Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-02

The i NJ G A team went tn liins,
dale Saturday, ana were defeated by a
close score.
-Wantastiquet golf club will hold n
meeting at the Brooks House this
evening,
Prof Patton of the Hartford theo-
logical seminary preach ed at the Cen
ter Congregational church Sunday u
the absence Of Mr. Miles.
-" Tommy" Leahv has been sol d
by Milwaukee to Philadelphia where
he is heing utilized a utility man.
Barrett is batting 3l3, and Dowd 3Ol.
The Narrow Gauge engine had
one side disabled by break on the
up trip Saturday night and rs a con-
sequence was an hour late in yester-
day
1t is interesting to SEQ how news
items bave nearly always a Brattle-
boro twist. Lame de Pougy. who now
has become the favorte of King Ed
ward of England, is aigreat friend of
ivonne de Treville with whom she
resided in Paris. NH de Treville will
be remembered rs Edith LeGriese'
the ha,pist of Mary HoSs's concert
tours and whose photos are on exhibit
tion at Howe's studio entrance.
-Masa Willis, IS, died Saturday at
Merden, Conn, at the home of his
son Henry, with whom he has been
living for the past six years. The
doctors say there was no disease
whatever; it was OLD age tnat carried
him off. In him passes away an old
time business man of the highest re-
pute, honest as any man could be, a
charter member of Wantastiquet
Lodge of ODD Fellows and the last
survivor except Geo II Clark, ever
staunch good friend and a capital
neighbor. Mr. Willis was a native of
| Leyden. Mass, the son Of Caleb and
Abigail tGillettl Willis, but the fam
lily moved to Marlboro when he was
very young and he came to Brattle
boro at he age of II to work 10 the
brass founhrv of John Burnham and
lived here ell through his active life
save short period spent in Fitch
burg, where he was engaged in the
MANY years he had brass foundry
where Hooker block now is and then
was engaged in the ercantile bust
shl with Preston + Perry and for
while alone. Then ir the early seven
ties be was with the late Henry Burn
nam 10 the plumbing firm of Burn
ham l. Willis and later with A r
Gregg, and for short time also 10
the Thorns Medicine Co, retiring af
ter that. He was twice married, his
first wife being Elizabeth Alexander
of Brattleboro, and bis second Lydia
VI Grosvenor, both If whom ARE
dead. Mr. Willis is survived by three
sons. Horace, 10 the hotel business in
Canada, Frederick in Chicago, and
Henry of Meriden, and one brother,
Caleb, in Brattleboro. Tie remains
will be brought to Brattleboro to-
night and the funeral held al the
Center church tomorrow at , p NJ, the
Odd Fellows in charge and Rev Mr.
keneston officiating,
Newton I Moran, -, fell while at
WORK in the fell on the Richardson
ia IN about 6 o o'clock Friday evening,
ana died half an hour later without
regaining consciousness. Dr. Pratt,
who was called, aseribed the death to
apoplexy, induced by the extreme
heat. 1t is one form Of heat prostra
ton or 'sunstroken as we call it, that
there is Hn extreme congestion OF
blood in the brain, and when thers is
any weakness of blood vessels it is
very apt 10 result 10 their bursting or
apopl.Xy. But Mr. Moran had also suf
feIed long time with heart trouble,
and drew a pension for it, and il that
was the cause Ct death, the beat
would very likely be contributory
cause. He had done but little work
except about his house, since last fall,
because OF his Ill he.ltn, and began ut
the Richardson place only about a
frtuight ago Mr. Moran, a native of
Jamaica, tue son Of James ard Emma
t)ohusoul Moran, enlisted from
Townshend in Go ID, Sth Vermont
Col Holbrook' = regimeLt-aud served
over three years, through all its cam
paigns. lie came to Brattlehoro about
81 years ago, working for Il years at
the Estey shops and since then as
gar lerer and at other odd jobs, ard
had always been a good citizen, hon
est, relIsble and true. He was twice
married, his first eifs dying short
81 me after the marriage, ara mis- sec
ond wife, Rosa Lsitsipgeh of Brattle-
boro two years ago last February. he
is survived by three cons, Casper and
Frank of this place and Jerome OF
Dublin, \ II, and also by five sisters,
Mary, widow of Orrin Eddy Of STRAIT
ton, Susan, widow of FRANK Lawrence
of Tounshend, Charlotte. wife of Z B
Coates of Brattleboro, Mrs Catherine
Williams Of Little Shasta, Cal, and
Mrs Hattie Jones Of Saxtons River,
and two brothers, d Mnrsr of Frat
tleboro and William of Albion. Mich.
The funeral vas held Sunday at 2:30
p IN from his late home on Chestnut
street, Rev DR. Marble officiating and
Sedgwck Post, G A K, attending in a
body, acting as bearers, and reading
their burial sersice at the grave for
their comraae.