The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-16


have each taken coupe Oft the street
. %. H. Cross has opened IA genera
agency for the Singer Sewing Machin
in Room No |, Milestone block.
C. b. Lamson plans the construc
ton of another house on Washington
street between his residence and tina
of Mr.. Coates. @
Yesterday being the assumption o
the Blessed Virgin, mass was celebrated
at st Michael's Roman Catholic church
at nine o'clock
The special pay car of the Boston
h Maine with the new paymaster. G.
II. Newell and six others aboard stop
here Monday night.
Will Sears, who died at Greenfield
Tuesday from consumption, was we'll
known here, being for many years a
police officer whom his duties frequent.
ly brought to town.
-Chas. Kenyon, for several years the
meat cook at the Brooks house has
finished work there and gone to Boston.
Mass, where he has bought canning
establishment. j. G. Wall succeeds
him at the Brooks house.
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band of Helen Temple Brigham, the
widely known spiritualist speaker, and
father of c. l.. Brigham of Claremont,
N. H., died Saturday night at his
Coleraine home.
"A convention of the road commits
sioners of the county was held at New
fame Wednesdayat which Elk Gov, Full
Ter read an admirable paper, giving fig
ures of the price of handling freight
over various roads.
The decoration and art work in the
women building at the Atlanta Fix.
position has been assigned Misses
Elizabeth Sheldon and Grace Temple of
Washington. the latter well known
here as frequent summer visitor with
Mrs |. O. p. Smith. She is a gradu
ate of the Boston school of Design.
ranks very high in her profession and
has often lectured on Applied Art"
before distinguished gatherings.
The Vermont Live Stock Co,
made its first shipment this season of
3Sl head of cattle to the Chicago mar
ket Tuesday. where they sold for fully
So head better than last year. The
cattle were all in fine condition which
agrees with Manager Stevens report
of the condition of the range this sea
son-and sold at the top of the market
at 81. % TO "a. 40 per hundred pounds
Another shipment will be made about
the 18th and the third the last of Sep
TENDER,
The Brattleboro Plating Go. has
opened business most encouragingly
this week in charge of the new owners,
the Hunter brothers. Already they
have orders on hand to the amount of
5000. They will between now and
Sept. lst move their plant from Hub
bardton and and it To that here, SO that
they will be able to do gold and silver
plating as we'll as all else in that line
of business. They calculate to keep a
dozen canvassers on the road. and adj
vertlse for several new ones in another
column and altogether it promises to
be quite an addition to Brattleboro's
industrial activity.
A new form of domestic money or
der has been adopted by the Govern
ment So MS toconform more nearly in
appearance to a bank check or draft.
The coupon and advice are reduced in
size and while the old form of the
coupon is retained there is difference
in arrangement and the advice is at
tached to the end of the order instead
of underneath it as heretofore. The !
space and blank for endorsement is !
on the back instead of the face AS here !
tofore. Whether traceable to that or |
not. the new order is designed just as
W. II. Childs suggested through the /
local post Office two or three years ago. I
The old forms will not be discontinued /
until they are used up bur the new I
ones are appearing occasionally in bus /
mess transactions.
The King of Corea has called Gen.
Legendre, the American SO long dis
in Orienta! affairs. to the
head of the government as his chief
adviser He has issued an edict con
Tossing that things are going wrong but
that he will reform them by this /
change, which is also expected 10
checkmate the intrigues of the Queen
and release him from the tutetage of
Count Inoye. Gen Legendre is we'll
known to many Brattleboro people.
having been visitor here in former
years as the guest of Col. c. a. Miles
while his son Willis Legendre was
pupil in the latter's school, Burnside
" The General was brave
and distinguished soldier in the civil
war, enlisting in the Rhode Island
inc and being severely wounded and
having portion of his face shot away.
He was found by the Brattleboro peo-
Die to be man of excellent pasts and
most interesting companion. After the
var he was appointed Counsel General
% Japan, afterwards entering the ser ,
ice of the Mikado and having an i'm
,ortant part in the wonderful work of
and upbuilding that has ;
been done in that country. His son, ,
Willis Legendre. after graduating from |
col. Miles school. went TO New York to
axe a position in the office of Brown
3ros.. bankers. and he was the found ,
r and manager of the some what ceie ,
,ated Calumet club there.
The musical and literary entertain
nent at Grange hall Friday evening by !
he Orpheus club of Springfield under
he auspices of the Episcopal ladies, !
lad much smaller audience than it s
but it was most highly en- p,
owed by those present. The program l
5as choice one and showed the effects g
f careful and intelligent study. Mrs.
trout opened with piano sole Dance v
,ustique," by Mason, which was well y
endered with pleasing technique and /
road conception of his work. Mr.. :
towards Aria, with All Your I
Iearts. by Mendelshon, gave him a \
ne opportunity to display his round, :
lear. wonderfully sympathic voice |.
nd il was shown in all his selections. L
18th power that in its touching sim p
licity went right to the hearts of the e