The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-15

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There were from 20 TO 25 from
here and vicinity to take in the grange
excursion to Worcester Wednesday.
Edward Bushnell has begun work
on barn in the rear of his Elliott
tstreet house on strip OF land bought
of Geo. r. Crowell.
Rev. Russell II. Conwell, the
great Baptist divine and one of thu
lights here at the Baptist 50th ami
versary here, was chosen president OF the
International Society of Christian
Workers this week.
Mrs. Emeie f. Shackford, aged 6,
years IL months, died at her home, %
Clinton street, Fitchburg, Mass, at {
a. M, last week Thursday after a sis
months illness of dropsy. Deceased
was Il widow. She leaves three sons,
George Bliss of Bratteboro. Albert and
Elmer Shacfkord. Elmer is located in
Texas at present.
Association Wednesday evening to hear
the reports of officers, had an attend
ance of Is or 90 The report of Gen.
j. j. Estey, the treasurer, showed the
total receipts of this years fair to have
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l439. 40, besides Sll50 put into the
edition to the grand stand, which
has been paid for out of the receipts.
There was also S543 spent to get water
on the grounds, and some other unus
ually heavy bills have been paid The
Fourth of July races resulted in a loss
of $50. The receipts for admission
and grand stand tickets Oh the first
day of the fair were S2321.5o and on
the second day s4s2l. 10. The Associa-
ton now owes only 500, and has full
S25, 600 of property, as against little
over $4,000 of stock, SO that the stock
is fairly worth 200 as long as the fairs
continue, and par or very nearly that
to close up at any time. 1t will be
necessary to spend about $500 on the
track another year, but after that
there will be little need of further en-
penditure for improvements and another
year with two good days ought to clear
off the debt and yield something in
the way of dividend. The dining room
this year under Col. lannon's man
agement yielded profit of $500, and
best of all satisfied the public. Gen.
Estey s report was of course accepted
and the balance turned over to the
Association
The chrysanthemum exhibit to be
given by the ladies of the Centre
church at their parlors Nov 90 and
21st should not be missed by lovers of
this most beautiful king of autumn
plants. Florist G. Z. Allen has made
. specially in raising chrysanthemums
for the past three years and has been
f,,l lar
handsome collection. Mr.. Allen
kindly places these plants on exhibit.
These autumn shows are very popular
in many large cities and towns. though
this is the only one given in this state,
Springfield, Mass, being the nearest
exhibition given. Collections of
choice specimens of roses and pinks
will also be shown. Among the choice
chrysanthemums to be shown are
Challenge" beautiful ball shaped
yellow blossom Eugene Daille-
dorze, yellow blossom of medium
size III. l.. Sanderbrush -; also
"Nevin, the Queen, -" Maria Louise.
an early blossom of pure white with
Golden Wedding" jerome Jones, y
wv. r. Smith and numerous others
of great beauty and size. The number
of varieties will equal last year but in
beauty and arrangement it is expected
will exceed it, Reduced rates on the
railroads as announced in last week s
Reformer will all accommodate great
many in surrounding towns who wish
to see one of the pretticst sights ever
seen in Brattleboro. The ladies will
serve, in the afternoon and evening of
each day, chocolate, tea. cake, ice
cream and home made confectionery.
All are invited to come and have a
good time.
1t has now just been found out
who committed the burglaries II years
ago at the +. a.. NJ. f. and Thurber's
bakery, getting 1898 from the former
place and $50 at the latter, besides
breaking the glass in o. J. Pratt's but
getting nothing. 1t was evident at
the time that it was the work of skill
ed crascksmen:by the way they bent
back the handle of the f. IL NJ. +.
safe door so as to bore hole at just
the right point, without variation of
a fraction of an inch, cut thread and
put in a screw so as to get pressure
on the dog that held the bolts but
never trace was found of the man,
who must have been in town some
DAYS to get the ''lay Of the land so
we'll. until Wednesday, when il APP
peared in the trial of James S. Chatfey
at Boston that it was one of the jobs
of VIM. Barrett, who appears to have
been one of the remarkable criminals
of the times, to whom no less than 30
different burglaries are now traced
and who is now serving a life sentence
for killing man at Weston, Mass, IN
robbery in May '94. Barrett went
under the name of Bassett horse
dealer in Boston, appeared to be a
most prosperous and respectable bus
mess man. maintained wife ana
family in fine style at New York with
villa at Newport, and they were all
supposed to be ignorant of the way he
got his money, though late develop
ments throw some doubt on it. At
the time of his arrest and trial,
Chaffey, who claims to have been only
an ordinary business acquaintance be
fore. befriended him and according to
his story Barrett turned over several
trunks full of goods and packages to
him. Among the goods was valuable
collection of stamps worth $1,000 which
had been stolen from Banker Kidder
of Kidder, Peabody Il Co. \ close
watch has been kept for several years
among dealers for these stamps and
last week Chaffey appeared at one
dealers offering few sheets for sale.
This led to his arrest and all the dis
closures since, the recovery of some
SO, OOO:worth of stolen goods, left with
Chaffey including lot of silver
ware stolen from ex-Gov. Long and