The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-17
Rrat,leboro RICE club meeting tonight.


cheap enquire Of A W Childs. ~,
| The farmers up the river report that tnt
skunks are making havoc with mems ana CHICK
| ems.
| "A delegation OF the Gresham children
| arrives next week and another WIN ioliow II
August, Sixty-five of them come IN mex
weeks party and Mrs Estey ana Mrs ueo {
Crowell will care for oo III 'no oo''A '"''' "
| Highland park.
w Money has been very low this weeh
Nth neuralgia of the bowels, but is nov i'm
proving. N,
The Carpenter Organ Co is putting 10
90 Ooo worth of new machinery, nccessitated
by its growing business.
The Brattleboro directory for 1885 neat
volume of so pages has just been issued by
Fitsgerald of Springfield.
1t is not generally known that Washington
was the inventor of pillow which was cOnslu.
cred marvel of ingenuity at the time. y Z
The selectmen have heard nothing yet from
the post Office department in answer to thell
PROPOSALS for better post-office accommoda
tons.
-IG Chandler who has been failing for sew
eral months fell in tainting fit on the street
Yesterday. But it seems to be nothing very
serious.
The Valley road are digging out the bank
on their coal lands back OF u harris mouse,
where they will put in an engine house and
turn table.
IA Bond, for several years travelling sales
man for Edward Clark, in the northern part OF
the state in the organ and piano trade, has this
weel, gone to work for W H Hall OF Burling-
ton.
When YOU come to see Jumbo call and get
nrice of the new lot OF Watches and Chains that
r A Hubbard has just received. Prices as
usual very low. f q browns store, No 80
Main street.-adv.
Before going west ask for tickets over the
well known Boston & Albany railroad. Leave
Brattleboro at p IN, arrive in Chicago the next
night at 9. For low rates inquire OF Cudworth
g. Childs.-adv.
The full returns Of the Geographic, rifle
that Brattleboro was third on the list The
Minneapolis, MINI, club had score OF 7ol,
Pittsburg Pa, 1852, Springfield, 739.
-RA knight was appointed postmaster at
Dumtnerston yesterday, and l. w Redlngton
Ut Rutland. In Dummerston, Postmaster Mil
Ter was called upon only few days ago 10 give
a better bond, and thought be was sure OF hold
ing his place.
Gov Pingree attended the meeting of the
Massachusetts Press Association last week,
making very felicitous speech. He mad III
tended to attend the Vermont exercises also,
but made mistake and went to Block Island
week ahead of time.
The Valley Mill Co is this week putting IN
a So horse power engine ard building brick
house for it at its western end. The company
has also just put In fine new elevator. which
enables them to load or unload car in half an
hour The mill is now the best equipped es-
adjustment of the kind in this valley:
Intelligence was received Wednesday OF the
death at St Paul, Minn, of Mary A, wife of Rev
J Marvin, and sister of H Harris of this
place. As she has suffered from lung trouble
for many years it is supposed that this was the
cause of her DEATH though no particulars were
received. Her remains are on the way here for
interment.
1t is said that at the recent convention of
the stat, medical society at Bellows Falls
there was long debate of the doctors over ac-
cepting the invitation of the local brewers to
inspect their brewery. The debate was finally
closed by an acceptance after the VIC U mad
threatened to have no more to do with them II
they went. -
Fred w Simpson, e Xpressman and baggage
master on the narrow gauge, had q coat stolen
from the car where he left it yesterday. The
theft must have been committed in very few
between ten and half past ten o'clock.
Simpson suspected a couple of tramps and
overhauled and searched them in the afterno on
but without success.
Local tennis "doubles." Charlie Dearborn
and Will Tones ON one side, against Dorr
Bradley and Harry Devens on the otner, are 20
beginning tomorrow at the Charter place and
continuing next Wednesday and Saturday.
Young Mr. Pratt, who won the championship at
Amherst. is to act as referee.
e Laundergren and Eugene Newbury,
two Swedes who have been long addicted to
aka1 Ito md inf in
Timson's house in Esteyvllle Wednesday af-
,ernoon aud officers were sent for to arrest
hem. They were arraigned before Justice
Newton yesterday plead guilty to drunkenness
and were fined 3d. and costs 81 10 in all, and
sds closed" on the ernon Hotel. Landlord
Squirs of the latter plead guilty to offences
and was fined $50.
The seventh annual festival of Episcopal
parish cholrs of the state will be held IN st
Paups church at Burlington October % and
will be conducted by Prot S B Whitney OF Bos-
,on. An effort will be made to have all the
,hoirs represented, the Burlington Pensioners
to entertain all who come, including
he clergymen, while railroads will carry for
ARE one way. The new order of music will
DC out next week, that there may be ample time
or preparation by the singers.
In speaking Of the recent commencement
exercises at Middebury college Ethe Congrega-
ionalist says: The graduating oratlons, July
!, were of great merit original, practical and
we'll delivered. Special mention should be
made of G S Lee Of Brattleboro, whose plea
or the Individual had an individuality of
hought and style that was creditable to the
speaker and heard with the closest attention.
sends out only eight among the
many graduates Of this year, but her influence
will be felt. d.
The through mail route between here and
which commenced July LIST, has been
ordered discontinued August LIST. The
wO places who need close communication,
md petition is to be started to restore it. The
nail between here and No Hinsdale will of
curse be continued, but change in the sched-
lie has been ordered so that the stage must |
here at s IS instead of 10 as heretofore, |
nd is due here at 8 % instead Of 10. The ex- |
ra mail service of times week which was
rdered July 1st, and which was carried |
" the Wilmington stage, has been ordered dis
ontinued from July 25th. This reduces the |
eryice from eighteen to twelve times week.
John Gleason, the painter whose face Mike
Kelley gashed in a drunken row on the island
few months ago, was caught by Officer Ais
arrying off ladder from the basement under
be wash room of Rays stable about O'Clock
unday morning. Ais made him help carry
back and just as they got back to the stable
ileason dropped his end and dug out Flat
treet way, the big Newfoundland dog after
i'm. But Gleason had rum enough in him SO
hat be escaped the dog, with cheerful good
light" to the officer. And Ais did not succeed
! finding him that night or since. What the
GLOW purposed to do with the ladder no one
nows, but he had been at work for some days
n the Frost block and on the rear OF that is
diny window which it is surmised he intend
a to enter and forage through the whole Sec
nd floor OF the block in which no one sleeps.
Engineer Clark met the bailiffs and num-
err of the citizens Monday to report upon his
uryey OF the Valley railroad line back Of the
lain street stores, and of his interview with the
Dads officials at Springfield. He found the
lets as reported last week, that the railroad,