The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-25

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3 Friday, Nov. LIST, will be the Fes
8 tival of All Saints. The holy commur
ion will be celebrated in st. Michael
Episcopal church at II a. m.
j. 4. Coleman has issued neat Of
fetal time table giving the time whe
the electric cars pass certain points
both week days and Sundays.
Fay Bowker drove silver an incl
J and half long into his hand and tor
it up some and hurt his thumb, on ,
machine in the Carpenter Organ
works yesterday.
The civil service commission ha
ordered an examination for clerk ant
carrier in the local postoffice for De
cember 7. All applications must b,
filed before November 49,
i The electric road means move
ment for real estate in the Yves,
Village. Selectman Weatherhead has
! sold still another lot there and he il
also putting up q cottage for himself
Advices from E. A. Tyler and
Chauncey Knapp. who are up in Name
deer hunting, report fine sport. They
started Monday for tour of the lakes
after moose and it will probably he a
week or two before they get home.
The following was clipped from a
Willimantic, Conn, paper of recent
date:
Conductor James L. Denning and family of
!53 jackson street, returned last evening from a
four weeks visit IN Brattleboro, Vermont.
and friends who had Illuminated the house and
decorated the vcranda with flags lahd Japanese
lanterns. There were fireworks on the lawn
and a lunch OF cake, fruit and ice cream was
served.
Geo. A. Hines and assistants have
been making survey for the selectmen
OF South Canal street from the Birge
street corner as far as Geo. II. Clark Is,
to determine if possible the lines of
the highway. The report will be
made next week, but it is understood
that they found the condition of
things as stated by the Reformer at
the height of the controversy, that
there is no survey that can be positive
ly followed except that of 1867.
The New London road announces
an excursion next Wednesday to New
York via New London and the steamer
City of LOWELL. Fare for the round
trip including admission to the food
show Oct 3lth and Nov. LIST. From
Londonderry, WinhalI, Jamaica,
Wardsboro. West Townshend. Towns
bend and Newfane. 1926: Williams
vile and West Dummerston, "a. Is:
Brattleboro. Vernon, South Vernon,
50. rs. Tickets good for return trip to
and including Nov. 9th. leaving New
York.
Will Heaphy. the head clerk of the
Exchange hotel at Montgomery. Ala,
perience Thursday evening of last
week. About half past seven O'Clock
the big 30 horse power boiler exploded
with shock like an earthquake, max
ing total wreck of the engine room
and laundry building, putting out all
the lights in the hotel and spreading
terror and confusion on every side.
The Montgomery Advertiser says
"Chief Clerk Heaphy who seemed to
have never lost, his self-possesson.
quickly called a number of messengers
and sent them chasing up candles and
lanterns. They we're brought and a
squad of men took them and started
back to the scene of the accident.
while the doors were closed by police
men who kept the crowd back. !" His
vigorous action soon restored order to
the scene. when it was found that
about $40, 600 damage had been done,
but no lives lost, though there were
five narrow escapes in the engine and
laundry part of the establishment.
"A fire alarm was rIng in from box
30 on Main street Wednesday morning
at about O'Clock. The fire was dis
covered in the basement under the
night lunch room in Judges block by !
Ernest Williams, the night man for
the Brattleboro Livery Co., who was
with Harry Wellman of the |
lunch room which had been closed only |
a few moments before. Mr.. Williams
saw the smoke coming from the rear
of the basement and at once rang the |
alarm. The fire was in banana crate |
and two or three other boxes standing |
on top of barrel. The crate was
burned with the hay in it making the
heavy smoke that led to the discovery. /
No. 3 hose cart and No. 1 steamer
came on the scene as the third round /
of the alarm was rung, and the blaze
was out in just six minutes after the
alarm was rung, requiring only pail
was done. but 10 OF ID minutes more
start would have insured disastrous
or as disastrous as posi-
Die with such department as we
have. The fire was in the northeast
corner of the basement on the side
next to the Taft building and if it
mad got to going would surely have
to that structure and
now much farther in nest of wooden
buildings none can tell. There was
quite strong wind blowing from the
south. One theory of the origin of
he fire is that it was the work of rats
>ut there are strong reasons for sus
,ecting incendiarism. The door to
he basement under Judges store was
so that the incendiary could
lave got in from there. Moreover
here were four lights of glass broken
nut of window by the corner where
he fire was, evidently for the purpose
# affording draft. The marks in
Heated that the breaking was done
rom the inside and it was clearly a
resh break. The night lunch proprie-
ors say no one went down to the base
nent from their room that evening to
heir knowledge. The horses were
itched with the new harness for the
rst time that night and every thing
iorked well.
Speed the Parting Guest
James Kershaw of Adams Mass, who
as been the guest of DIR. Bruce the
asst week, returned Tuesday to his
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