Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-10-28
BRATTLEBORO.

alytc stroke recently. His fpeeeh Is con-id-
erably affected.
A check for $5,736 due on an endowment
policy VAS forwarded to Dr' ,'eorge Leon
| Walker last week by Sherman " JENNIE.
| The ladies' aid ,ociety ofthe Baptist church
| will hold a social in the church parlors this
| evening, No admission fee VIII be charged.
Rev. Merrill C. Ward of bingham, Mass,
Brattleboro boy recently ordained as a Uni
versalist Clergyman, preached Ut the uniVer-
salist church Sunday.
The Sedgwick Grand Army post was
invited by Rev. l.. ID. Temple TO attend serv-
ices at the Baptist church sunday evening;
The relief corps, Sons OF veterans ana ana
society were also present.
| The woman's club is planning to hold its
| first annual reception at the nome OF Miss
Susan e. Clark at West Brattleboro Friday
evening Special electric cars VIII leave the
Baptist church at about 81.
Moses Deyo was opening bottle Of catsnp
last Wednesday morning when IL exploded,
| iniuring Mr.. Deyo's right eye so that it will
probably be removed. Heat from Stove had
caused the catsup to ferment'
| The Murray club held its annual meeting
for the election of officers at the parlors of the
| Uni, ersalist church Tuesday, evening. he
| freshments were served and there were selec-
| tions of vocal and instrumental music.
The large SQUASH which the football team
brought home from Putuey alter its victory
over the team there will be served III the
| form OF pies to the team ana associates at
reception which the entertainment committee
| Of the Yonnp Mems Christian association will
give this evening.
| Landlord Turner of the Hotel Brattleboro
served a came supper Monday night to local
hunters and visitors from Ashuelot, Hlnsuaie
| and other towns. The menu consisted among
other things, Of coons, rabbits, squirrels,
ducks, geese, cartridges and wooococK.
The postoflice department has PLACED
| letter box at the junction OF Locust ana Gnest-
nut streets in Esteyville, and IS displaying
daily forecasts from the weather bureau. A
postage stamp agency will be located there
soon. A recent count shows the population
of Esteyville to be 1872, occupying gu houses.
A very interesting game of football was
played at West Brattleboro Saturday after
noon between the West Brattleboro academy
| and the Putney teams. The result was VIC
| tory for the former by a score OF III to A, al
| though the Putney team was the heavier.
| The academy team exceled in individual
work, Putney gaining only by center plays.
A civil service examination for the grades
of clerk and carrier in the postal service will
be held in Brattleboro Saturday, December .,
| at 8 o'clock A. NJ, according to an order from
the United States civil service commission.
| The age limitations are: Clerk, over Is
years; carrier, over 81 and under 40. Appli-
cations must be filed with Miss F. E. Guild
on or before November 81.
Miss Eleanor Rutledge Burke, the second
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Lockwood
Burke of 81 Prospect place, Brooklyn, N. Y,
was married Thursday to Lewis Andrew
Gregg of Bratteboro. The ceremony took
place in the Protestant Episcopal Church of
| the Redeemer on Fourth avenue. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gregg will, after they return from the
south, reside in Bratteboro, where the BRIDE
groom is in business, and where his father is
one of the leading physicians. Mrs. Gregg
is graduate Of the Brooklyn girls high
school, and with her mother has been inter-
ested in several worthy charities
George w. Baker, the principal inventor of
| the White sewing machine, and, until about
Il year ago, mechanical superintendent of the
factories at Cleveland, o., died at his home
on the Putney road, about three miles out of
Brattleboro, Thursday afternoon, after a seri-
Gus illness of less than two weeks. During
the past two or three years Mr.. Baker had
done much to perfect the White bicycle,
which the White company is now putting ON
| the market. In the line Of mechanics and
| invention Mr.. Baker was II genius and
| Thomas White has often said that TO him
more than to any other man was due the
| credit for the success of the great3SNhite con-
Germ. Mr.. Baker was one of the large stock
holders in the White corporation, and he was
probably the most wealthy resident OF Brat
tleboro. Mr.. Bakers first wife was a Brattle-
boro woman and when they separated a few
years ago he is said to have settled upon her
$65,000 He was married in Cleveland over
three years ago to Mrs. Agnes HAlngraham.
who survives him. He also leaves son and
daughter by his first marriage in Cleveland
One of the New Hampshire breweries,
known as the "East Eagle" and located a
half-mile east of Brattleboro, was discovered
to be on fire at 9.15 o'clock Sunday night
The fire department responded and connected
with hydrants, but was recalled as soon as
the location of the fire was determined. The
building was one-story wooden structure
thoroughly dry, and it burned rapidly. Nc
fire in the vicinity of Brattleboro in recent
years has furnishished more spectacular
sight, the depths of s'Rattlesnake den
on Wantastiquet mountain being thor.
oughly illuminated. The building was erect
ed several years ago, and built up an extern
sive business, its patronage being largely thai
of the thirsty resident of Brattleboro. So lu.
crative was the business that another brewery
was started, whose competition, together with
the persistent prosecutions by the Brattleboro
and Hinsdale authorities, caused the "Eas
Eagle" to suspend business about year ago
which suspension has been practically perma
nent. The proprie tor had refused an offer o
$4,000 for the business. 1t is understood tina
there was an insurance of $4,000 on the build
| ing. The fire was doubtless of incendiary
origin.