Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-21
LOCAL..
NEARBY NEW HAMPSHIRE
HINSDALE.

Dan Mccormick will play with the
Norwich base ball club of the Connec-
ticut state league the coming season.
A portion of the apron Of the dam at
the rear of the Brightwood paper mill
was carried away by the recent high
water.
Wantastiquet grange gave mock
trial at it's meeting Wednesday even
ing, the suit being for the recovery of
a rooster.
ID. L. Sanderson has Just returned
| from trip to Freeport, ILL.,, where he
went to buy horses for his Worcester,
Mass, stables.
The Rebekahs will give hot maple
sugar supper, sale and entertainment
at Odd Fellows hall, Thursday even
ing, March 27.
a Electric lights have been added to
the barber shops of d. Belleville, Jr.,
and Leon Drinkwine and the store of
Frank Bushey.
Timothy Nevins severely injured the
forefinger of his right hand by catch
ing it in a. gear at the Halle & Frost
mill last week.
Half-tone portraits of G.. A. and Q.
G. Robertson of this place appear in
the souvenir edition of 1.-The Paper
mill" recently published
w. o. Amidon has gone to Florida
for the benefit he hopes to derive to
his health from warmer climate. +.
+. Mann is managing his stores dur
ing his absence.
Miss Florence Thayer of Vernon, for
a few weeks employed in the family of
Lorenzo Stebbins, was taken to the
keene hospital last week, being Sc
riously i'll with peritonitis
= Mrs. Henry n. Wilder, a former res
ident of Hinsdale, died at Walling-
ford, VT, February %, after two
weeks illness. She leaves husband
and one son, G. H. Wilder of Boston.
W. L. Todd is the first Hinsdale res
ident to order an automobile. His
machine will be from the Knox manu-
factory in Springfield, Mass. and will
cost $1,000. 1t will be delivered about
June l.
AT the annual school meeting Satur-
day Willis ID. Stearns was chosen mod
orator and C. S. Fay clerk. +. TEN
pie was reelected a member of the
S3O9l will be raised for school pur-
poses.
The recent rains damaged the roads
in town seriously. Four or five rods of
the river bank near the highway and
the Shaw dam on the Ashuelot road 1
were washed away Considerable ex-
pense will necessarily be involved in
these damages
Mrs. Emily Harris, widow of Elisha .
Harris, died March II aged 81 years, \
and the funeral was held Thursday at .
2 O'Clock, Rev. W. f. White officat-
ing. She had been twice married and
leaves two children, Sylvester Hines
and Mrs. G, J, Hubbard, with whom
she spent the last years of her life.
In future the library will be open
day and Saturday afternoons. The
ing, including Sundays. Owing to the
library at the town meeting, the care
hands of the librarian.
liking Titus Tatius," four act
comedy, was given at the town hall
Monday evening, by St. Joseph s Cath
olic society, as ST. Patrick's day Gel
,bration. The leading male charac-
ers were taken by j. f. and P. F.
Mann, who were well supported by
Miss Katherine Healey and Miss Mar /,
,aret O'Connor. A large audience
vas present.
The Congregational society gave an
at their church last week
Wednesday in charge of Miss Melissa Z
Toward. Different countries We're rep
esented by people in costume who gave
,rief histories of the industries and
PRODUCTS of the country represented.
supper was served early in the evening
he young ladies of the society having
barge of the tables.
The thaw and the heavy rains I'M =
ermined the Boston & Maine track |
ear the brickyard below the Hinsdale c
tatlon so that it was unsafe last week;
nd for time, until the roadbed could 1
e repaired, trains were backed up
rom South Vernon and down from
linsdale and passengers walked over c
he unsafe point while the baggage I
las transferred on hand car. Repairs v
ave now been completed, however, +
no Trains run as usual. .
The selectmen made the following v
ppointments Saturday: f. p. Kinds, r
unstable and policeman; f. 0. Pack
I'd, policeman; j. H. Wetherbee, DIR.
. A. Pratte and Robert McCaughern,
GARD of health; Edward Stebbins,
verseer of the poor F. O. Packard, i
og constable; F. p. Kinds, truant of c
Ger. G, E. keyou was appointed town I
easurer at a salary of S54 for the year. q
. p. Lynch, W. d. Holman, +. L. O
atham and d. Belleville, Jr., were ?
ade assistant engineers upon the rec
of the chief engineer. f. n
, Buckley. r r
Charles A. Baker of Winchester,
yed 60, died March II as result of
ljuries received by being thrown from II
is carriage near Hoyt Days on the p
orthfield road Feb. %. Mr. Baker V,
robably sustained a slight fracture of CT
lie skull. He never rallied from the vi
lock but grew gradually worse until Y,
? died. The funeral was held Thurs CO
ny afternoon, Rev. E. J. Dean of sc
insdale officiating and burial was in il
lie west parish cemetery. Mr.. Baker Il
as unmarried and had always lived es
| the old homestead with his father, re
other and three sisters. His father NJ
ebbins Baker, died in 1895, aged
-arly 80 and his mother died last De
mber at about the same age They
I'd been tenderly cared for by their "a