Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-07
QGindham County Reformer
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP,


thls town gave a talk on birds befor
the windsor county summer school tbi
week. o' Va
Hon. J. I. Martin, U. S. distric
attorney, VIII deliver the Old HON
Gay ADDRESS at Dummerston Aug. %
me First Regiment band of this tow
will furnish music.
C. F. Thompson was elected trus
tee OF the bankrupt estate of Mrs. ID
l.. Herrick Monday. Referee Stow
I appointed Miss Mary Donnell. A. p
Simonds and r. 4. Gordon, apprais
ers. Charles f. Thompson was ap
pointed trustee. " ~
One OF the inmates of the Retreat
while promenading in the woods las
SUNDAY afternoon. lodged his attend
anu ana made his escape. He has no
YET been found. He is described as ;
tall man, about So years of age. He
Is not dangerous character.
= C. G. Fits of this town was one o.
the commissioners appointed by the su
pfeme court to hear arguments on the
question of reinstating to the bar Law
yer Enright of Burlington. Mr.. En-
right won, and he has hung out his
single and resumed practice.
Traffic on the railroad was the heav.
lest OF the season Saturday, aud bust
ness was abnormally large. The White
Mountain train was run in two sec.
lions, one of seven cars, the other of
nine, and there was little more than
standing room in either. The south
bound White Mountain train carried 10
ears heavily loaded with humanity.
1t is currently reported that Rev.
X. ). Sidelinger, the retired clergy
man, who is wanted here on a charge
of cashing two checks belonging to a
woman, aud which he claims were
found on the streets, is now sojourn-
Ing in Montreal or Whereabouts. There
is warrant out for his arrest and the
longer be remains away the better it
will be for him.
/ A new 50 counterfeit has been dis
covered on the Fourth national bank of
Boston, check letter A, series of 1882,
Tillman register, Morgan treasurer.
This note is Photographic picture on
ordinary bond paper, bearing few red
ink lines in imitation of the silk fiber
OF the genuine paper. The numbers
of the note have been colored with
pen. Otherwise the note is straight
photograph.
The changes announced som time
ago on the Boston & Maine railroad
went into effect Saturday. George r.
l.. French, recently roadmaster of the
eastern division, assumed the manage
ment of the Connecticut River division
a. assistant superintendent, with head
quarters in Springfield, Mass. His
old associates recognized his promotion
by rendering him banquet and pre-
senting him with gold watch and
chain.
The annual dinner of the Spotford
Fish and Game club will be held at Sill
verdale, Chesterfield, N. H., Wednes-
day, Aug. u, at y 80 p. m. The guests
of the club will be Congressman F. ID.
Currier and members ofthe State Fish
and Game commission. Men of Brattle
boro are cordially invited to join the
organization The committee of ar
rangements consists of President Will
liam J. Reed, John c. Kuhlka and W.
K. Ware.
The changes announced some time
ago on the Boston Il Maine railroad
went into effect Saturday. George l..
R. French, recently roadmaster of the
eastern division, assumed the manage /
ment of the Connecticut River divis-
ion as assistant superintendent. with
headquarters in Springfield, Mass.
His old associates recognized his pro-
motion by rendering him banquet
and presenting him with a handsome
gold watch and chain.
Fred Dyke, employed at Shea's fish
market, while driving on the Putney
road Saturday was kicked by his horse
and suffered a compound fracture OF
the left leg. An artery was severed and /
Mr.. Dyke was very weak from loss OF /
blood before he received aid. He drove |
to the nearest house where temporary (
bandages were applied and then he /
was conveyed to his home on Brook .
street in this town. He is comfortable, 4
but his injury will lay him up for sew
eral weeks.
Now the dead game sports about
town are telling the yarn that the re-
cent wrestling contest between Ross,
the tremendous, and Tom Lynch,
lack tar of the battleship Texas, was
ali a nut up lob and that Lynch, al
though receiving the S25 which Ross
mt nm. promptly returned the money
after the match. The inference natur-
ally is that local men who did not bet
on the result of the match are lucky.
''inside" plans for pub,
lie Doodle on one end or the other fell
through.
Receipts at the depot ticket office
were $500 more last month than in any
month on record. Travel mas
never been so heavy. The two local
handled almost 800 trunks
last Saturday, a record une4ualled.
The Is train bound north Saturday
night unloaded 40 trunks at Brattle-
,oro. Liveryman Brown took two huge
oads of them over to the lake, and a
West Brattleboro farmer who Is con
luctipp a summer boarding house was
20 swamped with luggage that he mad
o hire meat wagon to cart 1t away. ,
An Italian laborer, working in the /
marry at West Dummerston, fractured
,is leg Saturday afternoon. HIS com q
,anions applied bandages and mace
he sufferer as comfortable as possible, T
mt during the night and on Sunday g
he man was in great pain, so that by I
Monday somebody with grain of sense q
n his head suggested that perhaps the a
nan ouoht to receive attention from +
MUSICIAN. Consequently he was lifted a
y q stretcher and four of his mates put Q
i'm aboard the morning train bound +
or Rrattleboro. Here he was trans, y
orrad IN tbe south bound train and \
aken to the Greenfield hospital BY :
ha time he reached there he was in
l. bar a