The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-10-30
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BRATTLEBORO LOCALS.
.lloween tomorrow night.

One and is inches OF rain last night.
IS Jones shot whit, chipmonk at India
pond Saturday.
The annual A r fair Will be held in til
town hall Nov 10.
Miss Maria Bennett leaves to day for a win
ter sojourn in Florida, with N 6 Priest and fam
lily of Mortified, Mass.
The Goodhue place with its two acres o
land extending to Grove st, has this week beer
sold 10 Geo L Brooks.
Edward Crosby has purchased til e Kellogg
place on High st, the price being somewhere
between $4,000 and $4,000.
The business outlook with the Estey Organ
I CO Ii, most encouraging. 1t has made the larg.
est shipments this month of Its history.
"A delightful little company Of their friends
called last evening to cOngratu late Mrs ] Els.
9 tey on the 18th anniyers Try of her m arrlage.
Edward Edwards has made large nur.
Der of toboggans, of the regular Canadian style
and much sport is anticipated from them the
coming season.
The best line of parlor furniture ever seen
in BrattleborO is now on exhibition at Emer-
soma Sons. Visitors kindly shown through
ont their rooms.
- 'E,lw,n c. is the name Of Cal Cbases 5
year old rotttr which made such remarkable
time OF 2.2l IL in trial of speed at Lexington,
Ky, LIST week.
F w Childs who was taken sick at Spring
field, Mass, last week. returned home Monday
and has since been confined to his house though
he is now improving.
N A Rudway of Newfane and c d Whit
man of this place are manufacturing some ex-
ceptionaly fine Get cider jelly, using pro-
ess for giving it flavor OF sweetness.
The narrow guage engine Londonderry"
woke bolt in one of its cy finders at Bradley's
ipe Wednesday, morning and had to come
I, ok here for repairs delaying the train for an
q nr.
Harry Kinson recently shot an English
e.lipe. bird which is, very rare in New Eng
.ud. 1T is similar in appearance to wood
cJck, and is of beautiful dun color with black
markings. The bird is quite common in New
Jersey.
John Taft & Co of West Dummerston are
making some delicious sweet cider apple jelly
this season. 1t is is manufactured by means
of steam in an evaporation made of wood, thus
rendsring it entirely free from metal p0isons.
Chester Ingram OF Newtane, who has been
for some time under the care of guardian has
been boarding at Mrs Bushnells on Elliot
street lately. For a long time he has been
causing considerable anxiety, going off and
staying for nights at time, sleeping IN barns,
etc Yesterday be was adjudged insane by
Drs Bruce anu Webster add committed to the
asylum.
"A party of boys from the high and gram.
MIR schools went to Townshend Saturday, and
defeated the district school boys with ease.
The score was IL to s. The boys complain of
very poor treatment. Daring the game they
were threatened AMI insnlted by couple Of
roughs who attempted to budOse them and
the umpi,e but without success. They also af-
ter paying their own car fare had to furnish
their own dinners. Ike catching of DOwley,
who did rot have passed.ball, was the feature
of the game. Con-.
1t is an intellectual and artistic treat that
is 10 store for our people in the series of illus.
trated lectures on the wonderland of the
World" Yellowstone Park, the Pueblos and
che fascinating story of their ruins in the south
west, which are to he given by Dr. c ID Hen
drick son at the town hail. beginning with Nov
TO-. The doctor is cultivated gentleman, and
lie is now delivering the same course of lectures
at Springfield under the auspices of the g X,
and the papers of that city are unlimited in his
praise. Everywhere he goes the same encom .
ums follow HIM. The lectures are of just the
kind that interest inteli 1ent audiences who ev-
er want to learn more Of the wonders of our |
country.
The rersistency With which newspaper |
items appear about it would certainly indicate |
that there is something 10 the talk OF |
the extension of the Newton Brothers railroad |
from Hoosac Tunnel TO ReadsborO to this place. |
The Rutland Herald OF this week says: The |
Newton Brothers arc finishing the terminus OF |
their railroad at Honsac Tunnel. The freight |
business between Readsboro and the Hoosac /
Tunnel is already quite brisk and leads the |
Newton Broth RS to talk of further investment |
in railroads. They are intending 10 extend the |
narrow gauge railroad from Readsboro to |
Braitleboro, thus connecting North Adams |
with Bra,tlesoro direct. 1t is now necessary |
for travellers through the tunntl To 60 TO Brat. |
tIeboro and Central Vermont by the round. /
about way of Green field. IL there is business |
enough TO pay, the Newtons will fiaaliy build |
a standard gauge track where they now have |
the narrow gauge.
Like most towns in New England, Brattle- |
boro has had quite smallpox scare this week. |
The very imps of gossip seem to have been at |
work. The disease was located in several diff /
fcrent hon es, it being said tn have been brought |
by some imaginary servant girl who had Just |
cone from Montreal, and of course when the \
report WAS run down it proved in every case to
he entirely bass'ess. Finally the report got
round, and seemed for a time to get general
credencc, that there was case in the Omnibus
ard the story was told with crcumstantial de-
tail bow it had been brought by a Frenchman
from Montreal. Ali there was to that was that
somebody's brother bad returned from Malone, |
N Y. DIR Henry Tucker went to the Omnibus
Wednesday morning and made a thorough
search, and found that there was not and had
rot been a single case Of small pox in the
building or any signs of it. Even the scarlet
lever, Of which there were several cases few
weeks ago, had disappeared. The truth is that
ting across the line from Canada, though scat
iering cases will be reported over the country
The service Of the health officers on the boris
is very efficient and it is almost impossible for
suybody to get by them who has not been vac
cinaed or who is at all likely to come dosn
with the disease.