The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-12

n xnras. Caneuy has sold his villao
t.t pees business to Henry Yuw r wS
taxes possession tomorrow ""' WIN
during the coming week NJ, ,.,
guy mats or bonnets Mt Mrs 81, WI ~
''"''eIi s. can have them trimmed g. w., II
&c; +. r. Jcnne has been o,ao,o,
une u me vice presidents of the Vor
, a", Association of Life Underwr;,
AN encysted tumor about tho al,
~ small orange, was removsI f.a H'
Tue mead OF Mrs. Riley st no Fr; ,U,
ny Drs. ketchum and GRAY, ''''a'
"A ndrew Horton is having IN,
lounuation for a new house on Cana
street on the site of the one morad
'ast year, but he may not proceed fmr
ther this season. '''e''' 'ur
Ihere is darkey in towp wh,
amuses himself by hiding on the h. nt
streets to brighten women and N" , oh;, 1ach
VINO Is liable to be severely dealt with
--Puffer d Co. are again bo,ai;,,
tnis season those wonderfully lnsc,nns
strawberries from Mr.. W. E'WheeIer,s
ID vernon. Some OF them will measnrs
three inches in circumference.
Mrs. Sophronia Nichols w;fs "
.,aVid Stockwell and native of Brat.
1IiIeboro, died recently in Belyidere
IL, where she has lived for the pas,
az years. She was 81 years old.
The clio sing exercises of the town
schools OF Brattleboro are to be held in
Academy hall, West Brattleboro ut
SD p. m. June 10Th All interestod
IN the schools are cordially invited to
be present. '" ~
Frank X. Cobb, recently shot nv
an a. +. A. agitator and who had the
ball located by \ rays and removed VT
boston last week, returned to his AthoI
home Friday and has practically re :.
covered from his injury.
Some of the local Republicans
are remarking that in the last 1S years
the Phoenix has only once supported a
Battleboro man for high Office. That
once was Fuller in 1892, ana clear up
to that campaign it was fighting him
spitefully.
Luther Plummer met with an az
cident Monday, while adjusting bat
teries in Mrs F. A. Whitney's cellar.
He fell over Il beam and strained the
knee which he hurt some time ago and
will be laid up several days in conse
quence.
The Massachusetts, supfeme court
sustains Commissioner Merrill in his
action against the Rationale Contract &
Supply Co., holding it to be an insur-.
anct business, as he alleged. But it
only affects the company's business in
that state and not that if it puts up
the deposit required by the Massachu-
sets statutes.
The arrangements are now com
pleted for the Massachusetts and Yer
mont circuit of fairs, beginning at
Greenfield September 24-5 and following
at Brattleboro September 30 and Octo-
Der and lthol October 6-7. There
are So, 0C0 in purses offered for the
trotting and they ought to bring some
of the best -uines inhe country.
The spring meeting of the national
rife club was held at Vernon, May
27-2S. There was good attendance,
prizes we're won as follows: LIST string,
c. f. Fletcher of West Claremont, N.
H., first prize, 10 3s inches: f. W.
of Trenton, Pa, second, IA 50
inches s. Brockway third, 16 inch
es End string, Fletcher first, Q lie
inches: A. ID. Spencer Of Trenton, Pa.
second, 10 inches: r. S. Greasy of
Brattleboro, third, ID % inches: 3rd
string, Winters first, II 18 inches:
Spencer second, IL IA inches: Parker
and Fletcher third, 10 / Is inches: 4th
string, Fletcher LIST, Il IL inches. D.
Fl. Cox of Neperau, N. Y, second, II
; -16 inches Park third, ID - inches
9Th string, Fletcher first. 97-l6 inches
SPENCER second, 8 SIS inches: Brock
way third, II 8 JIG inches: &. +.
Fletcher wins the silver medal, mis-
20 shots measuring 80 7 l6 inches. N.
5. Brockway, sec. N. R. c.
--Brattleboro's wrangling Republi-
IAN politicians have always had pen
chant for tearing each other 10
pieces. and this is the reason the non
IRIS of the state have so generally gone
elsewhere. But it is TO oe said IN JUS
ice to J.L. Martin that he has always
,eep TOO broad minded man to have
INV mart in any of this littleness, has
Ilways turned in TO help the Others
when they wanted anything-in some
asses when he ought TO have been
,shamed of ii-and has furnished
liz share of the brains for their can
asses. notably in the one that was
uccessful, for Fuller. II may also w
tina, in the mix up of fac
ions and candidates. and cross games
f intrigue is years ago, when Haskins,
and Howe were all after the
that finally went TO Judge
Tyl.r Martin was about the only pol
,ician in the county of whom every
'ody knew just where he stood, for n M F.
Jarris IL will now be Interesting 10
he student OF human nature 10 see fe
low, n many of them join in the old ia
.ori,e game against him.