The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-24
There is report of another circus

= Better for clothes to use less soar
by using Harmless.
Dep. Com. n M. Putfer of Ben
nington was in town Wednesday on
g. A. r. business.
There will be band concert at
West BrattleborO next Tuesday night
to be given by the First Regiment band.
The Hampshire. Franklin Mass, !
Perss club is planning for an excur-
sion to Bratttleboro at an early date.
Something should be done to stop
this fast driving on the streets or there
will be an accident one of these days.
The Philharmonic orchestra will
furnish music for the dance at W. X.
| Wares Tomorrow evening. which
promises to be one of the most enjoy
able events of the season.
H. r. Lawrence and Supt. Mac
kenzie have posted notices prohibiting
the further use OF the bank back OF
the coal sheds at ths depot as pub
lie dumping ground.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Z Pratt sail
next Friday from Southampton, Eng. ,
| by the steamship Augusta Victoria OF
the Hamburg American Dacket com
pany for a stay of two or three months
here.
That ugly elephant in the Barnum
and Bailey circus that made so much
threatening show during the parade here,
killed his keeper Saturday, getting on a
ramgage, backing the man up against a
bridge and crushing him.
Another lot of so fresh air chill
dren, sent out by the Tribune fresh
air committee will arrive here Tues
day, and be taken to the Congrega
tional chapel where they will be dis
triubted to the benevolent people who
have agreed to receive them.
Capt. Nash, whose murder on
shipboard with that of his wife aud
first mate, are told, with all the
mysterious circumstances, IN our
New World news. was brother of
Henry Nash, the Tufts college ath :
lete and intimate friend of Rev. Hal
ID. Maxwell, whose guest he was here
last year and whom he accompanied to
Halifax Decoration Day.
A man fromIPutney, badly overload
ed. was wandering about the upper
depot grounds Monday afternoon and
Ctulc WfGiliu ali dCt VI tuiuuliIS ONCl CiC
bank into the river, when couple of
kindly citizens took him and carried
him into the narrow guage engine house
to sleep it off. A tramp was seen to go
in there about seven O'Clock, and when
the Putneyite awoke he Dunned himself
IN vain for eight or ten dollars that were
about his clothes when he went skating.
Mrs. Hattie Brazor Pratt (Stella
Brazzi) was one of the contributors
to the Italian opera artists floral
tribute at the funeral of the late Sir
Augustus Harris in London. 1t was a
beautiful design. representing a
broken column, snrmounted with
wreath and fanked by Tyre with
broken strings, and doves lowering on
and about the pillar The pillar was
eight feet in height: the whole foun
dation OF double white stock, the base.
slanting in proportion, being most
profusely decorated with choicest Cat
tleya and Alexandria orchids.
Another tug of war betewen Bel
lows Falls and Brattleboro is in pro-
gress this afternoon in base ball
game at Riverside Park Miles Fitz.
gerald of Hartford. Fred Bristol of
Washington, Marchon of Philadel-
phia and Backyus of Kansas City in
last years western league are playing
with the Brattleboros, while Bellows
Falls is reinforced by Shepard. the
clever pitcher OF Cushing academy,
Hoban, Reynolds and Chandler Of
Claremont, and Viau of the New En-
gland league
Col. G. Fl. Bond Dhas issued his
Ton
of the LIST Regt. v. N. g., near Bur
lington, Aug. 1922, inclusive. Co. NJ
will make the camp and no details
from the several companies will be
allowed. but company quartermasters
may be detailed to make mess ar
Regimental Quartermaster
Jas. E. Greed, Asst Surgeon, b. G.
Senior. h hospital steward F II Chapman
and Regt. Q. M. Sergt N. W. Ha dley
are to report the IL tn. 1t is ordered
that guard mounting and the duties of
sen tinels on post be taken up in ar
mory drills. Also that special atten
tion be given to instruction in salut-
ing and military courtesy.
There is another delay in the case of
C II and H Davenport against the
Newtons for cutting over their lands in
Searsburg seven and eight years ago
and which in one way and another has
been kept from coming TO an end all
this time, Ex-Gov Pingree, the referee,
made his report last year finding the
quantity cut and value, and that the de- |
fendents did it without right or excuse |
and in spite of the written prohibitions |
of the Davenports, finding the facts in
way to make the defendants liable to |
pay three times value. There were
for the purchase of the
timber which they claimed to constitute |
a contract in spite of the prohibition.
Gov Pingree found that this was not SO. |
Then they applied at the late term of
the Bennington county court for re- |
committal of the report to find whether |
they thought so, and Judge Start has
so ordered.
j B Robinson had ''close CALI
Tuesday evening and one that threaten
ed for some time afterward to be final
one. He was at work in ditch six or
seven feet deep to connect his house |
with the Crowell water main on Organ
street when the sides of the ditch. with
The earth piled up above, caved in on
him. He was completely covered clear
M to the shoulder, and though neighbOrs
rescued him from his perilous predica-
nent as soon as possible, the pressure
IN his chest was so great and the air so
lose that he was nearly smOthered.
One shoulder was dislocated and other
Internal injuries are feared. He was I'M
,ble to be move at all Wednesday with
tut excruciatiug pain, and in addition
% all the rest there were grave fears of
But he is more comfort
lble now.
Summer Vinton. son and grandson
# the famous Burma missionaries.
will give his lecture, Life in Burma,
n the M. F.. church Monday evening,