yesterda,
afternoon being DELAYED several hour
between WilliamSville and Brattleboro
finally arriving here about l o 'clocl
this morning.
An order from the Office of the post
master general says: Postmasters will
limit acquisitions for letter boxes an
posts to eases Of extreme necessity an
emergency. Prevailing abnormal cor
ditions in transportation render obsery
anec of this order imperative. It is
waste OF time to urge the fastening o
deliveries. This indicates that Posi-
master NJ. J. Moran may not be able t
replace the mail boxes at the railroa
station, which were smashed recently
! as promptly as he wishes.
H. \. Mayforth who was catcher i
/ 1912 on the Brattleboro team in tn
= Twin State baseball league and late
in Northampton, Greenfield and Be
lows Falls, has been commissioned
lieutenant in the aerial service II
was in the first class to graduate, las
November, in the school of aerial ol
s,rvation at Fort SILL Oklahoma, an
was sent to Garden City. He sale
Jan for Europe. He was recommend
ed for a commission by President Gu
Potter Benton of the University O
Vermont.