Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12
QHlndham County Rtfoymer
TWELVE PAGES.
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

= The only place you can get honey
comb candy is at Clark -Advt.
Julius Whitney of Brattleboro has
been granted an original pension of $40.
-Prouty, the Peoples Photographers
OFFERS for 60 days, a new and beautiful
large portrait in the Platinum effect,
with each dozen of his cabinets. 44-st
The Congregational Sunday school
voted Sunday to give SIS to the Con
gregational orphanage at Cieufuegos,
Cuba, and S15 to the Forward Move
ment of Vermont.
The Green street book club held it's
annual supper and sale of periodicals
Wednesday evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. f. ID. Whitney. G. l.. Stick
ney acted as auctioneer
The annual meeting of Brattleboro
chapter, d. A. r., will be held in the
Brooks House Tuesday afternoon at
2:3O O'Clock. 1t is important that
every member be present.
A court of inquiry was held in Rut-
land Friday over alleged statements by
Capt. G. II. Stickney derogatory to
Maj. H. e. Dyer. The testimony and
the findirgs of the court will be sent
to Adjutant j. Harry Estey.
The cash difference to Brattleboro
from the changes made in the license
bill before it was passed Tuesday is
about $500 year-that is in case she
should vote to grant licenses and do
so at the usual prices and proportions.
There will be a union session of
the Woman's club in the Brooks House
adj
Miss Emma Gregg will give a paper on
the North American Indian, and there
will be illustrative Indian music both
Instrumental and vocal.
The small merchant can increase
the volume of his business by "A con
tinuouS well-defined and persistent eff
fort in the local newspapers of his
town. using space modestly, but with
regularity, adjusting the expenditure
so as to conform with the total volume
of the business
There was hearing Friday before
Justice Cudworth in the case of John
b. Manley against Nellie Harwood to
recover S36 which it was claimed was
due the plaintiff on a bill. Justice
Cudworth rendered judgment for the
plaintiff and the defendant appealed.
H. G. Barber appeared for Manley and
E. W. Gibson for Mrs. Harwood.
Charles w. Newell "a, who died
in Springfield, Mass, Friday, was "A
resident of Brattleboro in the early
'70s, being in business here with his
brother law, G.. ". Eaton. Later
he became general agent of the Estey
Organ Co. for New England having
his headquarters in Boston. For the
past 20 years he has been the Spring
field agent of the Ludwig Piano Co.
Mr. Newell served one year in the civil
war as "A member of the 10th Massachu |
sets Light artillery.
ALI of the trains in and out of
Brattleboro were badly delayed Tues |
day on account of the extreme low tenn
perature. The 8 :OG from the north was
80 minutes late, the IL O'Clock from /
the south was an hour late and the |
Central Vermont division 1la hours /
late; the short train from NJ illers Falls |
was two hours behind time. arriving |
finally with two engines: both the /
afternoon expresses were delayed about /
40 minutes and the sc from the north |
was over an hour behind its schedule.
Wallace n Batchelder, a law stu
tin and president of the Young Mems
Republican club of Brattleboro, which
was organized little less than year
ago, is at the Bardwell, Rutland, with
a stenographer, at work forming a
state organization of Young Mems Re
publican clubs The Republican party
leaders of Vermont are behind this
project and Mr. Batchelder will make
a campaigning tour of the cities and
towns in the state. The OBJ
iect of these clubs is to defeat the Ii
cense law at the coming referendum.
The semi annual meeting of the
local branch of the United Irish league
was held in the Catholic Union rooms
Sunday afternoon and the following Of
ficers elected: President, Timothy A.
Aher: secretary. Daniel w. Shea;
treasurer, John Calvin; first vice pres
ident, I. A. Austin: second vice pres
Haus, John Flood, B. O'Riley. After
.he election T. A. Austin gave a re-
port of the recent national convention !
IN Boston. and committee consisting I
IF T. A. Aher, ID. F. Shea and T. a.
Austin was appointed to devise means
or raising money towards helping the I
Michael J. Lillis, 40, died Monday
Ifternoon at the home of his brother
N Maple street after al illness of about
wo wears with consumption. The flu q
leral was held Wednesday morning !
rom the Roman Catholic church, Rev. j..
Gather Cunningham officiating, and /
he burial was in the Catholic Gene !
ery. Mr.. Lillis was a native of this
own and was the son of Patrick and
eliza Lillis. He was employed for :
lumber of years in the finishing de
,artment of the Estey Organ company =
mt of late had been unable to work.
Resides a mother he is survived by
hree brothers, John Lillis of BIattle v
,oro, Thomas Lillis of Meriden, Conn, |
nd James Lillis, who was formerly 4
mployed as a printer IN town.
A recent number of the American t
Iorse Breeder contained an interesting "
rticle on the fast horses which have v
zen bred by E. M. and J. H. Whit e
omb of Essex Junction. among the '
nest of which are Darrell 2:0i34 and I
:OS34 The former took her v
irst record at the Valley Fair IN 1873. \
rben she was raced under the name OF I
adv Wonder and got mark of 2 20 4. Il
after this she was sold to I
'otter Brothers of Greenfield, Mass, I
or 81, 800 and they in turn sold her to S
Iubinger of Hartford, Conn, for 50, r
o0 In 1898 Darrell reduced her rec 1
n IN 3. IA, at Syracuse, n. Y, and "