The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-14

See adv, III another column o
' brattleboro Academy whose sprinl
term opens March IS
$ 1T is grandpa George now" Geo
: \. Bliss received the telegram Tues
5 gay whose particulars are given in on
birth column.
1t was, owing to the storm, "a SINAI
party but very delightful one thai
. gathered with Miss Ethel Brown fol
, the Episcopal spciablc last evening.
J "A. ". Childs A. Co., have rein
sured in one Of the Hartford companies
the local risks Of the Imperial lnsur.
ance Co.. which has withdrawn from
the state
The lunch room in Judges bIurl;
has been sold to j. a. Gould Of Bel
lows Fails, an experienced caterer,
who is oyerhauling and repairing il
preparatory to reopening.
The hailiffs have ordered two fire
eNtinguishcrs to be placed on the
stage at the opera house and the chief
engineer or some competent man Of
the department to be present there
during each entertainment.
---Brattlcboro ladies took liberal
share of this years honors in the
Womans' Relief corps, as will be seen
by our report of the Encampment.
Mrs. Putnam was not only chosen
president but three of the other posi-.
lions in the state organization came
here.
Frank. son of DR.. b. +. Ketchum.
has been elected vice president of the
Phi Chi fraternity of the Baltimore
Medical college, society including
second and third year men and pro
fessors throughout the medical colleges
of the country and the largest one of
its kind.
! "A social gathering was that which
met at the Baptist parsonage last
evening when Mrs. f.. d. Temple and
her Sunday school class entertained
the young peoples societies of the
church. Various games were played
| throughout the evening which was one
of Qualification and delight.
The many friends of Miss Gertrude
Miller will be grieved to hear of her
accident in Toledo, Can, which oc-
Cured the first of the week Miss
Miller was passing from one room to
another at the head of flight of stairs
when her foot slipped and she fell
down the whole flight breaking her loft
wrist and otherwise injuring herself.
The Silver King company,
which appears at tho opera house next
Tuesday eveing, carries q carload of
special scenery, which it can use in
our new play house--in agreeable con-
trast with former conditions. The man
ager, on looking it over, says our house
is Just about perfect in its stage APP
pointments and superior to many Of
those in large cities.
The ladies of the Unitarian church |
gave a supper in Wells hall Tuesday |
evening which was followed by short |
recital consisting of song by Mrs. +.
W. Putnam: recitation, Miss Ruth |
Noyes piano solo, Mrs. L. B. Lcavitt:
reading of two original poems, Miss
Udall; recitation of one of Eugene
Fields poems, Lcnora Richardson !;
song and recitation, Murray Frost.
The ladies of the Congregational
church served hash supper in the
chapel last evening followed 10y an en-
tertainment in the church. The pro.
gram consisted of duet by Mrs. Wal
ter +. Hubbard and Miss Georgianna
Cook song, Mrs. f. U. Simpson with
violin obligato by Max Ficrgau:
piano duet. Misses Ethel Bruce and
Belle Tenney.
The Brattcboro delegation to the
Grand Army Encampment at Rutland
consisted of Col. G.. II. Bend, Col. II.
L. Taylor, Geo. E. Greene, Post Com
amnder P. S. Chase, Eugene Clark, C.
l.. Hilliard and Il. NJ. Hescock, while
the ladies who attended the Relief
Corps convention were Mrs. Chose,
Mrs. Hilard, Mrs. A. Louise Putnam,
Mrs. III. |. Bangs, Mrs. II. c. Street
or, Mrs. G.. e. Currier, Mrs. \. III. {
Combs, Mrs. H. b. Larkin and Miss
corabel Coates.
The story of the play of The Sil- !
;er King which is booked at the
opera house next Tuesday evening, is I
,ull of tragic interest and begins to '
lnfold at the first uplifting of the :
curtain and from that time to the E
losing scene, every note in the gamut -,
If human emotions is struck with a !
master hand and ELECTS Il thrilling '
esponse. 1t is story with healthy G
md wildly drawn moral, which places '
( among the few dramas in these de- {
Generate days which exert beneficant Z
influence on the minds of the spectators 5
md enlists their holier smypathies. /
The ''Wilfred Denver of Carl y. !
Iaswin is pronounced by the press as I
strikingly powerful Characterization.
lis elocution and acting are terrible |
n their intensity in the conscience L
scenes. 1t is beautifully I
Inished piece of acting. and one that ,
s rarely seen.
B. Z. Newell. the jacksonville l.
chlatter, was in town again from h
tuesday to yesterday, coming to see
wo families but being kept busy treat =
ng people who thronged to the Brooks r
louise to see him. "Wednesday he !
reated close to 300 people and went 10 Il
ed at half past seven, more tired. ne r
aid than he ever was from a day n
.ork at his anvil Yesterday after he Il
1T, large number more appeared at I,
ne house to find what curative virtue r.
1ern was in the laying on of his u u
auds. 1t has of course been the uni f.
nrsal tonic of talk about the village, ~
nd between those who think ne is s
nthinr but an lmpostor and those h.
no swallow all the tales OF marvellous l.
lres performed there is many an in -
resting argument. Few who meet ~
i'm personally doubt his honest be "
eff that he is doing good to his fellows, Ia
adj certainly his simple touching of is
,ople does no harm, illusory as their =
,lief of cures will prove in the y
,st majority of cases, and in all except II
lose where hypnotic, mesmeric. mag r
tic or electric power is beneficial. as ",
Enthusiastically is in some eases and h,
medical scIence is beginning to mr.
cornize. rheumatism, paralysis, n
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