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

"A. V. May has sold for Miss A. ID
Gale her house on South Main street :,
Mrs. W. II. Welcome. y
G. II. Hall ships lot of slat,
west next week, filling orders that ac
cumilated during his illness.
A negotiation is in progress 20,
the location of a cotton factory here
ana the Esteys have made Il very salts
factory offer of the Centervilo factory,
:, There was a single stroke of the
hre alarm about 3 O'Clock Tuesday
morning caused by the breaking of 4
battery jar a thing that happens about
once in SO often.
.--Hackley O. Moran have leased tn,
store formerly occupied by W. L. Boyn.
ton IN Vinton block and are to finish il
on for the bicycle departm cnt of tn al,
rapidly growing business.
Frank Bohrman was arrested la q
night by Officer Hall for intoxicatio =
ana brought before Justice Newton
this morning and fined s. and costs
the whole amounting to S11.5l.
Carl S. Hopkins has been appoint.
eel clerk OF the board of school direct
ors in place of Ernest j. Waterman re-
signed. He is taking record of the
births and deaths of the town outside
of the village.
-Ihat peopianRre not slow to secure
good thing, = hen advertised by a
reputable HOUSE, is shown by the big
carpet business that Emerson & Son
are doing these dull times. Do not fail
to read their adj. adv.
Within circuit of % miles of
Brattleboro there are 10 savings banks
whose combined deposits aggregate
nearly 800, 900, 600, the two Brattleboro
banks alone having about one quarter
of the whole amount
Miss Mary A. Jordon professor of
rhetoric in Smiths college will give
an address at the High School room,
next Wednesday evening. Miss ,Jordon
comes at the invitation of the Teach
ers' Association, but the lecture will
be open to tho general public and
large audience is earnestly desired.
Since the washing out of part
of the dam at the Estey saw mill the
current of the stream is thrown against
the abutment of the bridge there and
unless it is attended to, it is most
certain to go out mkt spring. The
best thing to do, apparently. is to
knock out the tiume and then to put
in some boulders to divert the current.
George L. kendricK. L. Gaylord,
I. Z. Page, +. D. Eddy, Will
liam Barney and George Cutter,
Jr., of Amherst, were in town Friday
to inspect the electric road and get
points about the projected road there.
They were taken over the route by
President Crosby and Contractor
Coolidge, and returned home in the
afternoon.
"A rehearsal for the Wheel club
in which it Is calcul ated
about GO will take part, was held last
tevening with Instructor Mulvaney
present. j. G. Burpee and Landlord
Geo. E. Richards were picked for end
men. Mrs. Sherwin is to preside at
the organ. The first part of the pro
gram was gone through very satisfac
torily.
The Congregational Sunday school
held its annual meeting Sunday, E.
c. Crosby, president of the school, pre-
siding. The reports of the Secretary
and Treasurer were Ii tened to and the
old board of officers elected as follows
H. H. Thompson
Asst. Supt., Miss Emma Gregg: Sec
rotary, Louis Gregg: Treasurer, c. II.
Librarian, Ernest Bemis
Asst, librarian, Louis Whitney.
H. N. Dyke from Swanton has been
in town few days looking at farms.
Mr.. Dyke was burned out at Swanton
asst August and little later came here
and bargalned for two farms through {
The A. V. Mays agency, the J. Ret {
ing and Mrs. Clegg's places. Because
If the delay of the Insurance company
n adjusting his claim, he will not take
hese, but Mr.. May thinks he will Z
ell him farm in a few weeks. t
H. l. Inman. who was for a short s
line publisher of the old Record d {
Farmer here, and now proprietor of the a
Room, weekly devoted to t
,rinters and advertisers, at Keenc, has
lied petition in the court of insol- t
ency, and meeting of his creditors is S
allied for Jan. IS. Since Mr.. Inman T
as resided in Keene he has been in y
crested in the New England OBJ L
erver. the Observer, the Church r
Ierald, Keene Weekly, the Press and n
'rinter and the Counting Room, all Fl
which, except the Press and Print b
+, which passed into other hands. n
ave suspended publication. il
Hero is as good a Kipling story as e
as been told for some time. He is writ e
nc a story for the Ladies Home Jour p
al. Kipling however, with his usual o
reeze and thevinous quality of his style c.
oncludes chapter thereof: and the il
,llow tossed down glass Of old Madi- "
/, and turned 10 leave the room, > etc. o.
little Box. in a panic wires to the Draw s,
v Jungle man "Can you change toss L
down glass of old Madeira" Ladies' S,
lone Journal rules forbid mention OF a
inc Kipling wires four words:
Make it Mellen's Food. One can hear A
le Jungle roar of laughter that shook p
he English lions den. j
Yes, that Java and Mocha coffee re-
!. Pullen & Whitney's says good tC
ldge "beats them all. adv. L
BrattlebOrea ms and Others. NJ
Myron Taylor left Saturday for his az
,me in Manchester, called there by h.
10 illness of his father. Miss Abbie m
iqpjns returned Monday from South 10
eer6eId where she went TO care for in
~ brother whom she left much I'M in
owed in health and able to resume or
9 duties. Rev. H. NJ. Andrews. a No
visionary in Mainpuri. India, has or
nt TO Assistant Postmaster G. W. re-
ilcox a lot of interesting curios, both ia
eful and ornamental. the work OF an
.tiyes of India. H. S. Josslyn lett tn
is week for Bridgewater Corners. CIR
Chas. Olsen left Monday for Bellows dc
Ills where he has accepted POSITION DO
III fine Vermont Farm Machine 20. DIR
IN. Infr frlnn e.,