Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-15

"A May has sold for ii N Dyke o
Manchester, N II, the timber lot on tn,
Samuel Hudson farm In Hinsdale to v
Pike.
Morris n Greggs fire sale is nearly
ilnshed and the work of repairing the
store Will begin LeXt week. A new
steel ceiling will be one of the improve
ments.
| The Mission circle of the Universal
ist church will meet in the parlors OF
the church next Thursday afternoon.
A devotional service will be held at 8
o'clock.
The women of the Unitarian so.
ciety VIII serve supper in Wells
nall Tuesday evening. The entertain
ment which follows will be in the form
of brief play.
Protective grange conferred the
first and second degrees on class of
10 candidates Wednesday evening. The
third and fourth degrees will be con-
ferred next week.
Floyd Coolidge. pupil in the
seventh grade in the Canal street school,
swallowed steel pen Wednesday. The
pm was new one and the boy was
moistening it when it slipped down his
throat. So far there have been no i'll
effects.
Nearly all the tickets for the concert
for the benefit of the Sunshine society,
which will be held at the no ne of Mrs
j E>tey on the evening of November
81. have been sold, but the few remain
ing can be procured at Thomas
Pharmacy.
The W c T U held their meeting
last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Reed
gave short talk on the subject,
Faith, from eleventh chapter of
Hebrews. The next meeting will he
mothers meeting next Wednesday
afternoon at the Y NJ o A.
The two negroes who recently
threatened to shoot Patrolman w
Peton of the Boston Police, formerly
laundrymau here were arrested last week
and taken to Boston where they will
receive hearings. One was caught in
Philadelphia and the other in Albany.
While in Brattleboro to attend the
annual meeting of the Vermont Fish
and Game league, State Fish and Game
John w Titcomb inspected
the points of the Richardson Ice COM
PAW to see what sort of location they
would make for government hatchery.
A recent letter from Brainard
Spooner, who has been professor of
languages in Toxic, Japan states that
he has resigned his position there and
gone to Be- ares, India, where he will
res me study of the S4nscrt language.
Mr. Spnoner Is nephew of Mrs + W
Weeks { this town, and when boy
spent several Summers at the Gale
far n in Guilf'rd.
IS L Griffith of Dandy has just
closed deal for 5000 acres more of
limb r land in the town of Strattnu
adjoining the larger purchase he re-
Gently made. There ere 10000, 600 feet
IF spruce on t. is last purchase. This |
with land adjoini g it in the towns of
Stratton ard arlington already osned |
~ Mr. Griffith gives him 65, 600, 600
feet of standing spruce in solid tract. |
Thomas Ellis. stone mason who
5 employed at the Brattleboro Retreat, |
vas found in drunken slumber near
he Baptist church Wednesday evening /
~ Chief of Police Hall, who with the |
lelp of Officer hayer, conducted the |
nan to the lookup. He was arragned |
before Justice Newton Yesterday morn
ng and fined as and costs. LAWYER
James F Hooker appeared for the state
n the absence of States Attorney
Weston.
The High school football team dis
banded Yesterday and has cancelled its
emaining games this season including
he one which was to have been played
gainst Bell Falls on the island
omortow. The team has won four out
# five games this year and had two
more scheduled. Its reason for dis
"a ding seems to be that several of the
,layers are not in proper condition to
,lav any more ard there are not enough
institutes to take their places.
Francis Truth. the "divine healer"
William A Bemis, proprietor
f steam laundry here. filed petition
n bankruptcy with clerk of the federal
ourt in Manchester. n H, Monday,
ruth registered from keene. his home,
n gives as his liabilities the figures of
3093. 20. and his assets 5000. Recent,
ruth has been 10 other parts of the
nuntry. some time ago at Jacksonville.
n the court records of two years ago
William A Bemis went through bank
uptcv. When Truth was having a
!
hat his baptisma name was Bemis. Ii
J believed that the petitioners in bank
uptcy are identical.
Rev < Q S Osgood officiated ut
be furer,l service for Stuart f We'd
t HYDE PARK, Mass, Mo day. Mr.
Weld was for few months, two or
hree years ago, an inmate OF the {
}r ttleboro Retreat, but recently his
4iling health h4s kept him cor slant
= at home. Born of notable parents, {
graduate of Harvard college, and
18th a keen interest 10 historical
hemes, Mr. Weld could urdo btedly (
ave made his mark "a writer had :
OF his life been ovFrshado led from ]
srly ma r hood by mental troubles. As it
$, articles of his have appeared in
he A tia tic Monthly and the Popular ;
cience magazine, while With the {
resort decade he hal published a I
on the XII gdom of Rou- I
,ani4 aud how it 0on its freedom,
hich demanded wide reading ana a
4stery of detail Mr. Weld was the
liest son of iheciors d Weld, who /
alf a century since was leader of {
- a, ii SLAYER, moveme t, having as :
is associates William Lloyd Garrison !
nd Wendell Phillips.
-Brattleboro will have the opportunity
, hear remarkably tine concert Dec .,
hen Miss Leonora Jack .on one of the
,remost vi lliniV of the world will ,,
law in the Auditorium. Since Miss
,ckson's debut in Berlin 10 1895 her