Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-09
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

H. Chatnelds coupe order bool
mas peeh placed in Leonard & Roess'
cigar store.
H. crosby Co. have placed
handsome new delivery wagon on III,
street this week. Wv
ALI the leading STYLES in Fe,t Vol,
vet, Plush and Beaver Hats for Ia az,
and children at Mrs. H. r. Bascom,s g.
Main St.-adv.
-Ihe Chestnut Hill Reservoir Co
mas put new service box in plac,
Vi ,he ola one connecting H. III. Thomp.
son $ block with the Main street wate,
main.
The First Regiment band will q,
10 Marlboro, n. H., to-day to plav-fo,
a i1remen's muster and Leitsinger's or.
chestra will furnish music for a dance
In the evening.
C. l. Davis. formerly of this place
now IN business at Seattle Wn, has
become an enthusiast at bowling. He
mas Just won the King county champ
ionship medal out there.
The night trains between New
York and Quebec which pass through
Brattleboro at /: 40 and 2:20 a, M, We're
discontinued Tuesday. The regular
winter schedule will go into effect next
week.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Vermont Wheel club was held
TUESDAY evening. Aside from the
regular business it was voted to an
propriate $25 to help support a foot
ball team this fall
A special meeting of Sedgwick
Woman's Relief corps was held in G.
A. r. hall Friday evening when an in
spection was made by the department
president Mrs. Anna A. Beach, A
social was held in the afternoon and
supper served as usual at $50.
The first meeting of the Brattle-
boro woman's club this fall will be held
with Mrs. Levi X. Fuller at Pine
Heights Wednesday, at $3.50 D. m.
After greetings, there will be a word
from the president. Miss Clark, and re-
ports from the state federation meeting
by the delegates.
The story in circulation last week
to the effect that the Guilford Spring
farm had been sold to a syndicate of
physicians who would operate it as a
sanatarium was nothing more or less
than a fabrication. H. j. Richmond
manager of the farm, has received
word from its owners that they have
no intention of selling 1t at present
There. was hearing before Judge
II. H. Wheeler last Friday on the pc
tition of Fuller C. Smith of st. Adams
asking for a writ of habeas corpus re-
house at Richford, claiming that they
are held without warrant of law, hav-
ing been born in the United States.
The question was argued at length by
Mr.. Smith and District Attorney J. L.
Martin. Judge Wheeler reserved his
decision.
Work on a new cistern to be built
on Elm street was begun Tuesday I'M
der the direction of E. w. Blodgett |
chairman of the board of bailiffs. 1t
will be IS 40 and ~ feet deep. This |
will greatly increase the fire protection |
in the neighborhood of the S. A. Smith |
Co.. and Hooker, Corser & Mitchell |
factories, and will be one of the many |
benefits which the village has received .
during the term of office of the present !
village fathers.
The United States civil service
has just received from the
government call for $50
male teachers with salaries ranging
from $1,000 to 5000 per year. Exam
nations for these positions will be
held October 10 and 20 in Bos-
on, Springfield, Greenfield, Mont
,elier. Rutland and st. Johnsbury. /
Application blanks can be procured
rom the clerk of the civil service
BOARD at the local postoffice.
The Sth annual meeting of the
state federation of woman's
lubs met at st. Johnsbury Wednesday
md Yesterday the st. Johnsbury club
icing hostess. A large number OF dele
tates from all over the state, repre-
entipg as many different clubs were in
tendance. The Brattleboro club was
represented by it's president, Miss S. E.
lark, federation director, Mrs. c. II.
thompson; federation secretary Mrs.
!. O. Miner and delegates Mrs. r. L.
; Patton Mrs. J. C. Dewitt and Mrs. G.
:. Barber.
Robert HARRISON, So, who died at
he Retreat Tuesday, was brother OF
x-mayor Alexander HARRISON ana
lon John p. HARRISON of Hartford
'onn. He was a graduate OF Prince
On university and spent several years
, the study of foreign languages
broad. afterwards taking professor
hin in the university of Ann Arbor'
itch. Subsequently he practised law )
, ST. Louis and atlanta, and for !
me was private representative OF
on. Noble, secretary of the interior
nder President Mckinley. For sew A
raj wears before his retirement two
oors ago he was connected with the
"a velers Insurance company. Inc y
a., ,,as sent to Hartford Wednesday
nd funeral services were held at the
ONE of his brother. ;,
A delegation of about oo SIT
NIGHTS from Beauseant commahuery
tended the fourth annual knlgnt
amnlar field day which was held In
laremont. N. H., Wednesday. Inc ,
a,,,bars assembled in their asylum at u
,.15 in full regalia and marcneu W
- danot TO the strains of the FIRST
,i,nent band augmented by several =
,t-of-tovn musicians. Their spec
, ,rain reached Claremont at lZ'So Z
"A at o'clock lunch was served 10 u
,he visiting sir knights. The al
or was devoted to dress parade q
a insnection. and at o'clock pan >
~. rs served followed by a band II
ie' A. g o'clock a reception was Y
a. Grand officers of Vermont e.
I'd New Hampshire ana 'ne ie. ~
Vi inc 40 ,,dary returned W