The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-08

The Vermont Farm Machine Co.
talks up Mt 'em in another column.
The new box car for the electric
road has been shipped from the factory
and will be here the first of next week.
Three dogs were slaughtered last
week, according to the statute fol-
killing sheep belonging to Henry
Clark.
j. A. Titus has taken the contract
for the manufacture of the Bailey
clothes reel, for which large orders are
coming in.
Maurice Bowler has sold his Elm
street tenement house to G. B. Per-
Kins, who will move his dye works
into the basement, from the Tyler
block.
Be sure and attend the social fol
lowing the dancing school Saturday
evening at p. m. Pupils joining adj
vance class will attend the social free.
Tickets for social, ladies' 25c., gents
35c. The Trilby two-step will be
taught the first night. Grange hall.
The stoves for the electric cars have
arrived and been put in place in the
box cars. They are neat and service
able and take but little room. They are
coal-burning, are made by Chicago
concern and are of the same kind as
| used on many western roads.
Gospel meetings are being held
every Wednesday evening at the Centre
vile School house under the auspices
of the Christian Endeavor Societies of
this and the West village Much in
terest is being manifested and the
house is packed at every meeting.
Hiram Winchester has dug out the
bank in the rear of his house prepar-
atory to the erection of a barn. This
necessitates a sinking of seven feet
for distance of 100 feet of the Brattle
boro Water Co. IS supply pipe and the
work is in progress in charge of Thos
j. Knights
Rev L. ID. Temple will begin, a
week from next Sunday, u series of
Sunday evening sermons at the Baptist
church on "Courtship. Marriage and
Home" The special topics will be:
Nov II, "a Young Mans Problcm;" Nov "a,
Ruth, the Young Wo an who makes Good
Wife" Dec ?, "a Young Woman's Problem
Happy Home;" Dec Is, Marriage as q voca.
ton" Dec %, "Naomi, the Mission of Mother
in.law."
Fountain engine, Brattlcboro's old
pride, now of Milford, N. H., did it
again Saturday at Nashua, N. H., in her
contest with the Wilton team for a 500
prize. She beat the Wilton team by a
foot and four inches, but the latter has
protested the result, on the ground
that the Fountain men used several
gallons of oil in their cylinders, as
they admit they did and as old firemen
say they had a perfect right to do.
There is to be hearing to-day on the
protest before the judges at Nashua.
Through the energetic efforts of
Rev. G. O. Day there is a resuscita-
tion of the the Professional club for
the coming season on little different
plan than heretofore. There are to be
three meetings with specified topics
the Material. Moral and Intellectual
Needs of Brattleboro, and the meetings
are to be cid at the church vestries or
Grange hall. the ladies providing the
suppers at 80 cents each, to which,
professional gentlemen have pledged
attendance each with guest.
The engagement of Bill Nye in the
Y. NJ. G.. A. course has been cancelled.
Bill got too thoroughly humorous, so
that for succession of nights last week
at a number of places he was so drunk
that he couldn't give his performance
and before he got out of Patterson. N.
j., his antics called forth a demon
stration from the Decorated Order OF
Ancient Eggs. Bert Poole, the crayon
artist, who travelled with Nye to draw
the pictures for his Farming Elk
posed" explains that Nye over worked
in getting uplthe lecture. was troubled
with insomnia and took drugs that
made all the trouble.
The forest and Stream club at Viii
mington received yesterday from the
Calendonia, N. Y, trout ponds, the
largest of the kind in the country, a
shipment of 10, 600 shrimp for the club 8
preserves at Wilmington. 1t is proba-
bly, 1.-The first shipment of the kind
ever made to this county. The shrimp
are a food for trout and the best there
is, They propagate very rapidly and are
all the more suitable for this reason.
1t is said that the presence OF such
quantities of trout in Moosehead lake
is to be explained by the abundance OF
shrimp there for them to feed on. The
Forest and Stream club has also re-
ceived an order this week from New
York wholesale house for its entire
product of maple sugar next spring.