The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-30
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Mrs. y. c. Sawyer of West Brattleboro
received a telegram yesterday from her
son, G. Edwin Sawyer, announcing the
sudden death yesterday from acute
uremic poisoning of Mrs. Sawyer at their
home in Niagara Falls. y. Y. No later
news has been received concerning her
death.
A large Victory Liberty Loan poster.
which is the work of Max Wolff of Green
field, Mass. who formerly was employed
here by c. s. Hopkins at the greenhouses,
has been placed today in Mr. Hopkins's
window on Main street The drawing is
done in pen and ink and water color and
is suitably inscribed.
A bazaar and fair, under the auspices
of the CarryOn club of st. AIichaels
Episcopal church, opened this afternoon
at 3 o'clock i'll the Episcopal parish house.
There will be sale of homemade food
and candies and other attractions. 1t is
expected that Capt. Ernest w Gibson will
speak this evening. The bazaar will
continue through the afternoon and eve
ming.
The Red Cross work rooms in the fed
eral building will not be open tomorrow
on account of the festivities of welcome
| for the returned soldiers. Those in
charge of the work at the reems wish to
remind Brattleboro women that there
| is still much sewing to be done and they
urgently request that they some and
bring their friends Tuesday, Thursday
or Friday afternoons. Brattleboro has
done such splendid work in the past that
she must not fail in the end but put her
shoulder TO the wheel and finish the
lob"
! Mrs. Ellen tFlaggl Fairbanks died
suddenly of heart trouble at the Ellen
! vile, n. Y, home of her daughter April
p. She was a daughter of Gen. Stephen
p. and Mrs. Flagg, was born in Whining
! ton in the early 40's and attended the
public schools of her native town. She
married Elmer f. Hall of North Adams
who died few days later. About 1872
she married f. Wayne Fairbanks a Will
mington merchant, and their home for
several years thereafter was in New
York, where Mr.. Fairbanks died. Like
the other members of this notable family
she was proficient in music and taught
1 many pupils prior to her removal to New
York The burial took place in Woodlawr
Yesterday afternoon beside her husband
) and brothers, John H., Lyman NJ. anc
Fred A. Flagg. The latter was IRE
, quent visitor to Wilmington and Brat
tleboro.
A small audienee-much too small II
, fact-attended the performance o.
+, George NJ. Cohan's new play, The Voice
of Mcconnell. in the Auditorium las
evening 1t proved to be an excep
! tionally enjoyable comedy, presented
: by one of the best all-round companie
that ever has appeared here. The prin
cipal part, that of an Irish singer 0
,, national prominence was taken by tn
: wellknown stage favorite, Chaunce,
Oleott, who not only gave fnlshe'
rendition of the role created for hir
but delighted his audience with tire
new Irish songs: Ireland, Land o
Ny Dreams You Can't Deny You r
Irish, and When l Look into You
Eyes, Mavourneen. Among those of tn
of the supporting company whose worl
was especially good were Robert Haze
ton as Hendriek, the valet; Mrs Alic
Chaplin as Mrs. Dwight Mcnamara
Gilda Leary as her daughter, Evely
Mcnamara; Mabel Alan as Miss Co
lingsby, Frank Huyler as Douglas Grf
ham and James Cormican as Harr
| Mcnamara.