The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-10

The Holstein Freisian Associatio,
are to take the rooms vacated by NJ
Drlslane's pool rooms.
The hop beer case of State V. C
H. EDDY a. Co., was continued at tn,
county court at request of defendent.
IL. ID. Ryder held a teachers OK
animation at the High school room
last Friday, some 30 teachers bein,
present to take it.
Company \ of the Boys battalion
VIII not drill tomorrow evening. Lieut.
daigh thinks that they have deserved
Il rest for one night. Their perfor
nance last Wednesday evening was
most creditablc and would compare
iavorabIy with any work in the state
The check list has been posted fol-
tho village meeting. But is il il lega
onot The statute requires in towns O
1000 or more inhabitants the street
and residence of the voter shall be op
posite his name, and the provisions o
the town check list apply to the vii
lagc.
A Bible conference conducted next
week by Rev. Geo. G. Neodham OF
Northfield, Mass, from Monday even
ing to Thursday evening will be hello
at the Baptist church. Services viii
be held each afternoon at O'Clock
and each evening at 30. The speakers
are Rev. !. 0. Scofield, d. d., o.
Northfield, Mass, Rev. Needham anC
wife and Rev. H. G. Mabic. d. d.
Everyone is invited.
The Free Library trustees had
| 10,
day CIV ening, rejected Col. X. Has
kins, president, A. c. Davenport,
treasurer, and II. B. Chamberlain Secy
and also reelected all the committees
except that +. X. Barrows goes on
the committee on librarian, from
which Gov. Fuller retired, ana of
which DIR. II. D, Holton was made
chairman.
Rev. f. G. Bass, the Methodist
! pastor of here some % years ago, has
just been elected presiding elder of
the New England southern conference
and also delegate to the general CON
ference that meets in Cleveland in
May. Rev. ID. T.. Miller, the pastor
here dozen or Is years ago and who
since joined the New Hampshire, con
ference. has been transferred TO that of
Maine.
). Il. Clark, the owner of Lin
den" has at the request of loca! horse
breeders concluded to stand that beau
tifu and high bred animal here an
other season. Linden had very
successful season last year and every
thing indicates an even better one this
year and naturally SO. because he is
Just the kind of horse it is profitable to
breed to in these times, when the de-
mand is for speedy handsome. gentle
man drivers.
States Attorney Fits has had Il
good many questions to answer about
the report in local paper that he
had compromised the beer case
against Fred G.. Gale, which people
naturally believed when they saw it
stated in the Reformer. that, by ar
rangement of counsel, the plea of guilty
was accepted with 500 fine This was
of course literally true. as such pleas
are usually arranged between the
counsel being offered on one side and
accepted by the other. And to the
hasty view it would look like a ICON
promise'', inasmuch as Justice New
ton found the respondent guilty of 80
specific offences and imposed fine of
Sl1OO. But the fact was that the
original complaint was for being a
common seller ;the statute provides u
fine of 800 for that. This was the
complaint that went TO county court
on appeal and when Gale appeared to
plead guilty to that it was to the whole
charge against him and there was
nothing for the state to do but accept
the plea. If Gale had stood trial at
the county court, as he did before the
Justice. and more than 10 offens2s had
been proved against him, he might
have been fined more, but for anything
between five and ten offenses under
the complaint only the sl00 fine was
allowable. The Inconsistency is in the
law. framed to make good thing for
proscuting officers without "killipg
the goose that lays the golden egg
There was a large audience preseo
at the Armory Wednesday evening
witness the annual exhibition drill %
the Bows Battalion, assisted by a com
pany of young ladies. The interest in
the programme was kept all through the
and was enhanced by a
spiritcd game of basket ball between
the Y. Nj. C. A. and Estey Guard
team at the close of which the score
stood 4 to 3. in favor nj the for
mer. The exercises began at 1880
O'Clock with a patriotic piece by the
First Regiment band, and at its con-
clusion Go B. and the cadets in charge
of Mai. f. W. Childs and captained
bv Geo A Childs and Percy Crowell, |
ali clad in blue uniform and white !
knee brooches and carrying regular
gun. marched out from the Battery |
headquarters in step to martial music |
and we're chcered TO the echo. Forming |
in tours they were brought into line in |
snlendid shape and after their cvolu- |
tiops and saluting the invited guests, |
who sat under canopy OF flags the
younr warriors wheeled out, in order
ia give a chance TO the girls who
came down the hall amid redoublcd
annlausc under command of Col. Bond,
lrd bv Sarah Cobb and Florence
iioodenough and presented as pretty a
SIGHT AZ the eye rests on, some ~
lassies. in all Brattleboro freshness
and beauty, ranging in age from il to
ia all attirod in white with white
Tam q Shanter hats, red sashes, car
rvinp wooden guns of white and gilt
and roing through the cvoutions OF
soldiers and special floor movement,
with both grace and precision. They
were followed by Co. j. IN charge OF
Iieut. Haigh and captaind by Ezra
wilcox. who gave the formation fol-
owe5 by a very pretty drill by the
;tilc felIoys who went through the
n,anual and other military evolutions
n"st ' rommcntlably. Then the girls
ave n drill in the manual of arms af-
l,.r ,hc new tactics, and Co. \. in a