The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-15
BELLOWS FALLS.
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The annual athletic meeting of tnt
Conn, Valley Athletic Association
which comprises the schools OF
Claremont, Windsor, Newport and Bel
lows Falls. meets ut Clnremon' Fri
day May 22d. Six or eight contest
ants 90 from here to compete in the
different sports.
The span of horses, recently pur
chased by W S Durham at Rich
mond arrived in town Sunday night.
Acc,uents.
Larry Dunn, an empluyc Of the
Morse 4 Thompson Paper Co., while
fooling fell and broke his ann Sat
u,day.
Ed Stack, huck tender in the eln
ploy of the Fall Mt. Paper Co. slipped
in the mill and broke IA bone in the
light l,g Wednesday morning
Mrs. Green On the silver Question.
Mrs. Hetsy Green is blossomlns out
into a good deal of a newspaper writer.
Following her recent article in the n.
Y. Sunday Wor d on "How to Get
Rich." she hal another in the World
last Sunday III reply to Mrs. Mary +.
Lease on the silver question:
do not at all agree with Mrs Lease in her
scheme Of demonetizng gold. IL Is nonsense.
nately exist, but her remedy is not the right one.
The country is shockingiy In debt, partisanship
ie mistaken for patriotism. and there are fraud
what good IL would do to demonettzo gold
There is plenty of theOrizing, but am sure that
plain honesty counts for more than all the
theories.
Changes are always harmful to the business
world A yonng business man who was trans
ferred every week from one field OF work to an;
,tt.h M
the country, If shifted about from one money
standard to another, would find itself worse of
than II Is today.
don't know how silver would work If accept. |
et as the single currency, but do know that
honesty is worth more than either coin.
Shrewdness and cleverness would all be very |
well In the people that manage the national H. |
nances If they were not mixed up with actual !
dishonesty.
Who will lie the next President The man
who will let the treasury be robbed of the most
money. Nobody else
How is a railroad president chosen? For his
ability to rob the public Everybody knows that.
These facts Indicate Il pretty bad state of ar
fairs, but they have nothing to do with the de-
monetiZation of gold.
In one sense parties and politics have nothing
directly to do with the case, yet II these over
ergy that they devote to swap Ing and barter.
ing votes in honest efforts to buiid up the good
of the country there would be no financial
IaOiietizng gold to bring the country back to
safety and honesty.
THE situation is just as bad as Mr. Lease paints
II, but we should make mistake II we tempered
with our money standards.
Amusements.
The Bohemian glass blowers under the aus.
pieces of the Owl Club are drawing large au
iiences at Nion hall, where they have been eN.
,ibiting since Monday night. Their exhibit of
glass works is the same was shown at the
Worlds Fair. a social hop follows the eXhibi.
ion and is enjoyed by many dancers. Lots OF
,l,n nfs Nal 4
,rze given to the handsomest baby in town and !
Is there are several candidates, lively contest
+ pected. I
ioyt's"A Mil night Bell" Co. are booked for |
he opera house May sd. )
Personals. n
Henry ST Charles, who has been the porter at !
he Rockingham since its opening resigned his
position Sunday night and returned 10 his home c
n Rutland. HIS place Is being iillcd by the gen v
4 Towns hotel-Patrick Parle and wife spent ,
unday with friends In Springfeid.-A Andy l
'reen spent Sunday in keene, li-C Evans
Dent sunday at his home in Claremont.-J p
,'CnBnUr WAS in Holyoke Sunday.-Alisses Mary .
icGowen and Ellen Enright left Wednesday I
or a few days visit with friends in Norhamu- t
elier for "a months visit with his parents.-Joe =
wuann was n Springfield Fridav.-Mrs ~ At I
'OOd visited her mother at Cuitingsville over a
unday.-li ID Ryder was IN Newport, IL,
vedneslay On business.-Mss Ellen Enright of
White River Junction, VISITING her sister, Mrs
Iaurice Lahders OF North Wallm e.-P L Ciair
I Boston, WAS in town over sunday visiting his 1,
ither and sIster.-Henry Curley, Levi Wilson y
nd Gene Bidwell attended the ball given by j.
re Young Mems Social club III Charleetown, c,
!, Friday evening" George II Babbitt is I'M =
rowing his Henry street residence wtha coat o
paint.-Joe Ryan, formerly here in the inter d
st of the Burnley music rooms of burlington was i,
lowe for a few days this week visiting friends :,
Orrin Mart went to Boston Wednesday for a 81
Nv days on busness.-Miss LIZZIE tlavin spent II
unday with her sister, Mrs Ed CurIan at Ho n
Oke, Mass.-Robert McGregor spent Sunday IT,
nth friends at Wells River.-Miss Ruth Cove
III conduct the junior exercises and committee fl
differences will be led by Fred L Newell and a,
"A Adams at the semi.annua meeting of the a.
lack River union of Christian Endeayor socie u
es held in Ludlow today. tC