The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16


John sutton picked ripe Strawberries Oct. 0
WIN Packard's youngest child II very sick.-
Mrs. y. u. Brown Il IN Boston this week
selecting her millinery goods.
John Q. Adams moves to Woodstock this
week, and John Il. Adams to East Barnard
An egg laid by one OF l.. b. MOrey's hens
recently measured Id by s inches IN circum.
frence.
Weathersfield .-The granite business In
this town promises to be of large proportions.
A large sale of real estate and personal prop.
erty will be the aucti0ning of the four farms,
a lot OF stock, farming tools and household
furniture, belonging to the estate of the late
Ii p Tolles.
! Ludlow.-N g Hammond bought the Lud-
low Congregational house on Main street for
$l300.-W w Adams AMI NJ Regan of this
place have bought Adams livery business Mt
proctorsvile. Several parties have lost cat
Tie from their pastures recently and ID G
| Sheldon found among the hides at Regan's
market one that came Off from steer that he
had lost. Regan bought the steer of Warren
Potter of Plymouth. States Attorney Stick.
ney had Potter arrested and later Clark
Spanlding of Plymouth and Frank T Burbee
or Weston and hearing was had before JUS
tice Hath0rn, Potter and Spauding were re.
leased and Burbee was placed under S4O0
bonds.
West Hartford.-Royal Stetson and wife
Of st Adams. are visiting his parents.-W n
Tucker, IT. Is building a ne " steam mill. The
boiler room is already up.-Several have been
quite sick the last few weeks. Some are bet
ter. Mrs Levi Hazen and Bert Alger are
quite low at present.--Frank Wheeler and
wife, proprietor of the hotel, go to Massachu-
sets for visit this week.--The church Is
receiving, new coat Of paint. Lucy A Stet-
an IN uyorly fbo 81 NH
Mrs Wheeler visit In Massachusetts, ack
Frost made his first visit Monday morning
100 below.--Mr and Mrs Il and Il e Leonard
of Proctor, visited at Norwich, and the Wor.
den place while here.
West Windsor.-A nnmber of farms are
being bought In town by parties from New
York. Real estate seems to be in big de-
mand In town since the q ante works opened
Mr. Bigsly has sold his large farm known
as the M Lincoln farm, to parties from New
York.-G Heath has moved from Woodstock
into Melvin Banister's house.-E Sawin is |
home from Springfield sneak thief
took about 70 chickens of the Blood brothers |
a short time ago, big catch for one nights |
work.-Much sickness prevails In town. DR. |
Shurtleff has been called here several times |
by telephone In the past two weeks from |
ProctOrsville.-T hardest frost with quite |
a freeze came Sunday night freezing the
APPLES on the trees some. AS yet there has
been but a few picked.-W Kendall and |
wife, Foster Ayers and wife visited at DR..
Shurtefs at PrOctorsvile last Saturday,
Henry Farbush and father of BROOKLYN. N
Y are In town on visit.-James Blood and
wife are ON visit to their parents. Mr. Blood
went to WalpOle, Mass. about two years ago
where he Is In the grain and feed business.
him success as he Is West Windsor boy
Husking parties seem to be all the rage. A
large one held at the Blood brothers. last Fri
lay evening which wound up with a fine
oyster supper and dance, was success every
way.
WOodstock.-The old Gallup house, which
las been an eyesore to villagers and visitors
like all summer, standing directly In front
II the new hotel, has at last begun its travels,
lnder the conductorship of Geo w Perry,
nd VIII take up It's station on High street
xtension. Messrs Plnney u Daniels will
make 1t over into comfortable tenement
louse. They have already put up two cot
ages on High street from material taken
rom the old hotel. The enterprise of these
Gentlemen fills long felt want, as tenements
ave been scarce here ately.--The Wood
took inn Is progressing slowly and will prob
bly, not be finished before spring. The d..
ectors OF the company do not propose to
pen the inn to the public until the right
as just received much needed coat of
aint and fresco and will no longer he dis.
race to the village. The work has been
lone under the direction of E p Tewksbury
nd the result Is fine. The woodwork is
berry color. Now let us have the old
nd we will try and be satisfied.
&C Swain, who has been employed In the
xpress office here during the past summer.
as received the appointment OF agent; In
lace of John Cone, deceased. Mr. swain mas
tyep general satisfaction during the time he
AS done the work of the office and all are
lad of his appointment. Joe Kenn'fick will
ssist him 10 the office and have charge OF the
slegraph ofIice.-Postmaster Chapman has q
umpleted his examination of the 90 post Of j
ces In this county, and Is much pleased with 5
is experience. He has driven 1884 miles, q
ONE days making from 70 to so miles In a
ay. The most satisfactory part of the bust. 1
ess Is that the postmaster general has /
indy allowed him to pay his own expenses.
Another Old Landmark Gone. C
In the death of John Cone, which occurred D
ere Thursday morning the Sth inst, Wood a
Jock loses another of its old landmarks and r
ne United States and Canada division of the
.merican express company one or Its oldest
nd most faithful agents. John Cone began v
Is career as a stage driver nearly 90 years 5
20 when about 90 years old on the road from
hanover to Woodstock. He hadn't dollar s
the world and 1t Is said the veteran driver .
yilson Parker gave him an old fur coat and
afr OF gloves for an outfit. He continued on :.
ne route until after the completion of the II
orthern railroad to West Lebanon when he
rove some time for and afterward formed a g
with VIM S Carter of Quechee, a
nd drove for several years from Woodstock
White River Junction. After the build d
~ of the Vermont Central road the route
as changed to Woodstock Station just above d
Thte River village and on this route Carter :,
Cone and afterwards Cone a. Perry run "
ages and freight until the completion of the :,
'oodstock railroad In 1875. Mr. Cone con- ~ y,
nued the express business. running as mes g.
niger on the train until the spring of 1882, -
nee which time he has been confined to his N
om and for some time to his bed by loco a
otor ataxia, a form of paralysis resulting VI
lally In the loss of the use of his lower limbs.
e held the office of express agent to the day W
rform the duties of the office aud the train "
ork. He was valued empOye of the 5 pr
c. and afterward of the American company
ID although his enemies tried several times 81
secure bis removal they could never show Ell
e smallest item where he had been dshon- ca
| or unfeithfuI. His funeral was held Sat-
day at | D IN. A special train brought rel m
Ives and a number of his old associates In tr
e express business among the latter were, at
~ Fl Rabbit, Jr., of Bellows Falls, Supt. III
E Division Am. Express company; + M di
over of Boston, G q Williams of Essex 81
motion, w Z Huntoon of White River ha
nction' Fl w Drew of Montpelier, A s ov
rweIl of Wells River and d d Davis for. Ca
,rIy employed In the express office here, w
/ now route agent under Mr. Babbitt. The
mains were taken to White River village In
+ interment. His estate Is valued at from m
90 900 to $4,000 aud except few small At,
quests will be divided among his relatives IA