The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-22
Rev. f. l.. Phalen reached home last


evening.
The High school pupils are to take par
In the Memorial Day parade.
Western Aqueduct Co.. Is laying an ad
ditional pipe on Grove street.
Rev. r. W. Irman is to be Decoration
Day orator at Sandwich, N. II.
| -Lucius Moore HIS bought of e. l.. Rob
erts the Pike house on Chestnut street.
To Let: Two pastures; one In Marlboro
one IN Chesterfield. Il. X. Goodall. Tvs
The alumni of Glenwood Classical semi
nary are to have a reunion commencement
| week.
The pulley which holds the main shaft IN
shop No. 3 at the Estey organ works spill
yesterday, and made delay of several hours
Decoration Day comes next Saturday, SO
does Mrs. +. Il. Davis special sale Of trim
med and unframed hats and bonnets. Elliot
ST., up-stairs.-adv.
John Gllfeather, who is employed at
Fletcher's mill fell from the track distance
of 20 feet Wednesday, afternoon and escaped
with only a scratched nose.
-Quoth a Musical Courier correspondent
about Mary Howe: "She sings like canary"
.'Yes, but her bill Is a thousand times bigger.
l had her at my last musical"
The Christian Science meeting will be
held Wednesday evening, at GO Elliot street
at 1880. Service and Sunday School at 81
Laurel street Sunday at 10: 30 a. m.
"A large number of the Red Men attend
at special meeting at Fitchburg. Mass, this
evening, when the "Three Best Tribes of
Massachusetts," will exemplify the work.
Miss Milton and Miss Rogers the evange.
lists now engaged at Algiers, will lead a Y.
p. S. c. E. meeting at the Baptist chapel next
fNttas law amin tVuytI1 81 ptu
Can We Escape from our Captivity"
j. H. Chamberlain received another load
of horses Monday, 20 In number, for the sale
advertised elsewhere, and he regards them as
II little the finest lot, containing the best Sc
lections he ever received. He had them pho.
tographed by Howe & Son.
A party of dozen girls from Mortified
seminary came up Monday TO have thier pho
tographs taken at Howe & Son. One Of
them, Miss. } Johnson, caught her foot In tine lap
robe while alighting In front of Bank block
and was thrown to the sidewalk, her mouth
being cut and her hands considerably
scratched, but no other harm doEe.
The George E. Lyons company has jusl
quarried single block of granite $50 feet
long, 80 feet wide and II feet thick. Their
workmen are now engaged In an order from
the Connecticut river railroad for the granite
work near Round bill In Springfield; be-
sides, they have an order from the New
York and New Haven road and for the Troy,
N. Y, postoffice. About 100 hands will be
employed duridg the summer.
"A fishing party consisting of R. $. and A.
w. ChIIds, w. II. Bracket, NJ. w. Stickney,
9. r. Crosby and Fred Bemis of MerideD,
Conn.,, have been up in Somerset the first
four days of this week. Lack of space for
bids an adequate account of their experiences;
suffice 1t to say that they didn't have any luck
until Wednesday, when they struck 1t rich,
In '.Hidden Pond" and landed in
here Wednesday night with 800, 30 pounds, OF
The speckled beauties.
More has been heard from Secretary
Proctor with reference to the Arden Humph.
Fey case in which he is particularly interest
I'd, being relative of the young mans moth.
,r. There was some ground for belief that
Humphrey enlisted in the navy from Provi
lence and Proctor got Secretary Tracy's
orders to hunt the matter down with the re.
ult of finding that the recruit did not an
wer the description at all. The army rolls |
lave been searched and no trace found there.
Saturday brought rain storm that was
worth great deal to vegetation, for the
round was getting very dry and crops would
ave fered if the dry spell had remained
much longer unbroken. But the storm
feared off cold, as nearly all the storms this
pring have, and Tuesday morning there was
Ound to have been severe frost. the ground
yas frozen about quarter of an inch. and
ONE plants suffered severely. Some even
nat were covered with canvass were ruined.
/. C. Thorn, w. II. Geddis. A. G. Daven-
ort and A. Fl. Hines who bad some partic.
larIv fine tomato plants look regretfully at -,
IS. N. Hcrrsck ana A. starkey went TO | 7
ems Falls. n. Y, Wednesday. In behalf of n
e corporators of the street railway. to eX- n
nine the property which G. II. McEachron n
ants to sell for the line here. They were '
1t very favorably impressed. The cars are t
the "bob.tailed" variety, costing $3.50 a
wv, and now pretty shabby looking which :
r. McEachron wants to sell for $3.50 each. o
or the rails, which cost originally $35 a :
n, and have had several years wear, he i
ants $50 gross ton. offering discount on ,
lie lot of 800 and also to throw In a snow !
ow that cost about S75. 1t would require ,
,out 80 tons to mile for the two and one
,lf miles of road proposed between here and
Test Brattleburo. Mr.. McEachron won't 8
Ike any stock In p company to be formed {
ere. as 1t is understood he originally pro. +
)sed. The report of the committee will s
ndoubtedv he against the purchase and In t
Lvor of the formation of a company with |
cal capital and under local control. and {
ot only to run line betN cen here and the f
est village but to run 1t by the EStev shops |
I'd about the village. This is right If 1t will '
: done. But will 1t? c
Frost & Proctor's window has this week I
lie focus of good deal of interest. The '
ason was the appearance there of an old 9
Telegraph of Brattleboro. John Batchelder \
'tist and published by the Bufiords In 1856 :
shows verv small village as compared to /
re present. Estevvlle was pasture. Pros 2
,ct Hill, "Spauldings Pine Woods" as it II
as called then, a forest, the Chaplin district 4
course was open, there was no Oak street. a
} Grove or Tyler, or Brook. or Forest or 9
rost streets, no Harris Place not house \
Terrace street and only five houses In p
that section between Walnut ana North 5
ain streets. no houses on High street or \
'estern Avenue north of the Unitarian 4
Irsonage. nothing In all that section now !;
cupied by Mechanics Square. only two on u
rge street. nothing where the Estey shops. 0
e Smith e. Hunt and the Carpenter works
w stand, nothing but four houses on Fiat ID
rect. no Episcopal church. no gas house. b
ne village consisted of the Canal and Clark b
rect, the Elliot. Green and High, and the c.
ain and NorthMain street districtswItb little Z
ndrils running out Chase and Walnut O
reefs. One of the prominent landmarks In o.
ose days was the ''bowling alley" kept by ~
sh Clark and set on stills % or 80 feet high b
the river bank. about back of the Congre. II
tiOnal church. and reached BY stairway N
I'm Main street. In those days our moral s.
ntirnent couldn't tolerate such resort and &C
had to get into New Hampshire jurisdic. In
n. Another interesting relic Is slave v,
ver's whip, which runaway negro pre- II
tied to the late Chas G. Frost IN the days hi
fore the war. Mr.. Frost, who was an ar W
Mt aboltiOnist, kept sort of station for fl
"undergrOund railway and the fugitive In
yes. being lodged at Greenfield, would be W
'warded TO him. be would feed and lodge Ell
IN and paw their way to the next friend BIZ
rth. 1t was a work that had to he conduct. to
very secretely. and few citizens knew th