The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-12-11
BRATTLEBORO LOCALS.


Tho mellow year Is hnstenln0to it's close,
The du ky waters shudder as they shine,
The russell leaves ob-truct the struggling way
or oozy brooks, which no deep hanks define,
And the gaunt woods in ragged scant array
Wrap their old limbs WITH sombrs Ivy vine.
-[Coleridge.
-Noyember's rain fall, according to Israel
Woods reckoning was 4 ! 2 inches. Snow
II ~.
Tho village debt Is now $629l Last years
administration paid OFT $1,000 OF our incum-
ORANGES and still has money 10 the treasury.
December develops decidedly delightful
DAYS. The embers of the year are as bright as
il they were NOT destined to SO out In snowy
ashes.
An effort Is heing made by Manager jack
son to get Prof Martin to give an exhibition in
G ,mpany with celebrated lady skater at the
rink
"A Rutland girl bet fifty kisses on result OF
the election and lost. She declares there snail
he a fair count II she has to 60 over 1t dozen
times.
b A Goodrich, a printer well.known here,
and In the employ of the REFoRMER office
few months last year, died recently In the me-
briate hospital at Boston.
The firm Of Wyatt g. Phillips. photograph
ers. was dissolved Saturday, MIR Phillips relir-
| ing. The business Is 70 be continued under the
name of d Wyatt.
- Alma Chamberlain fell while going down
| the steps leading from the Methodist church 70
| the vestry at the supper wednesday evening
| and disl0cated her shoulder.
| 1t is said that the Republicans take more
| pleasure in reading the advertisements now
| than the election returns. Msral--it is q GOOD
| time to neutrality-suspicious. Transcript.
| The Hiusdale bridge has been thoroughly
repaired, Geo White OF Springfield, Mass, doing
| the work. Thirty-one thousand feet OF luInner
| were used on the arches at cost OF from $loOO
to $500.
| Thompson Cain is again sick with one Of
| hi, serious attacks OF stomach rOuble ana lies
| in critical condition. For nearly seven weeks
| he has been confined to the Deo ana uhapio "
| take any nourishment.
Somehow Windham county always gets the
new judges assigned IT, 1t. As will be seen by
the assignments In another column We are tc
| have Walker here, who by tho way Is former
Londonderry resident.
Miss Leonard Of the High street primary
school has resigned her position for another IL
| the public schools of Bennington. her place
is taken. by Miss Nellie Goodrich OF this VII
lage.
20 Pratt has enlarged his cloak room ove e.
/ his store so that it now occupies the wnoie VI
the second floor. The new staircase leading uE
| to it from the store, Is very eiegant one a'o
| the whole Is great Improvement, Dotn ior con-
venience and appearance.
| Two hundred persons were present at the
| Democratic banquet at Rutland, WEDNESDAY
n,ght. Speeches we're made by Hiram Atkins
| Geo E Eaton, L w Redngton ana Luclus Dig
| Glow of the Herald, who also made u speech IL
the evening, Exercises closed at ] 80 a IN,
The following are the names Of those pu
/ yDoo.t h.,p mt
absent or tardy marks during the last term
Lester Akely, Willie Haywood, Mabel johnson
Louise Kinson, Grace KinsOn, John RYDER
John Schureman, AnnieSchureman, Meta Schild
| m .ller Annie Schidmlller, Lena Schildmiller.
The new Estey Fuller model sewing ma
chine is completed and as will be seen ~ tn
| advertisement In another column is to be pun
liclv exhibited in Stewards rooms next Wednes
day, The BrattIeboro Sewing Machine Co Il
confident that the invention is to be the sourct
of u large and profitable local industry.
The three-y ear-old daughter Of Theodore
| Turner fell into MILESTONE brook while play
ing on its edge with another little girl near thu
Iron bridge Wednesday. What was quite re
markable and most fortunate, she succeeded II
getting out without assistance. short tint
afterward she was seen by DR. Bruce who tool
her home.
Read carefully the advertisement of Churcl
& Phalen, Troy's popular dry, goods dea,ers
They are offering the celebrated Haskell blacl
gros grain silk at special prices for the holidays
Church & Phalen assure the ladies this to b
the best bargain ever offered and advise all u
take advantage OF such grand opportunity q
they cannot be duplicated at these prices.
The art club formed about six weeks ag
and which now consists vi IA inelnhers, com
| pIeted its organization last evening at q meet
ing held with Miss Matte Gillette, and adopt
ed the name of the Ceres club. ltmade its debu
Wednesday evening when Its members atten
ded the play of "rne Midnight Marriage" In
body. Meetings are held trtnIghtly, the mex
to be with MISS Allie Newman.
Notice was given on the Central Vernon
road and leased lines Monday that cut dow
of wages was to take effect Dec LIST. There wa
nothing to Indicate how much the reductio
will be though vague report fixes 1t at abon
3 or 10 per cent. 1t certainly ought not to b
more than that for the Central already pay
the lowest wages Of any road in this section .
the country.
Carrie Gilmore, the popular young role
skater and VIM Il Livesey, the trick skater
both we'll known to Brattleboro rink-goer'
were married at the residence Of the bride
mother at Worcester, Tuesday AFTERNOON. IN
\ couple, with d Canary, the hicycist, propo'
to give a series OF entertainments at the chis
Kinks of the country this winter. Miss Gilmoi
will retain her maiden name for professions
purposes.
Two French lads Of Brattleboro. aged
and IL wears, were sentenced on Wednesda.
to the house of correction until they become {
age, for placing INSTRUCTIONS on the narrO'
gauge railroad track a short distance from Bra
tlebOrO. They are beginning early. BY tn
time they arrive ut maturity they can CIV
points to some of the Wall street railroa
" eckers.-[Boston Star.
Il AT the annual meeting of the Brattlebor
Rifle Club the following officers were elected #
the ensuing vear +. H. Putnam, President
M. Lamb, Vice Presidents A. 4. Knight, Sci
Rotary; A, s. Nichols, Treasurer; IL. G. Frencl
F.P. d. Bruce and I. Harmon, Range Con
mittee; w. w. Walker, II. III. Wood al
A. w. Nichols Finance Committee. The da
for shooting was changed from Tuesday
Saturday.
Don't order ball programs, menu cards {
wedding stationery without examining the
fractions which the REFoRMER Job departmeI
offers. Everything which the skill OF huma
artists can design we are ready to offer. {
ball programs we have over 400 engraved STYLE
TO suit any occasion, masonic, military, ma
ouerade, firemans or anything else. For pai
or artistic printing the REFoRMBR job office
not to be excell,d.
The county judges have rented the room
) Crosby block-the old Democratic beadquarte
, now occupied by tie military band orchestr
i. for an annex 10 the probate and county elel
office, to be used for the storage OF bouks al
records. 1t is expected that The head office
the New England division OF post Office II