The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-02-13
TO. morrow is St. Valentines pay.

Ready by night or day.-aGv.
There will be social dance IN the hall \
Putney Wednesday Feb. Is. A cordial invi
tation Is extended to all.
| Emerson & Son have enlarged and rear
ranged their carpet room, making It the m os
! convenient and best lighted In town.-ady.
Mrs. Il. j. b. Cudworth has returned
from Boston much improved and with ever,
Indication of complete recovery from heI
trouble. A''
The first annual convention of the Chris
tan AID association IL announced to be held
here In the Congregational church on the Ar
of March. ~.
His host Of friends will be glad to learn
that Hon. j. L. Martin Ia getting much bene.
Mt from series of baths at Hot Springs and
plans an early return home.
Lost yesterday between the depot and
Whites livery stable, q sealskin driving
glove. II the finder will return to Whites
stable he will receive reward.
Things have an obviously peaceful look
az town meeting approaches. Can't you get
up q contest OF some kind to give little prac.
tlce IN the use Of the Australian ballot?
The Estey Guard will resume its weekly
drills next Tueaday evening. There are sew.
eral new applications for membership. There
Is also talk OF an entertainment sometime
during the season.
Arthur Carpenter, who has been located
In Dakota for several years has come on here
to take position with the Carpenter Organ
Co. and will move his family here and make
beautiful BrattIeboro his home.
Lieut.. H. s. Foster of the goth infantry
will read paper on "The new drill regula-
tion,,' which he will illustrate by,instr,lctiom
OF new recruits, at the officers, school here
the oath and 25th. Mas. Watson and Jenne,
also Capt. Mimms. will also furnish papers.
-Chas. Brazor IL at home to recuperate
from an injury suffered last week In the Gar
ibaldi studio IN Boston where he Is employed
and studying sculpture. He was sti uck in
the back by bust knocked from high shelf
back of Mim by boy who was busting the
room. He Is able to walk now but not erect
ly and with good deal of suffering.
The letter carriers record shows totsl
Of 12S.263 pieces handled in January. OF
these there were delivered 1872 registered let
ters. 49,. 1876 mail letters, 1927 postal cards 30.
2l3 newspapers. Collected 5i73 local letters,
35,546 mail letters. 943 local CARDS, 5439 mail
cards. 1896 second class matter or news
papers. Local postage $l34.5S.
The W. G. T. U. viii hold meeting at
Mrs. j. S. Browns, Willston street. Tues
day at D. m. A genera, invitation is en-
tended, but members are especially urged to
be present, as a program of historical tenn
perance reading ia prepared which will he
very instructive and beneficial. Mrs b.
Ranger. leader. Com.
Another of these Massachusetts, benefit
orders ts sending around circular offers of $40
;ash and free membership to any postmaster
VINO Will just send In the name OF good Or
.anizer for his town. 1t Is the Bay State
eague and 1t offers 800 In year and $40
veeK SICK benefits up to five weeks-all for
IS to $12 paid In.
The Newman Brothers, A. L. and George
1. have given up their project of note
rOkerage business In Boston, another con.
ern taking their Office and paraphanalia off
heir bands. A. L. Newman has had bis sal
ry raised above $4,000 as president of the
bank, with q three months ,
acation. !
> Citizens win n sppreois.e' ID, the ss.ns OF :
me crayon portraits to be hung In the town I,
II. OF John r., and George b. Blake. the II
ston bankers. who were so closely identi- Il
with their old home. BrattleborO and it's o
,erests of a former generation. The pres b
I is made by the three surviving children v
George Beatty Blake. Arthur W., and An I
e s. c. Blake and Elizabeth c. Hayden. n
Fire was discovered early Saturday fore
ION In the "Retting house" owned by Geo. i
Crowell In West Brattleboro and occupiesi .
Henry Squres and Warren Walker. 1t
ught from a stove-pipe passing through
le partition above the folding doors In the
wer tenement. Above the ''thimble''
,me rats had evidently made their nest. and
,e blaze caught from the overheating of the
lpe, ran up the partition and into the cell
lg, doing its most damage there and neces-
tating the ripping up OF good deal OF floor
, quell 1t. The damage was about 800. to
he house. The loss of Warren Walker who
through Cudworth & Childs' agency at 800.
fenry Squires on the first floor suffered
Dss Of about 1926, with no Insurance.
1t Is rather small business to try to pick
laws with a neighbours printing, as experts
an always do 1t with every Job. So we will
,nly remark that cotemporary that so de-
reprinted one Atkins comments on
ome misspeled names In a job from the RE.
CORNER office, ana persisted In doing 80 even
lfter it had seen the "copy" and knew u con-
aimed the very errors spoken of-that a
oh last week which bore this cotemporary's
imprint contains Just 10 misspelled words,
mashed iette RS, and mistakes of various
kinds on four pages. Perhaps our cotem-
,orary will learn lesson therefrom.
And speaking about the work OF the REFOR-
aER Job office, it might not be amiss to OBJ
ng have given the best answer to the Argus
md Phenix's attack by giving another order
or 800 copies of part OF the same BOOK they
nave been blowing about.
For three Sundays since the new year
,ame In nature has given us pageants OF
treat beauty and variety. The first of these
vas an ice storm, which left the forests
sparkling with encrusted Ice; the second was
genuine snow storm. In which the feathery
lakes were caught upon the trees and cio'hed
heir branches with fairy forms OF frozen
eathery spray; yesterday the storm was
constant falling of snowflakes, often large,
alng gently and catching hold of tree.tops
md fences and every available projection,
md covering the whole landscape with
.oat of ermine. The poem by Emerson on
The Snow Storm" must have come to many
Is they watched the falling Of the snow. His
description was finely realized:
The whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river. and the
heaven,
r6e sled and .r.veiler stop. the sourier's feet
DELAYED all friends shut out the housemates
rounc the radiant fireplace. enclosed
-TBoston Herald.
The Fitchburg Sentinel of last week
gives a long description of the man.
of the Thorn Medicine company
which has moved from this place to that city.
In the course of the article 1t says of the
Mr. Carey started in. when boy, at the time
he Thorn medicines were placed before the
public, and has grown up with the business. For
he past five years, he has done all the manufac-
uring and will continue to do SO In the future.
He comes to us highly recommended by busi-
ness and professional men of Brattleboro, where
he company was first established. A short de-
.cription of the laboratory viii interest our
readers. in one room. divided for the msnufac.
ure of the Hop and Burdock Tonic, are large
rats for steaming the roots and herbs, with all
he modern appliances for flteTing and finish
pr the preparations. High tanks, holding
,bout 900 Raliops, are used for storage before
bettli r. In another room. devoted TO storing
and washing the bottles, are receptacles OF all