The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-31

Sept. 30 and Oct.1 were the dat,
iixed at Fridays meeting for the Va
ley Fair this year.
--Pullen Il Crosby began cutting il
yesterday at Fletcher's mill pom
D finding it n inches thick. They al
: TO build an ice-house on the shore {
{ the pond.
E. E. Knott has more attractiy
advertisement than ever in this issu
OF our paper These advertisement
should make enterprising people thin
and investigate
Last weeks Independent contain
an interesting article ON the "Dutc
Boer'' from the pen of Rev. Levi
9rout, who was so long 4 missionar
in South Africa.
To-day closes the towns hsca
year, and tomorrow will begin tn
settling of the accounts of tow
officers. Road Commissioner Eames
account, 1T is understood, will oycrrul
the highway tax by about 500.
| Sherman IL JENNIE have recent,
PAID to the family of Jewett j. Pierre,
or East Putney So, 2l4, tho amount o
ms life policy of 50, 600 and premiums
paid in cash. The insurance was il
tho Mutual Life of New York
The trolley road has done quite /
business this week running extra carr
evenings. Monday evening one wa.
run for the leap year dance Wednesday
evening Tor the meeting for the
Daughters of the Revolution and last
evening for the Rainy Day club.
The Burlington police made 627
arrests last year, 253 for intoxication
and, lib for selling and furnishing
liquor. The whole number is about
~ times as many according to popula-
tion as Brattleboro, even in the years
when we have the most prohibition. "
The law of consolidation, so widely
operative in the business world, is the
only one that seems to operate with
the breweries. L. c. Gale as sold his
East Eagle" brewery to o. II. Ellis,
proprietor of the West Eagle" so
now the citizens will do their irrigat-
ing all at one place as they gather to
felicitatc each other over the beauties
and effectiveness of prohibition.
The clerk of the town district has
lust filed his report of vital statistics
which added to those of the village
districts made several weeks ago shows
12S births and ia deaths during the
year '95. OF the births Is were of
parents who were both natives of
Brattleboro, lG of Swedes % Irish, II
Canadian and three German. OF the
deaths Ia were from consumption.
By ages two were between 80 and 100,
IL between so and 80, 80 between 70
and so, % between GO and 20. ~ be-
tween 80 and co, four between 40 and
80, il between 80 and 40, six between
20 and 30, and q below 20
C. W. Wyman was at Middlcbury
Wednesday to attend the meeting OF
the state committee of the prohibitory
party. The talk about the party dis
banding proved to be without founda
ment Mr.. Wyman is in, being man
whose pluck and persistence are en-
titled 10 respect, however we may
disagree with his ideas. 1t was decid
eel to hold the mass state convention
for the nomination of the state ticket
and delegates to the national convcn
ton at Montpelier Thursday, May T.
National Chairman Samuel d. Hickey
and John G. Wooley are expected to
be present and will address the con-
Arrangements will be made |
to enter upon general campaign, at
once. The national committee has
assistance.
Ed. Reformer, Sir have no
criticism to offer of the selectmen's |
of Mr.. Fox as opera house
manager, but if it involves, as ! under
stand it does, tho plan to have the sale
If tickets at his news room, l hope it
IAN be modified. While his store is
we'll located for the con
'eniepcc of the great majority of our
,eople, to go round there would involve
extra travel for those
PEOPLE who are the chief purchasers of
eserved seats, majority of whom
Jan't some plan be devised to meet
he convenience of these people by
ividing the sale and having part of
at Durgin's drug store, one half
f the house there and one half at
'ox's store, each containing equally
God selections and merely saving
eedless travel. w.
In addition to the account given
asst week of the death in Boston of
loses Woolson, High school school
,aster here 1S4l-3, it should be said /;
nat his disease was cancer of the
tomach and death closed an illness of
light weeks. He was born in Con-
ord, n. H., "a years ago. He had
)llowed the business of teaching dur I
lg the greater part of his life, having
sught in Concord, in Portland, Me-,
incinnati, o., and in Boston. During {
le later years of his life he was chiefly ]
1gaged as private tutor, having fit =
d many a young man for college who
as since made his mark in the world. r
he Boston Journal says of him: O
Mr.. Woolson was man of marked
a thorough scholar, widely b
ad. of great sincerity of purpose, "a n
alter of shams and all in all, a re n
arkably strong character. o
The selectmen have appointed Geo. /
Fox manager of the opera house. :
here were a number of applications,
1t taking everything into considera o
on the town fathers thought this the IL
,st selection. The conditions of the :
,pointment are that the management o
all not cost the town anything, shall a y,
I'VE no salary attached to it and no v
requisite for the manager except such u
estige as it may give him in hand D
~ the show business; but even in al
at he shall have no monopoly but be
auired to rent the hall on any open ls
te to anybody who wants to bring .
ow here or put one on, even if it &c
the night before the manager is to OF
We one himself. There certainly is II
thing to be said against of the fair az
IS of such arrangement towards the %
yn. and doubtless on the average and -