The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-10-17
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

| Bert Wilder and Dana II. Stafford
caught bear weighing 275 pounds in
one of their traps in Jamaica Saturday.
I The meeting of the d. A. r. will not be
/ held Tuesday as announced but will be
/ held on Thursday afternoon in the Uni
tartan parish house. There will be re-
ports from the state conference and a
! paper of particular interest on Vermont,
also music.
| The literary program which was ar
| ranged for the meeting of the Woman's
auxiliary of the American Legion tomOr-
row evening has been postponed to the
November meeting. The auxiliary will
meet, however, tomorrow night at 7.30 in
/ G. A. r. hall.
News has been received in town of the
! death of Morgan NJ. TOlle of Bridgeport,
/ Conn. Mr.. and Mrs. Tolle- went three
weeks ago to Roxbury, Kansas, to visit
at his old home, and while there he was
stricken with pneumonia. Mrs. Tolle is
a sister of Mrs. ]. NJ Perkins and Mrs.
Albert w. Rockwell of Brattleboro.
County Agent r. Wilton Harvey and
County Club Agent Viola NJ. Cameron
were in Bennington Saturday to attend a
meeting of the Bennington County Farm
| Bureau. The Bennington Bureau voted
/ TO raise its membership fee to $40, the
same as voted at the annual meeting here
/ Friday. This makes 10 counties in the
state in which the annual dues are SO.
+ The funeral OF Mrs Charles e. Knight
was held at o'clock Saturday afternoon
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred w.
| Hall of IS Green street. Rev. Herbert p
| Woodin, ID. d., pastor of the Centre Con-
gregational church, officiated. The burial
took place in the family lot in Morning
side cemetery. The bearers were A. j.
/ Dugan, A. H. Brasor, L. Ii. Houghton
and f. w. Hall.
| Persons in this locality had an excel
/ lent opportunity last evening to observe
/ the partial eclipse of the moon, which
rose at 5.56 p. m. with the shadow of
i the earth already upon it. The eclipse
| was visible util 734 D. m. OF unusual in
terest to those interested in astronomy
was the fact that the rising of the moon
| in partial eclipse followed Immediately
| the setting of the sun, giving a practical
| demonstration of the cause of the phe-
| nomena.
G. S. Hopkins, president of the Brattle-
boro Chamber of Commerce, left this
morning for Boston, where he is attend
/ ing this afternoon a meeting of represen-
| tatiyeS of various towns up and down the
| Connecticut river with representatives of
the Boston & Maine and Central Vermont
railroad companies in an effort to get
| the reinstatement of TRANS No. "A and 10
which recently were cancelled when all
the railroads curtailed their passenger
| train service.
Childrens day will be observed at the
next meeting of the Brattleboro Womans
club, which Will be held Wednesday after
noon at $50 O'Clock at the Unitarian par
ish house. All children of club members,
the free kindergarten and the Austine
Institution are invited as guests of the
club. Miss Helen Sylvester from The
Players, of Boston, viii be the aCtractIon.
She is adapted to the entertainment of
older people as well as children, her man
ner is bright and animated and her stories
and songs, which are selected from the
| best authors, make her very versatile
entertainer.