The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-22

w. II. Fisher has bought tn
Michael Higgins place on Forest street
Sale made through A. V. Nays agency
Ryan Brothers are to slate the new
Barre Episcopal church and the new
French parochial school building a
Turner's Falls, Mass.
That is an elegant and attractiv,
line Of atomizers, which Druggis
Durgin shows. He evidently ism
going to be asleep as the holiday sea
son approaches.
IS. W. Edgett is holding an auction
every evening to close out his stock Of
hats, caps and furnishing goods and
will also have one tomorrow afternoon
from ! 30 to O'Clock.
Joseph Martin jammed his finger
quite badly on the buttonhole machine
at the Hooker, Corser a. Mitchell over.
all factory Monday, and was obliged te
give up work for few days.
Il. w. Lord, carpenter, met with
quite an accident this week while al
work on the lower floor of the Whitaker
house in Esteyville. A board fell from
the floor above, striking him on the
head.
The throwing of stones by hood
lums from the Canal street hill on to
Clark street should be severely dealt
with. One of the rocks came within
an inch of hitting a woman's head Fri
day.
e. G. Benson of New York, who
bought the store on Central street, for
merly kept by j. G. Chandler, is now
doing quite business. He is assisted
by his younger brother, John Benson of
Bondville.
The heavy rains of Sunday washed
down under the retaining wall
IN the town hall and threw
it somewhat out of shape Con-
crete has been laid this week TO pre-
vent this in the future.
Il. u. Holden went to Marlboro yes
terday and secured 30 foot flag staff
for the town hall building. 1t is hoped
that the government will contribute Il
flag under the law about public build
ings, as the postoificc is there.
There was laughter in the town the
other evening, and the innocent cause
of 1t was an old farmer who, having
ApNSi StCu VI utdTti III luc Wullt
House lunch cart, gazed at it with the
exclamation, what. the trolley off the
track again?'
The postotiice moved back into the
town hall building Tuesday afternoon.
The moving began at 3p. m. and an
hour later business was being done in
the new office. The town clerks room
will be done to-day. The fire proof door
to the vault has been set and the front
of the vault has veneer of white glazed
brick
The Brattleboro Overall Go. is now
running extra time to keep up with its
orders. 1t has lately received single
order fol 1000 dozen overals There are
many families in town that have in the
last two years found it blessing that
the overall manufacture had become an
industry of Brattleboro.
The resusitation of the Profession
al club is postponed until the second
week in January when DIR. III. ID. Hol-
ton will give the opening paper on the
50 Material Needs of Brattleboro, -
to be followed by papers on our NOR
al and intelligent needs, in Febru-
airy and March. Probably the meet
ings will be held in some of the
church chapels and the general public
invited in.
A. balustrade of classic design
drawn by Photographer A. d. Wyatt
at the request of the business men.
who protested against the mine pin"
ornaments, was yesterday placed on the
town hall porch. The three brackets
on the corners are also to be removed
and dental course put on and alto
gether the changes will very much
improve the appearance
The long named society might have
got in some salutary work at the local
station last Saturday afternoon, where
a shocking and heartless spectacle met
the travellers gaze. In a crowded car
Of full grown cattle were placed five tiny
calves, two of them being trampled to
death, while the others were taken out
with hardly life enough left to stand
alope. If the human society doesn't
move in the prosecution Of these cattle.
shipping fiends some body else will p.
d. O., after which a list of minor cruel
ties will receive attention. Il r.. S.
Childs in the Montpelier Argus.
Mr.. Wall. formerly meat cook at
the Brooks House, who now owns a
farm beyond the woman's retreat, had
some i'll luck on Oak street Monday.
He had come in from his farm and
was selling eggs and had left his horse
unhitched, when dog which
came running by, frigh tened the horse
and he started on a run down Oak to
Chaplin street, where he broke the let.
ter box off the tree and the wagon
against the tree in front of
Clark Fits house toppled over, break
ing some 40 or so dozen eggs. The
wagon was quite badly demolished but
the horse was caught before any fur
Their damage was done.
Mai. Childs in describing the
government building" that has been
occupied by the postof1ice during the
summer, tells the Sunday Republican
that $50 far as known, the first build
ing to be occupied exclusively by the
postoffice, and the only one before the
present structure was built, was erect
ed during the administration of Frank.
lin Fessenden, in l849, just north of
the old Blake dwelling on the present
site of Pullen Bros. store in Crosby
block. Postmaster Dutton in 1853 re-
moved the office to the store vacated
by Hayes Woodward, clothiers, in
Central block and on ithe present site
IF S. w. Edgett's store. In 1869 the
office was moved by Postmaster Daniel
Kellogg, Jr,, to a room on the south
side Of the town hall building. where
it remained till October, 1886, when
The new and commodious office on the
opposite side of the hall was fitted up
Dy the town..
Everything points to large attend
,nce upon Mrs Clusters entertainment
m Tuesday afternoon and evening at
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