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

Twenty persons went forward 70
} prayers at the Baptist church Wednes
day evening.
J Mrs. f. l.. Knowlton has resigned
her position as organist of the Unita
rian church and Miss Izetta Stewar
is to take her place.
Rev. DR.. Geo. p. Tyler the dis
tinguished Congregationalist divine
and pastor here from 1853 to '66, il
critically i'll at Lansinburg, N. Y.
*. L. Haskins of Greenfield hal
this week sold his place on Clarl
street through Morse a. Edgett'.
agency but the name of the purchaser
is not given.
There were log births and 10:
deaths in the village district last
year, according to Clerk Kimball's &C.
count-the largest number of both the
village ever had. OF the deaths, one
was at the age of over 80.
Saturday morning the horses of Il.
S. Taylor Of West Brattleboro were
frightened and backed on the track
Just in front of the trolley car on
Western Avenue. The car reached a
stop at the instant of the collision,
but it hit the team with force enough
to break wheel and one harness strap.
E. B. Richardson has increased
the capacity OF his ice house by $50
tons and will harvest this amount of
ice more than last year. Then he
thought he had cut more than enough,
but his trade increased so that before
the summer was through he had to
import ice and he proposes to avoid that
this time.
The dedication of the new town
hall and opera house. which is to be
accompanied with recitations, declama-
ton and historical address by Judge
H. II. Wheeler, has been fixed for Feb.
LIST. Full particulars of the program
will be given next week. The hall
will be open for the inspection of tine
public on the afternoon of that day.
%. La Cross who for few months
has been operating here as sewing
machine agent 'lit OUT Monday
morning, leaving quite "a party of cred
itors to mourn his departure. Pullen
t. Crosby are the only ones, so far
as known, who saved themselves and
they did it by attaching machine.
Keene, as he had been at work there.
Rev. l.. ID. Leavitt gave the first
of his astronomical lectures on the I'M
iverse at North street school Monday
evening. 1t was fully illustrated by
plates from Scribner and several of his
own drawings. The lecture was in
tensely interesting throughout as well
as instructive and large audience
was present to avail themselves of
listening to Mr.. Leavitt who handled
the subject i'll a very comprehensive
manner. The next one in the course
comes next Monday night and the sub
iect being the Earth and Planets
treating particularly on the moon.
Fire alarm tests were made We'd
nesiay and last evening to see how
quickly hitch up and run to the
reservoir at the High street corner
could be made and how quickly the
streams could be got to playing with
the use of warm water from the heater.
The run was made Wednesday night
In So seconds from the first stroke of |
the alarm. Last evening the running /
time was not kept but the engine !
started in playing with IS lbs. of steam
in Just five minutes and Is seconds I
after the alarm,a saving of 2la minutes
over the time required when cold
water is used.
The amusing things in the town
lall business are not all told yet. One
If them was the tearing of two holes
through the lower or foundation vault
or sewer pipe from proposed water
,loset in the lookup. The selectmen
orbade its being done, but it was
lone just the same, and now it is not
,olng to be used. because under the {
lealth officer requirement there would
lave to be ventilator pipe run up to
he roof, through the festival hall
rhich the committee think too objec
ionable to permit 1t is best that it
hould stop here, for every cent laid
ut on that lookup is so much thrown
way it ought to have stopped before |
he holes were torn into the vault.
At last there is to be fitting edi
ion of the works of Eugene Field. The |
cribners announce that they have in {
complete collection of his I
'ritings in prose and verse. The vol l
mes will include not only the books al
eady published, but several containing c
latter not heretofore issued in book |
orm with memoir of the author by his c
rother. Mr.. Roswell VI. Field, and a c
lumber of introductions of very great c
lterest. The set will be as perfect an b
yample of bookmaking as the publish 4
rs can make it. The volumes will be Q
rinted by De Winnie from new plates, /
\ superior deekle-edged paper
in watermark, Mr.. Fields IA
litials on every page. Each volume b
i'll have frontispiece in photogravure
] Japan paper. They are to be sold by
description, the ten volumes for SO.
here will also be issued 100 numbered
It's. printed on Japan paper and speci \
ly bound. Price, $40. r
The case OF the four young North a
dams Frenchmep. Edward Chaput, i,
dward Rogue. Oliver Dadelin and h
,rry Tradeau, who were killed by the II
ilroad accident at Pownal last fall is Fl
be fought out in our county court h
he friends of the young men have Y
me up here to retain Waterman, I,
artin d Hit to bring suits for them u;
,ainst the Fitchpurg Il. K. They X
i've had G. 4. Boyden appointed adj b,
illustrator as a preliminary and yes Nj
rdav the writs were made out, claim nj
G ten thousand dollars damage n
each case. The railroad commission NJ
3 after investigating the accident re- m
rted that there was no fault in the Ii;
GRAFTON of the railroad, but they in
change in the highway ne
avoid such dangerous situation III
d that has since been made. At NJ
g scene of the accident there are two re
,ssings very near each other and IA so
uble track on the railroad. The wi
VS. had passed on crossing and were Be
wing between that and the other BE