Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-25
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

III. r.. Gilman starts this afternoO
for the west to personally superinten
the buying of a load of horses for thi
market and will be back in 10 abou
days. adv.
The Ladies' circle of the Univer
salist church will hold meeting il
the parlors Thursday afternoon. TIL
business meeting will begin at
o'clock and after the election of off
GERS supper will be served.
-Brattleboro chapter, d. A. r.. me
in the Brooks House Saturday evening
and had the pleasure of hearing an in
teresting paper by Miss Susan E. Clarl
on her recent European tour.
Irving L. Stickney, formerly O.
Brattleboro, and Miss Fannie Irene
Nickerson of Athol, Mass, were mar
ried last Thursday at the brides home.
They will live at High street, Athol.
The annual concert of the First
\ Regiment band will be held in the Au-
dtorium May 15. The band will be
assisted by the well-known Harvard
quartet which was heard here to such
good advantage few months ago.
News has been received in Brattle-
boro of the marriage of William Miller
of New York city, travelling sales
man known here, and Mrs. Walter C..
Carpenter. The wedding took place at
the home of the brides parents in
Skowhegan, Me.
Miss Margaret Moran entertained
/ the Twentieth Century club Wednes-
day evening at her home on Frost Place
and the club will meet with Miss Mar
! I s,tr
Wednesday evening.
AT the regular Friday evening
prayer meeting of the Methodist church
Rev. r. F. Lowe was presented with a
handsome silver ice pitcher as a token
of esteem from his parishioners. Over
$50 church members were present at
the meeting and the presentation
speech was made by S. M. 1eaw.
The Greenfield Country club has
secured the services of Harry Parr,
formerly of Wimbledon, Eng, to act as
greenskeeper at its links this season.
Mr.. Parr has been an apprentice of
Taylor, the champion, and in addition
to caring for the course will give les
sons. The Greenfield course will be
opened for play sometime in May.
Leon C. White, who sold his
share in the Vaughan & Sargent cleo
trio company to John r. Tones recent
ly, will remain in town for the present
and continue in the electric wiring
business for himself. He will have an
office at the electric light station and
will do some work for the Brattleboro
Gaslight company.
Henry r. Brown sustained a Sc
verely spraned ankle Tuesday after
noon by being thrown from wagon on
Canal street. The horse which he was
driving became frightened and in at
tempting to go between telegraph
pole and the fence near the corner of
Canal and Clark streets overturned the
wagon and threw Mr.. Brown against
the pole.
Chief Hall arrested Charles Cush-
man Saturday afternoon on a com
plant charging him with selling in
toxicating liquor. Cushman spent the
Sabbath in the lookup and was ar
raigned before Justice Newton Mon
day morning. He pleaded not guilty
to the charge and the case was contin
ued for two weeks, the state being I'M
able to present its most important wit
nesses. The bail was placed at $500,
Cushman's counsel, John E. Gale be-
surety. r. G.. Bacon appeared
for the prosecution.
The village caucus passed off pla
eddy Saturday evening, the only ripple
being a short speech by f. ID. Weld
the need of new cistern
near the S. A. Smith company's plant
for the protection of property there |
abouts. The old board of officers was
as follows: Bailiffs, F. W. +.
Blodgett, G. R. Crosby, L. NJ Howe,
r. c. Bacon and L. W. Hawley; tax /
collector, r. e. Gordon; clerk and
treasurer, W. ID. Perry; auditor,
Charles A. Harris; chief engineer,
Harvey W. Sanders.
The political campaign was opened |
locally Sunday in the Congregational, |
Baptist and Methodist churches with
addresses by Clarence j. Ferguson,
Rev. H. A. Durfee and Rev. j. Hall
Long, representatives of the Vermont
.nti-saloon league. These workers in
behalf of the prohibitory law did not
state their mission in so many words
out confined themselves to the argu-
nents which come within the limita
ions of temperance orators who simply
nave the welfare of the general public
1T heart In the evening union meet
ng was held in the Baptist church.
DIR. A. H. Lewis and George Deyo
we're arrested Friday afternoon by
chief of Police Hall for being intoxi-
,ated and placed in the lookup for re-
The two men evidently
lad been having a drinking bout in
Dr.. Lewis rooms over LaFlesche's
rooms and had imbibed SO
RELY that their friendship terminated
n free fight Both bore black eyes
when arraigned in court Saturday :
Lewis pleaded guilty to one /
econd offense and was fined $40 and
osts amounting to S15. 30. Deyo plead
d guilty to a first offense and was ;
ined 50 and costs amounting to SO. 60 ,
The usual disclosure proceedings ]
,rought forth the statement that the :
liquor was procured in Ashuelot, n. H. (
A Pole whose name appears on the '
curt records as Sunday Sun was ar
ested Saturday evening by Chief of
'olice Hall for having imbibed too :
of fire water. He and a '
ompanion appeared on Main street in s
decidedly irresponsible condition and (
fter wandering aimlessly about for I
ONE time attempted to buy some shoes
n Shea's store. One of the men was {
o loaded that he fell fiat on the floor /
nd in an effort to hel his companion |
be other dropped two bottles of beer {
rom under his coat. The drunken of
he tvo was taken TO the BrattlehOrO 7