The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-27

The North street school will bepi
It's winter term, Thursday, Jan, ..
The Brattleboro Overall factory ,v.,
smut down Tuesday for the remaindc
OF the week.
MRS T.. IL. Morse started in thi
morning making the changes for he
new store in Market block, Nv
Rev. Lewis CIRCUITS ablo Thanks
giving DAY sermon God in Nature
has been published in pamphlet form
One of Mrs. A. V. Mays Christ
mas presents wac a large American ca
nearly three feet in length.
Mr. and Mrs. j. G. Motherhood
VIII celebrate the 50th anniversary y
| their marriage on the evening of Tan
| LIST. o"u
Brakeman Bugbec of the New
London Northern road had A hanc
badly damned between the bumpers q,
Amherst Friday. : :"
-kichard Brown found a lot of vast,
partially burned in his hen house We'd.
nesday morning indicating an attempt
at incendiarism,
"A Boston lady who after her las,
years experience has resolved to spend
her summer near Brattleboron has
bought land on Putney west hin and
will build there in tho spring
A copper boiler belonging to Mrs.
Z. A. johnson was stolen from the
yard at the corner of Frost and Elm
street last week, and unless returned
measures will he taken at once.
- The 25th annual meeting of the
corporators of the Bratteboro Savings
bank for the election of officers and
transaction of necessary business will he
held at the banking room Thursday.
Jan. l6, 1896 at 30 pm.
Key. 7. Cunningham has placed
upon the altar of st. Michael's Cath
Ole church two statues of advancing
angels. one on each side of the tab
ernacle. These statues were imported
from France.
boys fooling with electric wires in
the Wantastiquct club room Sunday
evening, got two ends together which
blew out the fuse on a 100 light trans
former, putting out the. lights in the
Telephone Exchange. the banks and the
Y. M. C.. A.
There is an absolute necessity for
advertising; there is great eagerness
to compete for attention, and no one get
it unless it is giving, as it were, so mans
strokes of the hammer, one after the
other. to compel the people to notice
what is going on. wv. +. Gladstone.
Two overloaded floors of the Palace
Clothing Co., of which Will, son of the
late II. f. Smith and fromerly of this
place, is head clerk, collapsed and fell
into the basement at Minneapolis one
day this week. One clerk was killed
and two others hurt but Mr.. Smith
fortunately escaped serious injury.
The annual fall meeting of the
Valley memorial asso-
citation will be held at the site of
Fort Dummcr. near Brattleboro.
next autumn. The association will be
by the Bratt.eboro Sons
and Daughters Of the American Revo
luton and Il day of much interest is
Department Commander Cannon
at Bellows Falls, Saturday received
an elegant and valuable commanders
badge Of gold, set with diamonds,
from the members of Vermont G.. A.
r., from 20 veterans, who attended |
.he national encampment at Louis
lille last summer in appreciation of |
Mr.. Cannon's thoughtful care for the |
comfort of the excursion party.
Mrs. j. NJ. Joy received MAS |
present of which she may well be proud. |
t consists of spread and pillow shams
made entirely of pieces of Hamburg, no
NO pieces alike. The spread is hand
omely put together and is lined with a
leep shade of yellow The gift was
ent Mrs. Joy by Miss T.. M. Wacut of
'olts Mission Institute at Herkimer,
I. j., formerly teacher at Northficli
ominary.
One OF the Christmas letters worth
oting is from Geo. ID. Lamb of New
Iaven, Conn, "A Halifax and Viii
lington boy, the manufacturer of
.amb's National Strap Fastener, send
ng a new buckle to replace one that
adj worn out and asking that the old
trap be saved as IA souvenir. because
ne first introduced into the postal
ervice. 1t is fact that the Brattle
orc postoffice, in the lead which it !
as taken in introducing so many i'm ;
rovements. was the first to adopt the {
amb strap instead of the rubber band ]
nat used to be used by the letter [
irriers with their mail. Postmaster {
lids ordered the first lot, and ID. E. 8
asker as delegate to the Letter f
arriers National convention, exhibit s
them at the convention, and the re- |
lit was that the department quickly {
lopted them and between 200. oNo and Y
N. coo are now in use. /