The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17
THE REFoRMER: BRATTLEBoRo VT. FRIDAY JULY IL 1906

HE REFORMER:
Leslie Yauvey is building a co,
shed on the west side OF the freigt
yard.
-, w. G. Rockwell has bought JOSEF
j.. dildreth's place, on Frost Stree
May.
II. ID. Williams is offering great bal
gains on wagons, carriages and surrys
Also good second hand surry at
special bargain. Wv
"A bee singing her horse caused i
10 run up thu bank and against a tire
az Gov. Fuller's the other day, Mis-
ESSEX was driving and jumped and wa
somewhat injured.
Landlord Geo. Z Richards wen
7" Winchester Tuesday to attend tn
funeral of his uncle. II. B. Prime VIII,
died there Sunday at the age of IS
Mr. Prime, stone mason by trade
who was we'll known here, where h,
worked with Day of Mortified On thu
Vinton' dam, the MILESTONE BLOCK
foundation and other jobs, was a ma
tive OF Chesterfield and deserved,
esteemed citizen He is survived by
a wife and two sons, George of Swan.
zzey and Nathaniel of Easthampton,
Mass, and one daughter, Mrs. f. o.
Smith of Winchester.
Saturday evening Chas. Clark col
lided with the trolley car near the
Main Flat street corner, and one wheel
of Ned Ranney's basket gig in which
Clark was riding was crushed, and he
thrown out and stunned for short
time. AS he stated afterward to Presi
dent Crosby he started to cross the
track and seeing the car coming.
thought he might not have time and
turned around to go back, which took
longer than to cross, while motorman
White who was in charge of the car,
thought he would get off the track.
But the bailiffs charge and say they
have many witnesses to show that the
car was going at high speed.
Tuesday evening voted to notify the
street railway company not to use over
three notches' IN running cars
within the village limits, that is to
not over half their capacity, and at
the rate of abopt 6 miles an hour. 1t
was also voted that the road be given
until Sept. 10 to equip its cars with
tenders, with notice that if the order,
which was also given last fall is not
with, legal steps. will be
taken to enfore it. The first pro-
hibition about speed was also made
several weeks ago by the selectmen
and the company claim to have been
obeying it. AS to the second order,
for obeying which many claim there
is no practicable device yet. there is
likely 10 be test of authority. The
bailiffs claim that the contract, which
was made between the company and
the selectmen and bailiffs. gives them
the same authority as the selectmen
within village limit.
The cottage at Chesterfield Lake
owned by Fletcher Barrows, Azor Mar
hall and G. A. Harris and leased by
.. ID. Whitney was burned to the
ground Sunday afternoon. The family
we're there for the summer and the fire
occurred about two o'clock Mr.. Whitney
vas in the house asleep the time and his
ousin, F. o. Whitney of Boston, who
vas their guest, was lying in the haul.
mock. He heard Il cracking sound |
which he supposed to be the wind, but |
S it sounded like fire he got up to in |
estigate and saw the fire coming up |
trough the floor in all directions. He |
ave the alarm, but the building went so
apidly that about everything was lost.
{ is not known howssthe fire caught, but
5 it seemed to have started under
loset it is supposed to have been caused
ymice. The barn belonging to the cot
lge and the woods adjacent were on
re.a number of times but were each
me put out by the summerers there.
[r. Whitney estimates his loss to be
,me 5000: F.O. Whitney some S75 and
he loss on the cottage was $500, and
? for $500.
The funeral OF the late &. H.
rosbv of Boston, whose death was ,
rieHv noted in the Reformer last
eek, was held Saturday afternoon, !,
ON the West Village Congregational
,urch. of which he became man-
ar AT the age of Is, Rev. G. H.
abbitt officiated. Mr. Crosby was
native of the west part of the town,
e son of Watson Crosby, cousin of '
e late Edward Crosby and brother of l
RS. 4. D. Putnam. He studied law .
it'll the late Judge kellogg. practiced !,
re for a while, then at Rutland and y y
,nt to Boston about 30 years ago !,
, had made a especially of patent law \
id the handling of trust estates, in !,
9TH of which he was prominent y
e mar led Miss May L. Heart of ,,
Milford who survives him with one q
tighter. Mrs. Allen. Z
-Chas. H.Deland, about whom as \
-indler the Reformer had this week
ceived we'll fortified accounts from n
Conn, was arrested at n
ltland yesterday for skipping board T
Ii at the Brooks house. He APP +
AIRED here nearly two months u
O, as an agent for musical and +,
rious other books, established sub o.
encies all through this section. and r
rec weeks ago Tuesday he left leav a,
Q landlord Tyler in the lurch. 1t is NJ
7 known if he victimized any one o
e. At Thompsonville he was &C N
sed of procuring money by various er
,udulent devices WITHDRAWING the r
ddIetown Herald, including even "
Ibezlement anil forgery. He left in
ere after collecting 5000 in adver- er
ing bills, and leaving employees M
d everybody else in the lurcn for SC
,ry dollar he could stick them. Ten F
the leading business men of the 81
zee sent statements to us that he s;
s scamp and scoundrel," for the G
rpose of stopping his operations a,
re, but they came too late
Herbert P. Doane of the Sanborn-
iris Map Co., New York is here
king new insurance map of the Vi
vn. ~
.sspeed the Parting Guest" &c
Iobn Toomey returned to Boston at