The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-16
AYERS
vHair vigor
FOR NATURAL COLOR

to. day know, revere and bless hen
name. They have three sons and one
daughter. The sons are all at the age
of maturity and all engaged in active
business pursuits, the eldest, Edwsrd
G., by himself and the other two, ~
bert H.. and Frank, with their father.
They are all popular among men, and
with the daughter, Miss Ella NJ. who
is an educated and accomplished
woman, furnish family of whom the
fondest parents might be Justly proud.
A Dreadful Death.
Further details concerning the muir
der of Il. c. Naramore, ranch owner
of Riverside, California, well known in
Chittenden county and a foster brother
of l.. A. and A. A. Drew, are given in
the Los Angeles Daily Times. 1t APP
pears that Mr.. Naramore was the owner
of an 800 acre ranch which was leased
to John w. and Caesar Cummings. The
rent fell due August /. The story of
the Cummings brothers is that Nara
more came to the ranch and received
the money. Later, Caesar and Next
can went to town, leaving Naramore
and the other brother at home On
returning about 100 O'Clock they found
Naramore dead and the brother bound
and gagged. John Cummings says:
Soon after my brother and the Next
can left us, two men entered the house,
ordering us to throw up our hands,
which l did, Naramore. however, re-
fused to do so, whereupon the men
dubbed him until he fell, and then
bound and gagged me-. When found,
Naramore was dead, John Cummings
unconscious and the money and robbers
had disappeared. The coroner's jury
brought in IA verdict that death was
caused from blows upon the head. The
Cummings brother and the Mexican
are in jail, and the sheriff's theory is
that the brother committed the murder.
Vermont's Representation mt Atlant"
Vermont will be represented at the
Cotton States and Information Ex-
position by Governor Woodbury. and
a commission of seven women APP |
pointed by the Governor for that
purpose The members of the com.
mission are Mrs. r. Steward
Stranahan of st. Adams Mrs. II.
S. Bingham of Bennington Mrs.
John W. Cranston of Rutland Mrs.
Samuel E. Pingree of Hartford Mrs.
Jesse Burdett of Arlington Mrs. Il. |,
NJ. Mansur of Island Pond and Mrs.
Edward Wells of Burlington. Mrs.
Stranahan is president of the board.
The Sth of November has been Sc
ected as Vermont Day at Atlanta on
which occasion appropriate exercises
will be held on the Exposition s
Grounds.
1t has been proposed to have an
Grafton and a poem by some sons of /
Vermont and to give an informal re-
ception to visiting Vermonters. The
are taking steps to make I
an exhibit of colonial relics at the
Exposition and expect to secure an q
collection. Governor Wood !.
bury and party will visit Atlanta at I
the opening of the Exposition. The
party will number about
20 persons including Lieutenant Gov !
arnor Y. NJ Mansur and members !
Of staff. I
The trip will be made in spec
al Wagner sleeper and the route will .
be via Chattanooga SO as to include
the celebration connected with the u
opening of the National Park on the
battlefield.
EARLY IeIeSfaphihS INV eT"ohi. ,
Concerning the Vermont and Boston ~
Telegraph company whose annual meet !,
ng at White River Junction was re
ported in these columns, the West Ran II
iolph Herald gives the following inter "
sting "reminiscences: lo
The company was one of the first in operation h
nd furnished from its operators many men =,
iho had done important service In the develop u
nent of biography. 1t was leased to the Yves p
ern nion company but its corporate existence
still kept up, and one meeting year is held
or that purpose. b.
Charles 4. Tinker, the vice president, was n
orn in Chelsea and was the operator at North y
ED in the early iifies, while Col Robert j Kim. u
all WAS his next door neighbor" here i'll our
illage and Col 4 Il Chandler taking his =,
rst lessons in telegraphy of Col kmball at the 81
anne time. The latter continued as AN operator n
My "A few wears but has been identified with II
,legraph companies and has for many years =,
cen elected a director of the company for ol
hch he served as one of its first operators. W
9th Mr. Tinker and Cot Chandler have devoted of
ler lives to the science and have filed some of
he most important positions during their honor
bic careers. 10
While the was in progress they were -,
elected AS the two most trusted operators in wv
le war office at Washington, and President or
lincoln and Secretary stanton frequently spent is
hole nights with them translatng dispatches h ;
10 cipher for transmission to the heads of the IA
rmy. Since, then, they have been, to Il great
egrec, responsible tor the wonderful growth orr
the companies. Mr. Tinker is general super er
tendent of the largest and most important tele as
-aph company in the world, with the exception ma
the Western Union. ii
These then telegraph "boys'' have made sue Pi
'ssful business men and are much respected wv
hereyer they are known. They all have homes so
Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, Y, as well as
sidences in Vermont Mr. Tinker at ST Adams,
I'd Col Chandler and Col kimball in Randolph, aft
e home of their boyhood, where they learned &c
G telegraph alphabet u,
They have heen most cordial friends for more or
an 40 years and though for while living in err
ferent states, they have never ceased to be =,
ost loyal and enthusiastic Nermonters and III
10y their Vermont homes more than ever. we
Richard Nj. Hunt, the great archi- III
ct. leaves property worth $500. 600.
I'd all is bequeathed to his wife and to'
lildren. CO.
Chas. Niles, formerly of Swanton. D..
Is won $1,000 this season with his 10 no
lectioner mare May Ross -,
Stephen NJ. Diamond of Boston died Isl
st week Thursday at his old home in m,
Mass. aged 63. For the past lee
ght years he has been connected with orr
lillian B. Preston & Sons scale man I'm,
actures and was spending his vaca- tal
IN at Bellows Falls. having been i'll on,
It a short time. He was formerly of
and is the father of =
'orge NJ. Diamond of the Boston N
ODE, and leaves wife and five chill
en-.