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

A chimney, some SeVcnty-nVc lee
! feet in length, is being put through tn
five floors of the Taft building on Fla
Rev +. b. Leavitt preached
very able and thoughtful sermon
Sunday on political topics. with IS
pecial reference to the Venezuelan
question.
Goddard and Pentand rather
swept things with their game bantams
at the Northampton poultry show
this week. They exhibited II birds
and brought home Is prizes. five OF
thmr tirsts, six seconds, five thirds
and two specials.
Henry &. Harris OF Greenfield,
died at his home yesterday from the Of
fects of Il shock. He was II years old
and had spent the past 40 years in
Greenfield. He at one time lived here
previous to moving to Greenfield.
The funeral will be held tomorrow.
Out of about 10 applications the
selcctmen have appointed Frank ID.
Wright town hall ianitor at salary of
5000 year. TO begin in full when the
opera house is finished. He was Sc
! lected because he is in the employ of
the town summers to run the steam
roller and he can combine the two du-
lies, as the town ianitor work will not
be very heavy during the summer
months.
As Brattlcboro enters upon what
is likely to prove the dulest winter she
has ever known in Il business sense, 1t
is time to ask whether we had not
better organize Il Board of Trade
l. 4 L.
though even that did some good in
its short lifc-but one that will have a
genuine solid basis, will be made up
not of 81 members, but of men who
will be willing to put up $50 or $50
year if necessary to insure persistent,
consistent and continuous work to
build up business, that will be in
shape to Investigate and improve
thoroughly every opportunity that
offers. instead of letting it slip by for
lack of any individual interest and
will secure for Brattleobro some of the
industries that other towns are con.
stantly getting. We are now altogether
too much of IA neindustry town, and
though the organ business is most
desirable one one that employs the
best kind of help, and one that is sure
to have a great future, it is a business |
that is more liable than any other to |
be affected by Il period Of hard times,
because its product is Il lxuury and it's |,
market chiefly among people whose
purchasing capacity is the first to be |
cut off, and we must have more of
other kinds. The other kinds that we
already have done much towards filling
the gap, but not enough.
Bennett Wheater, young man %
years OF age, started from his home in
Heuvelton, New York, Dec. "a for /
Springfield, Mass, having had the
promise of work in wheelright shop.
When he arrived he could not have the
Job. He was disappointed but not
Wiling to give up and go home again
without finding work, and hearing of a
ogging camp in Winhal he went to
3ondville stopping over the Sabbath
With W. +. Stockwell. He visited the
amp but found it was no place for
lin and returned to Brattleboro on
Monday and looked for work. stopping
It the Brattlcboro house. He was
disheartened and was about
eaving for home when John p Liscom
anne along and told him he would hire,
lin for the rest of the month, it being
DEC. 10th. He worked until the goth
when he was taken sick with what
vas supposed to be the grippe but
'roved to be typhoid fever. Among
traugers, away from home, he was
enderly cared for, but all efforts to
ave him were unsuccessful. His |
rothcr. in law, DIR. l. j. Fuller of 5
springfield came and watched over
i'm but nothing could save him and
1onday morning mt 8 O'Clock he {
reathed his last. The doctor left on {
he 10 O'Clock night train with the
ody for Ogdensburg. We sympathize 7
18th the parents, brothers and sisters i
tho have lost such a loving son and &
rother as no one met him but to feel i
nat he was worthy of love and respect {
Electrician Geo. II. Niles has been !.
J Athol, Orange, Springfield and :,
Iolyoke, Mass, this week looking
yer their fire departments and study :
~ their apparstus. lie says on his !,
turn home that he never felt so "
roud of Brattleboro before. These "
Their places have invested dollars !.
here we have cents, but on the whole =
lcir arrangements are not so good as y
lrs. Ours are uptO date in every 7
spect, while there are some points y
each OF the others in which they VI
e behind. This is Enthusiastically 81
lie, and the result is that fire losses u
town for a dozen years past have p
'cn reduced to almost nothing :"
nd yet insurance rates keep y
ling up. 1t is time for business men W
move in an organized way to get ~
me of the benefits of all this money IT
lich we are spending for fire i'm
ovements, but all of which the in
rance companies have pocketed thus
+ or applied to meeting losses in h,
her places which have not 1.-THE of q
r protection. There is Just one in
ing more needed here to put our ca
partment in an ideal condition and do
at is "A combination hose cart and III
eimcal engine which would be most ",
icaclous in small or incipient fires We
d would avoid the water damage r.,
itch is so apt to he the chief item m,
loss. But it may be difficult to in nm
&c our poplc to make the expendi. br
re until there is change for the G,
tier in the insurance situation. tn
The annual report of the Maiden. Sh
1885,. school board contains this tn
asant notice of a former Brattlc- &c
'ean and native of Jamaica: we
school committee, in May, voted to employ a an
ciai Instructor in pcnmanshp, 1t seemed as at
essary TO devote special attention to penman- Of
as 10 drawing or music; in earlier time IT,.
1tinS schools" were quite common In New III
.land; now the business college gives special We
nton 10 penmanship. but In the public Ia
,ols 1t has become mere routine work, an lrk- g.
c task for both teacher and pupils. 81
committee were fortunate in securing the fri
ices of j. l.. Howard, of Brattlcboro, VT, IA
sc work in that city, and in Bellows Falls -,
made the schools of those cities known the De'
ltry over for their special excellence in Gle