Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-10
The Red Men will hold their regu-
ar meeting in their hall tonight.

lar meeting IN tuelT naIi IonIsht'
Mrs. A. j. Tewksbury, representa-
tive of the Furber shoe, will be in town
for an indefinite stay. adv.
The Easter decorations in the win
dows of E. j. Fenton & Go. are espec-
tally beautiful and artistic and attract
much attention.
The Brattleboro Gaslight Co. g cot.
fer dam was completed yesterday and
the machinery put into working order.
A trial will be made tomorrow.
The w. G. T. U. met in the Y. NJ.
G. A. parlor yesterday and held Bible
reading; next Thursday they will hold
a mothers meeting in the same place.
The lawn tennis club met last night
in the Brooks House parlors and organ
lied for the seasons sport. They de-
cided to put the court on the golf
grounds in first class condition.
The regular meeting Of Modern
Woodmen was held in Red Mems hall
last evening. Several new members
were initiated and it was voted to send
the uniform team to Windsor April ID,
to attend the district meeting.
A meeting of the directors of the
baseball league was held in the I. M.
G. A. rooms Wednesday night and it
was decided to await the reports OF the
Catholic Union and Wheel club d.
rectors before proceeding further in the
matter
Owing to the bad weather the reg
ular meeting Tuesday evening OF Blng--
ham chapter, O. E. S., was not well
attended. The expected entertainment
was not given, but card playing was
engaged 10 after the business of the
meeting.
AT a special meeting of Fort Dunn
mer, r. A. c., No. ~, Wednesday
evening, the Royal Arch degree was
worked on three candidates, The an
nual meeting was held last night for
the election of officers, but no cleo
tions we're made.
The facilities that make the Re-
former the best printed weekly in the
state are at the disposal of Ullery Il
Co. IS job department. Have your post
err and commercial printing done there.
1t can usually be delivered the next
day. More time is better Of course.
The body of John II. Prouty, only
brother of Jason w. Prouty Of this
place, was brought to Wilmington from
Albany, n Y, Monday, for burial
He was the youngest son of Plummer
Prouty, an old resident of Wilmington,
for some years dead. He was 80 years
of age.
C. +. Gilman reports the horse
BUSINESS as better than for several years.
During the past Is days Mr.. Gilman has
sold three carloads of nice horses and
he has orders for still more. MI. Gil
mans advertisement elsewhere in this
paper offers some fine animals and a
new lot.
Prof S. Ansbach, who so delight
ed the Congregational club by MS
sleight of hand performance some time
ago, gave an entertainment of similar
nature to large number at the Brooks
House last evening. 1t was fine ex-
hibition of the magician's art ana
much enjoyed.
An architect with plans for the
proposed Thompson hospital was in
town last week but the plans are not
perfected and nothing definite can be
announced in regard to them or to the
building of hospital. No movement
has yet been made, either, toward clos
ing The Hemlocks for alterations to
adapt it to the forthcoming hospital.
Two patients are at present being
treated there.
Fred Farr was arrested on Main
street last night by Officer Hall, after
having been forcibly elected from sew
eral lunch rooms for boisterous con
duct. He was taken to the lookup and
arraigned this morning before Judge
Newton on charge of intoxicatlon
and disturbance of the peace. he
plead guilty and was fined % and
costs, amounting to $40. 20. He is held
in the lookup pending payment of the
fine
Doc" Owens added another sen
sational page to an unsavory history on
the Deutschland which came into New
York FRIDAY. He had won 800 francs
at cards, when passenger who recog-
niged him by means of newspaper
portrait, openly denounced him as
Tone of the biggest gamblers and care
sharps in the United States" Owens
denied that he had cheated but finally
returned 800 francs to the loser in re
turn for a signed guarantee that ne
would not be sued for the remainder.
Protective grange held regular
/
J worthy lecturer furnished the follow
ing program: Piano solo, by Miss Ger
J trude Barker: reading, Mrs. Lucy Sar
: gent: paper on the Hawaii Islands D!
e. W. Haskell; farce entitled DIT
| McBeatem" by E. NJ Goodenough, ii
q. Whitney, A. E. Miller, Mrs. Luc!
; Sargent and Mrs Clara Miller; sons
by Mrs. E. L. Knowlton; reading b.
Mrs. Fred Wall. The program at tn
3 next meeting will be in charge of Mrs
Lucy Sargent who will present fare
2 written by the author of the "Ol'
g Maids Convention.
A family consisting of man, tw'
I women and four children all under L
+ years of age, and accompanied by
. dog, came up from Northfield on Tn
$ IL :O6 train yesterday. They had yer.
4 little money and were destitute as U
( clothing. The man was looking. 10
. work all the afternoon and at nigh
I they applied for lodging at a dwelling
/ house on the West River road. BelnI
t refused they prepared to spend tn
i night under a tree on the common
q Here Officer Hall found them and tool
\ them to Mrs Bushnell's boarding hous
q on Elliot street, where they were fed AM
a lodged and sent back this morning t.
Mortified where they claimed to be
long. -, ,,, =,
. Rose column of the Boston Globe
!. Tuesday, said: 81. G. Ullery OF Brat
e tleboro. editor of the Reformer, tn
e leading Democratic paper of Vermont
;. "a panrasaptative Frederick HOugh