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

Tickets for the senior class nlo
VII so on sale at Durgin's drug stor
Miss Ida Partridge, '97, has returne
10 her West Chesterfield home IN
Thanksgiving. -
-Quilp suggests that the town hal
doors would look full as well II hun,
right side up '
Petitions are being circulated i,
lively shape, this week for the re. in
statement of Angelo Gorborino at hi,
ola stand in front of the Town hall.
About 30 feet of the walk lead;no
from the Retreat to the common cave5
IN last night. The wall has been in
pad shape for some time and tho town
mas neglected to repair it.
During the rains of the past week
the ferry boat between Hinsdale and
vernon broke away and floated down
stream some 100 yards, necessitatinp
the ferryman's swimming out after II.
Earl Rabbit received the IS prize,
winch was offered to the boy selling
inc most tickets for Mrs. Clusters
lecture; Harold Whitney came in .sec.
ono, winning Battalion gun; Harry
ningnam 3rd, q membership ticket to
DR. Thos. Howell of Winona
MINI, formerly on the editorial staff
or the st. Paul Pioneer Press and later
manager of the Winona Daily Herald
ana recent graduate of the Dart.
mouth Medical college, is the new
assistant physician at the Retreat.
- Twenty four horses were disposed
OF at the auction sale at H. r. Browns
stables Monday. The horses, in charge
OF A. l. Robbins, belonged to Cayan-
angh Bros. of Manchester. N. Fl Ho
has sold this year 1853 car loads of
horses and hopes to bring another LOT
here in the near future.
The electrics were crowded yestsr
uay WIN pleasure riders, among visitors
and old Brattleboreans home forThanks. |
giving, land all greatly interested in the
Probably 1000 pas
sengers were carried. The rainy day
business was about 800. Probably
october and November are the two
worst months of the year for travel
100 cold for pleasure riding and not
'old enough for necessity travel: but
t is safe to say that there hasn't been
day when the road hasn't more than
'aid expenses. -
Mr.. Chase of Halifax met with a
nishap while coming from Halifax by
way OF West Brattleboro, Monday.
lis horse was frightened in same way,
nd in attempting to hold the animal [
ne lines broke and Mr.. Chase got out !
the back of the wagon. The horse
.ept on down Western avenue and
ireen street on to Church street, and
nally overturned the wagon at the Y
orner of School and Elliot streets. a
1rowlng out some sheep which were i
! the wagon and breaking the pole.
ecessary repairs were soon made and
II. Chase drove for home. !; =
VIM. Barrett, the Boston horse b
burglar. who was so curiously shown q
Gently to have perpetuated the F. a
I'd M. E., burglary years ago, came O
1T with long statement in the Bos- b
n Herald yesterday, complaining Ill
'out the trial in which he was con ei
cted last year of the killing of James IL
arrar, while trying to escape from 81
g of his burglaries at Weston, Mass M
d for which he was sentenced to life az
lprisonment. He does not anywhere m
Y explicitly that he was not guilty, IT
It he charges that his lawyers sup b,
essed considerable evidence in his dc
7or that would have shown that he was H
within GOO feet of where the fatal fir,
Of was fred. He advances the theory la
at the lawyers were unfaithfuI to him M
cause of greed for the hidden treas
." about which he had told his
end, Chaffey, a fairy tale as he now tn
clares it, but he thinks that they frt
ieved it and gave up his case, in We
act, because he would not turn over su
them part of the plumber for de- fol
ding him, instead of compelling so'
I'M to take only what the state al to,
red. The theory, though plausibly WI
.ued, is of course one that is char TN
eristic of a mind long devoted to ait
minality as his had been. bu