The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-24

! LIZ cuFTcnt HulnDer OF Vne MuSlcd
Age contained II group portrait of tn,
Judges at the Columbian EXPOSE
t'on including +, p. Carpenter.
The railroads will sell round tril
tickets to the annual winter carniva
in Quebec. which comes tho 9th. ant
lasts . week, ut reduced rates. . Il.
Since the contractors left tn,
orchestra pit in the Opera house ha
been altered being sunk deeper and
extended under the stage so as to pro
vide room for an orchest ra of eight
j. Ii. Stearns plans tho erection o
an IS, 600 hotel, lO0x40 and three sto
ries high on this side of his dining
hall and as an addition to it. at Pine
Grove Springs at Chesterfield the com
ing season.
M. Armstrong. the plumber who
had shop here II dozen years ago,
and afterwards run one of the resorts
at Chesterfield Lake, has failed at
heene. He has himself gone to New
York and says he shalt never return.
Geo. b. Shcarer of Oneonta. n.
T., is in New York city for the pur-
pose of establishing an office FOR his
me.oharp business, and Ralph Fl. Reed
who has been his book keeper for the
past ten months, will have charge of
this Office
I Judge Royal Tyler has been housed
slncc a week ago Wednesday with a
severe cold, and weakness due to his
advanced age, intensified naturally by
the news of the death of his brother at
the same time as that of an old Har-
ward college friend.
The Wheel club hope to be able to
bring out their minstrel show before
Lent and Feb. Is is fixed as the date
at which this will occur. One pro.
posed feature is parade of from GO to
LOO men all arrayed alike through the
principal streets on the afternoon be
fore the show.
+. G. Crosby. L. +. Adams, c. W,
Wyman, w. f. Richardson. Geo. G.
Averill and G. 4. Boyden appeared at
the hearing before the bailitfs Friday
evening against the assessment laid
upon Main street property for the sewer
connection and extension out into
the Connecticut The case was fully
argued on the lines stated by the Re
former last week. The decision will be
clude to make any change.
John +. Toomey has just complet-
ed a clever electrical arrangement
whereby, when'a subscriber of tie tcle-
phone exchange calls the Central office
at night. the drop which fall on the
switch board rings the might" bell
and lights tho electric lights in the
central office at the same time, saving
the operator much time and patience
This switch, which Toomcy has in
vented is worked by the current gen
Grated in the subscribers bell and
the gravity drop wi probably soon be
patented by its young inventor
Rev. E. b. Lcavitt gave the second
of his series of astronomical lectures at
North street school Monday evening
The hall was well filled by AN appreci-
alive audience who listened with
much interest to the address. The
subject for the evening was 1.-THE
Planets and the EARTH treating also
upon the moons of the various planets,
and dwelling particularly on our moon.
The lecture was illustrated with charts
and photographs which added addition
al interest to the discourse The
next lecture in Mr.. Leavitts Astron-
omy course will be given next Monday
evening. Subject. Meteors, Shooting
Stars and Comets. Tickets at the
door.
Wheel club tournament: Jan. IL,
four ball billiards, Elmer l20. DIR.
Gale 102: Jan. IS, whist, Pratt and
Kimball 80, Holmes and knight :6:
duplicate whist, Harris and Smith
100, Thompson and Gregg 1G2, original
play "a deals: Jan. 20, three ball pool,
Tyler 100, Elmer 100, Putnam 90, Ian
dry 70: Jan. q, four-ball billiards.
Shattuck 100, Minor 50; three ball
billiards, Harris 100, Foster 102, Harris
wins duplicate whist, Harris and
Smith l49, Hunt and Robbins l6:i. re
play, Harris and Smith win by Is
points Jan. p, straight whist, Aus
tin and Bra7or IS, Thompson and
Gregg 81: Jan. -, whist. Gale and
Tyler, 43, Holmes and knight "a;
Jan. %, whist, Pettee and Shattuck
40, Gregg and Thompson y,
Miss Mary A. Jordan of Smith
college, who was to address the Teach
ers' Association Wednesday evening at
the High school house, was unable to
keep the appointment owing to lack
of proper notice from the committee in
charge. The word from her that she
could not come was not received I'M
til ) 30 O'Clock that afternoon; but
the gap was filled by Mrs. l.. ID.
Temple, wife of the new Baptist pastor,
who spoke most Interestingly before
Organization of Moral Work of Re- !
b, , al
or doubt that the treat (
was equal to that they would have en-
joyed from Miss Jordan, and all were |
with the fact that Mrs. |
Temple is a woman of intellectual |
quality whose part is bound to be one |
Of usefulness in any community. Point !
ing out as an introduction how agita |
tions in the moral world, particularly |
as shown in American history. take |
the form of thrills and surgcs, she |
found that in the past two or three
years there had been Il remarkable |
awakening along the line of higher
and against the great wrongs
that have grown up 10 be the great
systems of wrong III our midst. The
Baltimore Union. as one of the first of
these organizations of moral forces
was described in its work and pur
poses and it is the prototype of hun
lreds of others in other cities. A
great moral uplift to this kind of
work has been given by the Parkhurst
in New York. and the Unions
nave in different places adapted them
selves to the local needs in their own
environment. 1.-THE Woman's NUM-
.ipal League of New York. planned
" Dr. Parkhurst and his supporters
"a HMM 10 hear a nrcater fOrcn than