The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-13

Forest street home ut | O'Clock thi,
I morning
! There are now nearly TOO sigma
lures to the petition to allow Angelo
TO return to his old place in front Of
the town hall.
North street school will hold +,
regular session next Saturday when i,
closes for the holiday vacation and re-,
opens Jan. 3.
Several Brattleboro people were al
bellows Falls last week to attend
bishop Halls meetings which closed
SUNDAY night with an audience that
crowded Emmanuel church to overflow
Wing. " = Nv"
Tho booklet, "A Link in Friend
ships Chain" issued a year ago by
Nellie Tirza Eddy, is again in hands
OF our local dealers. The call for them
by several Boston stores made it neccs
sary to issue second edition.
The Springfield Union will discop.
tlnue their every evening edition after
zee 10Th. They print a late edition
for Springfield and vicinity but it
comes out too late to reach Brattleboro
on the day of ISSUE
III. II. Emerson has presented Chase
street school with four handsome pic
lures of children's subjects framed in
quartered oak which were this week
placed upon the wallis adding greatly
to the chccrfuncss of the school-room.
The case against the Suffolk beer
IN the Washington county court, in
volving substantially the same ouns-
tons as those at Brattleboro. ended
Saturday in the disagreement of the
jury after it had been out Sc hours.
The next lecture in the Teachers
Association course will be given at
the High school room next Wednesday
evening at 7 80 O'Clock by Principal
X. 4. Waterbury of the johnson Nor,
NAL school. He is strong man and IA
very interesting speaker who came
last year from one Of the normal
schools in New York.
Some hot coal ashes thrown into II
barrel by the side of the Brattlcboro
house ell last evening started quite IA
lively little blaze which had Just
caught on the paint, when +. W.
Crosby saw it from his market oppo-
site and with pail of water succeed
ed in quenching 1t without the neces-
sity of calling out the department.
The Sons of Veterans held their
annual meeting in G. A. Il. hall last
Friday evening and elected the follow
ing officers: Captain, A. c. Trcndall:
LIST Lieut.. \. f. Taylor: I'd Lieut.,
+. L. knowlton camp council, W.
c. Bailey, Lewis A. Whitney and Il.
l.. Frost; lst delegate, W. Il. Warren;
I'd delegate, Geo. e. Bishop. The del
egatcs choose their own alternates.
C. II, Eddy d CO.. have this
morning received a certificate from the
foreman of the Highland Brewery CO.,
at Springfield fatty denying the testi
mOny of the man Brumcr, who turned
the beer prosecution against them this
week. The foreman AYERS that their
hop tome. or hop beer. as it is called
here, is not made like lager, but Of sew
eral raw materials. sugar and an in
fusion of hops by a secret process.
Moreover. they assert that Brumor
does not understand anything about
the business and is not competent TO
do any kind of brewery work.
Because of the over crowded con
dition of the Chase and High street
primaries. the school committee have
decided TO put the Sd grade of all the
primaries together. under the charge
of Miss Lulu Elmer who is TO nave the
room now occupied by Miss Gale in
the High school building, while Miss
Gale takes her classes, part Of the
9th grade, to the Canal street building.
This will leave two grades instead OF
three in the: primaries. Mrs. Warren
already has part of the third grade
in pupils from south of the brook and
this action puts all the third grade to.
gether.
The Christian Endeayor society
of the Baptist church held mission
airy meeting Tuesday evening, taking
up the first conquest meeting of the
Christian culture course. The partic-
ular topic was the early missions in
Africa as far back as Bible times and
papers considering the subject were
read by Mrs W. II. Roleau and Miss
Ethel Bruce after which Rev. Mr..
Temple gave a talk on missions in
early times and the hindrances they
had to overcome. Gifts were brought
bv the members to fill Christmas box
TO be sent to the Wichita mission
school at hmakarko. Oklahoma terri
tory. y social hour followed with
music and recitations.
The case of Mary Lynch against
Morris Bowler and John Martin, for
furnishing liquor to her son. came
before Justice Newton Monday morn
ing on "a motion of S. r. Davenport
counsel for the defendants. to dismiss
on the ground that the New Hamp-
shire statute under which the action
yv.s BROUGHT was a penal one, so that |
action could not be maintained on 1T
in any other state than New Hamp'
shire. The motion was also based on
another point. which really depended
on the question whether the statute
was penal, that the time the writ was
exhibited was not minuted on 1t as
required in penal action. c. {.
Fits. for the plaintiff. argued that
the statute was not penal but remedial
50 that the action would lie all right
and the court, after taking the subject,
under consderationfor several days,
so decided and denies the motion tol
dismiss. Now the case will come toI
trial on the facts and also on the ques-
tion whether the mother, not beng
legally bound to Pats support. ls de-
nendent on him or he on her i'll the
sense contemplated by the statute, and
This will also be largely question OF
fact, Pat. it is understood. has
cleared out since the action began.
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