Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-16
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Forty hours devotion will begin a
4 ST. Michael's Roman Catholic churcl
4 Monday.
" w. Whelan killed a black snak
4 back of the round house Wednesda,
which measured six feet.
Civil service examinations for tn,
positions of postal clerk and carriers
will be held here May %.
The officials of the Central Yer
mont railroad passed through here
Tuesday on tour of inspection,
The household effects of the late
George w. Knowlton will be sold al
public auction Saturday, May II.
Joseph Perry, who is employed on
the coal chute, slipped on a Iail
Wednesday and cut his face badly.
Rev. Lewis Grout has given seven
volumes to the Springfield town libra
ry, among them being two books writ
ten by himself.
Tomato plants. | have the largest
and best varieties to select from in the
county. Peter 5. Chase, 5 Chestnut
St, Brattleboro, Vt.-adv. 2O-2t
"A horse belonging to H. r. Brown
and ridden by Dennis O Leary slipped
and fell on Main street bridge Tues
day. Neither horse nor rider was in
i iured.
Samuel Beauery, acting foreman
of the engine house. while whitewash-
ing the engine house Monday. slipped
on the ladder and overturned a pail of
whitewash upon him, burning one eye
seriously.
Rev, C. O. Day, formerly pastor of
the Congregational church here and
now president of Andover Theological
seminary. will deliver the baccalau
reate sermon at Norwich university the
coming commencement.
The selectmen have recommended
p. f. Connors to the county commits
sioner for the position of town agent to
succeed the late S. W. Richardson.
Mr. Connors will have his appointment
within few days and has already be-
gun his new duties.
The regular meeting of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution will
be held at the Brooks House, Tuesday
evening, May 20, at 80 o'clock. Mrs.
Abbie +. Fuller will read a paper on
Eighteenth Century Industries and
Mrs. George f. Barber on Eighteenth
Century Manners and Customs.
e. G. Crosby and f. c.. Davis of
the firm of f. C. Il E. L. Davis of
Northampton, Mass. were in Spring
field. Vt. last week to locate the abut-
ments for the new ia feet bridge which
is to be built at the foot of Main street
in that town. Work on the abutment
begins about May 20 and the bridge
will be shipped June l.
The Brattleboro street railway has
made a change in the tickets which ii
issues. Heretofore there have been five
different kinds-the round trip tickets,
the s. books, the 81 books containing
u tickets. the workmen's tickets and |
the schoolchildren' tickets Begin
ming Tuesday the only tickets issued .
will be book containing "A for 81 and /
the round trip tickets.
Lawyer A. c. Spencer was in Gull .
ford Monday and appeared before the .
board of civil authority in behalf of .
several aggrieved taxpayers on the /
question of taxing gasolene engines
These engines were placed on the list
as real estate but Mr.. Spencer claimed
they should 90 in as personal property
and his claim was allowed John f.
Gale appeared for the town.
Rev. Moses Fl. Harris, pastor Of
the All Souls Universalist church in
Worcester. Mass, received call last
week to the First Universalist church
in WATERFOWL. n. Y. DR.. Harris was
pastor of the Universalist church here
before going to Worcester in 1879 to
the First Universalist church in Wor
cester. Later he was pastor of the
CONGREGATIONAL church of the Redeem
er in Chicago.
A regular meeting of the board of
bailiffs was held Saturday evening in
the offices of Bacon & Hooker and the
following appointments made for the
coming year: Chief of police, Ernest
S. Hall: deputies, Z. +. Thayer, Je-
rome Amidon, f. G.. Worden and a.
L. Perham: inspector of fire alarm sys-
TEN. Carl Henkel. The matter of reg
ulating the public vehicles was post
poned until the next meeting in order
to give the proprietors time to make
applications for licenses.
The Brattleboro Gaslight company
has awarded the contract for its cleo
trical equipment at West Dummerston
10 the Stanley Electrical Manufactur
ing company of Westfeld. Mass. 1t
will consist of 800 horse power gen
orator with equipment for bringing the
power to the station in Brattleboro.
In the event of demand for more pow
IF a second penstock will be construct
ed so that it may be connected with a
second set of wheels which will devel-
ID 800 horse power in addition to the
present amount estimated.
Nearly 100 happy children, mem
)ers of the Audubon society, met last
morning at the fair ground
,ntrance for their first outdoor meet !
ng. The party was divided into eight :
rroups, with older members for guides, I.
md agreeing to meet at certain 7
)oint for dinner the company separat-
ID. The birds were not at all fright
med by the unusual number of Wis
tors and did their best to give the :
children pleasure. After dinner re-
,orts were made and it was found that 9
IS different kinds of birds had been !
observed by the party. 1t was a day !
ong to be remembered both by the Z
.hildren and older ones and another
,ird walk will be eagerly awaited. b
james F. Hooker, Miss Emily d
Tones. Miss Maud Essex and Miss r
edna Burnett of Putney were thrown i
rom Miss EsSex's trap near the en- +
rance of the golf club Tuesday after v
loon and narrowly escaped serious 7
injury. The accident was caused by e
Hiss Essex's horse which became I'm {
uly and attempted to free himself by I