Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-23
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

me public schools will be close
next FRIDAY to allow the teachers I
attend the state institute in st. Johns
bury. steEat 49, 'o"''s
Inc advertisement Of the Reforme
y" page eight tells how anyone can ge
sooo newspaper for one year free O
charge. y
-Charies Clark returned this weel
rom Moosehead Lake, Me-, where h,
shot TWO deer, one buck and one doe
me former has been on exhibition 1,
Abbotts market.
"A special communication of Brattle.
ooro lodge, f. & A. NJ was held II
Masonic hall last evening when the
Master Mason degree was conferred or
several candidates.
Several cars of the narrow gauge
mixed train jumped the track Just this
size OF Jamaica yesterday afternoon
causing a delay of several hours. The
tram did not arrive in Brattleboro I'M
til about o'clock.
The regular meeting of the w. c.
L. u, was held yesterday afternoon in
the Y. M. c. A. rooms with a good at
tendance. The next meeting will take
place thursday when the reports from
the state convention will be given.
One or more members of the state
cattle commission is expected in Brat
tleboro to-day to examine the cattle
owned by George E. Crowell. The tu-
berculin test was applied to the ami
mails recently by DR.. j. L. Rathbone
and some of them responded
Peter S. Chase, we'll known resi-
dent of this town, and Mrs. Julia Bel
KNAPP of Burlington were quietly mar
ried Wednesday afternoon at the Bap-
fist parsonage by Rev. George B. Law
son. Mr. and Mrs. Chase will be at
home at Chestnut street after Mon
day, Oct. 26.
-Brattleboro chapter, Daughters of
American Revolution will serve a hot
chicken pie supper in the dining room
of the Baptist church Thursday even
ing. Nov. 8, at o'clock. Everyone is
invited to come and take supper with
the Daughters. The proceeds will be
used for patriotic work.
Beginning Nov. / there will be
slight change in the running time of
the street railroad. The first car will
leave Prospect Hill at o'clock instead
of $50 the first car from West Brat
tleboro leaving there as usual at $50,
but the second not leaving until 7.30
instead of o'clock.
There will be held Wednesday ev-
ening at o'clock at the Y. NJ. c. A.
rooms q reception in honor of the new
secretary, Victor S. Reed, recently of
Woodsville, N. H. An invitation Is cor
daily extended to everyone to come
and meet the secretary and welcome
him to his new field of labor
Members of Company I. v. N. G.,
received this week from the state of
Vermont their pay for the seven days
which they put in for the state at the
annual muster. The pay for the two
days which the company was in the
service of the United States has not
yet been received but the matter is in
the hands of the department.
Work on the new Home for Aged
and Disabled on Western avenue is
nearly completed and the structure pre-
sents an imposing appearance with its
front of powerful pillars and rugged
masonry. The style of architecture
is admirably adapted to the uses of the
structure: and when finished it will be
one of the most thoroughly equipped
of its kind to be found anywhere.
The apparatus of the United Con-
struction Co.. of Albany, N. Y, was
shipped wednesday to Royalton where
the firm has a new contract. A. W.
Hoff. treasurer of the concern, was in
town on that day to see about the re-
lease of the attachment which had been
placed upon the apparatus by the at
torneys of Michael W. Sullivan who
has sued the company for damages.
From time immemorial there have
been flying women in the programme
of magicians' exhibitions but Aga
which is one of the features of the |
entertainment that will be given by |
Dunbar at the Auditorium Tuesday
Nov 10 is like nothing hitherto at
The young woman in TINS
case rises from coffin and floats all
{. round the stage and Dunbar demon
strates that it is absolutely Impossible
for her to have any substantial sup
port.
A fine specimen of black bear
was sent to Brattleboro WEDNESDAY py
Alfred Crowninshield and Bert Wlluer
who trapped the animal on Stratto1l
Monday. The bear Welgheu
,bout $50 pounds when caught ana hao
an unusually fine pelt. 1t has peen
an exhibition in Schorling & Johnson's
,,,ot this week. Bears are re-
,orted more numerous than usual TINS
all and the hunter or trapper VINO Is
successful in capturing one makes
rood thing out of it as the bounty Is
100 and almost as much can be rear
zed from the skin and the meat.
Two new cases of scarlet fever
,ove developed this week, Lena
LAUGHTER of Mrs Rufus Smith on OAK
traet and Harriet younger daughter
# Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Mellen OF walnut
street. both coming down with .he
disease. Neither of the cases are Oh
,evere nature, however, ana II Is De
;ayed that they were apprehended IN
iue to prevent the further spread Oh I
ha disease. Both houses are under
.r;ot quarantine. There are at pres ;
- forr cases of scarlet fever in town, I
~ ether two being the daughter OF {
~ and Mrs. w. F. Root and a chllo III s
ha family of Mr.. and Mrs. s. II. Mixer {
m Prospect hill.
The leading article in the OCTOBER
is on Vermont Literature
- contains mention of four FORMER
80 tt1aboro residents: Wilbur ID. FISK
n Who became president of Yves ]
:, university from 1881 to 1889 ana
.ha author of several papers on
and education; Royal Tyler,