The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

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its annual meeting at the Brooks
House Monday evening. A semi
annual dividend of 3 per cent. was
declared and DR., II. ID. Holton, o. D..
Esterbrook, J. L. Martin, Geo. G..
Averil and C. II. Thompson elected
directors, the latter in place OF S. n
reelected president and G. +. Thomp-
son clerk and treasurer.
The air reservoir of the switching
engine ut the depot yard, exploded
Wednesday with a report like cannon
and sending the two piecs about 80
feet away. Luckily there was no one
in the way and no one hurt. This
reservoir, which stores the air for the
operation of the air brakes, and had a
pressure of about 30 pounds, proved to
have been worn and rustcd to such a
point of weakness AS to nave caused
the accident.
There are three different ncgotia.
tons under way to get another manu-
featuring industry here, and there
would be strong hope of succeeding
| with at least one of them if we had a
board of trade to handle the negotiu-
| tions in an organized way and follow it
Systematically. Now the danger is
that all will fail because what is
eyerybody's business is nobody's.
Besides the cotton mill, there i. one
for undertakers' supplies and another,
about which the particulars cannot
be safely given yet which would employ
100 hands.
Moses Woolson, the veteran teach
er and principal of the Bratteboro
school. 1914, died last week at Boston
and the funeral was held Sunday at
Kings chapel, and the remains were
taken to Windham, Me. Among the
bearers at the funeral was Judge Mel
len Chamberlain, who succeeded Mr.. |
Woolson in the principalship here, and
was his close and life long friend. !
Mr.. Woolson came to Bratteboro from
Chesterfield, where he was for while
principal of the Academy there, and |
where he succeeded Mr. Price as he
also did here. After leaving here he /
taught for 30 years in the west and
in various places in the vicinity of !
Boston. /
There were about 100 singers pres
ent at the Singing Skule rehearsal
last evening and the music went |
smoothly and very satisfactorily, the |
tenors being reinforced by some Of our
best voices, as were also the bassos, !
sopranos and altos. The Skule is to
be done in costume and introduced by |
Dame Plunkett, the teacher, who will |
introduce the various features cul |
minating in the rendering of old fash
Toned music, with some old time voices |
in solo, duet and quartette. Several
out of town singers have consented to |
take part two coming from Bellows
Falls. The next rehearsal is to be |
held Monday evening and followed by !
one Thursday evening with orchestra
AS it is to be a home
affair for a worthy object. and and the
opening rental of the hall. it is sug
gested that citizens appear in full |
dress SO far as possible, and that the |
ladies remove their hats in compli |
ment to the singers. There is already
a large call for tickets.
Postmaster General Wilson is
sending letters of inquiry to postmas
tiers asking what proportion of their
receipts are gold and how they deposit
it. The idea evidently is to see how
far this resource would go towards
keeping up the governments gold re
serve If it required such Did receipts
TO be forwarded directly to the treas
ury Though it forms but a minute
part of the total of postal receipts. it
is surprising, according to oheserya-
ton here, how much more gold there
is in postal transactions than in the
ordinary currents of business. il is
truesof depository Office like
this, constantly receiving money from
other offjes, and naturally considerable
of it gold beause that is always the
favorite money for transportation. 1t
is also notable that the hard times are
bringing out good many rare old
COINS. Observation of these facts led
Postmaster Chilos sometime ago to
write to the department suggesting
that there might be resource here
worth investigating by the govern
mert.
The annual meeting of the Valley
Fair Association was held at the
Brooks House this morning, Pres. Geo.
". Hooker presiding. A large attend
ance was present not only from Brattc
ooro but from Windsor, Franklin and
Cheshire counties. The old board of
officers .was reelected including the
Did board of directors with the follow
ing additions: f. c. Carpenter, Gull
Iord: \. C. Burnham, W. c. Slough
ON. Isaac Chenery, Montague J. f.
Warren, Mortified, Mass. Ii. f.
ralyor, j. j. Estcy, c. l.. Stickney,
own; f. II. Ware, Melrose, Mass.
\. T. Cobb, Chesterfield; c. Q. Steb-
pins, Townshend: l.. l.. Hildreth, H. ..
J. Strceter, town G. S. Fletcher.
Chesterfield Factory G. W. Baker,
own: b. W. Brown. Springfield. Vt. !; :
;. c. Rand, Saxtons River +. +.
Simpson, Mortified; b. C. Thatcher.
II. A. Perry, Walpole I,
VI. II. Nelson Bernardston: A. a. 5
Smith. Coraine; Geo. Arms, Spring /,
ield F. +. Evans. Halifax; f. W. :
Jhilds, town; Z. S. Allen, jackson
lille: Fred Vale, South Londonderry !
leo. X. Davis, Peru; Chas. W. Dun :,
lam, town: j. C. Gale. South London
Jerry; Geo. \. Ecls, town: L. l.. :
Iasins, Townshend; o. II. Chase. !
jacksonville: W. II. Stowe, Whining :,
on +. f. Copeland, Coraine: c. !
/. Thompson. town; G. L. Putfer, =
chesterfield ID. Kellogg. Westminster
!. NJ Prouty, Marlboro. The meet
ng adorned at IL O'Clock or dinner
nd re assembled at . o'clock to listen
0 the report of the various commit n
ees. The treasurers' report showed \
he following: Receipts for first DAY "
+ fair. 81, 32l.55; for second day. n
4. sd. 10; cost of addition to grand r
tand, 81, l49. 81; expenses of annual h
air. 2,0Gl. GO; premiums and purses h
the annual fair 81, s2o.73. This +
esiles numerous other receipts and h
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