The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-05
THE REFoRMER: RRArTLEBoRo. VT. FRIDAY JUNE S 1896

me other side of the mountain is
aoi,tIe ana the smoke can be plainly seen
on TINS side, coming up in volumes,
w e Hubbard had an interview
with the Healer Newell in the New
York Herald Sunday which that paper
syndicated.
There are now so men at work ON
lne Lyons quarries at West Drummer
ston and they are unc overing some
very choice layers of stone.
Maj. Josiah Circuit was at the
BROOKS house yesterday, stopping over
on his way to bennington from .
clock till today to meet some of his
many workers here.
There will be meeting of the
state board of health next Thursday at
the Brooks house at 10 m to organize
a county sanitary association and to
hear suggestions.
Six or eight carloads of refuse
gravel are being dumped daily to fill
tne narrow gauge washout on the
bradley meadow. The work is about
half done and when completed will be
a solid one.
The bailiffs have appointed Je
rome Corbett and Charles Endlich
special policemen for Prospect Hill +
II Thayer and Mr. Worden for Estey.
vile, David Carey for the railroad sta
tiou grounds, and Mr. Ransom for the
Brattleboro retreat
John Davis and the chief of police
were learning to ride bicycles Wednes
day evening on the square. The chief
got so he could ride, but John 8 shoe
caught in the sprocket and he got
tied up and thrown off, fracturing the
bone of the right forearm and tearing
a ligament
Hiss Mary0Lee Fisher, well known
here where she spent one winter and
spring with her grandmother, Mrs
George Kellogg, at ex Gov Holbrook's,
writes local friends of some exciting
experiences in the st Louis cyclone.
She was married at O'Clock that day
to Leonard Fdssett and at ) O'Clock
the cyclone struck the city and demo-
ished the church where the ceremony
was performed. :She and the wedding
party had been at their house but a
short time when they took to the cy-
clone cellar and the windows of one
side of the house were blown in. The
carriage and horses in which they came
were blown to pieces. Her father is
treasurer of the Eads Bridge company
and her brother also works there. The
latter attended the Wedding. engaging
another man at his post, who was
killed and her father saved his life by
seeking refuge in a barber shop.
4 H. Pratt the insurance coiic
itor who was arrested here last week
on action by III NJ Adams and Hidreth
a. Co., and skipped his bail only to be
mobbed when he reached BelowsFails
on aonther action by DR. + Campbell.
was brought here by Officer Thomp
on Tuesday. j II Blakley of Bello VS.
Falls also had case against him for
embezzilng mileages, and he and Dr.
Campbefl boarded the man for "a week
in hopes of getting something out him
and surrendered him when convinced
that his tales of money coming
he was not at all in a paying Woodland
protested Willingness to ia the poor
debtors oath and instead of putting
MIN through that process. the credit
ors decided to let him go. He even |
= worked" the plying Thompson for
81 AS soon as he was released, he |
made his way across the river, fearing |
that Fall RIVER officers would be after
him He next appeared in Greenfield, |
registering at the Mansion house as
f b Thayer, Boston, and was ar
rested there on complaint of Manager
G " Lanfair of the Postal Telegraph |
who loaned HIM S25 some five
years ago, just before coming to Brat
teboro, PROMISING to send it from here
the next day" The Springfield Re
publican correspondent says he gave
Lanfair satisfactory security and |
was released If so, he fooled the Yer
mont officers and victims in good |
shape
Protect your cucumber vines by |
using Plant Covers sold cheap by Rob
bins q COwles adv.