The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-04

E. f. Blood, as appears by his an
nouncenent elsewhere, has opened the
livery department of his business at
the Chamberlain stables. And he has
in his stock two dandy spans, in the
chestnut surry team which he pur
chased in the northern part of New
Hampshire and pair of blacks.
A running OFF of wheel and over
turnin. of the carriage spilled out |.
II. Williamson, Liston Ketchum and
Erwin Hoy as they were driving down
the mountain road Saturday evening.
The horses ran but were captured be-
fore they had gone far. The carriage
was pretty we'll demolished, but the
occupants escaped with IA few bruises.
The w. c. r. U. have accepted an
invitation from the Christian Endeav
orers of West Brattleboro and will hold
meeting in the vestry of the Baptist
church in that place Tuesday, the Sth
inst, at 3 O'Clock p. m. Delegates
from the state convention held at Rut-
land last week will be present and re-
port. An invitation is extended to
the public and especially are the mem
bers urged to be present.
The Ladies' association of the Con
gregational church held their annual
meeting at the chapel on Tuesday af-
ternoon Very satisfactory work has
been accomplished the past year, and
the funds in the treasury will prove
sufficient to meet all expenses in the
chapel and parlor repairs The follow
ing officers were chosen for the ensu
inc wear: Pres. Mrs G.. F. Thomp-
son: Vice Pres, Mrs. II. f. Houghton :,
Treas Mrs +. l.. Parker; Sec'y., Mrs.
II. H. Thompson; chairman of Parish
work. Mrs. +. \. Wells: chairman of
Foreign Mission work. Miss &. NJ.
Slate chairman of Home Mission work !;
Mrs Alfred Park chairman of Hospi-
tally Com. ,RMrs. Edw. kirkland.
The Telephone Exchange has this
week got in its new metallic switch
board, equipped for two operators, and
two will be employed forcnoons here
after. greatly facilitating the business
which has grown so rapidly and stead
/ lily as to have got beyond the capacity
of one to handle. The service has
necessarily been poor this week. great
| " to the regret of Manager Henkel,
while the changes were IN progress,
all the wires and numbers having had
to be changed, and many little things
intervening. But it is running all
right now and the men from the cities
say there has been less trouble than
usual during such changes, and Mr..
| Henkel believes that it will be enough
better in the future to far more than
make up for the annoyance subscribers
have suffered The long line service.
with all new connections and new
switchboard apparatus, is especially
! fine.
The business places on Main street
were all closed Yesterday afternoon dur
ing the funeral hour over the late b.
| \. Clark The funeral was held from
! the Congregational church, Rev. Or.
/ Geo. Leon Walker, who came up from
Hartford for the purpose, and Rev {.
| O. Day officiating, DIR, Walkers trib.
ute to the deceased. the simple tale of
a good man AS he called il, was most
/ beautiful and touching. As he spoke of
| him as friend and neighbor and asso-
cate in works of good@in the commun-
( ity, with the tears streaming down hls
own checks. as he told of the manly
and whole souled traits of Mr. Clark,
there was hardly a dry eye in the whole
house. Mr.. Day followed with another
affecting tribute and after prayer by
the two clergymen. Rock of Ages
was sung by the choir consisting of
Miss Nellie Robinson, Mrs. +. I.
Simpson. f. W. Crosby and j, W.
Shelley. The intcrment was in the
family lot in the cemetery Dea. {.
f. Thompson and b. d. Harris were
the conductors, and the bearers were
O. ID. Esterbrook. o. j. Pratt, George