The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-07

The ice has again broken up
n the river, this being tho second tin
| this winter,
The closing reception OF the dancin
$ school at Hinsdale will be held at tn
town hall next Friday evening, til
|, 14th. Lcitsinger's orchestra. Mile
as caterer.
e. p. Squiers has bought of Waite
l.. Boyden the farm known as the LIE,
: Boyden farm in Guilford, also tn
sixty acre timber lot in Vernon. Sal
made by A. V. May, real estate agent
Tho last lecture of the Astronom
ical course at North street hall wa
given Tuesday evening by Rev. T.. B
course. The subject treated wa
Nebulae and the Milky Way" an,
despite the storm large number wer
present.
Rev. Hal d. Maxwell's horse in
dulged in runaway on High stree
Monday. The electric cars were ap
preaching, as was also another team
which Mr.. Maxwell's team colidet
with, and he was thrown out but no
hurt, although the sleigh was badly
demolished.
Pickerel fishing through lthe ice
continues to be fashionable sport,
but the catches reported are not as
large as of recent years. The process
of skinning' the ponds will have the
same effect on pickerel- fishing in a few
years that has befallen trout fishing
through the skinning' OF brooks.
There are sporting hogs as well as hogs
in business.
, A. NJ. Wright. formerly of Grafton
and brother in law of l.. j. Retting of
this place. is president of the Manu-
facturer's Piano Co., whose failure is
reported in our New World news. His
company has been very prosperous
one, but it was carried down by the
failure of the Weber, Wheeock and
Stuyvesant companies, with all of
which it was closely connected, hand
ling their Western business.
ID. Stoltc, Jr., who is taking Il
course in physical work at the Train
ing school at Springfield, Mass, has
received two very hattering offers the
past week. The first one came from
Lowell. Mass. to take charge of the
Y. NJ. G. A., gymnasium at that place
and the other was to take position
as one of the instructors of tho Train
ing school during the present school
year, owing to the resignation of one of
the instructors AS the class in which
he belongs numbers some SO members,
it is particularly gratifying to him to
be chosen from among them and he
will take this latter position in con
nection with his school duties.
The February Vermonter is as
usual a beauty geographically and ar
tistically and particularly interesting
to Brattleboro people containing 20
fine half tone engravings including a
view of a Brattleboro street in mid
winter, the new Canal street school
house, the Montpelier Seminary cam
pus in winter, and the frozen fountain at
the Soldiers Home in Bennington, all
to characterize il as a mid winter
number and full-page frontispiece
portrait of eN-Collector a. ". Beard
of Boston The cover illustration is
Willoughby mountain. the Dutchman s
Face and the Whale. The leading
feature is "a symposium on Young
Men in Politics. by Geo. NJ. Powers,
president of the Young Mems Repub
lican club of Vermont, G.. ii. Daven
port, who speaks according to the
headlines, from Democratic Stand
point, and makes something Of an
historical argument, Elk SenatorG Geo. |
f. Edmunds, Senator John NJ Thurs
ton of Nebraska. who speaks as son
IF Vermont, ID. j. Foster of Burling-
ton, tax commissioner, Congressman
W. w. Circuit and Collector b. b.
Smallcy and Col. Geo. T. Childs, the
Vermont members of the two national
a portrait of the writer
each article. President
Della M. Necdham of the Woman's
Relief Corps contributes an interesting
Irticle on that subject, and Capt. S.
:. Howard, formerly of Bratteboro, a
cry full one on the Vermont society
# Boston, with portraits of the late
o. Houghton. president OF
he society. Treasurer E. f. Silver,
'ol. Geo. n. Carpenter, Capt. S. f.
Toward, S. b. Whitney. Jas, r.
helps and Bejamin II. Sanborn. State
of Education NJ. S.
tone, of whom a portrait is also given, !
as a full and instructive article on
chool statistics for the year 1S94-5
u the educational department The |
'ermonter, which is published by G.. |
/. Forbes at st. Adams, at 81 year '
! for sale at all news stands.
Smoke the Conrad Dc. Straight.