Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-11
dNindham County 9eformer
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

ket now open. j. A. Pullen. ADV
The High school and Y. M. G. A
baseball teams will play game on tn
Island Saturday afternoon at B O'Clock
The regular meeting of the Allianc
House Monday evening The subjec
discussed was "Chronicles.
The next and last dance will be helt
at the MelroseFriday evening, the 18th
instead of the 10th. 1t will be an old
fashioned dance in part. l4-2t
The last of the Brattleboro assem-
blies was held Friday evening in thu
Brooks House. The event brought tt
close very successful series o
dances and it is probable that SINH
lar series will be arranged for next year
The Brattleboro letter in the Bos
ton Sunday Globe contains a short
sketch of George G. Averill in connec
tion with the annual banquet of the
Country bankers club in Greenfield.
Mr.. Averill was at one time connected
with the First National bank of Green
field, leaving there q years ago.
John Filkins 4 Co., 80 State street,
Boston, will send upon request their
weekly market letter, as well as The
Market Trend. a valuable little
pamphlet which shows the rise and fall
from day to day of the various stocks
listed in the Boston and New York ex
changes. This house is one of the lead
ing concerns in Boston.
&C. w. Writers of ST. Adams, gen
eral counsel of the Central Vermont
railroad, and DR.. Hutchinson of Mon
treal, railroad surgeon, were in town
Monday to investigate and adjust sew
eral claims against the railroad com
pany for injury including one caused
| by the accident on the narrow gauge
September "a of last year.
The early morning mail collection,
which was made formerly at O'Clock,
is now made at 6 40. The local car
riers began on this schedule Monday.
The postoffce department has made the
ruling that letters to men serving IN
the navy and located at foreign stations
can be forwarded at the rate of two
cents for each ounce or fraction thereof.
Mrs. Annie Cope of Grafton. who
has been nominally confined in New
fame Jail since February on the charge
of adultery, appeared before Judge
Worden Monday in the county clerks
office and gave bail to the amount of
$3.50 which was furnished by f. W.
Blodgett in whose family Mrs. Cope is
to work as domestic The people of
Grafton are greatly in sympathy with
the defendant. c. c. Fits appeared
as her counsel
Robert Proddow who had been con
nected with the Estey Piano company
since its organization, died suddenly
Sunday at his home in Brooklyn after
an operation for stomach trouble. Mr..
Proddow was well known in Brattle
boro through his connection with the
Esteys and was in Brattleboro to at
tend the funeral of the late General
Estey. He, was a native of New York
city and had been connected with the
music trade the greater part of his
life. He was at one time president of
the Piano Trade club of Manhattan
and was member of the Brooklyn In
stitute of Arts and Sciences.
General Secretary George c. Will
son of the local T. NJ. G. A.. received
a call this week from the directors of
the association at Westfield, Mass,
asking him to take the position of gen
eral secretary there. Mr. Wilson de
clined the offer Oh the ground that
leaving the local association at the
present time would cripple its work Sc
verely. The position offered Mr. Will F.
son is we'll worth having bat Brattle- |
boro people are sincerely glad of his /
decision to remain here. Westtield is |
a city of about 13, COO and the associa |
ton there is exceedingly prosperous, |
having a large membership and build |
ing of the most modern design.
-Ignatius A. Sullivan who was elect /
ed mayor of Hartford. Conn, Monday /
by the working men of that city, de-
feating Major W. b. Dwight, who is a
of one of the most diStin-
guished families in Connecticut, will
be remembered in Brattleboro as catch
er on the semi professional baseball
team which represented this town dur
ing the seasons of 1899 and 1890. After
leaving here Sullivan went to Spring
field, Mass, and seven years ago moved
to Hartford to take position as clerk
in clothing store He became active
in labor union circles, was elected
president of the Central Labor union
Of Hartford and afterward was chosen
president of the Connecticut Fedora
ton of Labor.
DR.. Martin L. Bruce was arrested
by Sheriff Mcclure on a war
ant issued at the instance of the own
srs of the Bank block and charging
lin with teing an absconding debtor. )
The case was tried before Justice j.
l. Merritield and DR.. Bruce was re
eased on the grounds that he had not
ecreted funds to the amount of $40 or
'ver, the sum necessary to hold per- 5
on according to the statute. DIR. ,
Bruce has given up his office in Bank ;
flock and according to his statements
n court is intending an extended Flu {
opean tour. His arrest was made in [
n attempt by the block owners to Sc
ure his arrearages in rent A. +. q
,chwenk appeared for the plaintiffs and '
:. G. Fits for the defendant. '
One of the dramatic novelties of
he season will be "Out of the Fold" :,
new play by Langdon Mccormick,
7hich Edwin G. Jopson will present at
he Auditorium this evening. Mr.. Nc {
,ormick has furnished the stage with q
ONE very excellent plays, and this, his f
atest effort. is said to be quite the s
est he has yet done. No pains or ex- I
ense has been spared in giving it
tting and artistic stage setting and t
he characters of the cast are in n
he hands of capable company. i
liss Sylvia ,Bidwell will appear as V
Helene,' the one ''out on the hills v
stray while Mr.. Thomas McLarnie c
ill impersonate the village school C