Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-18

, cts to Pawnee Bill s show next week
See his adv.
The annual picnic of the Unita
rian society was held in Central park
Vernon, Tuesday,
There will be meeting of the loca
option club in Grange hall Monday
evening at O'Clock.
The Universalist Sunday schoo
held picnic at Spotford lake Tues
day, about 30 pupils attending.
DIR. George W. Roberts will move
his office from over Roberts grocery
store to room in Crosby block.
The Y. NJ. G, A. Sunday afternoon
meeting will be held on the Common
and will be addressed by Rev. l.. NJ.
Keneston of West Brattleboro.
The Wantastiquet golf club will
hold a medal play handicap tourna-
ment for men Wednesday afternoon
beginning at $50. Twenty members
have entered and a prize of stein
will be offered.
The Ethan Allen lodge of the New
England order of Protection met at
Mrs. Herbert Houghton's las Tues
day evening for the regular meeting,
followed by a social and refreshments.
! The members were entertained by
Charles Browns graphophone.
During the vacation of Rev. III. r.
Miles in August the pulpit of the
Congregational church will be occu-
pied as follows August 10, Rev. Fred
Greene of Jatfrey, n. H.. August II,
Rev. George L. Martin of Lowell,
Mass. August n, Prof Benjamin W.
Bacon of New Haven.
The W. c.. T. U. held its meeting
Thursday afternoon. Papers were read
by some of the ladies on the subject
of mother in bringing up our chill
dren and short discussion followed.
Two women of Newfane visited the
union. The next meeting will be held
at the same place and at the same
time.
The nurses furnished by the Thomp-
hsve located at THE Hemlocks and
have several patients under their
charge. DR.. L. X. Lynch performed
an operation for appendicitis at the
" Hospital" Saturday and two opera
lions were performed there yesterday
by Drs. Lynch and Anderson.
If the sensational stories of gold
strikes in southern Vermont were
printed in the West there would be
stampede that would add many thou
sands to our population in short order. |
If the stories prove true how those /
people who have lived on the top of
this richness all these years will kick |
for not finding it out be-
fore -Swanton Courier.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson res
cued Miss May Cert, a young woman
we'll known in St. Louis society, from
drowning in the Mississippi river
Wednesday opposite the Chautauqua
grounds near Alton, ILL., Miss Cert
was standing on the deck of yacht
and losing her balance fell into the
stream. Capt Hobson, who was swim
ming near by, at once went to the
Young woman's rescue and caught her
As she was going down for the second l.
time. He conveyed her to the yacht,
where she was resuscltated.
George W. Davenport recently re-
,eived a letter from Postmaster General
Payne in which he stated that he was
,riend and would be glad to pay visit
o Greenfield Mr.. Davenport wrote
o Mr.. Payne shortly after his appoint !
nent and did not receive any reply ;
Until Thursday. Mr.. Payne stated
hat the letter had been mislaid aud
orgotton. Mr. Davenport, Congress
nan Haskins of Vermont and Postmas- ,
er General Payne We're cronies in Pow r
RS institute in Bernardston. Payne :
ttended from Shelburne Falls at the I
ime his father kept a livery stable !
here. - Greenfield Recorder. c
News was received in Brattleboro 5
asst evening of the sudden death in T
Waterbury, Conn, of Rev. f. J. Par
y, for eight years pastor of the First v
BAPTIST church in this town. Mr.. Par [
Y was called her from Burlington in t
.ugust, 1856, and began his pastorate g
anuary l, 1887. In April 1885, he ac S
epted a call to a church in New York a
ity and was there short time before b
Ding to Waterbury. Mr.. Parry sue h
eeded Rev. F. L. Tower and was sue W
eeded by Rev. L. d. Temple. His o
as the second longest term in the his a
Try of the parish. During his work b
ere Mr.. Parry made large number n
friends both in and out of the Bap- h
st church. He is survived by a wild c,
v and one son, Frank Parry, who is b
nplol ed by the Shoe Hardware com S
my of Water bury. VI
Facts have come to light this week ~
hich lead to the conclusion that Allie =,
Tucker, formerly a resident of this y,
wn, has met his death in the Philip e.
nes Colonel George H. Bond, who ~
Is kept up a correspondence with -
Icker, received early in the week
tier which he wrote Tucker several.
onths ago. No particulars came
it'll it but on the back was written tn
e words, returned Deceased - pc
ECKER spent number of years in this en-
wn, attending the High school here it
id afterward working in the Estey ev
gan factory. Later he went to Meri pl
n where he was employed in the Will M
y X White organ factory and at the on
ne of the Spanish war enlisted in the be
ghth New York regiment, being sta pa
med at Chickamauga. He then en- ri'
ted in the twelfth New York, doing co
rrison duty at Matanzas, Cuba, and phi
ally joined company X, sixth Unit tn
States infantry When last heard gr
Tucker was on the island of Negros. mi
S mother died in Brattleboro a few pl;
iro ago. He is survived by one sis ion
:, Mrs. J. H. Fairbrother of West of
nster, and one brother who is in the we
ondike. wa
The crop conditions in southern mi
rmont have materially improved an
ce the advent of the hot weather. -
tatoes take the lead so far as present