The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-17


The Vermont Maple Sugar Makers as;ocia
tioa will hold its fourth annual meeting ana cA
hibit OF products in the city hall ut montpelier
Jan - B. The programe includes an address ny
President Frank Kenfeld of MOrrisyil!e; READ
ing OF prize essay Effect OF Soil, Climate ana
t Locality upon the Quality and Quantity OF Ma
pie Products; p paper BY l. Tabor; Of West
Flavor In Maple sweets" discussion, topic
t "Bounty Now Due Producers Probability OF
I Receiving Same" led by President kenheiu
! address Future Prospects and Possibilities OF
| Vermont Maple Sugar and syrup as a irohta-
bile Farm Crop Hon Josiah Grout. Of Derby.
Thursday, prize essay, Bounty or larih, Whlcn
! best subseryes the interests OF Maple sugar
Producers; prize essay, "How 10 produce
the most per tree at the lowest cost per pound
of best quality Maple sugar and syrup; us
tect our maple products from hdultcrat0ns ana
fraudulent i'm tation," led by Hon j Bell OF
Hardwck. About 800 are offered in premiums
state SpirituaIi,t Association.
The annual meeting of the state Spiritualint
Association convened at Montpe or Friday
morang with an cncouragingly large attend
ance q Newton OF Montpelier gave the al
dress Of welcome, TO which Dr ; Goud OF
Randolph responded, Addresses were made by
Mrs Abbie W Crossetl of DuNbury, vice presi.
dent, Sarah A Wiley OF Rockingham and a {
Robinson of Cincinnati, Ohio. \ smith OF
Brandon, the president was in the chair Friday
afternoon The regular lecture was given by
Mrs sarah \ Wiley, d Styles of Weymouth,
Mas, read poem, and the conference speak
Il
Mrs f. l. Paul of Morrlsyille and New
man Weeks Of Rutland. In the evening DR. G W
Hidden If Ncwhuryport, Mas, lecturcd on
1.-The Needs oi the Hour" DIR Hidden occupied
the chair Saturday morning and led the confer
ence. He spoke on "The Doctrine of Law and
| Organization" and was followed by Newman
Weeks OF Rutland, T W Whitney OF Wtlliston
and Dr f. 4 smith OF Brandon. Hubbard
OF Tyson gave the lecture OF the morning, and
Mrs Sarah Wiley of Rockingham, Mrs Abbie
| Crossett OF DuNbury and Mrs q j Nichols OF
| Barre spoke ON woman Suffrage" At the
afternoon session Mrs Emma Paul of Morris
willie spoke on Modern Spirtualism Not Amy
| thing New and j ID styles gave . descriptive
I seance. At the business meeting that followed /
| the old board OF officers were elected; Prcsi'
dent, DIR Smith OF Brandon vice presidents,
Mrs Sarah \ Wiley of Rockingham and +
! Hubbard OF Tyson; secretary and treasurer,
Janus Crossett of DuNbury; auditor, a Hub |
bard of Tyson; board of managers, Don Chap |
man of Fletcher : y Gould of Randolph, New. 1
man Weeks OF Rutland, Mrs Hammond OF Lud. |
low, Mrs Eastward of Winooski, Mrs Walker OF /
St Albans, T. u Clement Of Barnet, George Rip |
ley OF Montpelier and l. y smith OF st Adams |
SATURDAY, evening, DR. W Hiddenl lcctured on |
the theme 'Of such is the Kingdom of God" I
which was followed by n descriptive seance by /
j - Styles, sunday morning Dr W Hidden I
opened the meeting with an address ON TEN
perance." The regular lecture of the morning
was delivered by Mrs Abbc Crossett Of DuX-
bury on I'VE Are Il Builders" The speakers
al The conference were John Nitherell of Mon
treal, r O. George Whitney of Williston, Don
Chapman OF Fletcher. Mrs q Nichols OF Barre,
Randolph Mrs Sarah Wiley of Rockingham,
DR. f Smith of Brandon, George W Ripley
and Aaron Bancroft of Montpelier. In the after
noon Dir c w Hidden lcctured Ills theme was,
AT the Threshold of the Great Beyond J ID |
Sly les of Weymouth, Mass, recited an original
poem, following 1t with q descriptive seance
The closing session was sunday evening. bt G
W Hidden lectuTed on "Hypnotism, Its | SEES
and Abuses" and ID styles gave Il long de
scrlptlvc seancc.
Hotel Men Complete Their Organization.
The hotel men formed an organization Tues
day night to work for the repeal or modifca
ton OF the prohibitory law. The organizations
are! Addison county, S Scrgontut Middebury;
Bennington county Il g sinclair of North Ben
nngtOn; Caledonia county, " Webb of Lyn
donyilie ;Chittcndcn county W d johnson OF Is
sex Junction; Essex county, II Best OF Enos.
nnrsh tais Grand a lsie county IliIliker Of
OF stowe; Orange county. J + Hale Of Wells
River: orleans county, ID W Sisco Of Newport;
Rutland county, II Carpenter Of Rutland;
Nindham county. q + Richards of Brattehoro; |
Windsor county, X W Moore of White River
Junction.
Korean Queen Lives.
\ romance equaiug anything which Rider
Hasgard ever wrote comes from Seoul, the cap.
ital OF Korea and 1t is TO the effect that the
dered in the conspiracy and attack on the pal
ace last November, is still alive. When the
Koreans and Japanese broke into the palace
the queen, seeming danger, hld hastily without
speaking to her women, in an obscure Clubhouse ,
saw the bodies of her ladies in waiting dragged
10 the pyre prepared for them outside. and
watched the completion of the tragedy from her 4
hiding place The queen was concealed for an
hour and half, every moment expecting dis I
c very She fled at last through secret pas.
sage in the old palace, and thence after chang.
Ing her dress. made her cape ontside the Y
walls of the city, where she reached place OF
safety; When the japanese and Koreans ex- I
AHMED the charred bodies of the swomen who !
mad been burned the king and some others
,hrewdly teigned that they had discovered the +
IDENTITY of the queen in one of the victims, lest
search should reveal her whereabouts and
cad to her murder. The Japanese accepted
he account of the queens death as true. Three
Koreans were strpgled last week as the
iueen's murderers, while the trial OF viscount
Nura and other Japanese officials Is proceeding
u Hiroshiman for the murder of a woman who
tiIl lives. Li-han shin, the leader of the last
,borttve plot, Is in hiding here
Fire originating in the basement near the fur |
lace Quilted the rear rooms in J II Holmes
house, at Rutland, early Monday morning
The trustees of the Montpelier Seminary have
,oted 10 dispense with the sevices of Rev II A |
spencer as financial agent after April l. This
Institution has recently received legacy of the
arm and stock of Charles McAllister of Mont
,omery, valued OF 5000.
The Vermont prison labor has been contract,
ii for at - cents day, the largest amount per
lay ever received in the history of the prison |
Z is said to be thelhighes, price paid for state I
'rson labor in the United States.
The acauemy at westsDerby is nearly com.
'ieteh. II is a beautiful. commodious and well I
pl,ointed building.
Joseph Wade, of Poultney, more than 20 vears T
4 age, has been missing since Christmas. ON | r
hat day he was near Hampton under the | +
influence OF liquor, wandering in the fields | =
little was thought of this at first, for il was sun
oseh that he was visiting friends at Granville
afterwards, however, fears became more mo | =
onnre'i, and now search parties have been +
boxing for HIM.
"Eperlau s5s.'' French coach stallion VA
Old al auction ~ Brandon Saturday OF Ia, 4
leek Tor Sll5. This horse was bought Inv a
toek company nt Brandon men ABOUT Two vs,rs q
20 for s2.5Ht. 'N'is
william l.apoini, a 81 Adams farm hand Is g
ears "id- while ivc'iing Shredder a m, q
nine used for cutting up cornstocks had ~ :
gu hlhh caught by the rapidly revolving Z
hiIcs and that member wuh his whist W. 81,
, shrc,is almost 10 his elbow, A surgeon am.