The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1889-04-26
Lawn Grass seed at Gleason & Robbins

of nobby spring suits at moderate price.
Editor Crowell is putting in a standplp'
at the head of High street for Fishers
sprinkler.
DIR w. II. Rockwell has resigned as sec
rotary of the New York Gland and Improve
ment Co." and is succeeded In that position
by Dan Lamont.
The time of evening service at the Meth
odist church will be changed the coming
week. Young peoples meeting Will occu
at $3.50 Sunday evening, followed at ;3O D!
the regular service. while the week day ser
vices will occur at 40.
A number of young men, go to keene, N
H., this evening to attend the gymnastlc eX
hibition to be given there by Prof. Chad
wick, instructor in Boston Y. NJ. G. A. gym
nasium, with 10 pupils from that association
The purpose of the entertainment Is to ere
ate interest in this branch OF the work.
The lilies so sweet and bright In thu
Episcopal church Sunday, were the contribu
of Mrs. w. II. Childs, who obtained then
from the Bemudas, where there Is quite an IN
iustry in raising them, one field containing
is acres. They are so packed that they VII
keep bright for week or 10 days aiter 'ne'
are shipped.
AT Red Mems hall Tuesday evening the
last of the Murray club meetings was tne DC.
casion of one of the pleasantest gatherings OF
tbe season. Entertainment was Iurhisneu !,
the most noteworthy numbers peluS hora'
solos Inv Will Schuster and Prof MaXham,
and the evening closed with a social dance.
Financially it was success, though not u"'
dertaken for the purpose of money making.
The sand storm Sunday was the severest
known here for a number OF years. Inc
,M;nT reached velocity of some 70 miles an
hour in some gusts, though the total move.
ment for the day was less than that wednesday
as will he seen by our meteorological record.
Tbo wind strewed the ground beneath the
traes with broken limbs and choked the air
VIII dust that fairly blOtted out the view Of
the hills. The mercury dropped 80 degrees
HThe report of the state board of health
shows that during the year 1883, there were
$3.50 deaths registered or 1871 for each 1000 of
inhabitants. OF these deaths 1876 were from
diphtheria and 70 from Group; 1872 from ty'
phoid fever; 81 from dysentery and 20 from
diarrhna; 143 from cholera infantum and III
from cholera morbus; "a from scarlatina; 81
from whooping cough aud II from measles.
No deaths from smallpox reported in the
state during the year.
The farewell sociable, reception and free
supper at the Baptist vestry Monday evening
was very largely attended. and was an exceed.
inglv pleasant affair, spirit of hearty fellow.
ship and good feeling pervading the whole
assemblage. 1t was impossible to use the up
per room as had been planned, as the work
of tearing down had begun, but as soon as
| possible tables were cleared away III the YES
devoted to sociability and good time.
The dime sciable given by the ladies' of
Relief Corps at q. A. r. hall Wednesday
evening. was success financially ana otner /.
wise. The entertainment of the evening ~.
| cluded musical numbers by Prof. MaXnain'
Misses Thwng and Cook and little florehces
Retting, recitatiors by Pearl Gibson ana
Julia Allen, fine reading by Mrs; .: +.
Elmer ana the rendering OF choice selectlons
by Misses Minnie Brasor, Bessie Reed anu
Leslie Elmer. Not the least interesting mum
Der on the program was the speech OF Eugene
Clark. The proceeds were Sl3.
The conversation party at the Congrega-
tional vestry Tuesday evening entertained
good number, it proving an attractive nov
city. Programs containing variety OF topics
of conversation were distributed and partners
secured tor five minutes talk on each topic.
The list included the following: Conversa-
ton: Will che coming girl chew gum: Bon,
nets; Baseball; Young America; PlcnlcS ana
other church affairs. After an hour spent IN
this fashion, ice cream and cake were served,
and following this entertainment was given
by singing by Prof Markham, reading by Miss
Barnard, piano duet, by Misses Clark and
Cressey, the reading of one of Will Cartoons
poems by Miss Emerson, illustrated by tab.
leauX, and selection by the glee club.
1t is needless to argue to Landlord Jeffls
of the Brooks house the value OF che RE-
FORMER as an advertising medium. A few
words last week stating that he wanted a
bro ugbt him Hood a,,s,.
one even from Canada. The Valley Mill Co.
which has long been among the best or our adj
yertisers, had an order for Pee's food the other
lay from Laramie, Ia, secured by an adver- |
isement IN the REroRMER. II you want help
,r situation, or if there is anything you want
10 buy, sell or rent, 1t Is foolish to lose
any time. or SO to other expense or trouble,
when few cents invested in the REFORMER !
want columns is so sure to bring results. |
It gives YOU circulation universal in Brat
tleboro, practically SO in Windham county,
and extending over nearly the whole OF YER
mont and wide territory besides.
vermont seems 10 nave surpassed most OF |
the other states in the excellent arrange
ments made for her troops at New York.
The New York papers comment on it. the
Times of Sunday saying: "The state of Ver-
providing centennial privileges for its troops
and state delegation without trespassng upon
The hospitality of the army committee. YER
mont has made no requistion for either quar-
.crs or subsistence uponsthe centennial man
ayers, arrangements having been made by
he state to feed ant. house its National guard
IN board steamer specially chartered for
nat PURPOSE esIeruay iill OrueT was re-
eived from Adjutant-Gen. Peck of Vermont
It the army committees headquarters for
90 seats on the grand stand at Waverly place
nd all members of the Vermont militia will
eceiye ticket, in order that they may wit
less the Industrial parade" No other state
ppears to have arranged for seats for its
roops, to see the civic parade.
The "Litte Lord Faunteroyr company
which returns here Nav day, after success
I'll season which has included most of the
irger cities from the Atlantic seaboard to
an Francisco. needs no introduction to Brat
eborO after its good work last February. If
is equal to what it was then. as there is no
eason to doubt, it will deserve to be greeted
y packed house. Its presentation of the
lay was worthy of this poem of ideal child
God with all its dainty touches, and its re-
reshing aroma of love. truth and purity So '
ing as hearts have up-swellings of good,
lch beautiful little idyls are bound to be ia '
orites. and the phenomenal run the play has I
ad Is to be easily accounted for. The man. 4
cement has arranged to let the little ones
ave chance to see it. and the boys and girls ,
now what the ideal so charmingly set before y
hem by the author is The company carries !
xo children to relieve each other in taking !
ne part and one will appear in the afternoon {
nd the other in the evening. The highest b
riced tickets, as will be seen in another col e
mn, are placed at 70 cents although every i
here else they have been 81. d
"A long-suHering Dupnc will want to | r.
urder us il we devote any more space TO the !
heniYs foolishness on the wool figures, and o
is necessary to say but little more, for is h
eadfully little corner into which the Phoenix 4
IS been driven The only answer it could
AXE last week to the complete and eOnvinc-
9 showing f.om official sources which we >
we made, was that the figures quoted by us =
e hunted up and selected by Us from every
rt of the country, and that this is an /
of the original claim that the "
rindstone figures were supported by sales p
Boston. The superlative Stiffness of this 5