The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-02
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

IS. w. Edgett has bought of Marley |
Brothers a new Chevrolet touring car, |
1919 model.
Rev. w. C. Bernard will conduct the |
chapel service at the Retreat Sunday |
afternoon at clock
The curtain will rise at Sl5 o'clock to-
night in the Auditorium when the high
school will present the patriotic play,
Nathan Hale.
An auction sale of the farming tools
and household furniture from the H. r.
Brown farms on the Connecticut river
north of Brattleboro win take place
tomorrow, beginning at 10. a. M. at
the Henry Allen stable on Oak street.
4 wide variety of articles will be of
fered for sale.
The May dapce in Odd Fellows temple
last evening. to which Odd Fellows.
Rebekahs and their friends were invited,
was attended by 90 couples. Wales,
Woodland, Jones and Davenport furnished
music for dancing. The committee in
charge of the affair was Robert Burn
ham, chairman, Harold Webster and
Richard Davis
Mrs. John Walker, 26, OF ,Ashuelot, \.
H., died this morning at 2.30 o'clock
in the AIelrose hospital, of internal can
GER She had been in the hospital several
weeks. Mrs. Walker was born in Brook
line and had lived in Ashuelot the past
seven years. She leaves her husband and
| five small children. The body was taken
this morning to Ashuelot, where the
funeral and burial viii take place
! Comparatively few fishermen visited
| Marlboro south pond Yesterday to try
| for trout and salmon on the opening
! dav -of the season. Those who did
| found strong wind blowing from the
/ south, which made conditions unfayor-
| able. Several trout were taken. the
! largest weighing about three quarters
Of pound. The only salmon seen was
a microscopic specimen scarcely more
than six inches in length.
Mrs. Christine (Wright) Campbell,
wife of f. L. Campbell, died yesterday
at the Elliot City hospital in keene,
following an operation Tor appended
It's several days ago. She was in her
saith year. She leaves, besides her hus-
band. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Muir
! ray Y. Wright and grandmother. Mrs.
Clara NJ. Wright. Mrs Campbell for
merly lived in Brattleboro.
!, Walter T. Mooney, plumber, sustained
! a fracture of his right leg Tuesday while
, at his farm in Gulford Mr. Mooney
went there to assist his teamster in haul
: ing logs and was walking beside a los
+ which was being snaked in at the time
+ of the accident. The log evidently struck
7 an uneven piece Of ground and swung
: around, hitting him in the leg. Boil
bones were broken about two inehe:
e above the ankle. Mr.. Mooney was taker
: to his home on Elm street.
. Dealers in untaxed narcotic prepare
j tions and remedies, that is, groeers
general merchandise stores and an,
person who deals in any of the prepar
ations which contain any narcotic drul
must register with the collector of in
! ternal revenue, of the district of NeN
HAMPSHIRE at Portsmouth. and pay
tax of 81 a year. The amount due wi
!. be from the period beginning Jan.
y 1919 to June 80, 1919, that is for 81
months, and the tax for that perio
will be so cents. The full rate of 81
year will be due July !, 1919 for tn
If twelve months period ending June 81
ID 1920, and thereafter on July of eac
TT year.
.; The open season for taking mink, mus
- rat and otter closed April 80, and anyol
! leaving traps set during the closed seasc
I is liable to prosecution and the eontisc
:, ton of the traps. Parents of small DO
III who go out with guns should take war
ing, as everybody has to have license
~ take or attempt to take any wild amin
OF or wild bird Most all birds are protet
do ed both by state and federal laws. I
81 only birds not protected by law are crow
y hawks, English sparrows, starlings, crt
blackbirds, snow-owls, great horned ov
IN and kingfshers Many adults would
50 well to memorize this list of birds,
on all others are protected and prcsecuto
ne will follow in the event of their bel
shot