The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10

he'; =. y. Day has been sick abe
a good share OF the week with an a
tack OF Grippe, or a bad cold.
That the prices on carpets ha,
reached rock bottom is an assured fac,
put Emerson & Son have knocked IN
bottom out. head their adj. this wcel,
Tho annual melting of the Coppr,
gational Sunday school will he hai
Sunday. The new officers vii, i
chosen and the annual reports read.
Brakeman Thos. Donahue had tn
Knuckie Joint OF tho little finger q
tho left hand crushed while couplin
cars at the depot Monday.
The foot bridge leading from W.,
Hams street to W. II. Fletcher's mil
which was parted by the recent storm
was repaired Monday and is now i
! use. .
Pierce Il Amidon have moved thei
hulled corn business from Prospec
street to Tyler block in the room VA
cated by Z. b. Perkins dye works
and are to sell groceries in connection
with their corn business
See the advertisement of Wells
RICHARDSON Co., in another column
and see how you can obtain free ;
book Fancy Work and Art Decora
tons that gives practical instruction.
for making doilies, ETC.. with so illus
trations.
Miss Maude Emerson, assistan,
teacher in the high school at Orange,
Mass, has sent in her resignation OF
that position on account of i'll health,
and will go from there to Watertown.
Conn.,, for visit.
Five of the tuners finished work a,
the Estey Organ works last week. A
large number of people IN the other
departments, 30 or 40 in all have also
been dropped or given India rubber
vacations. The works went on a
seven hour basis yesterday.
Mayor McDuflic of Keene, has
been in town this week, teasing Sher-
i'll f. W. Mcclure to accept the CITY
marshalship there, which was offered
him last week, but Mcclure will prob
ably stay in Brattleboro, though the
inducements offered are tempting.
The National Life Insurance Co. of
Montpelier, had the largest bushes of
their history last year and have made
a handsome increase in assets and sur
plus. 1t was also the largest business
they ever did in Vermont. II. f. Tay-
lor d Sob stand at the head of their
list of agents as they did last year.
Our notes on the Rangers" this
week contain an error in the statement
that the Governors Mountain in Gull
ford is Just east of the high way be-
tween here and Algiers. An old resi-
dent SO informed US, but we since learn
that the Governors Mountain is
near the northwest corner of the town,
and is still unsettled land.
1t is c pected that school district
clerks will call on different families for
the purpose of ascertaining tho num-
Der of births and deaths in each family
during the year that has just closed
for the purpose of registering them in
the town clerk s office. 1t is very i'm
portant that parents should name their
children before the clerk calls, so that
they may be entered upon the record. |
N. f. Cabot received telegram
Tuesday evening announcing the death |
1t Quincy, Mass, of Dorothy, |
eldest daughter of his son, Will b.
Cabot. The telegram announcing her
Heath reached here at the same time as
me announcing her illness. The disease
vas spinal meningitis and she was
AIKEN with commissions and remained
n them unconscious to the end. She
vas a winsome child. as many people
lere have learned during her summer
months stay here.
In his lectures on "The Universe"
It the North Street school hall, Mr..
Ieavitt will use for illustration his set
f Is large coIored plates prepared by
,cribner's and sold for 575; also nu
nerous photographs from the Harvard
observatory, and the finest photographs
t the moon in existence taken with
he great Lick telescope. The first lee
ure of the series is on next Monday
vening, the subject being 1.-THE Sum-
tickets for the course for sale at
'hapin's.
In connection with the Boston
Ierald's expose of the blackmail of 4
quor sellers under the New Hamp-
hire Law and Order League, it may |
c said that the breweries on the other !
ide claim to have been among the 7
ictims of the system. Besides the G
Id charge of blackmail .by Hins. S
rle. N. H. man, they claim, or one of
lem does. to have received letters, .
gned with fictitious names of course, !
fering for a cash consideration to !
ford protection against the Leagues !
(
Gov. Woodbury., accompanied by I
is counsel, Tax Commissioner, ID. }. b
oster of Burlington, was in town yes t
rday, to take the deposition of Harry p
eVere, head waiter at the Brooks d
ouse and formerly in the same po- t.
ton at the VanNess house, for use In C
le Herald Woodbury. libel suit. D
tatc's Attorney Jones of Rutland was 7
re, representing the Herald. which a
understood to have made the citation +,
r the deposition. The testimony is il
It supposed to be known until the de Al
,sition is opened in court, but it may a.
set down as pretty certain that De b
ere said nothing to injure Gov. Wood V,
Try, and in fact he knew nothing but y,
nat the whole public knows that IL s!
or is regularly sold there by en- d.
,yees on their own hook, Woodbury. b
es not stop it but he gets none OF the tC
offs. OF
That Pure Java and Mocha cotfees el
pullen e Whitney's takes the Lead. IL
adv. n
,.~.ts,.harea m nd Others. W