Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-01
The Y. M. G. A. telephone has been

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taken out.
Business at the Carpenter Organ
works continues to boom, and all
records have been broken the past
three months. 5a
The regular monthly meeting OF
the Vermont Wheel club will be held
at the club rooms Tuesday evening,
May 5, at 7.30 o'clock.
A. John Swenson has bought Of F
d. r. Stowe, administrator OF the
George w. Knowlton estate. the house
on Fairview street. Price, s1,051.
While working on a saw in Estey's
shops Monday, John Holden cut one
thumb SO badly that it was found nee
essary to amputate it at the first joint.
The body of Mrs. Sophia Haskins
who died Feb. IS will be taken from
the tomb in Prospect Hill cemetery
Saturday and carried to East Dover
for burial.
The option on the S. A. Smith Co.
relative to its merging in the trust,
expires to- day, but up to this forenoon
| the owners of the property had re-
ceived no word from the parties hav-
ing the negotiations in charge.
Edwin G. Putnam of Chicago, liv-
eryman Of 16 years experience in Ken
lucky and other places, enters today
into partnership with G. S. StockweH
of the Brooks House stables, and the
business will be conducted at the Old
stand.
II. J. Heaphy has withdrawn his
application for liquor license for use
at the Brooks House, as the own
ers of the hotel declined to lease the
property. With the issuance of a H.
cense to the Valley Bottling Co. the
full quota of licenses has been granted.
! A boy named Cullum who ran away
from the Monson, Mass, industrial
school three weeks ago, was located by
Chief of Police Hall at Merton Doolit-
ties farm, where he was working.
Special Officer Wakeman of Boston was
notified and took the lad back Tuesday.
Co. l, First regiment, V. n. g.,
will hold drill at Festival hall Mon
dav evening next, at Z 80 O'Clock, In
anticipation of the annual inspection
which will be held the following even
ing, when the new rifles will be issued.
II is hoped that all members will be
present, as much depends upon the re-
suit OF the inspection.
Capt. Charles Mason Fuller, re-
tired Z. S. naval officer, will give an
illustrated lecture on Venezuela, IN
Festival hall, Thursday evening, May
Il, Capt. Fuller has resided long IN
the tropics. his lecture is timely and
he is an easy and graceful speaker.
The tropical views presented are beau
tiful and of wide variety.
The annual communication and
I election of officers of Brattleboro lodge,
No 1O2. f. g. A. NJ, was held last
evening. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: W. NJ,
Major c. Houghton; s. W, Freder-
ick /. Swift: j. W, A. E. Hobart;
secretary. Jesse f. Haynes; treasurer,
w. II. Bracket. A special communl-
cation of the lodge was held Tuesday
evening and the master masons degree
was worked.
The annual village meeting, to be
held next Tuesday. will seemingly be
without unusual incident. The war
rant contains four articles: To elect
officers for the coming year; to receive
and act upon the reports OF the ball
ifs. treasurer and chief engineer; to
raise money to defray the expenses OF
the wear ensuing. and to see If the vii
lage will appropriate $500 for series
of l6 concerts to be given within the
! village limits during the year by the
First Regiment band.
Wednesdays heat broke all New
England records for April since 1883.
1t was a surprise and made winter
fiannels almost unendurabie. one neat
nrostration was reported in New York,
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the temperature was burdensome. 1t
is interesting to know that on the
same dav the far northwest was In the
arms of the regulation severe" bliz-
GARD. with trains stalled by snow in
, Wisconsin and bowling gale on. The
; weather bureau forecasts plenty OF ram
in day or two, which will please the
farmers half to death
In response to the invitation of the
!: senior class of the Bellows Falls High
school. the Catholic Union MINISTRIES
repeated their entertainment given
! here last week at the opera house In
Bellows Falls last evening. The show
was substantially the same as given
here except that club swinging by NJ.
! ]. Moran was substituted for the mag
ic act of Lala Coda aud the professor,
The performance was most successful
and pleasing to a good sized audience.
The party from here numbered about
$50 and returned on a special at about
; - 20 a. m. today. The MINISTRIES gave
/ street parade soon after their arrival
, in Bellows Falls yesterday.
Little if any disorder marked the
opening of the sale of liquor in town
Monday, when the Valley Bottling Co.
on Flat street began business, operat-
ing under second and fourth class Ii
censes. The members of the firm re-
port trade good and out of town orders
numerous The Brattleboro House and
American House will open their bar
rooms for public patronage early next
week, the delay being occasioned by
necessary alterations and repairs to
, conform to the law. At the Brattle-
boro House the hotel Office will be
, moved up stairs, occupying the pres
; ept parlor. and the barroom will take
the corner ground floor room hereto
| fore the office.
The first Vermont state meeting OF
the international Sunshine society was
held last evening at the home OF Mrs.
Julius ]. Estey and a large number
were present. Mrs Cynthia Westoyer
Alden. of New York city, and Mrs ID.
n. Clement of Brooklyn, n. T., were
in attendance The former gave most
interesting talk on the origin and Work
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