The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10

There was Il woman arrested i
= town yesterday for intoXication bu
the case is still held open for trial.
Q The annual church meeting of til
; congregational church, which wa
to be held tonight, has been post
p0ned for a week owing to the Hines
OF Mr.. Day.
Congressman Grout was at Brat
, tleboro and Burlington last week, pre-
sumably to look after Gear Reed
Vermont presidential fences, whicl
are badly shattered by falling block
, OF Rutland marble. - Mont pelior Ar
gus.
Tho water heater for the vilag,
steamer will he ON and ready for opera
ton, by the end Of this week and mex
week test will be given on the street
showing the difference in time it takes
the steamer to get to playing Il stream
with and without the heater
1 Geo. ". ellison of Brooklyn is here
for few weeks putting in the stage
furnishings for the Opera house. The
scenery, which is being put in by
a Chicago concern and includes seven
full set scenes besides the drop curtain
and requires 1l5 pieces in the makeup,
Is expected to be completed next week.
There was lots of questioning and
confusion and doubt what to do after
tho appearance of the item in both
the local papers last week that the
village schools would begin Monday
Jan. 18th. Neither teachers nor
pupils felt quite sure whether they
ought to show up last Monday or not
But the error this time was that of
the committeeman, not Of the poor
printer.
--Windham county was well repre-
sented at the Vermont Dairymen' s
meeting at Rutland this week, Gull
| ford taking the lead with Amos T.
Betterly and wife. r, b. Thomas, II,
J. Richmond, J. \. Alexander, Lowell
Bullock and }. E. Gale. CIV. Pierce
and wife, c. d. Whitman and wife.
Will Eames and Henry Akley attend
ed from Brattleboro l.. W. Boyd from
Wilmington and WIS. Allen from Jack
sonville.
The week of prayer has been oh.
served by the various churchs the past
week. Meetings have been held every
evning in the Baptist and Methodist
churches and last night and tonight
in the Congregational church. The
meetings have been well attended and
will be continued in the chapel of the
First Baptist church every evening
next week except Saturday. The
Mcthodists are also planning cottage
meetings for the coming week.
There is movement on foot to com
bine the various agricultural organiza
ton in the state into fair associa-
ton, and preliminary meeting was
held at the Bardwell house in Rutland
Wednesday. The societies represented !
were the Brandon Fair association, !
the Rutland County Agricultural
society. the Windsor County Agricul |
tural society, the Orwell, Brattleboro
and South Wallingford fair associa-
tions, the Vermont Association of
Road and Trotting Horse Breeders and
the Western Vermont Agricultural So
ciety. F. II. Harrington of Brandon
was elected president and II. W. |
Spaulding of Poultney secretary. a
meeting will be called by the secretary
soon, when a permanent organization
will be effected. The meeting will
probably be held in Burlington.
Department Commander Cannon
issued Wednesday General Order No.
La, giving the program of the G. \.
Z. annual encapmment at Rutland,
Feb. II and H. The formal opening
If the encapment in City Hall will
AXE place at 10 am, headquarters
being located at the Bardwell house.
The Council of Administration to
audit accounts, and also as Commit
ee on Credentials, Twill meet at head
quarters at 7 80 p. M, on the 10th.
list of all committees will be given,
With order of business. \ public camp
ire will be held on the evening of the
18th, under the auspices of Roberts
POST, at which Commander in Chief
Walker. Gov Woodbury. and other
,rominent visitors will be present and
eliver addresses. The following
omrades are recommended as addi-
ional aids on the staff of the Com .
handler in Chief; II. II. Hicks, Post
3, Perkinsville; George W. Tenney,
cost Ii, Rutland; Fl. W. Spofford. i
'ost IA, Rutland; George II. Hoyt,
'ost sc, Randolph. All indications G
oint to one of the largest and most i
njoyable encampments ever held in the +
attic. +
Twenty three of the corporators OF O
nc Vermont Savings bank sat down to y
leir annual dinner at the Brooks t
louise Wednesday. The feature of the O
ay was review by Treas. n f. r
abot of the progress of this sterling Il
rattleboro institution, the largest a
ut one in the state, since its corpora t
on, 40 years ago. Since then it has II
aid 80 regular and six extra divi- b
ends. He showed that the assets of A
lie bank are now bearing 57s per. z
mi. interest, while dividend of AZ t.
IL cent. has been paid to depositors. Sc
he bank has no foreclosed property W
I'd one-half of its liabilities are rep p
sented in bonds. During the past year 81
5 deposits have increased 1921, 931, its Il
sets S235, S32, making nearly $1,000 OF
ldition to the surplus and reserve, its OF
,nds Sl98, $40 and its mortgage in Il
stments 59S,375. During the past d'
ar 3442 people deposited in the bank Il
"a. 545, while 1886 people Withdrew q
posits to the amount of s40G. 600. The ct
nix has never required notice of in al
nded Withdrawals. The following ".
icers we're chosen: President, Fred of
iclk Holbrook: vice president, Will III
I'M s. Newton: treasurer \. +. u
hot; assistant treasurer, G. II. be
att: trustees, +. Holbrook, A.
hithed. d. D. Dickinson. +. Good NJ
10. ID. S. Pratt. G.. f. Greene. w. pl
Newton. Dennison Davis, n. +. bo
bot, c. II. Pratt, G. \. Boyden. .
1t is another winter of grip that is sp,
fore US. apparently. The disease is shi
wing a considerable run in the "w
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