The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-10
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| III Moody was in town Wednesday.
II w Frost returns to Chicago next Wednes-
| day.
Vermont savings banks report deposits
over $l4 900, 900. r. .,o
~Murrain has appeared among some OF the
cattle herds of Cheshire county. ~.
Mrs F w Barnard and daughter are stop
ping with friends in Jamaica, for few weeks.
Picture frames made to order at A WIG WI
er's cabinet shop, rear RefOrmer ONCE. Ay@1
IA Markham was the Fourth of July ora
tor as well as singer at West Bridgewater, Fri
day.
Fruit jars, jelly tumbers, land oil stoves are
in demand now. Van Doom Don nave 'nein'
adv.
There are said to be IL applicants for the
posltion of national bank examiner IN Ver-
mont.
q, attacks of bemorrhage of the lungs during
the week.
July has two full moons-1st and 3Oth-
and is the only month in the year honored with
that distinction.
REV c P Lombard of Athol will preach for
the Universast society in Crosby nall, next
Sunday morning.
-Swarms of grasshoppers, small ia size but
great in number, are reported on the nils, max
ing long faces longer.
&C L Sherman, the victor in the bicycle race
last evening, took the medal Tor tne second
time, as be also won it last fall.
The assignees of S M Waite's estate filed
their account Wednesday, and the final hearing
to close it up, is to be held the 23rd.
Who is James l. I.illis, appointed deputy
revenue collector 1t is useless for the tieanlx
to ever try to get anything straight.
in walking, the weaker of two persons
takes the arm of the stronger. This is why
dudes always take young ladies' arms Bos'
ton Post.
"A large tree blew across Western avenue
during Yesterdays storm, leveing the telephone
wires, and breaking the fence in front OF ID 5
Pratt's residence.
INV Smonds has sold his Main street
boot and shoe business to Durham Bros OF
Paris, Me, who are to take possession as soon
as the inventory is COMPLETED.
Next Sunday morning, hev + E Tower
will preach sermon for the children at the
Baptist church. Rev II II Jenkins. for 20 years
missionary in China, will speak In the same
church at 7 80.
Are you going wests If So, buy your
ticket by the way of the Boston Albany,
Lake Shore and Michigan Central to Chicago,
of Cudworth g. Childs. Through cars without
change. Rates very low.-adv.
-Chas Marsh of the firm of Jordan, Marsh
g. Co, Boston, with son and daughter, are 1.-THE
Brooks house for few days, summering, and
visiting his old friends in town. One Of them Is
w II Alexandsr to whom he went to school in
Chesterfield, 40 years ago.
Last night w Kuech & Co opened full
case of plain cardinal red table damask all OF
them handsome styles and goods that sell at 81
per yard, but in the remnants he sells them at
43 cents It will pay you to look at them even
ifyou do not want to buy. They run from one
to fifteen yards in piece and will last but
short tme.-adv.
Geo E Crowell Leonard, Geo Stlleck,
d B Stedman, B d Harris, Col 6 W Hooker,
F Bingham, and wives, joined the editorial eX-
cursion to Block Island, yesterday. Four cars
were required for the party. The passes allow
them to stay over till next Tuesday, If they
desire, and some will take advantage OF this,
not returning with the excursion tonight.
-Picnles are in order just now. Last Sun
day the Baptist Sunday school voted to 60 to
Bernardston next Wednesday, and the follow
ing schools have been invited to join them, viz
lage, and the Baptist and Congregational at the
West Village. Everybody will be very wei
come and of course, they will have good time.
Train leaves at s 10 a m.
The Bicycle club held its spring race for
the Childs medal on the old fair ground last
evening. There were three entries, Sher-
man, c r Crosby and I Reid. They finish
ed in the following order on the first mile
Reid, Crosby, Sherman. At the end of the
second mile they stood Crosby, Sherman and
Reid. Crosby withdrew on the last mile and
they finished with Sherman first and Reid Sec
ond. Shermans time was IL 30. After this
race Chas Alexander of Leyden,. Mass, rode an
exhibition Ehalf mile in l.39, with flying start.
The contestants in the race and the members OF
the club were escorted back to their room in
Crosby block by the Sons of Veterans drum
corps, and then, at Shermans invitation spent
a pleasant hour in Batchelder a. Sim0ndS ice
cream parlor.
The contested will case of Catherine L
King of Guilford, was heard before Judge ~
Ter Yesterday. Mrs King left an estate which
is claimed to be about $4,000 and willed most
of it to her son, Frank King, with whom she
had lived good deal of the time There was
also daughter, now deceased, the wife of +
Taylor of Guilford, who left two children, to
whom Mrs King bequeathed 500 each, with
some special legacies with regard to clothing,
etc. The will is contested in their behalf, on
the ground that Mrs King had not sufficient
mental capacity to make will. But no evil
examination of witnesses. Judge Tyler there
fore decided in favor of sustaining the VIII, and
the contestants appeal to the county court
where they will make their contest. X Haskins
for the will, Martin and Eddy against it.
HIS Wheelock, representing the Royal and
Pennsylvania Insurance Cos, is in town exam
ming the risks of those companies, as be pro-
poses to do throughout tie county. he IS 90
ing the work more thoroughly than it has been
done before. The chief defect that he COM
plains of is in the building of our chimneys,
which are frequently run down only to the at
tic or second floor and then connect from the
stoves, with ordinary sheet iron. He says that
the only half safe way to put pipe through
partition is to encase it in soapstone collar in
stead of the tin or zinc so generally used. But
the true way is 10 build chimneys from the Gel
lar, plaster them on the inside and outside, and
leave no air spaces where the pipe enters them
through partitions. In Massachusetts, build
ings are almost universally constructed in this
way, and are free from the dangerous contriv-
ances so common here. The insurance compan-
les have all lost money on their Vermont bust
ness and Mr. Wheeock thinks the trouble is
mainly in this carelessness of building.
The union picnic, under the auspices of the
Universalist Sunday school was held at Sylvan
grove, Bernardston, Mass, Wednesday, accord
ing TO announcement. Ats 30 in the morning
six well filed cars left the station; between
200 and 300 went from this place and the at
tendance from Vernon, Hinsdale, winchester
and Bernardston made the total number about
400. The music furnished by the orchestra of
the First Regiment band was excellent In quail
ity and highly enjoyed by all. At the dinner
hour bountlful refreshments, including not tea
and coffee, were furnished to all who attended.
During the day only one accident occurred;
Goodrich boy who resides in BeInardston fell
from a see saw and received several bruises up
on the head and back. His injuries were not
of a severe character and after few moments
he had sufficiently recovered to be carried to