The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-06
BiRssATTLEBoRO Local! i


good store is being thoroughly reno.
waited and repaired.
On account of a leak in one of the
valves of one of the engines of the S. A.
Smith Mig. Co.'S plant, the factory is.
closed today while repairs are being made.
The annual meeting of the Masonic
Mutual club was held last evening and
the following officers were elected: Pres,
II. I. G. Toedt sec, Horace Winchester;
treas, E. Wales.
st. Michaels cadets. will go to North
field, Mass, Friday night to meet Mt.
Hermon cadets. with whom they. will.
have a competitive drill. after which a.
basketball game win take place. They
will leave st. Miehael's school by auto
mobile at 545 Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Judson Goodman of Brandon.
who recently escaped from the Brattle-
boro Retreat, where she. was an inmate,
was taken into custody by the police in
Rutland Tuesday morning, and re-
turned to Brattleboro yesterday. by an
attendant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Stacy of
AZ Chestnut street invite their friends
to an informal reception in celebra-
ton of the 60th anniversary of their
wedding Saturday, March Is, from 2
TO o clock in the afternoon and from
to o clock in the evening. .t
| Nearly 100 persons attended the
social in the parlors of the Methodist
church last evening, when the program
included piano selections by Miss Ruth
Barker, Mrs. Leslie Wyman and Miss
Doris Wyman, readings by Miss Lucy
G.. Swift, Miss Hazel NJ. Lyon and
| Clarence Morrill,. Various games also
were played and refreshments were
served. -
New sugar made its, appearance. on
the local market for the first time vest
erday, selling for about 10 cents a
pound Not a large quantity has thus
| far been made, though some of the
farmers near the town have tapped
: their orchards and yesterday secured a
| good run. One manufaeturer reports
| having 1000 trees already tapped and
considerable sugar made from the sap
which ran early Monday. 8t3y
John Z. Paddock of Saxtons River,
chairman of home service work of Wind
ham county chapter, American. Red
Cross, and Miss Marion Rowe of Boston,
who is in charge of home service work,
were in Brattleboro yesterday and ar
rangements were made for home service
worker to come here soon. TO take up the
work in various towns of the county. A
vote was taken at the annual meeting to
secure paid home service worker. 1t is
not known at present who the worker
/ viii be.
/ Dorr W. Allen has bought of Harry
Howe of Newfane his farm on West river
in that town. The place, which is known
as Maple Row farm, contains about 100
acres and is an especially attractive and
desirable home Mr.. and Mrs. Howe will
move to Brookline to live with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Howe. The
farm was Nowned many years by the
Fisher family and was sold recently by
Mrs. William Rand to Mr.. Howe Mr.
and Mrs. Allen have been living at the
Wilson |. Brown place on the West River
road since about Jan. l. -
I Attractive window. displays are being
:, arranged in the vacant store in Barber
building south of Mrs. Smiths millinery
store. The displays, which are from
!, the @. H. Eddy Co. ~botthng w6fks, IN
clude sodas, ginger ales, fiavoring ex
tracts, etc. This is the first concern tc
, place goods made in Brattleboro in va
cant store windows on Main street car
: rying out a vote taken by the director.
of the board of trade at a recent meet
; ing. The first persons to be attracted
, by the display of bottles were officers
. of the law.
The funeral of Miss Dorothea Murie
Perry, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
: Perry, was held yesterday afternoon a
, o'clock in her late home at 81 Oal
Grove avenue. Rev. Clark T. Brownell
pastor of the First Baptist church, of
ficiated. Miss Marion Green sang TIVE
! ! selections, My Task, and Lowest Thou
! Me- Miss Jessie Hawley accompanied
Miss Green on the piano. The flora
remembrances were especially beautiful
! The bearers were Howard Slack O
. Brookline, Mass, Stanley Wilson of tn,
= University of Vermont, Lloyd Blaneh
: ard of Uxbridge, Mass, and Fredericl
II Buell. of Woburn, Mass. The body wa
: placed in the mauseleum in Morning
side cemetery. Those who ATTENDED
: from out of town were Mr.. and Mrs. A
. L. Moves and daughter of Limestone
4 Me, and Miss Beatrice and Miss Vern
: Long of Nutley, n. j.
@ Frank Juscen and Walter Bilek, ma
tives of Austria, who are employed in tn
Fort drummer cotton mill, were in TIL
municipal court yesterday charge
with disturbing the peace, having bee
u arrested at the railroad station by Chief
e of Police George Wilson on complaint Q
Conductor 0'Brien. They pleaded guilt
q and Judge Cudworth fined them $40 an
IS costs each, but the fines were suspende
Il and the respondents paid the costs an
5 were placed on probation for one yea
q They boarded the train at Greenfield
e Mass, for Brattleboro and paid thei
y fares on the train, being given rebat
E checks The conductor is supposed I
take fare only to East Mortified, wher
a change in conductors is made, Condut
: tor O'Brien taking charge there. TIL
men claimed that they paid their fare
through to Brattleboro, giving the col
ductor 81 bill and receiving fe'
cents, inschange, but their rebate check
: showed fare paid to Z East Northfiel'
They refused to pay any more, hent
their arrest