The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1890-10-17
BRATTLEBORO.

Smoke the "Chronicle.' 5-wtf
This seems to be the month of weddings
-Chestnuts sell for So bushel. The croI
is an average one.
&C. c. Turner will add handsome new
cart to his business next week. ~
A large number Of the friends of Mrs
Sprague attended her funeral at Chester Mon.
day. &
-Windham County Pomona grange z. OF
H., will meet with Broad Brook grange at
Guilford Centre, October 23rd.
Frank E. HOush & Co.. are at work get
ting out revised edition of the Health CAL
endar for 1891 and Will nave them ready in
November. go
Vermont live stock company will be held At
the office of E. Crosby Il Co., next week Fri.
day.
A. A. Stearns picked from bis garden
Oct. Is, a large number of red raspberries,
and C. c. Turner q similar bunch on the
Dummerston road Oct. is.
The annual meeting OF the Murray club
for the election OF officers, will be held IN the
Universalist church parlors next Tuesday
evening. Ice cream and cake will be served.
The Prospect Hill Acqueduct company
had to adjourn Its annual meeting Monday
evenir without doing anything because of a
lacl of quorum.
-Liveryman H. NJ. Burke has bought of
D. f.. Taylor of Jamaica. the handsome stall
lion, tNorthern Light" that attracted so
much attention at the fair.
A nice assortment of Chamber and Parlor
Suits, Easy aud Patent Rocking chairs, Mat.
tresses, Spring.beds, ETC., at Kirwan's Furni.
ture Warerooms. 44wtf
Services in st. Michaels Episcopal church
on Sunday next. a. m. Holy Communion.
N. IN, MORNING. nd =
p. IN. Evening Prayer. Sunday School, ll.45
a. M.
Little Clayton Thomas, son of O. M.
Thomas, forms rly of Brattleboro, but now of
Waltham, Mass, is singing In the Ascension
Church Boy choir of that place. He is only
eight years old but draws a salary for mis- ser.
vices.
WIN. Walker of Manchester, N. H., Is
canvassing to establish another assessment
''benetit'' order in town, the ''Annual Friend
that promises to pay 800 In year and $40
weekly benefit in case of accident or sickness
on 81 a month assessments.
Private letters from H. j. Davenport
state that he is taking bicycle trip through
England and Scotland. For the past two
months le has been through Southern Ger.
many, Tyrol and Austria and will next make
trip through Ireland, and return 10 Paris 10
December to complete his studies and return
home In the spring perhaps taking run
down TO Spain in the meantime.
The State Teachers Association Is to |
meet at Bellows Falls Oct. 1926 aud am |
anxious that there shall be large attendance
from this county. The Association has not
met in this county for several years. Let us
show our appreciation of their coming by
our numbers and interest. So /
Teachers, it will do you good to meet your
associates from other parts of the state.
Z. Z. HALL, Supervisor.
Rev. George Leon Walker, ID. D., is re.
ported to have made one of tn eablest as well
as most eloquent yet sarcastic half hour ad.
dresses at the recent meeting of the Amer
lean Board OF Missions at Minneapolis ever
listened to in its history. 1t was in defence
Of the report of the investigating committee,
of which be was chairman. in reply to the
attack upon it made by Rev. Joseph Cook and
Rev. DIR. Alden. DIR. Walkers report was
finally adopted by large majority.
Merchant N. l. Hawley is one of the d.
rectors of the Mutual Investment company,
organized at Springfield, Mass, last week to
develop real estate in the neighborhood of
Forest Park, where the Meningitis, Mr.
Hawley. o. S. Greenleaf and Others have
bought such large interests. The company Is |
to have capital of about 5000 900, and deeds
were passed to 1t at the time of the organiza-
ton, for between 80 and 100 acres of land, be-
tween Samner, Fort Pleasant and Park ave.
Iiues. anu dbOui fDU DutiuiUg IOIs.
The company will go to work to build many
pleasant and comfortable houses. r u
Perhaps the asylum Is to be investigated
again. Geo. H. Humphrey, father of A. II.
the employee of the Institution,
who disappeared so suddenly and completely 1
/ year ago last June. Is circulating petition {
,sking the legislature to appoint commission I
% investigate the disappearance of his son.
,lso the management of the institution. the {
work to be done at the expense of the state. r
The petition alleges that conflicting stories {
rave been told by the officials of The institu. 4
ion regarding the boys disappearance, and ,
hat the matter will bear investigation. OF q
curse the petition is being profusely signed I
uct documents always are-and probably G
he investigation will be ordered. II l. safe 4
o say that the asylum will offer no ohjec- !
ions. When an institution is managed as !
hat i. The more irquiries that are made 6
bout il, the better of u will be. ii