The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-13

Is ms morning mat Watson French
fout of Jail again and has been see
Y here. But probably ii is an error
Q The Boston q Maine road an
: nounces excursion rates to the Whit
Mountains from Sept. 10 to Oct. j
; with tickets good to return until Oct 7
: The Fitchburg railroad director
passed through here Wednesday OF
their return by way of Bellows Fall
0 from tour of inspection over thu
} Cheshire.
. The lawsuit of +. j. Bailey V. S
| 4. Smith 4 Co.. which resulted in +;
J disagreement at the last term of count,
court, after the hardest fought tria
: since the old highway eases, has beer
settled this week.
; Mrs. Sallie Joy White and tive
daughters, Elizabeth and Grace, were
among the guests of IA race party, OF
: we'll known newspaper and personal
friends, which Mr. b. f. Keith OF
, keith's circuit of theatres had on
board 1.-The Governor to see the De
fender win the yacht race, Saturday.
Mrs. Sylvia A. Putnam, mother OF
Mrs. M. J. Draper, died Wednesday at
the Linden street home of her daugh
ter, after several weeks illness. She
was a beautiful and greatly beloved
lady. but had come here only lately.
\ sister of Mrs. Draper. who had come
from Grand Rapids, Mich,., because
of her mothers illness, also lies at the
point of death there. making il par
ticularly sad case altogether.
Fred Ellis thought he saw the
/,
between 3 and O'Clock as he was re
turning to J. Nj. McQuaid's where he
works Just as he passed through the
bridge big. ragged chap stepped
Suddenly and threateningly ont from
back of the high board fence Just be
Iyond the bridge. But for some reason
he made no assault, and between 4 and
) O'Clock the same man appeared at
IMcQuaid's house and asked the way
to the village.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
| the Congregational church elected the
| following delegates 10 attend the state
convention at Burlington next week:
Misses Lulu Bracket and Grace En-
erson They also appointed Misses
Helen Fletcher and Lulu Bracket and
Ernest Bemis as superintendent of the
new Junior Endeavor Society which is
to be formed next Sunday among the
younger members of the Sunday school.
The delegates to attend the convention
lat Burlington from the Baptist G. f.
society are Mrs. G.. b. hanson and
l.. W. Hawley.
The town finds itself some $3.50
worse off than it has calculated in the
g II
Rollins Il Sons. to whom the issue was
awarded at handsome premium.
according to their bid, now decline,
under the advice of their counsel,
to take them on the ground that
there is a doubt of their legal validity, |
which it will take Il special act of
the legislature to remedy. The /
real trouble is that the issue is for
purpose, or the opera house part of it, /
outside the regular functions of the /
town or of town business for which /
the general law authorizes the contrac- I
ton of debts. Rollins X Sons had /
found where to place the bonds but 4
the purchasers at once became shy I
when they found that any citizen who
chose might contest the payment
A case has recently been decided by
the federal supreme court involving
similar points and it is to the effect
that special act of the Legislature
is necessary to validate such issues,
just as a special law was necessary
for towns bonding for railroads. When
the declination of Rollin ~ Sons or
rather their clients was made known,
the selectmen suggested that the
difficulty might be got around under
section POL of the Revised Laws with
regard to refunding town debts that
is, that the necessary money might
)e borrowed on notes or town orders
md then a special town meeting be
.alled to order the refunding But
he purchasers declined to take any
such chances and the result is that the :
money must be borrowed on notes un j;
il after the next session of the legis-
allure, ) per cent being the best rate
,btainable, and then of course the .
chances of the money markets will
lave to be taken for the getting of
uch a premium as Rollins Il Son {
,tfered when the matter was supposed ;
o be all right.
Still there are many more arrivals |
It the Brooks house to enjoy Brattle i
,oro's late summer beauties when she /;
S more beautiful than ever. The l
lew ones this week are j. \. Horn !
blower, wife and family of Boston, who {
lave come for the rest of the {
eason: Mr.. d. Fisher and wife /
f Boston who are spending a |
week or more with her sister, Mrs. |
sawyer: NJ. d. Gilmore. cashier of the {
Ware, Mass, National bank, and wife !
rho are here for two weeks; Jeremiah |
Iosmer and daughter of Boston who |
re making a stay of two or three Y
feeks: Miss Julia Chester Wells and !
laid, who arrived Tuesday for the j
est of the season \. B. Hall of New h
'ork, who is here for week or so, his h
lother Mrs. John Hall, being expect y
d later: j. NJ. Ramsey and wife of b
,oston who are here for few days \
Irs. +. W. Ballard and Mrs. Gwenda- e
N Ballard and maid and Mrs. Guy c. Fl
Ioble of st. Albans who came yester b
ay to remain few days. f. L. Mer- "
field of the Continental hotel at New
ork who has spent week here and at \
returned to New York with y
is family Wednesday. But his broth S
Silas, will remain for month. Geo. 4
. Smith and family who were at the b
ouse for week. return to New York b
,day or tomorrow Miss Sarah W. c
rainard returned to Hartford. Conn, a
after a 3 months stay. y
ther prominent registers there X
lis week have been W. H. OF
leason, the leading iewel"y dealer of a,
hicago and prominent in the city af- X
irs. who was on for visit with his is
ife at his old home in Wardsboro, and "
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