Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-06-06
0dlindham q. ountp Reformer
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.


mington will open its club house Jun
Rev. Gertrude Earle of Gorham, n
H., niece of L. J. B. Cudworth
preached in the Universalist churcl
Sunday.
i The Y. p C. U. of the Universal
\ st church will hold its Sunday evening
meetings at the Home for Aged and thu
Disabled during the month of June.
The first open air band concert o
the First Regiment band was given OF
the Common last Friday evening. L
was largely attended and the music wa.
of a high order.
Warren Stockwell and Ned Ray OF
the Olympian tennis club of Bellows
Falls met and defeated O. S. Butter
field and l.. L. Durham of the North
End tennis club Memorial day morn
ing, the score being GA, 10, sc, SO,
CD.
The W. C. T. U. held its regular
meeting last Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. Stearns, a social hour being en-
joyed after the regular business SEES
sion. The next meeting will be held
in the Y. NJ. G. a. rooms next Thurs
day.
Lyman W. Aldrich, II, who died
in Greenfield, NJ S., recently, married
Salmira Jones of Brattleboro who died
4 several years ago. Mr. Aldrich was one
of the defendants in the famous muir
der trial of 1886 in which Rufus
Choate, the noted lawyer, acted as
counsel for the defendant.
Mrs Jennie b. Powers, who has
been appointe state agent of the Yer
mont Humane society for Windham
county, will have an assistant in each
town. She has appointed the follow
ing: Londonderry, f. W. Melendy;
Brattleboro, Mrs. Mary Warder: Put
ney, Miss Helen Robertson.
Walter S. Carson of Greenfield.
Mass, the we'll known Boston Globe
correspondent, has bought out the
newspaper, periodical and general mer-
chandise business of Richard O'Hara.
Dexter L. Crandall of Orange, Mass,
will have control of the details of the
business which includes the exclusive
control of all the daily papers sold in
Greenfield.
jacob Cohen, handkerchief and
necktie peddler. was arrested by Chief
of Police Hall Saturday night charged
with peddling without license. He
was arraigned before Justice Newton
and plead guilty, being fined $50 and
costs. James +. Hooker who prose
cuted the case mol pressed it on condi
ton that the peddler take out license.
The man did so.
The body of Cecil Brown who died
in New York city Friday was brought
to Brattleboro for burial Monday in the
family lot in Prospect Hill cemetery. 4
Rev. E. T. Mathison read the ccmmit-
ment service. Mr. Brown was a son of
the late c. L. Brown of Brattleboro .
and had lived in New York city for .
many years. He is survived by
brother, G. F. Brown of Boston and
one sister, Mrs. Ella Willard Of New
fame.
AT the third annual convention of
the state letter carriers association
which was held in Rutland last Thurs
day afternoon ID. Z. Tasker of Brattle-
boro was elected president for the en-
suing year and r. A. Austin one of
The executive board. The association
yoted to extend thanks to Congressman
D. j. Foster and Kittredee Haskins
md several others who have performed {
avors to the association. 1t was yot-
ID to hold the next annual meeting in
May 30, 1903
There were special Memorial day
Exercises in the schools last Thursday
ttended by members of Sedgw ok post
nd the Woman's Relief corps. The
xercises in the morning We're held in
he High school room and the after 4
oon exercises in the Universalist t
hurch. The speakers were c. III.
thompson, l.. F. Adams, Rev. l.. NJ t
leneston and DR.. II. ID. Holton. Mu-
ic was furnished by the High school /
horus and the rooms were deliberately Il
trimmed with flags and flowers.
Walter c. Baker of Cleveland, o., e
Tho in an attempt to break the worlds /
ecord for a mile in an automobile on "
taten Island Saturday, lost control of "
is machine and ran into a crowd of &
eople killing one and iniuring anoth- $
r fatally, is a cousin by marriage to
[. r. Brown of this town. Mr.. Baker b
as in Brattleboro at the Baker farm a
Or some time last fall. The machine b
! which Mr.. Baker and his Chauffeur II
ere riding was going at a tremendous Il
ite of speed at the time of the acct h
ent and undoubtedly would have low Il
red the worlds record. Il
DR.. Henry ID. Holton, president of u
lie American congress of tuberculosis, -
as been in New York city this week u
ten ling the Joint session of the con -
,ess and the medico-legal society. DIR. ID
olton made the Introductory address n.
which he urged the congress to take "
efnite steps toward the suppression Ia
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