The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27

collc Tuesday night.
The Methodist, Copgregationalis
ana Universalist societies are to joi
IN an Faster sunrise service at tn
methodist church Easter Sunda,
morning.
.-,Hackley x Moran will have on cx
hibltion in their show window to.mor
row their purple trimmed White Flyer
which will DC run with motor attach
ment making a unique display
An item ia the Fitchburg Evening
MAIL states that NJ a Coolidge of thai
city, who built the electric road here,
nus been awarded the contract fol-
building and equipping the Hanover
Mass) street railroad.
1t is remarkable fact and worthy
OF notice, that Den. G. II. Thompson
mas mas been IN Brattleboro 80 years next
Wednesday, April lst coming here on
that day 80 years ago and being here
III succession for so many years.
The Mcthodists at their quarterly
conference last week elected these
stewards: 0 l. Miner A G Daven.
port, W X Geddis, John G Howe. DR..
y. +. Webster, f. r. Gleason, + "A.
johnson, z Matthews, ID N Tolles.
A. V. May, f. W. Harlow, +. Z. Bee
man, L. A Bagg, &c Davenport
vas made financial steward aud + A
johnson recording steward
The Atteboro hotel, kept by Al
bert Crowningshield, formerly of Brat
tleboro and with whom his father
Henry Crowningshield is stopping,
was ralded = week ago Sunday by
the Pawtucket, r. l.. officers and a
large quantity of beer and liquor
eeized in "a room in tho rear OF the
regular bar room where n rushing
business was being done. Growing,
shield was arraigned on charge of
Keeping liquor nuisance, pleaded
not guilty and was held in the sum Of
81, 600 for trial. He said when he was
leaving the station that he would have
given so not to have been raided. for
he was going to sell out the next day.
The license is not in his name and
neither is the hotel license, both being
in the name of Warren NJ. Barnes. 1t
seems that all that Crowningshield
bought was the furiture of the hote.
Professor Wales closes his classes
in dancing with ball and reception
Friday evening, April oath, and on
Friday evening, May LIST, will present
at the opera house kifmess or
the popular and successful entertain
ments he has been giving in different
towns the past two years. Members of
his classes here and some of his pupils
from other places will assist in the
' Pageant and there will be in all
about $50 participants, giving all the
new, popular fancy dances of the day
with songs and marches. Among the
dances in rehearsal by the pupils here,
is the beautiful and graceful But
terfiy Dance in which all the steps
and motions are in imitation of the
butterfly, the hutter, the poise. the
lighting upon a flower and the swift
airy flight being perfectly given. An
other dance. lovely and dreamy beyond
description. is called the "Maidens of
the Mist" This will be one of the
finest and most unique exhibitions
ever given in Brattleboro.
Weather forecasts are received daily
al the postofiice from Washington,
which, by system of logotypes are
printed on cards and distributed TO 10
stations. About dozen cards are
displayed in the hotels, banks, schools
and principal factories in town, while
the rest are sent to the different post
offices in the county, to the high
school in Winchester and out to West
The dissemination of
these forecasts has developed lively
interest in atmospheric changes which
are pretty accurately foretold, and the
demand for bulletins has grown apace
till there is hardly hamlet in the
that is not supplied with the
daily forecasts. As soon as the dis
patch is received at the postoffice.
which is usually soon after 10 O'Clock.
the forecast is sent out to the various
stations in the regular mails. \ new
scheme is now proposed by which all
out going mail is to be stamped with
the forecasts. This will probably be
done with the back stamp which
denotes the date of reception of the
letter. The department will possibly
furnish the larger postoflices with a
special stamp with m outer ring,
about which will be the weather fore
cast. The local postoffice has already APP
piled for the new stamp, which may
be used in the large Offices within a
few days. The scheme has already been
successfully tested in o few offices,
and. to make it universal only necessi
tates the furnishing of new buck stamps
with the weather ring added. -tSun'
day Republican Correspondence.
Engineer F. J. Leach has had a
good many close calls with his ma |
chine, under il, in the river with 1t. |
and about all ways, but he thinks that
Yesterday was little the closest OF all. |
He left New London all right at $40
4. M, with train "a, due here at 100 |
D. m. but at Lebanon Conn. %
miles this side. the parallel rod on the
tight side of the locomotive suddenly |
broke about in the center, He was
sitting in an upholstered scat which |
he had Just had made and which he |
vas making the second trip with. The
broken rod struck that on the under |
aide and fired it and Mr.. Leach into
The air. and at the same time smashed |
The angle iron to the boiler and let
mt the full volume of steam nj 40 |
los. pressure. upon him. The up
lolstered seat was found afterwards
~ the tender several feet away. Leach
at the first sign of trouble;
reversed the lever of which he had |
lold, and doubtless il was this that
held him back from beng knocked
through the top of the cab or thrown
,fr on to the tender with the seat
Fireman Cecil C Cheney, on the en-
zinc with him, as j Leach remembers,
irabbed hold of him while be was in
The air and then jumped, before the
,nr;nr had stopped from the reversing,
md be was quite badly. though not
seriously. injured 10y the fall, having
,iecc of flesh gouged out Of his check