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

q "-EBDtFl JDIdLOI HAS begun WOFk U
a new house on the corner of Pine an
! Canal streets
2 Fresh Java and Mocha coffee tina
you get at Pullens for 3Sc. h., helps
make your breakfast taste right. adv
DIR. f. s. Bowen has taken 4
years lease of the Fred Franks hous
and is fixing it up to take possession a
once.
1t is said that Contractor Cooledg
has sold $500 OF his trolley stock il
Boston this week and part of it a
1O5.
M. w. Stickney has bought
"tony" grocery business in the BacI
Bay district of Boston and is doinl
finely.
A. W. Childs a. Co, offer tn,
Bolander place at West Brattleboro
cheap. Only short distance from tn,
end of the electric road.
Wanted Immediately, woman t.
do plain washing at sl4 per month
also waitress at Sl2 per month. Ad
dress Want Box 400. Brattleboro, VT.
There was continuation OF the
hearing this week before S. T. Daven
port, commissioner, in the case of the
Estey Organ Co. v. f. +. johnson and
j. l.. Martin trustee.
Able and interesting speakers from
the Mortified Moody meetings will
address those who gather on the Com
mon at .. IN. Sunday to the Y. NJ.
c. A. meeting. At this writing it is
impossible to give their names but all
may be sure of something interesting
and Instructive.
w. II. Geddis haslgotten up a very
neat thing to be used for decorative
purposes at the Wheel club race meet,
which also makes a pretty souvenir to
carry away. 1t is flag in purple and
white. the club 8 colors, with the let
tiers W. X. C The large size for de
corative purposes are 12x1s and the
small size 9xl3.
Big real estate deal has been made
this week through the agency ofW. II.
Arnold of the firm of Foales Il Arnold
of Brook yn, y. land our we'll known
real estate agent A. V. May. The Oak
Ridge farm in Dummerston. known as
the DIR. Sholes place, and lately owned
by A. G. Hoatling of Vineland, n.
Brooklyn property, belonging to Paul
Koch of that city. Mr.. Koch takes
possession at once. having taken the
entire personal property.
Chas. Chickering's horse became
frightened while he was out driving
Sunday and ran into bicycle which
was badly demolished, and also broke
its leg SO that il had to be shot
The accident was caused by a COLI
sion as Mr.. Chickering attempted to
pass between one team ahead and an
other coming. He and his wife and
two children with him were all thrown
out. but fortunately not injured ex-
cept some scratches for him. The ac-
cident occurred on the West River
road and the horse ran down to the
street where II was stopped and caught
by Joe Ferriter who also killed it
Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs f. K. Pratt are now
at Madenhead. Eng. after another
successful tour, in which. as one of the
critics gays, she has in her first season
recreated the role of Siebel which has
been dead since Trehell left the stage
The last time the company gave Cav
alleria Rusticana, Mrs Pratt had
the honor of singing with Calve. and
at only two days notice. She sang the
small role of Lola. 1T is not much
vocally, but requires good bit of act
ing. They all said the part had never
been SO well done at Covent Garden.
She is re engaged for three years and
next year will have better chance of
what she can do.
Last evening a test was made on
Flat street for another Fire Depart |
ment Improvement in the "deluge set''
of the Samuel Eastman Co, of East |
Concord. n. II, which their urbane
Geo. 0. Robinson, is !
showing up for them. The set
series of nozzles Il, to |
inches in diameter, with siamese |
coupling by which two OF three |
streams from as many different by !
1rants. or different steamers. may be |
united into one for the drowning out /
IF the biggest fire. At the test last
night with two lines Of hose from the
same hydrants united by this coupler
and through the Eastman , inch nozzle,
4 horizontal stream of POI feet was'play-
"a. \ test with one line of hose.
bought by the department, showed a
horizontal play of 20 feet and 5 inches
ess. Then the departments present
'iamese coupling Vas put on, with the
same connections as under the East
nan test, and the stream failed to come
Up to the figures made that within 66
eet. In short this apparatus, which
.osts only 1928 complete and which is
BEING adopted by all the most pro
yressive departments, beats the present
,quipment completely at every point.
t practically doubles the efficiency of
my department. t begins where our
'quipment leaves off. its smallest tip
icing a inches while our largest is
j.. The stream it plays. though so |,
large, is a solid one. 1t don't break
n scatter. This is accomplished by
mems of the Hopkins patent inside
he nozzle. an interior set of wings"
which takes the whirl and twist from .
he stream and py eliminating the
riction enables one man to hold the
'ipe under any pressure. A small
tream of water or hot fire is con-
erted into steam and smoke very t
argely, vast loss of energy which is
bviated by the Eastman set. There G
5 especial need of it in Brattleboro, [
there our large manufacturing risks,
nth millions of collars involved. are Y
n big wooden buildings where are ,
lost liable to occur just the kind of n
res the Eastman devcie is designed TO d
leet. There is little doubt that the I
ailiffs will purchase it. They certain i
: ought to. for though there are times il
q which economy is necessary, the I
urchase would be a most important e
in far viewed sense. t