The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
FIVE MINUTES WITH THE NEWS Of
THE COUNTY AND VICINITY.
For selling the Eday Bccr.

The United States court convened u
Rutland Tuesday and disposed G
dictmen d" s,eaidst 6. 5@TM 81 3Rswdt
bend for violation of the internal rev
enue laws. 1t was IN two count
for 'sellng without Il license = an,
for mot exhibiting his license.
What he sold was the Eddy Hop Beer
not understanding that it came withil
the statute. For this reason Distrlc
Attorney Senter mol pressed as to tn
first, and u plea of guilty was entered
as TO the second and Mr. Taft fine S2'
and costs. John p. Cray of Below
Fills was fined S2o and costs by /
similar process. Hiram Potter, indie
ted for scllingwithoutlicense, was sen
fenced to a month IS Imprisonment ane
fined 500 and costs. VIM. Woolsey o
Barre was sentenced to a month i'm
prisonment and fined 500 for similar
| ffensc. Geo. a. Matthews of Rut
land, the postal clerk arrested foi
stealing plead guilty but sentence was
deferred and he admitted to bail IL
900. Joseph Dropart of Benn ingtor
stood trial on charge for selling with
out license was convicted, fined Sl3C
and given months imprisonment.
Accident at Putney.
Will Lewis and his wife of Putney
were driving on the road near Il. y.
Colbrook's Monday evening, when
their horse became frightened and
SHE'D, tipping the wagon and its oc-
cupants onto a barbed wire fence.
Mrs, Lewis head was badly bruised
and barb tore through an upper eye
lid. Had it gone Il quarter of an inch
lower the sight of the eye would have
been destroyed. Should not the high
way, at least. be free from this style
of fencing? If farmers will use it.
they should do so where only them
selves and their stock are in danger of
being disfgured. We are reminded of
several other accidents in this town
where people have been badly hurt.
\ law forbids Il bicycle from riding
on the sidewalks. coastlng and riding
in the evening without 4 lantern. etc.
Travellers up on the highway should
be protected as well against barbarods
fences and law accomplish this
would be more beneficial to country
towns than the bicycle restriction,
A series of stealings at Green River.
Frank Montague unlocked and en-
tered the house of Chas. Thompson at
Green River week ago last Sunday
evening, while they were away. He
lit matches and burned off one corner
of the window. II cannot he learned
that he took anything. The day be
fore. Mr.. Thompson sold a COW for so
and it is thouhgt that is what he was
t,c,t,,ntnl, h. l,p,,lya hIs lynN
off in the lock and could not get it out
and early the next morning he went
over after the key. There have been
several things stolen from William
Wellman, money from Elisha Gates
house, boxes from 5. \. RichmOnd's
shop, screw dye from II. +. Lynde's
shop. which he returned Now this
has gone unnoticed too long and he
should be punished to the extent of
the law
The Reformer's statement in It's
Valley Fair report that the record for
the single COW butter test for n hours
was broken was an error. In 1882
Sultana's Fancy, "a, owned by J. O.
Frost of Vernon. produced two pounds
aud four ounces of butter. the same
amount that was made this year by
Franklin Pride. the Jersey owned by
+. Simons of Grecnfeld.q
Something ais the St. Lawrence
liver in the vicinity of the Thousand
Islands. the cause for which SO far re
mains mystery. Early in the season
soon after the ice in the river broke !
up, it was noticed that the water was
'eceding from the banks little This |
recession continued until about the |
line the summer season opened. Then |
he water had fallen by nearly four
Get: some of the measurements give |
t little over three, and others lit /
lie under four feet. This is the eX /
RENE. but there has been observable .
10 increase in the volumn Of the wa
er. What has caused this falling of
he water is mystery. Some of the |
lrouth in the Canadian wilderness, .
lthOugh there are no reports that the /
'anadian rivers cmptying into Lake
ontario OF the St. Lawrence are run
ling low. Whatever the cause is. ii
ioes not exist west of Lake Ontario.
VIII CHAM
The underpnnlng of the stone
york at Green Mountain hall WAS re-
'aircd last Thursday by the men of the
own and the ladies furnished refresh
lents.
Preston Wheeler trapped a bear last
Geek weighing 20 lbs aud our people
ere afforded the luxury Of some of !.
he meat
Miss Lettie Carpenter, VINO has
cen working in Wilmington was called
ONE by the critical illness of her
lother
Tho Brattleboro Overall Co. rennrts