The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-24

evening subject presente bv Rev. +
~ Temple next Sunday.
Jack O'Neil got his foot badly Gu
last Friday While cutting kindlings ant
was housed with it for Il week.
Some nine or ten of the cottages n
Chesterfield lake were broken into las
week, but nothing of value was fake,
from them.
Two cattle were brought into tow,
Wednesday for slaughter and though
or tne best looking were found afte
killing to be badly affected will
tuberculosis.
Captain Kidd, 'tho opera of whicl
bert Lesion Taylor. at one time on thu
Kefoormcr force, Is the writer. WA
produced in Manchester. n. H.. las
week, at the annual benefit of the
Press club, and scored signal success
--Retting Bros. have taken the con
tract to furnish the Gill home at Lud-
low. Some $1,000 is to be expended il
furnishing the home. The bed rooms
are to have iron, brass trimmed beds
as vel as couchcs or Morris chair.
ana all the furniture will be of sole
oak.
There will be change in the Sun
DAY time table of the electric cars. The
hrst car will not start from West Brat.
tleDoro until 9:l0 Il. H., instead of :4C
as heretofore and the first car from
Prospect Hill leaves at 0 a. M, instead
OIL 8 40 as formerly and will run on u
minutes time same as work days.
The reception given by Il Wales to
his dancing classes in Greenfield, Mass,
was very pleasant affair. Edwin
Spear played the piano and dancing was
enjoyed by the children, which was fol-
lowed by Il grand march at eigh-
O'Clock. After this came the fancy dan
cling in which Miss Marion Knight assist
| ted.
Next Sunday Rev. l.. d. Temple
Will begin series of sermons to his
morning congregations as follows
April 26, Coming of Christ May
ID. Millennium. or the age of moral
triumph May 10th. Preparation
for the milenial age" May II.
Paronsia, or the epochal coming of
Christi.
The electric light Co., finished the
foundation for its new engine Monday
and the engine is expected NAV 10.
The high water has bothered SO that
the gas works have been run without
| the condenser for the past week.
Saturday night the Rollins engine was
out of condition. SO that the cleo
trio lights and the street railway were
attempted to be run with one engine.
with the result that neither was very
satisfactory,
The late Mrs. Eliza. c. Stearns
who died recently at Lakeport. make
a number of requests of public inter
esttin her will. She leave $500 to the
Unitarian church Of this place and
800 more for Wells hall, $500 for the
home for the aged and disabled and
500 each to Rev. William l.. Jenkins
and Rev. John b. Green. former
pastors and 800 each to the American
Unitarian association and the Mead
vile, Pa, theological school. The re
mainder Of the estate is divided in
small amounts among her nephews.
nieces and other relatives.
j. A. Burrcl of Skowhcgan Maine.
father of Mrs. w. c. Carpenter.
fell 30 feet Monday from the staging of
honse whose building he was super
extending and struck on his head apd
shoulders. He was picked up for
dead. but tinaley returned to conscious
ness, though he is.stil lin "a critical
condition, and kept.under the Influence
of opiates. AS he is man of about 200
lbs. weight, it is wonder that the
accident was not Immediately fatal.
1t is the third time in year tina, a
singular mishap has befallen him.
Frank X. Harvey. the popular and
efficient hotel man, formerly of the
American house here and since of the
Marlboro house at Marlboro, \. H.,
has purchased the Atwood Ware place
near Westport. and will cypend some
81, 600 to 81, 800 in repairing it and
making it a first class hotel. as Il Hins !
dial Record correspondent says:
When Mr.. Harvey takes hold of a hotel
everyone seems to know Just where e stop and
he served in a proper manner. Woodbury. " |
Leisure are to furnish the new hotel
A gang of 6 men began work on
the electric road bed Monday under |
charge of y. d. Maan Their first job |
was at the mead of High street where !
they took out about 20 feet of
'padder's clay and filled with stone
where the road has had any trouble |
from clay except on Pine street where !
there is a stretch of about 200 feet !
that will have To be replaced, The !
force is now at work on Western ave
nue. where there is enough TO do to !
last the rest of the week and Canal |
street will be taken next week.
Among the cases to be tried at the !
April term of the Supreme court which |
opened at Greenfield Mass, Tuesday /
is the action of Geo. W. Davenport Of /
this place for a divorce from his wife |
Mary Glozer Jameson now of Cleveland, ,
Ohio. on the groJnd of deserrtion.
They were married at Rutland May >.
1873. and she left him Set 1877. She
started few years later to obtain di-
vorce from him but!did not succeed or
else gave 1t up. 1t is understood now
that she will resist unless some salts
factory money arrangement can be
made denying that she deserted him,
out claiming that she left to support
herself because at that time he was
Unable to support her. Hasllins and
Stoddard are her counsel and Green
md Davenport of Grafton for the
petitioner.
Will Harrington, ~ massachusetts,
convict who broke out OF the state
Prison at Concord ten years ago where
,e was confined for Il iewelry store
obbery. was captured here Saturday
lie has been in town two or three
lines before, working for some time
or Sooman Ncsbitt on the latter,,s
arm in West Brattleboro. j. Simonds
INC was at that time a deputy sheriff
ot IA descrpition::of him, but the fellow
of away before he could he arrested. !,
morning about half past two
'c,oclS Officer Hall saw him walking :