The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-13

this week.
;, Horace Ii. Hall has exchanged hi
farkstreet resident for Frank Ii Dunl,
ces Dummersoin farm. Sale throug
t "A. V. Mays agency
"A. b. Goodale's express horse in
oulged in a runaway Monday Will
coming from the depot but was capture,
"eiore any serious damage vas done.
W. G. Horton has put in cups o
ornamental gatherers for the Wellsbacl
hgnts IN Hawley's store, making then
ter1ectly secure as the new pattern o
lights does anyway.
DR.. II. A. Roberts of Winsted. ct.
graduate of the New York Homoe
pathic hospital and brother of Mis-
Cora Roberts of the grammar school
WIN locate here May LIST, for practise
bailey q Miner have sold the new
mouse at West Brattleboro recently bull
10y II. S. Fisher, to Stephen A. Roberts
inc popular village blacksmith or
Cana! street. Possession given Apri
Vermont Wheel Club Tournament
and scores for week ending March y
A'iSS Duii plllluTtlS, CulIuS. ZDU
Foster. IS: Harris, 100: Childs, 125,
Harris wins on handicap. Pool, Nc
rae, ITO; Crosby, 81; Pettec, 100
Stockwell, 105; Pettec wins handi
cap. Duplicate whist, Kimbal and
Perry 1863; Gale and Minor, l43
Original play, "a deals.
Prof. W. J. Tucker of Dartmouth
viii give an address next Thursday
evening at eight O'Clock at the Con.
gregational church. subject ''Thc Value
and Limit alton of the Principal OF
'UtiIity'in Education. "This is free to
the public and is given under the aus
pieces of the Brattleboro teachers asso.
citation. Prof Tucker is an interesting
speaker and Il large audience should
greet him.
The Home Magazine of Washing
ton prints an interesting story of Miss
Grace Lincoln Temples experience in
decorative art, in which she has be
come quite proficient. Miss Temple
with her partner, Miss Elizabeth b.
Sheldon has a studio at the Carlo in
Washington, where they are doing
some excellent work in decoration and
design. Miss Temple is the neice of
Mrs l. 0. p Smith of kBrattleboro,
where she frequently visits.
The many friends here of Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Coane of Meriden, CT, will
sympathize with them in the death of
their only son, Charlie, aged about
two and a half years. which occurred
Monla morning at three O'Clock.
The child had an attack of grip"
about month ago from which he
never recovered. He was an unusu-
ally bright and smart little lad. The
body was brought here Wednesday and
the funeral held at G.. 5. Coane's in
Centrcvillc. Rev, Hal d. Maxwell
officiating
The Brattleboro Gas Co., con
Guided a contract Saturday with
the Brattleboro street railway Co. to
furnish power for two years from the
first of August 1896, at u reduction in
price which will of itself be sufficient
for quito a little divinend. The Gas
light Co., have also decided to put in
power plant whereby they will be
enabled to furnish electric power in
large or small amounts as consumers
require. They have already contracted
to furnish power to f. Crosby 4 Co.,
lOI IIdIulouS bIOIh Al paw Va INV
steam power now used
There seems to be no doubt that
Rudyard Kipling is the best paid wri.
ter in the market at present. Probably
the largest sum ever paid for one short
story was that which he has just re-
ceived from a New York editor. In re-
Gently publishing book, containing the
the Mowgli stories there was one new
one. 1t did not appear in the series
when publishing in magazine FORM
For the right to publish that in a pc
riodical Mr.. Kiplipg with the consent
of his publishers, received $500. No
such sum as that was ever paid, so far
as there is any record. for story of
similar length and certainly not for
the right to republish a story which
had already appeared between covers.
Royal f. Wyatt 81, died Tuesday
at the Whipple street home of the
niece of his wife, Mrs. Maverett
Howe. from a tumor on the brain with
which he had been suffering for sew
eral years. He had bee.' a resident OF
the town for two years but his health
had been such that few of our people |
knew it. he being in charge OF DR.. |
Lawton and other physicians. He had |
lived for three months after it seemed |
impossible to survive three days, and !
for the last few days moved neither |
hand nor foot. He was taken blind, |
doubtless as Il result of the trouble, |!
three years ago. tie was born in Chi |
cago but his people moved to Gill
when a boy At % he went to East |
hampton, then to Athol, till he moved !
with his wife, who was Ella Bascom,
TO Boston For IL years he was en-
ploved as travelling salesman for Bemis |
& Call of Springfield, thirteen states
and the Canadas being included in
his circuit. He was Il man of genial
and companionable nature and widely |
known. He was member of the /
Athol Masonic lodge. He leaves a
widow. father and mother, and one
brother. the latter three in Boston.
His funeral will be held at the Whipple-
street home to-day at . O'Clock, the
body being placed in the tomb until
Il is taken to Forest Hills for crema
tion in accordance with his request.
The will of Miss Martha Barker
has been filed this week. The follow
ing are the requests; To Mrs. Viii
liam S. Guild and her heirs and as
,ignces forever all her real estate or
house: to Misses Susan and sHarriet
Fox 500 each: to Frederick Guild,
1000: 10 Miss Emily Brown, 500: to
Ellen Brecnc and Katy Brosanhan,
80 each to Geo. +. Gale of Hyde
Park, $780, to Mrs. Elizabeth CHS.
void. Brooklyn. $500: TO Mrs. Samuel
Austin. Providence. 500, ana the ,
balance OF the estate To Mrs. William ;
). Guild. who is named IN the Will as
4; .I,hn will -rnG made in 1870. :