The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-29

= o'H oseruIl IactOrleS closed We
o hesday night for the remainder of Ii
week.
d Mrs. +. II. Farr Is to open dipu
II and lunch parlors on the second flo,
OF the new F. Il N. T.. block ne,
II week.
3 The Wantastiquet club have rente
yne rooms formerly occupied by TIL
, Wheel club and will take possessio
Monday.
) Cottage meetings are being held i
Esteyvllle every Thursday evening
during the winter by the Baptis
Christian Endeavor society.
The Rebekahs have decided +
give prize to the gentleman and lad,
who appear in the most ridiculous cos
tune at the Salmagundi party, Dec
cmber II.
The children of several of th,
grades Of our public schools contrib
uted number of barrels of produce
which were sent to the Kurn HATH
home fol- boys at Westminster.
-.-Severa' of the young peoples re.
ligious societies who have been wont
to meet in past years for union ser
vice, met Thursday morning in the
congregational church for Thanks
giving service prayer meeting at 7
O'Clock. The meeting was very help,
full one and was we'll attended, being
led by the presidents of the societies.
Tho ladies of Sedgwick Relief Corps
have already begun their annual con
tribution of canned fruit and jellies for
the Christmas box to be sent to the
Soldiers Home. Knowing there are
many outside the order who would be
glad to do something, committee has
been appointed to visit each house in
the village, so that all who wish to
help may have an opportunity to do So
Jewett j. Pierce of East Putney.
whose death occurred last Friday was
insured in the Mutual Life of New
York on the return premium plan.
The company pays him all the money
he has paid for premiums together
with the face of sthe policy, making
IN all 81, 200, which COOS to his father.
Frederick O. Pierce. Mr.. Pierce had
been insured only two years.
Henry Guellow, the barber. is
again reported by the Boston papers
to be under arrest in that city on the
charge of stealing an overcoat. He
left here some two weeks ago with |
some money to buy shop at Reads
boro, but stopped over at Greenfield, |
got drunk, blew in his money. and
next appeared in Boston with his
trunk and part of his clothing
oawned, or stolen from him according
70 one story. His friends are naturally
yetting tired of helping him out of
hese scrapes. Honest and straight
when sober and fine workman, he is
Utmost certain, when he gets whiskey
n him, to do something of this kind.
Mrs. Harriet B. Smith Simpson
former Brattleborean, died at Brad
ord, Mass, Friday and the body was
rought here for interment. The fun I,
raj being held from the Congregation !, ,
| church Monday morning. Rev. G. !
}. Day officiating, and the interment
eing in the family lot. She was !,
aughter of Mai. Henry Smith, lead !,
: in local life 50 years ago, landlord of
10 old Brattleboro house and High G
heriff of the county. She married c
II. Simpson who died several years =
20, at her home her: but they soon I,
owed to New York and West.
he remains were accompanied here d
= her brother, E. D. Smith, the large q
,nor to the fund for the Old Peoples
ONE, and sister Miss Elizabeth Smith
ON Minashi, Wis, and a sister in
W, Miss M. J. Monroe of Bradford, "
ass. ~
The lookup, by the requirement of G
Q insurance folks, is to be moved A
,m the machine shop building next M
eek, or the first of the month, and ar
pposedly to the quarters planned 81
: it in the new town hall, at the bI
uthwest corner directly under the ca
wn clerks room. But before the TO
llage ever accepts this as lookup, A.
G bailiffs should at least insist on an fa
eration of the plans to the extent of an
ilding an entrance to it from the an
tside. AS it is now, the only en- tn
nee is by the agency door down on
irs, clear around the boiler, almost gil
the north side of the cellar and Ke
ok to the corner. This is a semi Ike
Gle of about half the cellar and is fri
only way it can be reached be- of
Use OF the boiler and the vault. If we
ire should break out-and around Til
boilers is the most probable place GU
all-and anybody were in the lookup ELI
the time, the chances would be 100 hel
1ne against any rescue alive. 1t is SIN
a situation to be tolerated in a of
ilized community. Even if an en- CUE
nee from the outside is built, the w.
1up arrangement is anything but of
1t, and good deal worse than the day
we pulled out few years ago be- N
Sc convinced it was disgrace. que
It old lookup, in the northwest Col
Ter of the building was damp, dark stat
dangerous to health: but it had Tue
windows where the proposed one hav
one, and they were from above ton
md, where this one is cut into the is b
ind and affords the only light there ID.
from that narrow alleyway. We Mas
out that old lookup and invested viii
o 50, 600 in the one at the easthern Mas
of the building, which is of course Bell
rome for the opera house. The only a vi
Use we have heard advanced for the incl
osed lookup is that it should only lis,
temporary expedient, that in Cha
years will have a city charter and ola
put .up a municipal building Nasl
provide lookup in that way char
looking for more debt ana taxes. p I
hall before we get through find here
the present enterprise reaches in Ken
direction in good many more Hin,
than one. 1t is true undoubtedly
no better quarters for the lookup
I shave been found in the town Ds
building with the opera houses ed t.
hment, and just the right place Falls
,cate the blame is with the Sarg
meeting which went into the retur
ne in such headlong fashion. The line.
error was in not waiting until with
lad studied and discussed and Ter. =