The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1886-07-30
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Northern lights were brilliant In the SIX
Tuesday evening.
S O Miner shipped 10 silver spangle,
Hamburg pulets to VIM X Vanderbilt Wednes
day.
Freeman Scott and family left Tuesday 10
Lincoln, Neb, where he will engage IN the mil
business.
Received this day another gross OF sive
plated knives, hand finished, only $3 per doze
at Chas Trip & Cos. adv
r Bailey & Co, have sold Mrs John
Stcarns' farm In Vernon to Warren G Cushin
OF Dummerston; price $4,000.
There is talk of a Brattleboro party joinin
one of the excursions by the "Monarch Car
for the Thousand Islands.
Tho horse race which was to take place
week from Saturday is postponed another week
Particulars in next REFoRMER.
&C ellison is on hand again and invites in
specion OF his ad in another column and of hi
horses at his West Chesterfield mart.
| Bartlett Bros the contractors for the Free
Library building, are preparing to erect a sasl
and blind factory, l99x52 feet, at North Adams
DIR G A Gray leaves Sioux Falls, Oak
next week, and will settle in Hinsdale. Hi
family, however, will remain in Michigan
through the season.
The Rutland Herald speaks Of "Col Ge'
| w Hooker, the straight. forward statesman 0
| BrattleborO" and publishes an interview Will
him on state politics, horse breeding and kin
dred instructive subjects.
| L Bowker took little excursion back
wards off pile of lumber in the Carpente
company's yard Tuesday, knocked q kneepal
| off one side and bruised himself SO that he II
taking an enforced vacation.
Hon William d Stone Of New Jersey, con
~ q frQ in
journal published more than hundred years
ago, written by the officers of German regi
ment encamped in CastetOn during the revolu
tiCn.
K-The advertisement Of the selectmen in
another column for proposals tor the soldiers
monument, is based on a new design, which
Geo Hines has drawn at their request. The
advertisement gives thu particulars as to di-
mansions, etc.
The late Chas Marsh, of the we'll known
firm of Jordan & Marsh held $250,GOO of life
insurance. He was one of the 30 Bostonians
who insured their lives for $780, 900 in the New
York Life about two years ago, two OF whom
have since died. NJ.
The blacksmith shop, under the rail
road bank, has been moved this week to the
north end of the Car house relieving the bank,
to which the Improvement Society is de-
voting so much attention, from an unslghtly
incumbrance.
i he first detachment of the fresh air chill
dren, numbering 80 aud sent out under the
Tribune fresh air fund, arrived Wednesday,
and are cared for by Mrs Geo L Crowell at the
Highland Park cottage. Another detachment
will follow next Tuesday.
-Lucien Howe announces a concert Thurs
day, Aug II. His sister, Mamie Howe, Will
make her first appearance in concert since her
return from Philadelphia The assistance of
several vocalists and instrumentalists has been
secured and full announcement will be made
next week.
Col c H Osgood of Lewiston, Me, dele
gate to the last national Democratic convention
and member of Gov Garcelon's staff has been
in town this week on one of his regular trips in
the jewelry trade. He thinks that the Demo-
Gratis stand good chance-two in five as he
figures it--of carrying the state.
Opinion of the Burlington Clipper One or
two papers in the state are trying to turn Gen
CIRCUITS hair blue by announcing that the Hon
George Washington Hooker has no objections
to succeeding him in congress. Hooker is
modest man and we don't believe would ac-
cept the office if rendered on gold plate.
The Springfield Republican OF to-day says:
cone of Mrs Rollins daughters has claimed
the 50 conscience money which the mysterious
M A L. of Brattlebo"o, Vt, procured from her
mother in 1875. George II Queen is anxously
awaiting the owner of the So which the same
woman got from man named Brooks about
the same time.
One of the meanest of the yarns circulated
in connection with last weeks Democratic eau
Gus is that against John Kaine, charging that
he signed and circulated petition on both
sides in the postoffice controversy. The men
who tell it most assiduouslv are the men who
were on all three sides of this subject during
its progress. But John Kaine is not that kind OF
of man. He is always manly and straight
forward, and he signed and worked for Mr.
Fenton throughout. There is not particle Of
truth in the stories to the contrary.
The following officers were elected last
evening at the reorganization meeting o. the fire
department No 4-Foreman, John Orion; as
sistant, f B Walker; clerk and treasurer, Chas
L Cobb; engineer, A o johnson; fireman, VIM
Ellis; steward, Henry Packard. Hook and
Ladder Cow H Kinson, foreman; assistant,
H M Pike; clerk, Clarence Stockwell; steward,
] + Hastings. Phoenix Hose Co-Foreman, John
Calvin assistant, Morris Doyle; clerk and treas
urer, Thomas Fenton. No 3 will hold meet
ing this evening when they will elect their
off GERS. Noyes III White has been ap-
pointed assistant engineer in place OF d E Tas-
ker, resigned.
IS Pratt of Turner's Falls, Mass, vino was
taking a carriage drive to Windsor, met with a
bad ACCIDENT Wednesday, just below the depot.
His horse was frightened by switching engine,
SHE'D of to one side, and on account of a hole
in the road, horse, buggy and man were thrown
violently against barbed wire fence, near
where a similar accident happened year or
two ago. Mr. Pratt was considerably bruised
and famed, though able to return to his home
yesterday. The horse was very nearly ruined
with castings and tearings on the legs and he
sold it for SIS. Luckily Mrs Pratt had stopped
off at Northtield and was to join him here yes
terday, SO she escaped the accident
Cholera morbus and infantum have lately
been the occasion of more than the usual num-
Der of deaths among infants, caused by the eff
feet of change of weather On the digestive ap-
paratus. Bottle babies are more susceptible to
these diseases, and bottle babies are very nu-
merous now "a days. A ply stefan, speaking on
the subject, says it is partly due to the growing
weakness of our women by the excessive de-
mands of keeping pace with sOcietys civilized |
and partly from laziness, and he has
IN his own practice several cases where young |
mothers "bottle" their babies in order to 20 to
balls, parties, etc. When will the tide of Ameri- |
IAN habits ebb from the height Of folly, ex
aud haste, to the calm level Of slow !
,ontentment and simplicity.
WIN E Strothers disappeared last week and |
$ believed to have deserted his family, wife |
ind three children. He told his wife that he |
vas going to Newport, N II, to drive stage, and |
.sked her to say nothing for week about his |
eaying. An inquiry of the postmaster at New
,ort ELECTS the fact that there is no such man |
irving stage there. He told E Stockwel to
whom he sold bis team, that he was going to
he northern part Of the state to work, and he
old creditor that he was only going off for a
aca,ion Of two or three weeks. Nothing can
e learned of his whereabouts. He gathered
=, q II his GOODS and sold them down close as if |
Intending to clear out, and then strangely
nough left several hundred dollars on deposit
4 one of the savings banks.
The dog raid filled lot of our people with
,rath and surprise last week. It'll estimated
nat there are from 400 to 800 dogs in town and
be returns show that only l67, besides the pups
orn this spring, have been licensed. Constable