Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28

Of the Brattleboro corps today.
Charlotte G. Ramsay of Boston is
open millinery store in the postoffic
building March l.
Naomi chapter, No. 36, O. E. S.
will hold special meeting for work
Saturday evening.
The check lists were posted Satur
day. The annual town meeting vii
be Tuesday, March II.
At special meeting held Saturda.
evening Naomi chapter, No. 36, o. E
S., conferred degrees on four candi
dates.
Over 100 people were fed by the Meth
odist ladies at their chicken pie sup
per in the church vestry Wednesda,
evening of last week. The supper wa
financial success.
Rev. r. d. Van Tassel will deliver
the last of his series of sermons or
"Herman Goff's Religion" next Sun
day, when his subject will be Death,
the Goodnatured Creature. ?"
Thirty one from here attended 1.-THE
Universalist festival at West Chester
field Friday evening. Some of them
had some difficulty with snowdrifts on
the return home but all report good
time.
District Deputy j. D. Whitney of
Rindge inspected Wantastiquet grange
Wednesday evening. He pronounced it
in excellent condition. A class of four
were instructed in the first and second
degrees.
Two young women were detained at
the depot one day last week while an
officer searched the extension bag they
carried and found several articles miss
ing from the Hotel Ashuelot where
they had passed the preceding night.
They restored the stolen property and
were allowed to go.
The warrant for town meeting con-
tains 26 articles, among them one to
see if the town will vote to raise $500
or the necessary amount, to establish
a town liquor agency; $3.50 is also
asked for to widen and put in sewer
age from the corner of Church and
Central streets to Mrs. James Archi-
bald's house on Central street, and
500 for various repairs and sewerage
additions to the roads.
The grand officers visited Golden
Rule lodge, No. II, A. F. & A. NJ,
Thursday and large number of the
fraternity was out to meet them North
field, Winchester and Keene, Bristol
and Claremont were represented by
delegations. At the o'clock session
the work of the first degree was ex-
emplified. At O'Clock banquet was
served in the dining hall and at the
evening session, the third degree was
conferred.
Miss Melissa Howard observed the
anniversary of her birth at her home |
on River street Wednesday of last week |
by entertaining about 80 of her friends I
in the afternoon and evening. An ex-
cellent supper was served and the event |
was exceedingly pleasant in every way.
Will Lyman of the undertaking de-
partment of j. II. Wetherbee, has re-
Gently passed a successful examination
for an embalmers' license in New York,
before the state board of embalming
examiners.
The postmaster, A. M. Barrows, has
an interesting and ancient document
which has been framed and will be
hung in the rotunda of the postotfice
1t shows something of the business
methods of the postoffice department rs
years ago. 1t is statement by the U.
s. postofiice department of the accounts
of Jacob Chaplin, postmaster in Hins-
dale from 1922 to 1926 1t gives the
balances due of his account from Sep
TENDER 9, 1922 to May 20, 1926 The :
whole amount due the department in
1923, after deducting the postmaster's !
was only S22. 70 and in
1925, 1923. 30. Jacob Chaplin is remem- )
oeIed by the venerable Warren B. Spen- l
GER, who recalls the fact that he kept l
;he Ashuelot tavern for several years !
md probably the postoffice was located Z
here. Mr.. Chaplin moved from Hins- {
lale to Hartford, Ct. The paper was \
,iven to Miss Barrows by his grand L
laughter, the wife of E. A. Smith of o
Boston, assistant superintendent of the "
Fitchburg division of the B. IL NJ rail t.
oad
Miss Annie Gray has returned from
Westminster West where she has been
= Cleophas Bergeron was g,
allied to Franklin Falls Saturday by ?
he death of a sister. Mrs. G. E. Estey .
nd Miss Kate Cline are in Boston. : Z
4. D. Mann of Boston was the guest a
f his sister, Mrs G. c. Holton, over .
unday. - Charles Dickerman is to II
love his family back to Green CO
ED this week. Mr.. and Mrs. Will ~
lam O'Brien attended the funeral of %
relative in Hampden, Mass, last q
Teek. Irving Smith of Fitchburg Wis al I
ed his mother, Mrs. f. B. Chandler, 81 J,
yer Sunday. Miss Grace Roberts of q
Iiddleboro, Mass, is the guest of her w w
unit, Mrs. fl. G. Holland, at the "
otel. Napoleon Belleville of South a.
remington, Mass. is at his fathers W
ere. Mrs. Jane Preston of West al a.
orthfield, Mass, is visiting her broth N
:, ID. W. Stearns Miss Mary Dug &C &C
an of Boston, spent Sunday with rel ~. ~
lives here.-W. V. Spencer of Keene VI
nd F. B. Spencer of Chicopee, Mass, on
ere the guests of their sister. Mrs. L. ps
Jetfords. Thursday. Joseph Sween- pc
' of Bedford, Mass, was a visitor in I l
'wn over Sunday. Ralph Carey has "a "a
owed from High to Canal street. - III
r. and Mrs James Mccormick spent !: az Il
nnday in Worcester, Mass, with III
eir on.-Mrs. Maurice Purcell Wis WI
ed her daughter in Turner's Falls. Ca
Mrs. Edward Cunningham of Mil pr
RS Falls and Miss Annie Conway
ON Springfield, Mass, spent Sunday
it'll their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Pat
TX Conway. Mrs. E. NJ D. Holton nu
a bor .a, yUol+ar Ctooro, la-a NJ