Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-02


witness the installation of a tempt
there.
II. B. Larkin has been making ey
tensive Improvements on the house i
Centreville occupied by Mr.. and Mrs
L. S. Barnes
Anna Katherine Green, the famou
author of detective stories wrote Los
Mans Lane" which the Reformer vii
soon publish.
Beginning Sunday the evening ser
vices in the churches will be held a
I 80 O'Clock instead of 7. The Frida.
evening prayer meetings will be hel'
at 7 40.
The American Institute of Instruc
tion which will be held in Burlington
this year. has come to Vermont 81,
times, having been held in Brattleborc
in 1891
Mrs Susan B. Fessenden of Mas
sachusetts is announced to speak il
Brattleboro this evening under the aus
pieces of the Vermont Woman's Suffrage
association.
w. l.. Warren who has been en-
ployed at the Valley Grain company's
! storehouse for the past 10 years, will
leave there this week and enter the EN-
| ploy of j. f. Gleason as driver of de-
livery wagon.
Daniel Brosnahan has bought the
| Brooks House barge and the baggage
wagon of h. f. Proctor and will con
tinue running them to and from the
depot. The rest of the stable fixtures
and property will be sold at auction
today.
The Cincinnati Inquirer says of
the Harvard quartet which will appear
at the annual concert of the First Reg
iment band: Few quartets present
so strong an organization and so ar
tistic an ensemble They show good
voleme, fine tone quality and express
sion, and the balancing of the voices
is excellent.
The 40 train was about one hour
and u minutes late Wednesday morn
ing on account of washout which took
place at East Putney where the road
bed is being widened to make room for
another track. The steam shovel and
one car were overturned SO that they
lay across the main track which had to
be taken up and moved in order to get
around the distinctions
William Mckinley Osborne, Unit
ed States consul general in London,
who died of Bright's disease in that
city Tuesday, was cousin of Madame
Glidden of this town, and had spent
several summers on the Sholes farm on
the Putney road. He was also a cousin
of the late President Mckinley who
appointed him to the official post which
he held at the time of his death.
A special election of Columbian
lodge was held Tuesday evening when
the following list of officers was
chosen: Worshipful master, A. +.
Schwenk; senior warden, W. +. Hub
bard junior warden, f. G. Greasy SEN
ior deacon, James F. Hooker; junior
deacon, r. C. Bacon; senior steward,
p f. Crown; junior steward, W. A.
Hoadley chaplain, H, +. Taylor; mar
shall, G. w. Dickinson tyler, j. A.
Taylor.
1t is believed that Brattleboro will
make an attempt to have the county
seat removed there from Newfane at
the next session of the legislature.
There is a certain sentiment in retain
ing the county seat where it has been
located for many years but when the
world has moved on and left such To-
cation behind, the matter should be-
come a business transaction in which
case Brattleboro is clearly the logical
location for Windham county court
business. Mortified News.
A special meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Vermont Live Stock com
pany will be held in the Vermont Ma
tional bank Friday May 1G for the pur
pose of taking action on proposition
to dissolve the corporation. The com
pany was organized in 1884 with Ed
ward Crosby as president and had
large ranch in what is now South Da-
kota. l.. +. Adams was manager of /
the ranch for four years being sue |
reeded by John ID. Stevens who held .
that Office until about two years ago.
Of late years the grazing facilities have .
decreased to such an extent that it was |
thought best to wind up the affairs of .
he company. (
The regular April session of the
probate court was held Saturday, the .
following business being disposed Of
". S. Newton, administrator of the es-
ate of Orville Earle of Brattleboro,
made final settlement and distribution
vas ordered On petition of the select
nen of Brattleboro, Adelia St. John
vas removed to the Brattleboro Retreat
md supported at the expense of the
tate, she being adiudged destitute and
insane. The last will of George W.
[nowlton was presented by F. ID. f.
Stowe, who was appointed executor.
T. J. b. Cudworth and H. f. Taylor
we're appointed commissioners land APP
)raisers.
"A meeting of the sympathizers
With the work of the United Irish
eague was held in the American house.
Boston, Tuesday evening for the pur-
rose of considering the most desirable
method of furthering the movement.
here was large attendance, among
rhom were Hon. Joseph Devlin, NJ
,, who spoke here recently, j. NJ
duffy of Keene, J. f. Byrnes of Bel
ows Falls and Timothy Aher of this
own. Mr.. Aher was among the speak
RS who devoted their attention to
iscussing the suspension of the habeas
orpus act in Ireland and the enact
lent of the coercion act. Over $500 ,
'ere raised by subscription at the
lose of the meeting
There has been some talk this j
pring to the effect that Marlboro South {
ond has been posted by the state fish
and could not be fished {
Or three years. This story is untrue J
owever and no doubt originated from I
Dme Marlboro inhabitants who are try q
10 to get even with the people who be