The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-03
THE REFoRMER: BRATTLERoRo. VT. FRIDAY JULY 8 1896

! "A new CRATE has been put in a
! the lookup whore the second man 90
out recently Probably the next on
. WIN KICK his way through the panel
utes. W.
-Ihere were nine bicyclists from
springfield, three from Northampton
, Two from Chester, two from Green
, ned, and two from Munson at III,
brooks House Sunday, all coming Of
: their wheels. :
They do say that seven or eigh
, nrattleboro sprinters made the dis
lance OF five miles FROM the scene O
lae ire to Putney depot Tuesday il
~ minutes, and only one failed to ge
J there on time.
w X Ware will have celebration
az Lakeside, Chesterfield, tomorrow
with the Brattleboro Chesterfield base
Dali game and a dance in the evening
with music by the Philharmonic or
The Peoples National bank, be-
sldes 1t regular sem.i.annual of 3 ne,
cent. have declared an extra dividend
OF one-half per cent from the accum
uiated surplus, which is now equal tc
the capital
letters have been received from
Kev. l.. d. Temple from Durham, Eng. ,
where ne visited the cathedral, stating
mat his next point would be Edin-
burgh. He says the country is too
rough there for the use of bicy lie,
put the cyclometer that the Ruthia MS
gave him registered $40 miles.
i -Advices from Springfield yester-
day state that Eugene Knight who was
beginning to pick up strength encour-
agingly, has had another set back in
the formation of bad abscess which
is discharglng copiously, in the wound.
ed lung. The physician in charge says
tbat II he RECEIVERS at all it will take a
| long time.
IS. b. Emerson has returned from
a several weeks tour of the west look
ing after his business interes tn. He
is a shrewd and ool.headed observ-
Ell, and his judgment is that the po-
litical conditions out there arc lrevolu-
tlonary. He says the disposition is one
Tor change, regardless of consequent
ces, and with the belief that things
can be worse.
All the insurance in the Guilford
fire last week was through the agency
of Sherman e. JENNIE. There was 81, 600
on the building aud $500 on the ma
chinery of s. A. Smith g. Co., in the
vermont Mutual, 81, 300 on the house
of W. L. Boyden, for which he had Civ
en- bond for deed to E. P. Squ.ers,
and $3.50 on the household furni ture
and $3.50 on produce, tools, wagons,
etc, of Mr.. Squiers. in the New Eng
land
The selectmen nave r"1 a blow
off for the boilers under the town hall,
and so connected it with the sewer
down the bank-one of the multitude
nous things that were left undone in
the opera house scheme. A large new
tin pipe ventilator is also being put in
by Calvin to take the place of the
hemlock box--which was really chiefly
a framework of cracks which was
called the ''ventilating shaft" and
which amounted to simply nothing
for that purpose.
The Swedish Evangelical Mission
church will have a Mission Meeting"
beginning Friday, the 10th of July
and will continue oyer Sunday, the
18th of July, The meetings are to be
held in the Mission CHI arch on West
street at Z 30 p. NJ, on Friday and
10 30 a. M, and 7 30 p. M,
on Sunday. The fJllowing pastors will
preach Rev. L. W. A. Bjorkman,
Hartford, Conn. Rev. j. M. Henrik
son, Orange Mass. Rev. .Thunbargh,
Brattleboro, and Rev. G. Suber, Chi
cage, III.
Col. G. Fl, Bond.. had an experience
with electricity the night of the fire at
Guilford He went up to the Catholic
to locate the fire, which
seemed so near, and coming down, went
after some rapping. into the office of
the electric railway on Pine street to
telephone. Not succeeding in raising
anybody on the telephone he started
out. The door. it seems, is charged with
to guard against trespass
,rs. In taking hold of the knob to en-
ter he had no trouble, but in going out
ne cot his finger on the spindle back
IF the knob and with the other hand
yrasped the standard of car, while
standing on it's step a foot or so above
he floor, in order to swing the door
open. In this way he created com
olete circuit, clutching his hand SO
close on both sides that it was impos
,ible to pull either off, while he felt
he current in what seemed to be a
terrible volume passing through him.
He tried to call for help, but could ar
,iculate nothing, only make a noise.
). f. Mason and G. W. Bliss near by
heard the noise and thought some one
vas being murdered. and the latter
made some search, but without learn
NO its source in season to be of help.
Col. Bond had presence OF mind
enough to throw his body forward and
is weight from that height released
he hold which his strength could not
10. He believes that few moments in
h at position with the current contin-
,ally passing through him would have
Tiled him. and electricians say it 1
would have been likely to burn him
o'death, unless fall upon uncon
ciousness accomplished what he ana {
~ his tumble on purpose. For nan
Ia. hour afterwards streaks OF pam
hot through his body like neuralgia.
The second finger of the right hand was
,urned through to the bone where 1t
vas against the knob spindle and a {
Iole in the back of the hand was !
,urned large enough for buck shot /
nd under the ring of the little hnger (
# the right hand the flesh was white {
nd the general feeling was one OF
turning not clustering. t
The listers filed their final abstract
+, tho town clerks office Saturday. 1t
hows; s.a.s- 4
own Grand List, ss4iss'sa .
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