The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-22

this month with IN actual circulation of
$4,000 copies.
Our traditional January thaw came
duly to hand last week despite the fact
that there was very little snow TO melt,
concluding with moderate. rain from the
northeast for two days.
At the village meeting held last Mon
day evening it was voted to raise n tax of
% cents on the dollar of the grand list TO
pay the expenses of the coming year. The
members of the fire department are to be
paid the same as heretofore.
The ladies' of the Universalist society
are making arrangements Tor their annual
fair and festival to be held in the town
hall on the evening of February l. The
program win include all the customary
attractiOns-which means, of course, a
good time for all.
Let none who possess a taste for the
curious and wonderful in nature fail to be
present at the lecture to be given at the
town hall on Monday and Tuesday eve
nings of next week by Professor Richards.
The subjects chOsen-Oxygcn, the Matter
King and Hydrogen, the Matter Queen.
illustrated as they will be by numerous
and brilliant experiments, cannot fail TO
interest and instruct. Wherever deliv-
tItu. lutSt ItCluItS hdhNt nut Adilth W It-
ceive the highest praise.
The meeting Of the Good Samaritan
Temperance society held oil Sunday eve
ming last, was, as usual, attended with a
full house despite the rain and mud. The
meeting was addressed by e.. +. Thomp-
son. Rev. Mr.. Holland, w. III. Alexander.
r.. +. HOSford, b. f. Bingham. r. Gro
gan and others. A beautiful and apprO-
pirate song was sung by Edward Clark
and a temperance poem reclted by Master
BERTHE Davenport, aged nine years, in q
manner that betokened a future orator.
Mr.. Alexander reported 81 new names
added to the society by means of a little
canvaSSing among the ladies. of a partic-
lar neighborhood. OF 40 mothers called
upon, every one placed her name upon the
pledge. showing, un~eQuivOcally. that the
sympathies of the mothers of Brattleboro
are a unit upon the subject of temperance.
During the thaw last Saturday, a
striped snake nearly two feet and a half
in length was killed while enjoying a
stretch in the open air, by a farmer living
a short distance from the village of West
Brattleboro. Not a common occurrence
for the middle of January.
\ COW belonging to jeremiah Ryan of
Putney, which calved on the Goth of last
March and gives milk from only two teatS,
SdNt ulllh lApLI Nultl sfbb IbNAlltAS oA Dll-t
ter was made up to the 10th of the present
month, besides furnishing what milk was
wanted in the family. She is of mixed
breed. Where is the cow with two teats
can beat this?
\ letter from Brookline states: Our
hills are bare and the weather like spring
and with this freak in nature, as might
be expected. are several cases of illness.
but we trust With, kind medical aid all
viii recover" -,,L ru
SH. "! Davenport and Richard Gregan
of this village addressed the temperance
meeting at West DummsrSton ON the eve
ming Of the 18th. Mr.. IGrOgan took a
very strong prohibition stand and advocat-
ed legal means as the only way to stop
the traffic in Intoxicating liquors.
A tempera Jcei lecture was given In
West HaliFax Thursday evening after
which 33 persons pledged themselves to
abstain from all Intoxicating drinks. We
glad to learn that among the number
were some who had been accustomed here
tofore to use them quite freely. Hope
many will follow their example.
%
Married-At the residence of VIM. s..
Newton. Esq, of this village, by Rev. J.
Chandler of West B~rattleboro, Mr..
d. Brooks and Miss Anna L..
Harris, both of Brattleboro. No cards.
Married-In Fayetteville, January 10.
by Rev. David Shurtleff, J.. Arms Miller
of Dummerston and Sarah NJ. Read of
Wardsboro.
Married-In Vernon, January u, by
Rev. III. c. Hodgdon, Mr.. B. Arnold
and Hattie L. Snow, all of Yer
non.
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