The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-12-17
Local News.
Local Notes and Gossip.

home.
The carpenters have gone to work to
convert tie Brattleboro House into ten
ement flats.
WANTED "A woman to do general
hou'ewolk, Apply in person or write
AT once to N. j. Hale, 8 Prospect-st.
One side of the aquarium in the store
OF A b. Capp Il Co. WAS mysteriously
broken Wednesday night, and the death
OF inc front within was Of course the
result, A j.rring of the building must
have occssioned it.
Col. Hooker is very agreeable fellow,
but Isn't this from the St. Albans Mes
Senger d tubbing it on u tribe thcS. lust
tbs sameP AS MIR. Hooker is II military
mao It will be proper to call him genera,
now, although he would BIZ ut liberty to
elect that the title of judge should super
cedo that Of colonel, which he has
borne so long and which he 30 bIavely
won."
The Senate Tuesday confirmed the
nomina ion OF Col. X Haskins to be u
y. District Attorney. So Kit" after
three different commissions and in the
facc of the strenuous opposition of Dill
lingham and his friends. has got his
Office Congratulations,
St Albaps has pablo literary club.
which supports public reading room,
with all the leading newspapers and
magazines, expends over $50 nnnally.
and is now arranging for debating
school or lyceum foi the winter 1t is
an investment for her citizcna, which
nys rich dividends in intellectual moral
and educational respects. Why can
B:attleboro have one like itp
"The moral dangers of llie," is the SUBJ
of Mr.. Green's next sunday evening lee
tu:e at the Unitarian churh.
1t was large and enthusiastic audi
ence RS usual which greeted Whltmore
g. Clark at opera hall Tuesday evening
The trains have been running with
considerable irregularity during las,
week. Connexions were missed three
times at South Vernon and twice a
Millers Falls
Cheney & Clapp show the larges
stock OF juvenile books this week evel
7C'b III
A grand good time and profit o
about 5000 was tho result of the MethO-
d st festival last evening in the lower
town hall.
A. B. Harris of Springfield, and Judg,
Wheeler, are in town to-day.
Vannor's prediction for Tuesday and
Wednesday was cold and clustering
weather-fully verified on the hills
travellers from Wilmington having Il
shovel through to reach here.
Some of the Hinsdale musicians hav,
joined the local choral union, which hat
very pleasant rehearsal last evening
with full orchestra and Miss Mar,
Walker rs pianist, all under the direc
ton of L. W. llawley.
The display of goods at Cheney &
Clapp's, and the large attendance of Gus
toners indie that their old-time pop
nlarty es not abate.
silk handkerchiefs and face shawls
gloves and mittens, fur caps, and every
thing in the furnishing ODDS line for the
holiday trade, at j. j. Rays. Evils
A. B. Clapp & Co have sold one hun
dred and sixty dozen silver plated knives
within the pat three months, aud hav,
forty dozen left which will be sold cheaI
TO turn them ino cash before January
first.
Adjourned village meeting next Mon
day evening.
Mrs. Horace Fox, au estimable lady
we regret TO learn, is stricken with a
shock of paralysis at her Canal st. home
There has been too much Walteism in
Brattleboro business methods for the last
10 ears.
Tuesday leg 'slative proceedings report
an amendment to the cons tuition of the
village of Brattlebo,o" as passing one OF
ment to that D tssed last week which
some of the fremen are reported to have
got up?
NJ. A. Goodnow, Esq, left for Michigan
this morniny, where he has legal business
10 hunting up evidence.
The combination OF milkmen to PIT
the price at 6 cents quart has been
broken by one or two backing out, and
now they are threatening to slash each
other.
People WHO are about to subscribe for
Their daily papf rs or magazines will find
- good variety to select from in the pros
pectuses on our fourth page.
Prof. C. Z. Blake re ds the paper at
the next meeting of the Professional
Club. Subject, "What changes, if any.
are necessary in the framework of our
government"
A Springfield, Mass, milk vender has
been d. tee ed in p-ddling adulterated
and perhaps even bogus milk. 1t Is com
p sed largely of chalk and starch, and it
is doubtful if there is any genuine milk
in it The imitation as 10 tase and ap
pearance was almost perfec' it stood the
ttst of the lac omrttr as TO body, and he
chelt was only discovered accidentally
by chemical process of Il candy dealer
in working it inlo candy.
Mr.. Timothy Vinton shows us Harris
son and Tyler campaign badge, with the
log bin picture. Is latt.h string always
out. the hard cider barrel" Union fl G
and cannon, all so .miliar 10 the men
who lived in 1910. The ldge was one
worn by deiet"tos at the Wing conven-
ton at We-tteld. Mass. August p, 1910.
The winter series of cial dances, by
the Estey Gu trds. opened pleas Intly in
their armory Wednesday evening.
Greenfield Shtlburne Falls and those
Towns shipped over $4,000 pounds Of but
ter 10 Bos on asst week. large part of it
was drawn from the southern part of
this county. 1t does not me TO Battle
boro, and the money rea lied from it is
not spent here, because we can get no
railroad farilites to ship it. How long,
oh how long?
Rev. S. ii. McCollester D. D., of BEL
lows FALL, will occupy the Universalist
pulpit next Sunday. Subject of the even
ing lecture, From Jerusalem to the
Jordan"
A. B. Clamp & Co. have a large assort-
mpnt of rings of all kinds, and cannot
fail to please YOU with prices and qua ity.
Their stock of cameo and amethyst is
seldom beat outside the large cities.
Tney engrave all rings, purchased of
them. inside or out free of charge.
The young people of the Universalist
society are making ARRANGEMENTS for
dance to be held in Crosby III Ill, Tues
day evening, December 81. Tickets 80
cents To be had Of the committee OF
arrangements, Messrs, q. Z. Warner,
Fred rayler, F. Walker, W Edwards
and F. Magoon.
This is true: The water stopping at
Henry Atkins barn, force-pump was
applied, and root eleven feet in length
was drawn out, which together with it,
tendrls wholly filed three-quarter inch
pipe. The root is on exhibition. No
charge.
The report of Comptroller Of the Cur
rency Knox abstracts the only three de-
ci>ians Ia, have been rendered during
the year regarding the liability of National
bank directors. Two of the cases were