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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
CoIct'aiIi,

Remember the dance at Kendrlcks hall to
night.
Mr. Gord0n,Who was expected to preach atlthc
ehnrch on Christian hill, sunday was unable 10
come bu. will be there sunday, oct 26 instead.
several of the teachers here expect to attend
the Institute OF the Franklin County Teacher
association 10 ht held at Turner's Fails Friday
october %.
About ~ couples enjoyed the supper and
dance at ~tark's hotel last Friday evening.
The Registrars will lie in session az the city
Wednesday October y and Saturday October
% for the purpose of registering all voters, who
have not done so.
There Is to be an excursion To the Mechanic
fair at Boston on the fitchburg rail road going
October - and returning Nov or before The
fare from Greenfield . S2.Gl and from shcl-
burne Falls, $50.
The EpWorth League Group convention was
held at Memorial han Monday evening October
IA. Morning, afternoon and evening sessions
were held and interesting speakers were pres
ent from all the adjoining towns. Rev Chas
Titon Of Springfield delivered the evening adj.
dress on ''Anusements or An. Old subject in Il
New Light
The W re fair which WAS announced last
week for Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
October 30th and 3lst, j. 10 consist of the usual
sale of fancy articles ami the first evenings en-.
tertainment viii conclude with the farce, prof.
BaNter's Great Invention OF Old Maids Made
Young" Phantom dance and oyster supper
VIII wind mp Thursday nights entertainment.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18

About 80 were present to attend the ten cent
supper at Mrs Spauldings last Thursday even
tng \ tine supper was served and all report
AN enjoyable time.
l. c Thatcher has huilt nice poultry house
and has q large corn barn newly finished.
Mrs. Goodrich is having Il shed or extension
built at her nlaCksmith's shop.
The baptiSnlai service which was 10 he held
last sunday was postponed until next Sunday
at O'Clock !, IN, at the lake Following this
service will he Il meeting in the hail at the stone
house. All are cordially invited.
Miss Mary + Wilson and her sister have
gone Ia Buffalo. \ Y, to visit relatives.
Strattcu Il Foster have several men and teams
at work grading and improving the picnic
grounds, putting in bank wall, adding double
vcranda to the dining pavilion, &c With their
new buildings and repair Of the oil they are
making 4 beautiful place Of it.
: \ Smith al Brattlcboro. has purt based two
cottage sites between the picnic grounds and
Geo Amilun's. lie is building 4 boat house
there and this winter will move his cottage from
the island
Miss Julia Tilden celebrated her birthday by
giving a supper tor the benefit OF the tongrega
tional church, With each invitation was bag
into which each guest was invited TO put Il mum
Der af pennies equal to MS or her years.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18

operative stores are making
headwav in France as we'll as in Eng
land. The value of sales Of the BOG
societies in France in over SO, 900, ooo
year. and the total number of mem
bers is about 300 600. In addition
to these societies in France are the
farmers ayndicates, in which about
8. 600. 0o0 persons are concerned. The
syndicates buy fertilizers and other
chemicals for vine culture, maintain
laboratories for the analysis of soils,
publish monthly price lists and per
form other services Of general benefit.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
WINDSOR COUNTY.


Rev. Fullerton of Bellows Falls, gave
MS an excellent discourse last Sunday
evening.
Prof. Marsh Of Harvard, raised a
hundred bushels Of beans on his ranch
in this place this season. He has Il
force of men and teams blowing and
digging stone, trimming and burning
brush and carpenters al work on his
buildings. Let the good work 20 ON.
Potatoes have turned out in large
quantities in this section, Some lots
have rottcd quito badly.
The W. C. T. L, met with Mrs G..
VI. LinltersuM. IhmrsdaN tho 10Th
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
NEWS FLASHES.

IA. tsu,ors .,,,,n rl,c at Hartford conn,
s,,,in-i Dr Vi Il t,ii-woId. the wei known Demo
rTati,. rallfirian for firing hi> Office 10 rolect
insurance resulted in a verdict 81 guilty We'd
ne-'iay-
r.. ,,.i,- ,,,iT,,ici m log un the Penn
.,iysnia road AT Altoona, Pa. Wednesday ami
I;yo and perhaps three lives we're lost y. a re
suit.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18

VI II Gorhain's horse performed remarkable
feat one night last week. When Mr. tnrhan
went to the stable in the morning he was sur
priscd TO find one Of his horses missing
The animal WAS soon found, however, in the
PIG pen in the basement under the stable. In
vestigatIon revealed the fact that liz had gone
down through the scuttle hole in the rear Of his
stall. The extreme measure ofthe hole Is - by
2Oinches, the weight of the horse is Hoo lbs.
The marriage of Edward Haynes and Mis-
ManOra !. bingham, took plarc last week Non
day. the ceremony being performed hN Rev q |
Barti.
Rev g Bard l. attending the natioua! con
yentinn 1t syracuse. y Y. In his absence the
service al the Congregational ciiuich Sunday
was conducted by parties from kccnc.
I Washer mas closed his bakery here and
removed To IIins,lae.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18

The annual reunion % the First Vermont Cav >
airy regiment il to be held at Burlington the 22f.
Professor T. Goodrich, chaplain OF the regi
mcnt. II 10 deliver the address.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18

Mr. Amanda Cnwdery. widow uf the late
Dea John Cow,lery OF Westmarclan,i. died sat
ur,lay at the age Of eighty six. seven wears
ago she fell and fractured her hip and has been
unable TO walk alone since. Her husband died
siN wears ago and She has since lived most OF
the time in CharlestOwn, Mass, with her daugh-
ter, Mrs Mary a Brown. Her only other child.
Henry L Crowtlcry, died in Brattlehoro several
years age. She WAS native Of ROvalstcn.
Mass, and liy c,i there until her marriage
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
ERANIxLI n COUNTY, MASS.
BerlhnrtlstOil


John Chaplin dedicated his new barn
with social dance last Friday even
ing.
Several of the farmers, who have sent
cream to Boston for several years, are
now sending 1t to the Montague
creamery.
Chestnuts are plenty and so are the
boys. The squirrels will need to
work nights in order to get their win
ter supply of nuts.
Mrs. Blandfora Hale has gone TO
Brattleboro to spend the winter with
her daughter Mrs. Emerson Warner.
Miss Cortelyon has gone South to
spend the winter and will visit the
Atlanta Exposition W. Wilson has
moved to Greenfield. Benjamin Reed
has been engaged to take charge of the
Ferry farm recently bought by +. +.
Benjamin of Greenfield. Eben Ashley.
who owns large sheep ranch in Mon
tana, is spending Il few weeks with
his mother Moses Nelson recently
received deer from q friend in
Canada II. l.. CroweI and wife
returned from market with large
stock Of fresh goods. Miss Nellie
Haskell IS teaching at Loch's village.
The 5th councillor district Repub
licans after an exciting convention at
Springfield Tuesday nominated ex-
Gas Commissioner Cnas. a. Towne of |
Orange, for councillor 1t was three
cornered fight and it took three ballots !,
TO settle it.
The first franklin district Demo /
rats "Wednesday nominated Job 2. /
Pickett Of Greenfield for representative. /
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
REFoRMER BRATTLEBoRo, FRIDAY OCTOBER 49, 1885,

he married Ellen f. Clark, who, with
two daughters and four sons, survive.
Bignmy for the sake of a Cinnamon.
Mrs. Anna Abbie Carroll, whose
marriage to Moy Fook. the Boston
Chinaman, has been SO expansively
discussed by Boston papers, is from
Bethel, where she has a husband,
Frank Carroll. He has applied for a
divorce and it is now pending in the
Windsor county court.
John woodward suicides.
John Woodward, who has been in
the employ of the Lakota club since
its organization, killed himself with
a shot gun Thursday morning in a
barn at Lakota Park. nine miles from
Woodstock He is believed to have
been somewhat unbalanced mentally.
Mr. Kennedy of Cambridgeport,
Mass, has broken ground at "Buena
VISTA in Windsor, for the foundation
of $40. 600 summer residence.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
~~~-~~~~~~<-N~
Suffered from Rheumatic
Pains and was unable
to work, but found a
friend in Smiths Rheu-
matte Cure.

} II gives me pleasure te a. good word
[ fpr} oar Rheumatic Cure / had rheumatism
lin my shoulder and right arm 20 bad since
last spring that could scarcely do any work;
}Could hot rai-e my right arm 70 my head and
! / suffered most intense plln all tic time
[ paid during the summer, eighteen dollars
{ for liniucnts which applied with, ut getting
}apy relief. \ friend who had used your
}mcdicinc urged me to try Il bottle. had I
}arrived ut a point where had but little faith J
! In anything. but at bis earnest solicitation }
resolved TO invest fifty cents more; 80 on
the 25'l day OF September bought il bottle.
/ tool, about one third of it according To Iii
rectitL- and went to work emitting and piling ]
logs and have worked steadily ever since. J
( | feel like u new man. My arm and shoulder
{ il all right. am free from pain and have
1two.tilitd= Of a bottle IN hand. Incredible
n it may seem il Is nevertheless the plain !
honest truth. sincerely Yours J
JOHN 4. IIAiW AlD.
BoAaviiIc. Vt, Nov. /, le92,
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18

Beecham's pills for consti-
,,;on 1oo and a5', Get the
,ok at your druggists and
, by it.
,a,,,ls,Ies more than 6,ooo,oOo boxes.
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30
.h,s and no demand, and you have lost

able and no demand, and you have lost
your labor and your goods. All of these
things viii occur, especially toward
the last of the shipping season, and As
YOU approach the last of the season.
nv advice is to sell at some price on
the track, and on a banks order.
otherwise can, evaporate and feed the
residue of your crop. ! have found
that to issue a circular letter the last
of the season, offering to sell goods
on the track, I. o. b., at greatly re-
duced figure, will bring you buyers.
especially in watermelons and canta-
loupes.
One thing growers should remember
That in offering their goods for ship
ment. either by freight or express,
that the freight has to be guaranteed,
and to lose your labor, boxes and
goods. and then have freight bill to
pay on refused goods, is not what
makes truck farming pay. 1t may
ook like business the day you are
shipping out; but the business end OF
it is when you get your checks. Re-
member that the quality of your ship
ments may not be the same every year.
An extremely wet season on your
ripening crop will diminish the flavor
and sweetness below that of ripening
in drier season. Especially is this
true of watermelons and cantalepes.
Excessive rains on ripening crop of
these starts a growth in the melon
that does not give uniform ripening
throughout.
The truck farmer of to-day does not
realize the extent to which this line Of
farming is destined to be carried. The
pioneers have much to contend with.
Railroad companies, ever on the alert
to make immediate and semi-annual
dividends to stockholders, are seeking
the traffic from north to south of
manufactured products. They will
haul a carload of cotton ties from
Pittsburgh south for one dollar, and
run cars back empty to get another
dollars freight. But when the truck
farmer offers to fill that empty car re-
turning, he is charged two dollars, or
double the rate on cotton ties. All of
TINS VIII nave to be changed before
truck farming can reach its full share
of merited success. When truck farm
ers organize and concentrate their
shipments, so as to have special trains
leave Texas, with distri ibution to oe-
cur from cold storage houses In the
largest commercial centers north, then
such truck farmers can prevent in
ferior goods, put up in bad shape, from
being shipped out. This must be done
through a system of packing houses,
where goods should be inspected be-
fore being admitted to loading; for
with the opening of said goods, the
buyer always classes the whole Of it
by the most inferior goods in sight.
To open one bad box at first means all
bad, and the good shipper is sacrificed
by his more careless or inexperienced
neighbor.-E. Crew, in Texas Farm
and Ranch.
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30
HERE AND THERE.

Two pounds of cotton-seed meal in
one day is a full ration for Jersey
COW. 1t should not be increased be-
yond this.
Many a stockman, meaning well
for his herd, has spent much money in
building a hog-house which proves a
more successful breeding place for dis
ease than for pigs.
Sheep growers will find it good
rule to retain about 10 per cent of the
best eve lambs and to sell that pro-
portion of the oldest sheep each year.
This keeps up the infusion of young
blood, and steadily enhanses the value
of the flock.
If it be thought profitable to keep
over the late fall litters of pigs, they
may be made ready for roa sting at
Christmas, and they will bring good
prices in most of our larger villages,
as good as the shoats would bring in
the spring.
Prof. Henry says that those who
feed corn and cob meal almost without
exception are pleased with it. He
saws he is sure that corn and cob meal
would come into very general use
were it not for the difficulties of re-
dueing the cob to the proper degree of
fineness for feeding.
If you wish to prosper get into the
farmers endless circle as soon as you
can. Here it is: Better feeding. fol-
lowed by better manuring, followed
by better crop, which makes possible
still better feeding and more stock.
followed by still heavier mdnuring
and still larger crops, and so on.
Horses doing ordinary work drink
from seven to nine gallons of water a
day, oxen nearly as much, but cows
warmly housed ana deeply MIXED re,
quire more Very injurious to animal
health is organic filth dissolved or sus-
pended in the water. and cattle should
havenone but the freshest and purest
There are yet plenty of farmers
who are skeptical as to the merits of
well-bred pigs. To them a hog is a
hog, and that is all there is about Il:
and they argue that with plenty q
corn one will make fully as much again
and as good pork as the other. 10 a
majority of cases a careful trial woul ID
90 long way toward proving the oon-
trary.
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30
A PLAToNlc LEGEND.

Plato, 1t seems some tapestry had spread
A noble gift Of Dion. least tis said,
Within his hall where he was wont TO meet
Most learned men and learned topics treat,
And when their minds we're surfeited, they'd
eat
The genial host admirea the work of aTt,
None richer could be found in Grecian
mart
All shook their heads and acquiesoence
For willing guests yield willingly consent
1t happened once. Diogenes for grub
Forsook the limits of his well-known tub
tHe was not stayed By erinoline hub-bub)
Betook himself to Plato.s there TO dine:
The eynie loved the Philosoph divine
For who more learned than the Athenian seeri
What other table groaned with such good
chcerf
What other men had eonviyes so sincerel
Scarce had he entered when his eyes be-
held
The sGmptnous hangings rich in every
fold,
Affecting rage he strides across the hall
And ruthless drags them from the naked
Then treads them foul beneath his clodded
feet;
Then splits upon, and In his vain eonceit-
"'Tls thus Thy pride 0 Plato. DO treati"
He said. The Seer beheld the damage
wrought,
And thus replied: 20 friend, II thou hast
sought
To low'r my pride unto the very EARTH
In thee q grenter pride to this gave birth. :"
This Just reproof convinced the cynle rough:
,"Mueh, much ] know quoth he, yet not
enough
MORAL.
How oft alas our neighbors faults we
chide.
When deep within ourselves these same
Confess the truth-our greatest fault is
pride
-Caedmon. in " Y. Times Democrat
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30
Swine In the Southwest.

The growth of the swine industry in
regions where alfalfa is successful Is
remarkable. In numerous of the val
leys of New Mexico swine husbandry
is becoming a leading industry, being
wholly sustained by alfalfa. A eorre-
spondent who has been visiting there
writes us that the hog farming is now
looked upon as the best paying indus
try. Many ranchers raise swine ex-
clusively, and turn their hogs from the
alfalfa pastures directly on the market
without feeding a mouthful of grain.
He says, however, that the more ap-
proved plan is to give the hogs the
range of the small grain fields for a
few weeks after harvest before mar.
keting them, as the barley and other
grain they are enabled to CLEAN hardens
up the flesh and improves their quail
ity considerably. The fruit-raisers
are said to look with longing eyes on
their neighbors, the pig raisers. Our
correspondent says that much of the
New Mexico and Arizona stock is
shipped to California. The shippers
were paying when he wrote 81 10 per
hundred, and paid S125 per car freight
to San Francisco. The territory capa
BILE of growing alfalfa in New Mexico
and Arizona is limited, but Kansas.
Colorado and portions of Nebraska
can be made to grow alfalfa success
fully, and there may be used in con-
junction with corn in producing pork
at an expense which will put them in
close rivalry with Illinois and Iowa as
hog producers. One decided advan-
tage the more southern regions have
in raising hogs is the climate which
permits of farrowing at any season of
the year without danger to the young
stock, and having green feed con-
stantly on hand. Western Swinebead.
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30

The most generous vine, if not
pruned, runs out intOmahy superhuous
stems and grows al last weak and fruit
less: so doth the best man If he be not
cut short in his desires. and pruned
with Affections. Bishop Hall.
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30

They that on glorious ancestors en-
.arEe produce their debt instead Of
their discharge Young.
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30

On May s Miss Wilkes made the fol-
lowing entry in her journal of days:
NED and have begun to hope. Mr.
Penroyd sat with Miss Chandler all after
noon, from three TO six, on her,back steps,
The sister came over and sat with us.
love them both.'
On May Q Ned wrote in the same
volume;
"Penroyd turned up here this afternoon
Stayed half an hour. Said he had told
Miss Chandler that he loved her She
asked him not TO talk OF such things. to
be her friend. n says his brain Is splitting
with the agony"
On May 10 Mrs. Wilkes as follows:
Mr.. Penroyd sitting with Miss Chandler
again. Three TIL six. Oh, 81 she doesn't
marry that fellow she's an idiot. He's as
good as gold. 1 like 10 look at his face.
/ can't make her OUT
ON May II her husband:
''The plot thickens Penroyd told Miss
c. again that he loved her. She confessed
the same thing with regard TO him, but
says they can never marry. There IL an
insurmountable barrier. p. says be can
step over any barrier-the Chinese wzl it.
self. for example"
May 13 Mrs. Wilkes as follows:
Poor Mr. Penroyd. Miss Chandler has
refused 20 speak again on that subject, the
only subject that he wants TO hear dis
cussed She asked him 10 forgive her for
all the unavoidable pain she brought into
his lie Sir. Penroyd asked her to put an
end to ths pain as only she could. Poor
bag AID girl. psor children"
The Van Buren press., 1895-11-30

establish a reputation on your brand
as being hrstrclass In every particular,
and your goods will be sold on arrival.
Notify your house by night wire on
the departure of every carload, giving
contents and number and initial of
car, that your merchant can be ready
to place your goods on arrival. Where
straight carloads of watermelons are
wanted, have price for your goods,
f. O. b. on track, by the ton, or by the
hundred, stating average weight of
melons. Where purchaser is unknown
to you, and price has been agreed
upon, with authority to draw through
bank, ship your car on shippers order,
with bill of lading attached to draft,
with privilege of examining goods.
Then, If they are refused, your goods
are subject to your orders. and they are
not thrown on bad market, but can
be ordered to some goC house that
you may be in correspondence within
that city. or the next one. There are
commission houses that change their
firms from the name of an individual
and company one year, and the next
year come out as the city produce com
pany, and stil claim to be of long
standing, and give a long list Of ref
ences, when, in fact, their principal
stock is cheek, a brass stencil and a
snowy letterhead. There are, prob
ably, more fraudulent commission men
soliciting a share of your business
than in any other line of business.
You viii even find, after your goods
have besn received, that you are noti-
fed by wire or otherwise that your
goods have been received aud you
should continue shipping; that they
are going to make you some money,
and then get returns that the market
went doRn, O. the weather unfavor-
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-12

IT suppose you remember my dog, Dag
obertP" asked the man with the ginger
beard.
"Cant say as 1 do, said the grocer,
"though remember hearin you say you
had SIGH dog"
"Well, one time I lost him waited
about four days 'lowin plot'ly no was
away on some Of his own business Then
advertisos in the country paper, and what
do you think but the dog comes in home
as cool as you please the day after put i'll
the advertisement"
"Wastod your money, eh9" said the man
from Potato creek
II thought that away myself" said the
man with the ginger beard, ''till I heered
the straight of it. You see INC and the
dog had had little fallin out, and said in
his presence that l didn't care much ef l
lost him. Mex day he was gone. found
out afterward he had gone to one Of the
neighbors, and he made hisself useful chas-
in hawgs and KILN rats, 80 they let him
stay. But they tells me that every mornin
Dagobert he would get the paper and look
over the lost colyum. and as soon as put
that notice in he give one bark and started
for home as fast as he could leg it. Second
time we had u quarrel, though, the lost
dog business didn't work worth cent"
$50 it was jist coincidence the first
time, was it?' said the man from Potato
creek.
"Naw. The next time had 70 put in
one of them there come home and all will
be forgiven personals.
The man from Potato creek looked sad.
Indianapolis Journal.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-12
An Accommodating Road.

SIN Santa Rosa" remarked CONNER
cial traveller, the street railway company
lives up to it's public announcements v
cry courtesy shown travellers on our line
''The last time Twas there the conductor
stopped the car and sat down to read q
newspaper.
"'What's the matterp Broke DOWN. !
asked
"'No; Joe Thomas wanted to collect a
bill from fellow in that shoeshop. He's
owed it about three years, and this Is the
first time Joe has seen him, explained the
conductor.
"The passenger returned in three min,
utes, and we went few blocks farther,
when the Car stopped again.
What's up now9 Another debtor in
sight?' I asked.
"'Just II minute and we'll go. Henry
Hopper and Charlie Hardin wanted to
shake razzlc dazzle for q drink.
GIN the next block the conductor waited
for Will Keenan, to buy steak for dinner
and lock up his blacksmith shop. It's an
accommodating company. San Fran
cisco Post.