The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-21


to occupy the opera house on the 20tt
Quite a number from here took in til
dance at Algiers hotel Tuesday over
ing and report a fine time.
The Windham County Board {
underwriters have meeting at Be
lows Falls Tuesday at IL o'clock
Plumbers worked all night ut til
Brooks house Tuseday night to over
come no troezo up in the pipes and ii
effects.
In the reports Of patents granite,
thIs week appears ono to Levi Il
Fuller and one to Joseph F. White o
Rrattlohoro.
The new mission church Of tn
Good Shepherd at Barre Of which Al
Ian ID. Brown is the rector will b.
dedicated by Bishop Hall Sunday.
The Hooker, corser y Mitchell
overall factory commenced running
on nine hours Monday owing to tn,
number of orders they have, and vii
soon begin on ten hour basis,
The Rainy Day Club and friends
take leap year sleigh ride to Vernon
next Monday evening. 1t is expected
that about 40 couples will attend. :,
hot turkey supper will be served.
There is one man whose faith il
Newell, the Jacksonville Schlatter,
naturally does not grow less, and that
is the hotel keeper out there. There
were 40 people at his house Sunday tc
see the healer.
Misses Louise and Grace kinson de.
| lightfully entertained a number OF
young ladies at whist Saturday after
noon. The prizes we're taken, first by
Miss Florence Pratt. BOBBY by Miss
| Minnie Allen.
&C. A. Huntley was knocked over
and trodden on by two horse lum-
Der team at the MainFlat street corn
err, as he was running to the fire Mon
( day. But no was pulled from his
dangerous situation by the Brattleboro
Livery employees and escaped with a
few slight bruises,
Real estate sales negotiated
through A. V. Mays agency this week
are four farms in N. Dakota sold to
c. ". Comstock of Chicago. The
Elliot street fish markets, owned
by Harlan Howe, exchanged
for W. Fl. Hastings farm in Ncwfane.
Mr.. Hastings takes possession of the
market tho first of March.
beginning next Sunday, February
% the Boston Sunday Journal will be
delivered anywhere in the village to
anyone wishing it. The expense of
getting them into Brattleboro is con-
siderable as they have to be brought
all the way from Miler's Falls by team.
Provided enough copies can be sold to
make the venture self supporting tho
service will be continued right along.
ORDERS left with Fox the newsman will
receive prompt attention.
The cold wave which shot down
from the north so suddenly upon us
Sunday and Sunday night, the mcr
curry dropping about 60 degrees i'll 30
hours. broke the record of modern OBJ
seryations. within ID or 20 years for
the second time this winter. The pre-
vious record breaker was jar. 6, The
therm ometer was reported at from 16
to % below Monday morning at Vari
Gus points in town; at Grafton it was
%, at Westminster n, ut Athens Pond
"a, at Bellows Falls %, Cavendish 2s,
and Ludlow 81. The lowest point re
Sarauac Lake in the Adirondacks. The
cold wave in its intensity extended
over tho entire eastern half of the
country as far south as Cape Hatteras. |
Tho electric road rs making inves- |
LEGATIONS with a possibility of putting |
in a bid for watering the streets the |
sntiro length Of its line, which it could !
80 probably at half the present cost. /
Special cars are made for this pur-
pose, with tank capacity Of from 1900
10 200 gallons, sufficient for two miles
IF sprinkling, and which will send q
spray over the entire width of tho |
street from curb to curb. without the |
use of any clumsy outrigging and at |
great speed, of course. Ten cents per
nile per trip would be ample to cover
the cost of labor and power and leave
, good profit on the investment--far
ess, of course. than can be afforded by |
horse power. OF course the town or
sillage can have nothing to do with
t. But the citizens subscription
,ould DO made for this plan as well as
he old one The only trouble is that
;one of the streets which the residents
want sprinkled would still have to be
cached by team. But as there were
It least three teams engaged in the
work. last summer this could he Hr-
anged.
The warrants have been posted for
no annual town meeting March J
Besides the usual routine business.
here arc articles for the election OF
he Free Library trustees. and two
to represent the town IN
he narrow gauge stocliholding, to see
whether the town will permit Angelo
1orboriuo to 90 back to his old stand
n front Of the town hall, whether the
ease for the postoilice shall be renewed,
whether the town district will pay tul-
ion for advanced pupils IN the Brat
leburo Academy and the HIgh school,
whether the sclectmen shall be author-
zed to re-surgey streets and highways
S they deem necessary to estaoiish
trades and lines, whether Maple
treet shall be widencd and regarded,
s the people OF Esteyville ask, chiefly
hat the electric road may run out
here. whether $500 shall be appro'
riafcd TO equip the town house Tor
lectric lighting, and whether an ap,,
ronriatiop, not to exceed Slooo, shall
~ made to cover the deficiency for the
anairs on the hall and the construc-
ion of the opera house. 1t Is under
TODD that this will be sufficient to
ovor all that is unpaid including !
,atfers that are still unadiusted with !
he contractors, so that there may be
little coming back out Of if. This
jded TO the SO, 600 and the 5000 ,
appropriated. will make
q. 800 that has gone into the scheme :
considerably less than many OF our !
comic have feared. But besides that, !