The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-10-13
-Howarth Hibernians are booked for
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-Howarth Hibernians are booked 70
Crosby hall the 23d.
-Chas. H. Hoyt and wife Of st Loui
are looking about town for residence
The visitors to the Episcopal festivs
filed the Brooks House 80 they wer
obliged to make beds in the parlor. Tn,
House was fuller than ever before.
| g. w. Clark has purchased of G
Leon Walker the shop on Spring street
lately belonging to N. b. Williston 4 Co.
where carriage making in all its branches
will be carried on as heretofore.
On Wednesday evening next week
18th inst, Rev 8. M. Crothers will b.
publicly installed rs minister of the Uni
tartan church. The sermon will bt
preached by Prof F. G. Peabody, of the
Cambridge divinity school. The servic'
es will begin at 7:S0, and the invitation
is general.
-"Zelotes" talks forcibly and well thus
Henry whittier, who has charge Of the cars and
locomotives on the Brattleboro and whitehall
railroad, and Pat Fleming, another employee,
have been quite sick for number OF days, caus-
ed, 1t 10 intmsted, by the abominable stencil ris-
Ing from the accumulated NTH IN the rear Of the
stores and Outbuildngs on the east side Of Main
street, and which has TO be Ell ured Dy the men
who work In that vicinity because Of the railroad
shops being located there. I'M. 10 made regu-
aginabe, and the odOr from the open privy vaults,
uncovered sink drains, decaying vegetables, and
20 forth, 10 perfectly sickening Tne attention Of
several times, TO our personal knowledge. Nu-
merous complaints are daily made BY passengers
on the trains which by Law are Soiged 70 come
crossing the stone bridge, OF the smell and the
beautiful "a aspect that greets their sensitive l
ing shame and lasting disgrace, that such things
should be allowed to exist in place like this.
Alvin Joslin drew a good house
at Crosby hall, Friday evening, Mr.. q. L.
Davis as "Avia" giving fair represent
tation of shrewd old farmer who IL not
as green as he looks and who proves
match for "city folks" His happy hits
were received with bursts Of mirth and
applause throughout the evening. The
other roles were we'll filled and the
exceptionally good and the
play put on with an attention to details,
rarely found in travelling companies. AS
for the play ITSELF regarded as frame
for the picture of ALVIN Joslin," it
might be called success, but the plot Is
SO thin, and what there is of it 80 ab urd
and improbable, and the incidents and
SO nearly approach the bur-
lesque as to make the whole thing
appear utter nonsense to the lovers OF a
really good drama. A man found by
the side of an insensible woman, with a
bloody knife in his hand, arrested. tried,
convicted and sentenced with no help
from his friends, no evidence from coro-
ner or physician that the girl is dead
and who, after sentence of death, makes
his own d. fense, confronts and de-
the real villain and walks off
while in the end the sup
posed victim turns up alive and well,
and after all her troubles, well dressed,
rosy and smiling, is train of incidents
too bungling to be called play, though
il answers very we'll for a platform on
which alvin" may strut and make
good "points." Like most character
play, i: gives very little chance to others.
Mr.. Davis is an actor of merit, and his
of calvin Joslin" most en-.
oyable one, but as far as we are able to
udge, his support was excellent and de-
serving of much better chance than
hey can have in play written for one
character