The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-16
BRATTLEBOR0 LOCAL

The annual meeting of the Woman's |
| Exchange will be held Monday after
noon at $50 clock in the rest room.
At the First Baptist church tonight
at 49, Rev. j. A. Spidell of Burling
ton will deliver an illustrated lecture
on A Trip Around the World Without |
Money.
| John A. Lindsey has sold his cottage
house on Mooreland avenue to Law
renee B. Mcclure of Blakeslee street,
who buys for home Mr.. McCune is |
| signalman for the Boston & Maine rail |
road.
! The Advent Christian church and the
| Swedish Congregational church held a |
| union prayer meeting last night at the
home of Carl Svante Larson on Chest
nut street. There were several mem
bers present from both churches. After
the meeting refreshments were served
| by Mr.. Larson.
| The funeral of Eli II. Lee, who died in
his home in Guilford Monday, was held
yesterday afternoon at | o'clock in his
home. Rev. w H. Bishop, pastor Of
the Guilford Baptist church, offieiated.
The bearers were James Grover, Wesley
Whitney, Frank Houehton and Russell
Thomas. The burial took place in the
| West Guilford cemetery. Mr.. Lees sons,
Martin and Richard Lee of Ashuelot,
n, H., attended the funeral.
At the close of the days business
| Wednesday the employees of the Ameri-
can Railway Express company presented
| Mr.. and Mrs., +. NJ Stone with a hand
some mahogany clock. The presentation
was made by Roscoe Jaquith who ex-
pressed at the same time the regret of all
who had worked under Mr. Stone because
| OF his resignation as local agent for the
company. Mr.. and Mrs. Stone expect to
leave next week for Edmonton, Alberta
Pocahontas council, No. 4. D. of p.
held box social last evening in Red
| Men s hall, which was we'll attended.
Progressive pitch was played The first
| prize for ladies was won hv Mrs. Julia
| Graves; first pirze for men by Noe
Petite; consolation by Miss Opal Elmer.
| Following the card playing the boxes
were sold by auction, Charles Booker
| acting as auctioneer. The boxes
| brought from 80 cents to 81 80, caus-
ing much merrlment. Coffee was served
Hitchy Koo. a musical review which
won its popularity through service as
a vehicle for exploiting the fun making
talents of Raymond Hitchcock, ap-I
peared in the Auditorium last evening
without Raymond Hitchcock, Of
course, yet with n company that pro
duced fun enough to keep q good sized
/ audience in laughter much of the time
! Musical reviews are a kind of theatri-
cal production that always tax the cap
/ abilities Of good road company, and
/ the one here last evening was fire.
4 quently close to its limit. On the whole
however, the performance was salts
factory, those who contributed chiefly
to that result being Artie Leeming. a
really clever eccentric dancer Stan
Stanley and Miss Vera Gray
The Philippine Islands will be the
subject of the illustrated lecture by
Rev. d. +. Trout Sunday at $40 D. IN.
IN the tniyersalist church. There are
scenes of Manila s streets, buildings.
. markets, quays. etc; also views of
rice fields, husking cocoanuts, hemp
! industry. Strange scenes in some OF
the outlying islands reveal a wierd and
wild native life and in contrast to
such low type of life the lecture shows
the wonderful progress made under
American occupation. the goal of such
progress being a self governing indie
pendent people As Il witness 10 such
development are the five churches,
homes, up-to-date schools. as well Is
new sense of the responsibility Of
clean, model citizenship. The lecture
! and slides will appeal to all Americans,
! As revelation Of what America has
: done to help these people toward self
. government. The choir will sing.