Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-30
00lindham Qtountp 8rformer
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

There was an unusually large at
tendance at the Masonic social Tues
day evening.
The Wantastiquet golf club ex'
poets to give military whist in Festi-
val hall sometime in February.
C. f. r. Jenne's agency has adjust
ed the loss on Charles S. johnson IS
barns in South Vernon at 81, $50.
There will be meeting of the as
ISOLATION and the board of directors at
the Y. M. G. A. rooms Monday even
ing.
There will be an afternoon meeting
at the Y. NJ G. A. rooms Sunday, Rev.
n. A. Wood of West Brattleboro being
in charge.
The second gentleman's night of
the junior auxiliary of the Episcopal
church will be held this evening at the
home of Miss Ruth Childs on Terrace
street.
Lyman II. Howe's strictly high
grade and first class moving pictures
will be seen in the Auditorium Thurs
day evening
At the annual meeting of the
Greenfield Score Card Poultry club
Friday evening d. f. Tasker was elect
ed first vice president and W. f. God
dard a member of the executive COM
mittee.
The January business of the Yer
mont Loan & Trust Co. has been the
largest of any month since January,
1893. and next to the largest in the his
| tpry of the ppmnanv
The board of civil authority will
hold special meeting to morrow after
noon to make final revision of the
check list to be used at Tuesday S
special town meeting.
! The Rhe Lorraine Co. will pro
duce the following plays at the Audi
forum the week of Feb. 81 In Honor
Bound, the Partisan Princess, A Royal
Prisoner, Under Two Flags, Homespun
Hearts, The Country Girl and The Two
Orphans.
There was meeting of the credit
ors of W. G. Halliday, bankrupt. Sat
urday afternoon in the office of f. ID.
r. Stowe The report of the trustee,
! d. n. Yeaw was heard, and divi-
dend of 56 per cent. declared, payable
February g.
The Catholic Union has engaged
the services of p, j. Mulvaney OF
Ware, Mass, to take charge of their
minstrel show which will be given In
February. Mr.. Mulvaney has long en-
perience in this sort of work, and is
sure to produce good entertainment.
There will be meeting of the
Brattleboro Woman's club Wednesday
afternoon in the Brooks House parlors
at 3 80 D. m. Miss Maud Emerson Will
speak on "Ballads and Ballad Writ
ers. Her paper will be illustrated
with vocal music, and there VIII also
be readings by club members.
F. D. f. Stowe has brought suit
for Prucius ". Manley of Dummerston
against the Vermont Mutual Fire In
surance Co.. to secure the payment of
| insurance alleged to be due Manley on
the loss of his farm buildings by fire
! last August. The case will come up
at the spring term of County court
-Alonzo II. Hines horse, which
had probably attended more dances
than any other equine in town, dropped
dead Friday night at Hinsdale, n. II. !,
where Mr.. Hines had driven to attend
the Firemen's ball The horse had
lust been placed in one of the stalls
in the hotel barn and was apparently
in good health. -.a - Il rr-
The letter alleged to have been
written by Rudyard Kipling to the
Tufts college alumni association IN
which was embodied savage fling at
his wife's relatives never came from
the pen of the eminent author after
all. Many of the leading papers IN the
country were fooled by the joke, how
ever, and not few commented edito-
rally on Mr.. Kipline's bad taste.
During 1902 the local branch of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals has investigated l65/ cases
1 of abuse to horses, 50 of which were in
/ Brattleboro: killed l3 horses, four
( COWS, seven cats; instigated two pros
/ ecutjons retired two horses on account
of poor condition: and formed three
Bands of Mercy, two IN Brattleboro
and one in Green River.
The seven weeks old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank G.. Clark was found deac
in bed with its parents Sunday morn
ing. The child had appeared in per
feet health the night before and it
death is attributed to suifocation. The
funeral was held Tuesday afternoon
from the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
on Elliot street, Rev. Mr.. Miles otfic
iating. The burial was in Prospect
Hill cemetery.
The annual school for the benefit
of travelling statesmen in the employ o
Durham Brothers began yesterda.
morning in the firms sample room anc
will continue through today, CLOSING
this evening with a banquet at TIT
Brooks House at which all the EN-
nloyes of Durham Brothers will b'
nresent. All of the Il statesmen arr
in attendance and the school Is con
Quoted by NJ. P Beiger, president o
Misbawaka Wooden Manufacturing Co
The horse belonging to DR.. Georg
r. Anderson took fright on Prospec
Hill last Friday morning and ran u
Browns livery stable On the way h
came in contact with Scott's grocer,
team and frightened the horse attached
to it. SCOTS horse in turn brighten
ing the animal which draws f. Il
5 Young's grocery sleigh. DR.. Ander
, sons horse reached the stable un
harmed and Mr. Young's horse wa
, stopped before any serious damage wa
| done Mr.. SCOTS sleigh was over
turned and his horse considerably Gu
: about the legs.
A petition presented to the Mont
pelier board of school commissioner
for solid session of the public school
y led w. f. Ranger, state superintend
a emf of education. to investigate as t
l. al,