Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-25
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

uTouay evening TO attend PaWne
Bills show
A special train will leave Brattle
poro tuesday morning after the arriva
OF the $40 train from the north t
carry the delegates to the Democrat
county convention at Newfane.
One of the narrow gauge engine
left the rails on the arch bridge Mon
DAY morning and delayed traffic TO
about 30 minutes. This is the thirt
time that such an accident has oc
Cured in the same place.
AT a special meeting of the Catho
lie Union held Friday evening it wa,
decided to hold the annual picnic anc
field day Saturday, August i6, at Cen
tral Park, Vernon. The day will be
given over to sports and other pastimes
and there will be dance in the even
ing
Miss Ruth Childs delightfully."- en-.
tertained about 10 of her friends last
Friday evening at her summer home.
Hlllcrest, at the top of Ames hill. The
nrst OF the evening was spent in dane
ing, music being furnished by Lett
singers orchestra, and afterwards re-
freshmentS were served.
Information received from the ad
iutant general at Washington, d. c..
shows that Allie J. Tucker, formerly
of Company X, Sixth United States in
fantry, is not dead but serving a three
months sentence in the government
penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. The
information further stated that Tucker
had been dishonorably discharged from
the army.
The baseball team from f. L. Hill
dreth " company's office went to Will
Evansville Saturday to play against the
town team of that place but the game
was called on account of rain in the
second inning. The score at that time
was 4z3 in favor of Willamsville with
the printers about to come to bat. \
number of young women employees of
the office attended the game in tally
no.
One of the rough riders in Pawnee
Bill S show was arrested Tuesday morn
ing by Chief Hall at the instance of
the manage" who claimed that the man
had robbed one of his associates. The
man spent the day in the lookup but
when the informant learned that the
case would have to be tried at Bellows
have taken place the matter was
dropped
The horse attached to the carriage
in which Mr.. and Mrs. Webster Dun
klee were riding became frightened
Tuesday morning at the noise made by
the steam calliope in Pawnee Bills
show and in attempting to turn around |
threw both occupants to the sidewalk /
in front of the Y. NJ. C. A. They were
not seriously injured although Mr..
Dunklee scraped large quantity of
skin from one hand.
"A meeting of the executive com
mittee to arrange for the third annual /
field day for the communicates of
knights Templar of Keene and Glare
mont, N. H., Bellows Falls, Windsor
and Brattleboro, was held in Bellows
Falls last Thursday afternoon, Sir Fred
H. Holden attending from this town.
The field day will be held in this tow
early in October and the program will 7
include a dress parade, reception, ban
1uet and other features of interest.
Last year the field day was held in
keene and the year before in Bellows
Falls.
Carl Schorling, who has been bad
" bothered of late by chicken thieves,
decided last Friday to put an end to
he nuisance. BY means of an electric ;
oell connected with the door of the ;
zen house he arranged an alarm and /
ate Friday evening was rewarded by
hearing it ringing. He dressed hur-
iedly and FASTENED to the scene of the
aid where he found Charles Cushman
n the act of purloining several plump +
bullets. Cushman " as taken to Hins !
lale Saturday morning and arraigned !
n the police court there. He was !
pound over to the superior court on the J.,
harge of larceny in the sum of 5000 I
Landlord Turner of the Brattleboro |
louise was here Wednesday looking for
hotel beat whom he thinks has all !
he symptoms of being a professional. c
'he party in question worked Mr.. Tur- |
er, and was supposed to have made C
Greenfield his next stop. a young man I
nswering his description skipped from /
local hotel last week, going out of v
own on one of the early morning ex Y
resses. He is believed by Mr.. Tur- +
er to be the party who set out from 1
,oston several weeks ago and beat sew
raj houses on his way through New \
hampshire and Vermont. The Brattle- \
orc landlord thought he might find :
is man here on circus day, but in this +
e was disappointed. Greenfield Ga +
cite and Courier. "
-Pawnee Bill and his wild West, l.
now were in Brattleboro Tuesday and V
ave two performances in the arena k
hich was located on the old camp a
round. The show is similar to Buff "
10 Bills great entertainment although 81
n much smaller scale and to those Il
no appreciate good horsemanship and al
wing pictures of western life was no p
oubt very enjoyable. A street parade n
as given at 10 30 a. M. and 1t con- q
lined a number of interesting feat t
res. The afternoon performance was Is
UGH more satisfactory than that of the g
,ening on account of the better light. o,
he arena was poorly lighted in the NJ
,eninp and the smoke from the COW l.
,ys pistols hung so low after every VI
,irmish that it was difficult to distln-
fish any of the actors. lie,
Miss Helena G. Grady, 10, died at 81
e Reed street home of her mother, la
rs. Abbie Grady, Friday evening II
fer an illness of nearly two years with III
She was born in Ireland oil
ID came to this country with her pa ra
nts about ID years ago Through the IL
ST DAYS of her illness she had shown sh
e greatest fortitude and although 81
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