Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-06

lomllnson against William II. Morgan
was discontinued.
George W, Morrow, Rev. H. A. Dur
fee and c. Furguson of Burlington.
attend the national convention of tbe
Anti-Saloon League in Washington.
ID. c., this week.
A. Dwinell & Son have rebuilt
Their, grist mill at East Calais which
was destroyed by fire about a year ago.
The new mill is a model of its kind,
well equipped and cost about $1,000.
+. d L. Fairbanks & Co., the st.
Johnsbury scale makers, will pay their
employees hereafter twice a month, in
stead OF monthly. Their payroll con-
tains 800 names, the largest in the
history of the business.
The employees of the railroad shops
at Lyndonville have received an in
crease in wages amounting to $500 a
month. The shops are the property of
the Connecticut and Passumpsic di-
vision of the Boston & Maine.
Prof. O, ID. Mathewson Of Barre,
has been appointed to membership in
the board of state normal school COM
missioners to succeed Principal Fran
els A. Bagnall, formerly of st. Adams,
who is now superintendent of schools
in Adams, Mass.
AT a special town meeting Monday
Randolph accepted unanimously the
gift of $40, 600 library building from
Col. Robert j. Kimball and a site
on Main street purchased by the vii
lage district and offered to the town,
Colonel Kimball plans to have the IL
brary completed and dedicated in au-
tumn of next year.
Charles Williams, son of DR.. II. L.
Williams of Windsor, who began his
reading of The Crisis" so success
fully in Boston a week ago. gave the
same selections in Baltimore, last
week. with equal satisfaction to his
audience. Mr.. Williams is giving rec
itations in many of the leading col
leges in the South.
A stay of execution until the first
Tuesday in February has been granted
in the case of Charles Doherty SEN
fenced to be hanged for murder. The
case will go to the Supreme court of
the United States on a writ of error.
a transcript of the case has been for
warded to Washington by the clerk of
the Supreme court of Vermont.
First Sergeant Alvin J. Hayes was
elected second lieutenant of Co, a,
lst Regt, Inf. v n. g., Rutland, at
a meeting of the company held Satur.
day evening. Lieutenant Hayes will
fill the vacancy caused by the promo
ton several months ago of Lieut.. b. 5.
Hyland. Third Sergeant Ruel Rowe
will be acting first sergeant till Hayes
successor is appointed.
A new lodge of Daughters of Re
bekah, |. o. o. F., was instituted at
Poultney Friday, called the Faith Re
bekah lodge No. As. There was a del
egation of 81 members Of Good Will
Rebekah lodge of Rutland present and
many from other towns including sew
eral prominent Odd Fellows and Re
bekahs The visitors were entertained
at banquet and were otherwise
handsomely received.
Pursuant to the orders of the state
cattle commission, las head of cattle
that have been tested for tuberculosis
and found to be diseased were killed
Monday on the farm of Dan O'Brien
in South Burlington. Humane Agent
John Fuller of Burlington, was pres
ent at the slaughter, as complaints
have reached the society that some OF
the animals at recent killings have
been skinned before they were dead.
The Sheldon art museum at Middle
bury is carrying out plans to PROVIDE
permanent records for the benent OF
future generations. 1t is the intention
to prepare a history and panorama OF
the town in the first year OF the cen
tury. The data will include sketches
of all public institutions and enter
prises. with as many photographs as
possible, and also descriptions and
nictures of the leading business
houses, corporations, organizations
and the leading men of the town.
The first free delivery route in Ben
nington county has been mapped out
and will be through the Lyons as
+rict. north to the SALISBURY llne'
then to Irish Corners, so-called, thence
TO Bennington Center, and back to the
nostoffice. 1t is said that Charles
Merrill, brother-in-law of Postmas-
ter Dewey, will be the, first carrier,
and that the route VIII DcSiH
on the first of January. The distance
TO be gone over every day VIII De
about twenty three miles. Over lOc
families and establishments Will be
served.
Mrs Susan B. Sears, who celebrated
her ninety-third birthday in Jamaica
plain. Saturday, is the widow OF WI,
lard Sears. a well-known builder and
nhilanthropist of Boston, who died
Some ten wears ago. He IS best re-
nembered as having built Old Irlnlty
and the South Boston Catholic Ca,
thedral. and he was also Instruments
in the construction of the frst ran,
road at Quincy in 1888. Mrs. sears
Was horn in Chelsea, and her only
brother. Samuel ". Hatch, in his day
ras we'll known in Boston business
circles. Mrs. Sears is in the possession
81 ali her faculties and can still play
the piano, one of her favorite pieces
being "Home. Sweet Home. "
The library of the late Rev. Dr. 0r'
,ondo Dana Miller of Merrimac, n. ii.
con idered one of the largest, rares'
and most valuable in New Hampshire,
has been given to Norwich university
at Mortified. by the daughters OF W;
Miller DR.. Miller was graduate o.
Norwich university, class OF le4o,
from which he received the degree o.
NJ His scholarship has been rec
ognized by Oriental and oth 1 soc deoto,