The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-17
THE REFoRMER BRArTLEBoRo VT. FRIDAY APRIL H. 1885,

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w. II Kinson led of one day thi.
week with trip to Massachusetts
from which he brought back half 1
dozen trout. two weighing a pound
and half.
-RevW. III. Collins received letter
from Bishop Hall this morning saying
that owing to illness he was obliged &c
cancel all engagements for this month.
therefore his visitation to Brattleborc
hXed for the Goth, will have to be post
poned,
AT the meeting of the woman's club
IN the Congrt gational chapel last Fri
day the constitution and bylaws
brought in by the committee were
adopted with very little alteration.
They state the object of this club to be
to promote the intellectual! and so
cial life of its members which shall
consist of ''active and associate"
members, the former paying 50. adj
mission. and the latter, who mag not
be able to participate in the active
work S} annual dues 81 the associate
membership never to eXcec the active
Application for membership to be made
| to tho board of directors and be voted
on by the club, three adverse votes be-
ling suflicent,to reject. The officers con
sist of president, secretary and treas
ursr and board of six directors repre-
senting each of the Protestant church
es. two being elected for one year, and
two for two years and two for three
years, with vacancie1 to be filled at
each annual meeting; all elections to
be first by an informal ballot, after
which the formal choice shall be made,
from the three receiving the highest
number of votes, and by plurality.
The constitution may be amended on
motion al any meeting by a two-thirds
vote. The club voted to mold their
meetings during the spring the
first and third Friday in each month.
At the meeting to-day Miss GowIng
and Mrs. Temple will read the papers
spoken of last week and the programme
for the meeting to pc held May LIST.
will be given in next week S paper. All
ladies whether members or not are in
vited to the meeting.
Some prominent citizens suggest
with reference TO the insurance prob
lem that the thing to do is to start a
mutual company or town insurance
scheme. They point out in support of
the latter proposition that if it had
been done 10 years ago and the same
rates paid and percentage of expenses
incurred as in the insurance business
generally, the town would have fund
of at least Sl15, 600 left on hand with
which to meet future contingencies.
But purely town insurance scheme
would be open to serious question as
to its constitutionality if resting on
taxation basis and whether Cor not on
that basis, would:be Il violation Of the
real insurance principle in not having
"A wide enough reach over which to
spread losses: conservatively written
insurance avoids big risks for any one
company in any one locality just the
opposite idea from the town scheme.
A mutual company. if ii confined itself
to Bratteboro. would be in the same
dicfiiulty, and if it went to fortlfying
itself by writing outside, would be en-
tering business field in which the
outlook is generally most discourag
ing and would not be unlikely to run
into the same thing of which we are
now complaining. collecting cXces-
sive rates mere to pay excessive losses
elsewhere. The thing to do is to APP
point committee at the coming vii
lage meeting to confer with the in
surance people. learn what further i'm
provements they wan { to.grant re-
auction OF rates, and what reduction
they will agree to make il the i'm
provements are nade-in other words,
get them to deal with the town as they
do with individuals and corporations,
onithe specifically rating System. t
has become clear enough that so far
as improvements are made, without |
such an understanding in advance the |
will absorb the benefits aud |
collect full rates, while the taxpayer |
foot the bills for the improvements |
When building is put up, the owner /
is told that for each item of safe |
guarding against fire, he shall have a
certain reduction in rate. There is no
reason why towns as whole should |
not be treated in the same way, and 1t !
is only business to ask 1t
Henry A. Weatherhead V. Bratte
boro jelly Co. a petition for tenn
porary injunction, was heard before
Judge J.. NJ. Tyler AS chancellor at /
Haskins 4 Stoduard's Office yesterday
rents his power from the
Jelly Co., and ever since he began
TO do so last November there has
been more or less trouble to the other
of power from the Jelly Co.,
laundry and the Reformer
office. 1t became,so bad few weeks ago
as to practically stop the business of
both, causing the Reformer to miss
every one Of its mails one Friday, max
inc considerable trouble in the same
yav on other days and greatly en-
and somewhat damaging
its machinery by sudden changes from
very slow to excessively rapid power.
For some reason it was much worse
Friday afternoons than at any other
line. Friday forenoons and Wednesday t
afternoons when the same or equal
machinery is run the power has been
much better. The Jelly Co., formed "A
theory AS testified. that Weatherhead
was screwing down the mill stones too
+irht or doing something else for the
purpose of making trouble, and SO mas
thrown off his belt two or three FRI
Law afternoons and this petition was
to prevent its being done
,oaIn. Weatherhead showed written
ease from the Jelly Co.. agreeing to
furnish him power, and nothing was
,pecificd as to how much he should
lavp. But it was shown by witnesses
hat the understanding was . horse
1over. and the jelly Co. claimed that
ne represented that that was all he
wanted. He denied that and also that
10 never knew how much was needed
,e said the talk of D horse power was
,asrd entirely on figures that Ira
, dams: engineer for the company
.nund in a book As Il matter of fact
was shown by +. q. Frost. of1whom
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