Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-24

> The Brattleboro branch, No. /, o
the International Sunshine society viii
: hold its regular monthly meeting will
Miss Shea, at her home on Oak street
Friday afternoon, July 81, at 3 o'clock
The Ladies' Aid society Of tn,
Methodist church will hold their regu
lar business meeting next Wednesday
afternoon in the church parlors at
O'Clock. A large attendance is de,
sired.
The usual cake sale under the aus.
pieces of the Woman's Auxiliary of the
Y. M. G. A. will be held Saturday al
the association rooms in charge Of the
ladies Of st. Michael's Episcopal
church.
Both local branches of the Junior
Audubon society will meet Monday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the corner of
Canal and Birge streets, for bird
walk and take lunch. If stormy on
Monday meet at same place on Tues
day.
The H. G. Clark farm shipped on
Monday three especially fine chestnut
mares, perfectly matched, to Gerald
Howett of White Plains, N. Y, who
represents "Briar Cliff Manor" an
establishment owned and conducted
by London millionaire. Mr.. Howett
also purchased the other day for the
farm for which he is agent, high
grade Jersey bull, three years old,
thoroughbred, owned by Herbert Rich
mond Of Guilford Center.
Mrs. Evelina Putnam Emerson, 80
years, mother of Sumner B. Emerson
tnf
Mass, yesterday morning of old age.
She was married to William Emerson
April %, 1882. Her husband lived 81
years thereafter and their golden we'd
ding was celebrated in 1882. Mrs. EN-
erson leaves six children, Is grandchil-
dren and nine great grandchildren. The
funeral will be held at Wilton, N. H.,
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
1t was just like old times on the
Narrow Gauge yesterday. The same
old weekly wreck happened and the
same old wrecking crew was despatched
to the scene of the disaster. 1t was
the same old familiar story The train
bound south made plunge to the
north, the whole combination being on
the same old track. Nobody was killed,
the engineer took another chew, the
other members of the crew made the
usual remarks, and that's all there was
to it.
| The national encampment of the
| Grand Army of the Republic will be
held at San Francisco, Aug. 1872. A
| few of the veterans from here will prob
ably attend, including Col. II. Z. Tay
lor, who is especially DESTROYS of re-
newing old acquaintance with friends
of his boyhood. The vets will be inter
ested in the news that Ex-Gov. Bulke-
ley of Hartford, Conn, is candidate
for commander in chief of the Grand
Army. He was recently elected De-
partment Commander of the Connect
cut G. A. K.
The young society people of the
town gave an informal dance at Grange
hall Tuesday evening, about so being
present and the evening was most enjoy
able. The chaperones were Mrs S. E.
Lawton and Mrs Frank Hunt. The
party was arranged by Miss Marshall,
Miss Lawton, Miss Allen, Miss Will
Hanson, Miss Hunt and Miss Randall.
The hall was very prettily decorated
with Japanese lanterns and bunting,
and cosey corners we're here and there
just to make things right. Leitsinger's
orchestra furnished music and light re-
freshments were served.
The Springfield Business school,
the oldest business school in western
New England, formerly known as
Childs' Business college, has had so
much success in placing its students
that it will guarantee to place the first |
100 students who register for the Sep |
TENDER term in positions, or forfeit |
$50 in each case where it fails to so
place the student. Over 80 per cent of |
the class graduated last June, it is |
said, are already placed. This is due
to the high grade pupils in the school,
the greater portion of which are either
high school graduates or graduates of
colleges like Mount Holyoke, Smith |
and Amherst.
They were trying to shoe a horse
at Flat street shop Tuesday when a
cork popped in an adjacent building
and the kings ransom threw big
fit The way he acted it almost seemed
as if he could hear it all afoam. But
they explained it by saying that this
fellow was one of those round shout
dered, consumptive, unframed beasts
that cannot pull more than ton and
a half up bill in the mud So they
rugged him up IN some cast of oxen
overalls, got him on his feet once
again, nailed the shoes to his unwill-
ing hoof and sent him on his way re-
joicing. The men who hammered the
nails say that "Bill'' made the most
recovery on record on Flat
street.
"A meeting was held at Odd Eel
lows hall recently for the purpose of
rebuilding, or recognizing Palestine
Canton, which is strictly a military
branch of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. The canton was organ
lied several years ago but became in
active because. many of the leading
left town and lack of inter-
est resulted. Twenty-Five new mem :
oers we're voted in at the meeting last
week, the present membership being
"a. A. W. Rowell and F. E. Perry are !
behind the movement and there is
future for the society The
I'D officers, who were reinstated, are '
Capt, II. NJ JOY; Lieut.. W. d. Gil $
ION ensign, w. E. Coombs; collector, I
}. G. Endlich.
Several thunder showers which l.
prevailed Tuesday from sunrise until v
veil into the night, swept neighbor g
ne sections all about us and created o
much damage, especially in Franklin q
county, Mass, where many buildings Q
we're hit by lightning, several burned .
nd nearly a dozen people Frustrated =
" the shock. Fortunately Brattle- It