The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-10-13
HOME MATTERS.
BRArTLEBORO LOCALS,

In Whately, Mass, anu Will remove there
shortly.
William Whallon has purchased the
William Knowlton house on Reed hill
Brattleboro, for $1,000.
The granite work on the Hinsdale
bridge has now been carried some IL or Is
feet above high water mark.
Mis- J. Powers and daughter, of West
Bratteboro, have gone to Burlington,
Iowa, leaving their farm unsold.
Col Hooker has introduced an act in
the legislature to incorporate the Far
mers' and Mechanics exchange.
&C. B. Fairbanks receives another
promotion as pension agent, adding a
couple Of hundreds to his salary.
j. F. Barrett, late telegraph operator
at the summit of Mt Washington, is as
sisting Manager Bsrdwell at this place.
H olland bulbs and California lilies
now ready for planting. Winter bloom
ing plants Catalogues free. ALLEN.
Yesterday Chas. A. Trip & Co. re-
ceived another lot of Rogers triple plated
table knives. Low prices make quick
sales.
The Boston Journal states that Geo.
Howe has received promotion in the
pension office but gives no further par
ticulars
-APPLEs, APPLEs-the highest market
price paid for nice winter apples by 9. II.
Eddy & Co., Flat st. near Main st, Brat
tleboro, Vt.
We understand that Geo Poulter has
sold out his marble business, and goes
to work for Stewart, selling organs,
pianos, etc. 1i ni aaE0f p5
Some thief entered Farmer Frenchs
house at West Brattleboro recently while
the family were absent and carried off
valuable rifle. ~
The 10th annual reunion of the Yer.
mont officers will be held at Montpelier |
Thursday, Nov. I'd. Address by Editor
Benedict OF Burlington.
Engineer Butterick reports that a
railro. d lie to Wilmington is entirely
feasible, either by way of Nickerson gap
or by Roberts pond in Jacksonville.
-WANrED-All varieties OF good winter |
apples. Farmers who have stock will do |
well to consult me before selling to other |
parties. 0. l.. MINER.
The uniformed members of Oasis |
Encampment l. o. o. F. hold their an
nual parade next Tuesday, winding up
with dance at Crosby hall in the even
ing.
We have promising Young artist in
town, Mr. Will Stewart who has just CON-
pleted number Of crayon portraits.
Worthy Of mention is one of Prof ]. A.
Maxham.
The members of Sedgwick Post, G.
A. r., will hold CAMP fire at their hall
on Tuesday eve, Oct 18th, to which they
cordially invite all old soldiers and their
families.
i. X. Allen & Co. have purchased a
and vicinity, and it is stated that they
propose to put in a steam saw mill at the
foot of Glebe mountain.
The Brattleboro letter in the Sunday
Republican states that some half dozen OF
the stockholders in Waite's defunct bank
have discontinued their suits to recover
damages of the directors.
Allen has completed two more
greenhouses each SO feet long, adding
new steam boiler and piping with boiler
house. He has now ten greenhouses
well stocked for winter trade.
"A pipe which Capt Thunderbolt or
DIR Wilson used to smoke 40 years ago,
was found while repairing F. W. MilIer's
harness shop yesterday, and is now in
the possession of N. W. Miller.
Mrs F. s. Bracket fell into the GEL q
lar of Leonards new brick block Friday
evening through hole which was care
lccciy left open. She went down some n
10 feet but luckily sustained no serious p
injury. e,
Michael Hennesey's little boy. about
ten years old, was run over "Wednesday q
over his shoulder and the horse evident
ly stepped on his foot, bruising it badly.
DR. Gray attended him.
Henry X. Field Esq, of San Francis
co has our thanks for those delicious CAL
itornia grapes-samples of the fruit of
the famous vineyard Of Mr. Blowers of 6
Woodland, whose quality is not sur
passed by the best foreign product.
&C. D. Smith shows us two branches %,
OF black raspberries which he picked :
Tuesday under an apple tree on G. M. {
Smiths place at Centerville. The two
clusters of berries number IA, OF them
ripe, and apparently as tooLhsome as
ever, while the Others are in the white :
or red state of immaturity. :
Rev E. w. Whitney, who was chosen
delegate to the general Universalist con- I
vention at the meeting of the state con- j
vention at Brattleboro recently, will be /
absent greater part of next week, to at I
tend it. The convention meets at Phila- j
delphis. He will, however, preach next !
Sunday to his congregation as usual.
Men who advertise in their home
papers are the men who do the business |
of the town, every time. You can pick
up newspaper and in five minutes tell
who are the men who do the buying and s
selling and keep alive the interests of the
place. A newspaper invariably reflects ,
the worth, enterprise and intelligence of
the community in which it is published.
An exchange says, Judge Wheeler,
of Jamaica, has discovered what he :
claims to be q valuable marble quarry on =,
his land not far from the steam mill.
Apparently it is of fine quality, and
man from Boston who is interested in it
is DESTROYS of buying and forming
stock company for the purpose Of work
ing the same, provided it will pay to do :
30. ,
The Prospect Hill Aqueduct Co., met
at the Brattleboro House Monday even /
ing and elected these officers Plesi-
dent, r. w. Clarke directors, J. G. Pellet,
]. II. Holden, VIM. Thomas; secretary
and treasurer, G. B. Kirwan. The di. /
rectors were instructed to put the water
works in such condition as to insure ,
good supply of running water for the
coming winter. 1
Call at the RRFoRMER Office and ex-
anime our samples of folding cards, ball
programmes &c. We have a beautiful
line for masquerades, business purposes
and everything else. We have just or {
.dered several hundred dollars worth of
new type and material. We have good =.
force Of skilled journeymen for that de-
,partment of our business and it is fact
that the REFoRMER office is the place to
yet your fine job printing.
The Lecture course for the bereft
of the free Library will open on Thurs
dav eye ming November 9th, with a lect-
ure from the Rev DIR Cow, entitled "The
Perils of the Republic" The following
gentlemen will also lecture during the
winter. Rev G. E. Martin, Rev E. W.
Whitney, Rev S. M. Crothers and DR.
Joseph M. Draper. Two others are to
be announced hereafter, and the course
will conclude with a concert, to take
Mace either in February, or March, 1883.
The asylum report shows that the
institution has had in the past two years
IN an average 443 patients, costing per
head $3.50 weekly. The receipts were
SiS0 ,3SI. expenditures $179, 79l. All but
Ave. of the present inmates are Vermont
ars and the number of inmates from ~
-. AZ wears old is increasing. The states