Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-03

Saturday, Oct. A. and Monday Oct. 6
All are cordially invited. No cards.
,, adv
james Barrett of the Detroi
American league baseball team fin
. lshed the season with a batting aver
age of .3ll and fielding average o
.951.
Rev. Albert Erghott, who has beel
supplying DR.. Marbles old pulpit il
Wallingford, CT, will preach in tn
Baptist church here the next two Sun
days.
-Found-On Main street, between
postoffice and Reformer office, Wednes
day afternoon, a small piece of coal
Loser can recover by proving proper
ty and paying charges. Apply at this
office.
-Walbridge Horton is making prep
arations to move into the store recent
ly vacated by Shea, the Shoeman. HI
will make a number of improvement:
in the fixtures and his stock will bt
much increased.
-Donnell e. Davis will hold their an
nual fall and winter opening of MILL
merry at their parlor, on Saturday anC
Monday, Oct. and 6. A cordial in
vitation is extended to the ladies OF
Brattleboro and vicinity.
-LaFleche Bros. have purchased q
steam sponging machine This ma
chine is known as the spotless steam
sponger, and will sponge goods of all
kinds without shrinking or spotting
them, in most thorough and salts
factory manner. See their advertise
ment on our first page.
May Parker's Little Pickaninnies
and concert company which appear at
the Auditorium next Wednesday. are a
novelty and score big hit wherever
produced. Their immense popularity
is shown by the fact that they are al
ready booked ahead every available
night for the whole season.
Shea, the shoeman, has nearly com
| pleted the furnishing of his new quar-
tiers. the old stand of E. L. Perry, and
| has most of his stock moved. Mr..
! Shea will have an exceedingly attract
/ tive store when his improvements are
completed and his large line of goods
will show to much better advantage,
The marriage of George Edward
1 Hall of New York to Miss Anna Cope,
{ ldHu 2iIltS Vi bOSlOu. NIlID looN
place in Boston Tuesday is of local in
terest IN that the groom is nephew
of Mrs. Charles A. Trip and former
ly was frequent visitor in town. The
bride is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank W. Ames and prominent in Bos-
ton society.
AT the regular meeting of the Con
gregational Christian Endeavor society
Sunday evening, Mrs. F. a. Wells and
Miss Hill, one of the district nurses,
spoke on the work of associated chart
ties. This is the first of a series of
meetings planned by the missionary
committee of the society, the series TAX
ing in different charities to which the
society contributes.
Rev George B. Lawson of the
Pleasant street Baptist church in Wor-
cester, Mass, to whom call was ex-
tended by the First Baptist church of
this town, has decided to accept and
will begin his pastorate here the last
Sunday of this month. The announce
ment of his acceptance has been re-
ceiyed this week by the pulpit com
mittee and will be read at the prayer
meeting tonight. Mr.. Lawson's de
cision is source of much satisfaction
to the Baptist society for his work in
his Bennington pastorate and as chap
lain of the Vermont militia has been
highly successful,
There will be seen on the boards
of the Auditorium next Tuesday eve
ming. "Old Jed Prouty." That this
play is destaned to live many years
after its author has been gathered un
to his fathers. is conclusivelv shown
when, year after year its annual en-
gagements attract larger audiences
than its previous ones. and Old Jed
Prouty's ever increasing circle of
friends is being constantly recruited
from among the boys and girls of to-
day: who in his rugged manhood and
sterling worth, see traits of character
which they not only admire, but IN
many, instances seem to emulate. The
play itself is the embodiment of truth
of human work a-day folk. untheatric.
real. carrying its lesson itself without
preaching it; and ii can be honestly
said, that no one can see "Old Jed
Proutv" without being the better for
seeing it,
A correspondent of the Burlington
Free Press writes as follows: Il at
tended a fair in Nergennes not later
than ls51. at which there came a man
onto the race track with a carriage
similar to a Concord buggy, in the
rear end of which was small engine
with an attachment to the hind wheels.
The man ran the carriage around the
track at lively speed and seemed to
have perfect control of it This item
is of local interest in that the owner of
this machine may have been John
Gore, a former resident of Brattleboro,
who is known to have built steam
carriage similar to the one described.
Gore constructed his machine in the
early sos and it attracted large
amount of notice throughout the state.
A company was started for the promo
ton of its construction but the scheme
was finally abandoned on account of
the impracticability of the machine in
hills.
A regular session of the probate
court was held in the pro ,ate office
Saturday when the following business
was transacted Administrator of
Frank E. Barnard estate of Whining
ton. was granted license to sell real es-
tate with consent of heirs petition of
". r. Lyman. administrator of Alex
ander II. Pike estate of Stratton. was
granted with license to sell real estate
by consent of heirs: the will of the late |
Emily H. Brown, presented by ID. L. I
Webster being appointed executor and
kittredg Haskins, surety: by motion .
Of L. NJ. Newell. executor of Austin e. /
Read estate in Wardsboro, final settle