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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
The Bolter.

At last. ut last, Percy has yentureu
into the enemy's camp. He has com
menced warfare against Gen. John G..
Mccullough, the peoples choice, On
Wednesday evening ne entered Man
chester Centre quietly and serenely,
and before an audience Of men and
women he proceeded 10 eXpostulate. He
unearthed nothing new. he harangued
the same as he did before he was
fairly defeated in a fair. square conyen-
tion. He pleads for the support of
every high license man. But the press
is pleading and believing that every
true Republican, high license. local
option, or prohibition, will stand by
their convention. which has inaugu-
rated a platform enabling every voter
to express himself, through the medium
of the Legislative assembly. pro or con
high license and local option or the
retention Of the prohibitory law. 1t Is
a case of whipped child, CRYING for re-
venge on the admonition of victorious
people, The Mccullough forces are
rallying, and will continue TO do so, un-
til the boiling candidate will be swal-
lowed up in an avalanche of McCul-
Tough ballots on September election
day that will say to him, Woe be
unto him that shall repudiate his own
WORKINGS the injection of a referen-
dun in the platform of his own party.
at an honorable convention where he
was caught at his own game-defeate
in determining to defeat another -
Poultney journal.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

Affairs in Venezuela have been in a
very unsettled and disquieting state
all the week. Details of the battle at
Barcelona show that it was attended
with great destruction and marked by
pillage and cruelty, the American,
italian and Dutch consulates and the
French cable office being raided Gu
mana, another Venezuelan city, is now
in danger of capture by the revolution
lists. American and foreign interests
have been in such danger, that Minis
ter Bowen appealed to Washington for
warships. The Cincinnati, Capt Nc
Lean commanding. having arrived at
Porto Cabello, has therefore gone to
Barcelona where our consul is in need
of protec ion: the Topeka remains at
Porto Cabello where. it is said, the Ger
mans will land naval force to protect
their interests there, and the Marietta
is at the mouth of the Orinoco which
has been declared blockaded by the
Castro government. Navy department
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
MARLBORO.

S. b. Winchester and wife of Hol-
yoke, Mass, are stopping at the Pop
lars. Mr.. Winchester is superintend-
ing some Improvements which are be
ing made. Louise Adams leaves Fri
day for New York and Leon Angler.
who has been visiting his grandmoth-
or, Mrs. Henry Adams, goes back to
his work in Boston Mr.. Meakins and
family and Mrs Jasper Adams. who
have been visiting at f. P. Adams
and c. A. Ames'. return to their home
in North Adams Saturday. - Mrs.
George Ames is on the sick list A
party from Brattlehoro is stopping at
the Turner cottage.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
CHESTERFIELD.
Deferred from last week.

Mrs. Fisk has gone to visit her sons
Maurice and Walter Pierce, at Green,
field. Mass.
The ladies' circle meeting last week
with Mrs J. B. Fisk was we'll attend
ed and very enjoyable.
The ladies who gave such fine en-
tertainment last season will give an
other in the near future, at town hall
and it is expected that ice cream will
be served.
c. L. Wellington and wife Of West
moreland and Mr. and Mrs. O. r. Fow
Ter of Keeue we're in their old seats at
church Sunday At d yesper service
at Silyerdale Sunday afternoon Edwin
y. Mead and wife gave fine addresses
on education, arbitration. etc.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
Look TO the Renresentatives.

Col. Miles said the club was formed
to get license law and that was the
end for which the club ought to work.
He looked upon the division of senti-
ment as to Mr.. Clement as unfortunate.
The success of our efforts depends up
on our ability to hang together. said
he, :" the question of who is governor
is a secondary consideration. -
The above extract is from a report of
a local option club meeting in Wind
ham county. 1t is true as Col. Miles
says that the election of local option
Legislature is the important question
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

Although such things should come
under the head of advertising in an
independent paper like the Reformer
we print on another page a three-col-
umn article sent out by the Republi-
can state committee. 1t is an appeal
to the Republicans of Vermont to keep
in line. Verify the housekeeping in
Vermont is coming when the grand
old party with its 3D. 600 and over ma
iority have to resort to such methods
to keep things 'humming. The article
answers Mr.. Clements charges and
gives him plenty OF new material from
which to make up a new address
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
Grange Meetings at Bellows Falls

The Windham county and Allen dis
trict Pomona oranges. under the aus
pieces of the state board Of agriculture,
will hold a meeting at Barber park
Thursday, August u. An orchestra
will furnish music for the occasion.
The address of welcome will be made
by George W. Pierce of Brattleboro
Ernest Hitchcock of Pittsford will
speak on Vermont Diaries and Hon. d.
J. Foster, NJ. c., of Burlington on The
Crops they Cultivate in Congress. Din
uer will be served at noon.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
saxtons River Carpenter Seriously Injured
by a Fall

Frank Dwinell, a carpenter EN-
ployed in removing the roof of ma
chine room at the mills Of the lnterna-
tional Paper company, Bellows Falls.
received serious injuries to his spine
by falling II feet the afternoon of Au
gust G. He was working on a staging
on the inside of the building and
walked out on the end of a plank
which had no support. The plank
tipped up and he fell, striking on his
back across a timber, the plank com
ing down after him and striking on
hi, chest He was removed to his home
in Saxtons River and it is feared that
he has received internal injuries be-
sides that to his spine.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
JACKSONVILLE.

The Republicans hold their caucus
tomorrow at Green Mountain nall.
Democratic caucus at Green Mount
ain hall. Sadawga, Monday evening,
Aug. Is, to nominate candidates for
town representative and justices of the
peace.
The attendance at the Democratic
gathering Tuesday was affected by the
bright hay weather and a jury trial in
town. Mr. McGettrick and Mr.. Dav-
export are among the brainy men of
the state and their convincing argu-
ments were well received
The Grange meeting Tuesday was
well attended The discussion of the
hay and potato crops the present sea
son was very interesting. L. Ii. Stet-
son, c. 2. Dix, Adney Chase. ". s.
Allen and A. j. Faulkner had good
results from the use of Bowker' Box
al and Bordeaux mixture Miss Vel
ma Canedy will assist in conducting
the program for Aug. 26.
f. L. Hamilton and family of Brat
tlehoro are visiting at II. G. Porter's.
Mrs. II. L. Putnam visited her sis
ter in Charlemont, Mass. last week.
h. G. Reed and G. H. Coleman are
cutting the grass on the Gallup farm.
+. J. Roberts has finished cutting the
grass on Mrs. Halls farms. E. L.
Roberts of Brattleboro was in town
the first of the week. F. II. McAplin
of Brattleboro was in town Tuesday
and Wednesday Parties from New
York arrived at the Arnold cottage.
Laurel Beach. this week Mr.. Shell
den's brother from Adams is visiting
him at the beach. Moses Bennett,
who has been quite in, is better R. I
Q. Wilcox does not improve as his /
many friends would wish. F. W. |
Schidler of New Britain, Conn. is /
staying at K. S. Aliens.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
sherman's Elk Postmaster Still in Jail.

Drury a. Sherman, the x-po-tmas-
ter at Sherman, who was arrested last
week for violating the postal laws. is
still in the Rutland county Jail in de
fault of $500 bail Ii was supposed
that Sherman could readily get the nee
essary surety, but he has not vet done
so and may stay in Jail until brought
before the grand jury in Rutland next
October. When arrested the prisoner
had two reyolvers and box of car
tridgeS in his clothes. Asked why he
had them. sherman replied I've al
ways carried them. ! sleep in the store
alone and they're a good thing SOME
times to have near one.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

The state press as a whole seems to
be of the mind that the Democracy is
going to support and vote for Percival
W. Clement this fall. The press of
Vermont is not nor ever has been in
very close touch with the Democrats of
Vermont, nor is it at all familiar with
the Democratic temper. After election
it will be seen that the Democrats
have held together like a pair of we'll
matched Morgans, and that Felix W.
McGettrick has polled the full Demo
cratic vote of the state. This fall 5
campaign will give us united democ-
racy, and a democracy whose usefulness
has only just begun, and whose intlu-
ence will be felt in the future politics
of Vermont
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
BROOKLINE.

Edwin Fish and son of Amherst,
Mass, visited his relatives the past
week. Miss Cassie Marsh of Brattle-
boro is at her fathers, \. VI. Marsh's,
for few days Miss Hattie Landfear
of Bellows Falls has vacation of three
weeks from her employment and is Wis
iting at her fathers, II. j. Landlords
Rev. George A. Nckerson has moved
his family to his new field of pastoral
work. d. d. Hitchcock moves his
family to Putney where he has employ
tutDT
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

Gen. J. H. Smith, recently retired
from the army by the president on ac-
count of crueltes charged to him dur
ing his command in Samar, is reported
critically i'll from fever and nervous
collapse at Portsmouth. o. Gen.
Smith is said to have been very much
surprised at the presidents action,
anticipating simply a reprimand. But
he refused to talk on the subject say
ing that it was a soldiers duty to
take what was coming to him without
criticism He insisted, however, that
he had only done what he thought
was right. Gen. Smith is said to be a
man subject to the violent use of Ian
guage but one whose bark is worse
than his bite and known as such by
the men under him whose respect and
affection he generally possesses.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

officials are confident that these ships
at three critical points will be able to
take care of the situation. A decisive
battle is expected soon on the plains
outside Caracas. The revolutionists
now hold six customs ports and are
about to issue an appeal to foreign ma
tions to recognize their belligerency
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
The Suspected Infanticide Case at Bellows
Falls.

An investigation in the suspected in
fanticide case at Bellows Falls last
week reveals the fact that there was a
case of still birth of twins last week in
o family living in that place. The
bodies We're wrapped in a -four sack,
placed in a potato sack which was tied
with a rawhide belt lacing, and placed
in the river.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
Successors To the Late l. NJ, Read

4. \. Swain has been elected pres-
dent of the Bellows Falls Savings in
stitution to succeed the late Judge La
want NJ Read, and George r. Wales
has been elected a trustee to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Judge
Read. The auditors and investing
committee are A. \. Swain, S. A.
Whipple, Z. A. Allbee. &, r. Wales.
Mr. Swain has been trustee of the
INSTITUTION for u vears.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
CAMBRIDGEPORT.

The glass blowers have been in town
the past week, giving entertainments
every evening.
f. F. Farren of Springfield. Mass,
has been the guest of c. J. Perham the
past week Miss Alice II. Perham is
in Grafton giving lessons and holding
a sale. Fred Woods has been appoint
ed night Waterman in the Saxton's Riv-
er wooden mill. Eta Marsh has gone
for a weeks stay in Amherst, Mass.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

of all other questions. Without sym
pathetic legislature nothing can be
done. With a Legislature in sympathy
with the issue success is assured. Local
option sympathizers therefore, should
take no action that will endanger the
election of local optionist TO the
legislature: and should do everything
to promote harmony on that important
issue. ~ Burligton News.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
COUNTY AND VICINITY.
Poisoned by Canned Beef,

Eight persons who recently partook
of canned beef at dinner at Roscoe w,
Beers at Bellows Falls, were made
violently i'll although most of them re-
covered the following day. The theory
is that the acid used in soldering the
can was absorbed by the meat and at
tackled the lining of the stomach.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
Car Burglars Bound over to September Court

William Ward and Lawrence Cross
Bellows Falls for burglarizing Dr. W.
Seward Webb's private car Ellsmere in
the station yard at that place July 2G,
have been bound over to the Septem
Der court, bail being fixed at 300 in
each case. Both men waived exami-
nation at the recent hearing.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
HALIFAX

\ sociable and lawn party will be
held at the Baptist parsonage Thurs
day afternoon and evening, Aug. p.
All are invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. L. Brown and Miss
Ada Hicks of Chicago, ILL.,, also +.
A. Brown of Nottingham, visited at
4. c. Jones last week Mrs. Hun
ter is in Boston for few days.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

The fusion tickets between the Dem
ocrats and high license men for repre-
sentative which are being put up in
almost every town, are causing great
deal of uncertainty as to the color of
the next legislature. Windham coun-
ty has many of these fusion candl-
dates and very large per cent of them
are sure to be elected.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
DUMMERST0N

The Democrats and Local Optionists
Will hold a caucus in the vestrv Sat
urday at p. IN, for the purpose of
nominating town representative, JUS
tees of the peace and town commir-
tee.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
JAMAICA.

A Republican rally will be held at
this place Tuesday evening of next
week Clarke c. Fits and a. F.
Schwenk of Brattleboro will address
the meeting Everybody invited
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
ILLERY & CO., Publishers.
00lindham q ountn 2rformer
BRATTLEBoR0, FRIDAY, AUGUST u.s. 1902

Col. Albert Clarke, secretary Of the
Home Market club, and a son of Yer
mont, is a candidate for Congress in
the eleventh Massachusetts district.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15

w. L. Fletcher of Wardsboro has
bought through Mays agency the ex-
elusive right to use and sell the Chal-
lenge shaft supporter and anti-rattler
and will begin handling the article at
once.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-15
PUTNEY

The Baptist Sunday school will pic
mic at Chesterfield lake Wednesday,
August 20, weather permitting.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04
Mr.. Clements Success.

The man who is responsible for the
capitalization and the organization of
public sentiment on the Vermont liquor
law is Percival w. Clement of Rutland.
If his original proposition still holds good
his purpose is accomplished. If he ac-
tually wanted and expected to be nom
mated for governor he has been disap-
pointed. If he should decide to contin-
ne the fight at the polls in September, he
will again be disappointed. His issue is
gone; the enemy has surrendered on that
point To take up the cry of purity In
politics may be somewhat excusable. but
it will not enlist the sympathy of the
rank and file as the local option cause
did and always will The workings and
failures of prohibition We all see; the
corruption in politics We only hear about
Mr.. Clements best and most conscien-
tious advisors will easily persuade him
to accept his victory in the referendum
matter and forego all pretensions to the
governorship for the present. There Is
still an opportunity for Mr.. Clement &c
work and accomplish much more for To-
cal option as a senator from Rutland
county or as city representative than he
could accomplish if elected governor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04

The fact that the worlds supply of
cork is much less than the demand has
been working peaceful revolution in
many trades. The increase in the price
has rendered 1T necessary to devise other
kinds of shoppers. This has given en-
ployment to a perfect army of inventors,
many of whom have reaped neat little
fortunes from ingenious contrivances.
Thus far however, all the inventions
have not been able to restore the former
balance, and prices keep up in an alarm
ing manner. As a consequence there has
been developed a trade in secondhand
corks, and under this have come into
being queer little industries such as
gathering corks, cleaning corks, and re-
vampng corks.
In the big hotels, restaurants and sa-
looms the cork perquisite is now n moder-
ately valuable privilege. They are no
longer cast contemptuously by, but are
thrown into box or cask, where they
accumulate until the cork-pcker arrives.
who pays a round sum in cash for all
offered to him. The average waiter and
bartender now employ cork-screws which
iniiict minimum damage upon the cork,
and In many places where a number of
bottles are opened in the course of the
day a steel cork-eXtractor Is used which
will pull out a cork from the interior
Of a bottle into which IT has been care
lessly forced.
The peddler who buys them sells them
to the secondhand man, who asserts
them into various classes. Many large
corks can be recut with considerable
profit Others which have been injured
can be cut so as TO discard the injured
portions and utilize that which Is sound.
Corks which have been discolored by
grease can be cleaned by benzine, am
mona water. or lime and water Those
which have been discolored or favored
by medicine can be rendered usuable by
long-continued boiling with a small
amount Of chloride of lime, and suisse
quent drying in a kiln or oven. The
finest quality consists of champagne
corks. These always command a good
price. 1t is possible to reuse them, and
this Is said to be done by many manu-
facturers both at home and abroad
Others can be recut so as to obliterate
the makers or bottler's name. which Is
usually branded upon the side or low
er surface. a second-han cork when
paraffinated can be used for bottles con-
tanning oils, powders, and aqueous solu-
tons. They are popular at present on
account of the ease with which they can
be taken out and put back
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04
Mr.. Clements Position.
ISt. Adams Messenger. ]

The Messenger gladly accords TO
Mr.. Clement full credit for all that his
courageous and Independent thinking
and plain speaking have accomplished
towards Fastening the reform of the
liquor law. But Mr.. Clement himself
is hardly in a position to deny that
some of his good friends have rather
overdone the thing and that his can
vass has wound up by seriously threat
ening such political prestige as he
might have enjoyed had he stopped
when he was through. His liquor law
cause has been espoused by the party
to which he professed allegiance and
every day that now passes with him
vacillating between loyalty and a bolt
simply weakens the effect of his own
personality in connection with a re-
form that he once did much to pro-
mote.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04
Sensible Question.

How many women take a sponge bath
daily, or an hours deep breathing or
exercise in the open air? How many
sleep all the year round with bedroom
window open top and bottom? How
many flush the system with copious
draughts of pure, cool water? How
many realize that the body is con-
stantly constructed from the food put
into it and study diet and dietetic COM
binations?
How many wear loose clothing and
stand or walk with uplifted chest and
body poised on the balls of the feet in
stead of the heels? How many are free
from constipation, that most potent fac
tor for age? How many refrain from
making a drug store of their stomachs =?
How many-But why augment the list
of questions2 Women do not do the
things they should and the things they
the inevitable harvest of imperfect and
. degenerating bodies.
Let us turn about. Let us worship al
the shrine of Hygeia. Let us free our
selves from the restrictions of fashion
and conventional life whenever possible
and model our lives along hygienic lines
/ 1t is perfectly useless to wage war upon
! old age with facial creams and toilet ap-
! pliances If the heart and life be wrong
The battle against age must be begur
in the heart. The unlovely traits which
| find expression in the countenance mus
/ be eliminated.
You cannot erase ill-temper or its ia
cial characteristics with a massage
roller!-[The Ledger Monthly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04
IN OUR OWN STATE.
OLD HOME WEEK.
It Will be Celebrated from the 10th to
the 18th of August-Gov. Stickney's
PROCLAMATION.
Proclamation.

Gov. stickney has issued from the ex-
ecutive chamber at Ludlow under date of
June % the following proclamation:
Old Home day will be celebrated
throughout Vermont in all the cities
and towns, whose inhabitants find it in
their hearts to do so, at such time as
each may select during the week be-
ginning with the tenth and ending on the
sixteenth day of August next.
During the week named which is fixed
by law, comes the anniversary of the
Battle of Bennington, where was gained
for the rising American Republic the
first decisive victory in the war of the
Revolution.
Bennington Battle Day will always re-
ceive recollections of the heroic age on
the New Hampshire Grants, and call to
mind the patriotic men who laid the
foundation of the government under
which we live.
Vermont, ever true to the early ex-
amples, has a glorious history the pride
and inspiration of all her sons and daugh-
ters both at home and abroad.
The observance of Old Home Week in
our State last year was everywhere
marked with gratifying results and gave
promise of the permanence of the festival
in the years to come.
Therefore. the old State that we love-
bearing the beautiful name which its
mountains have given, bids all her absent
children return and renew the associa-
lions and recall the memories of other
days amidst the scenes of their child
hood.
Be assured that all who come back will
receive genuine Green Mountain hospi-
tality.
An old home, under the shadow of our
| mountains, near which the departed
generations of your family sleep, is
worthy of an annual pilgrimage.
For how trlp If is that in all our after
life We find no flowers quite so brilliant
or fragrant as the old roses that bloomed
by the home of our youth; and we hear
again no music quite so sweet rs the
ripping brook and the song of bird
which was heard in the summers of
| long ago. when to us the world was new
| and bordered by the horizon of home