Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-23
WILMINGTON.

at Memorial hall booked for Feb. %.
! See amended conditions of voting
contest on page eight. It's easy now.
Tuesday morning the thermometer
registered 26 below zero in some places
in the village. Wednesday morning il
was 81 above, thus showing the re-
markable change of So degrees in "a
hours.
William L. Packard and wife left
for Greenville, Tenn, last week,
where Mr.. Packard will publish pa
per. During the five or six years that
Mr.. Packard has been citizen of the
town he has been active in public mat
ters and has shown a spirit of enter
prise highly commendable. We are
sorry to have him leave town.
The Draper house, occupied by Mar
tin A. Brown, came near being con
sumed by fire January II. The fire
caught in the rear of the fire place
and was making rapid progress when
located. One of the two by four
studs was burned entirely off and in a
very short time the blaze would have
obtained such Roadway that it could
not have been stopped. 1t is great
mistake to build fire place within
two or three inches of wood work.
Damage some $40 or SIS; insured.
The officers elect of the grange were
installed the l4th of January as fol
lows: Master, Henry d. Allen; over
seer, Frank II. Fitch; lecturer, p. j.
Fitch; steward, Frank E. Titus; as
sistant steward, Homer W. Fitch !;
chaplain, Rev. E. E. Wells; treasurer,
Frank S. Bellows; secretary, Clark
Chandler; gate keeper, Samuel Had
ley; Ceres, Mrs. f. S. Bellows; Po
mona, Rosa Gilbert; Flora, Grace
Clark; lady assistant steward, Mrs II.
W. Fitch organist, Miss Mabel Fitch.
Mrs. Nellie Mcclellan returned to
Brooklyn last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Stearns and will remain
for several weeks. Mrs. Julia Harris,
who received serious injuries few
weeks ago, has nearly recovered. Or
rim r. Buell. was in New York last week.
Rev. o. II. Palmer has been in STRAIT
ton this week closing up affairs as re-
CARDS the various offices which he held
in that town. W l.. Packard went to
Greenfield Saturday returning Tues
day he left Thursday and does not ex-
pect to return until some time in May.
Patrick Rogan has decided to leave
town and will go to Turner's Falls,
Mass, where he will carry on the
blacksmithing business.
The annual meeting of the corpora
tors of the Wilmington savings bank
was held Tuesday Jan. 20. Thirty
three of the members were present.
Two have died during the year, Ed
ward Titus and Frank +. Barnard.
One has removed from town, Chas. ID.
Spencer. G.. II. Parmelee was elected
to fill the place of Mr.. Barnard, l..
w. Boyd that of Mr. Spencer and
Frank II. Fitch that of Mr.. Barnard.
Clark Chandler was elected president.
Eli II. Porter was elected vice presi-
dent in place of Mr. Titus. The fol-
lowing trustees were elected: +. l..
Fuller of Nottingham, Clark Chand-
Ter, J. H. Kidder, NJ. L. Burr, o. o.
Ware of Wilmington, W. Il. Faulkner
of Whitingham, G. NJ. Ware and +.
II. Porter of Wilmington, K. q. Will
cox of Nottingham, Martin A. Brown
and Frank J. Corbett of Wilmington.
The present year is the 50th annivers-
airy Of the incorporation of the bank.
Its affairs are in most favorable con-
dition.
The farmers meeting held at the
town hall Tuesday was we'll attended
and very interesting. The meeting
was opened by c. J. Bell, secretary OF
the state board of agriculture. In the
absence of Clark Chandler, who was
expected to make the address OF wei
come, Leslie W. Boyd responded in
very appropriate manner. Mr.. Bell
said that Vermont produces four
ninths Of all the butter produced in
New England and double the cheese
produced in the other five states.
There are only five states in the I'm
ion that exceed Vermont in dairy prod
ucts. Ernest Hitchcock of Pittsford
gave valuable information as to the
best manner of constructing farm
barns. Hon. T. l.. Kinney of South
Hero spoke upon apples, W. L. Dow OF
Hardwick on Cooperative Creamery
Methods" George Aitkin Of Wood
stock, superintendent of the celebrat-
ed Billings farm, on "Sheep Hus-
bandry." In the evening music was
rendered by the Amphian quartet,
Ernest Hitchcock of Pittsford gave
talk upon Food for the Dairy" Geo.
Aitkin gave description of his expe,
riences and observations in the old
world, touching particularly upon ag-
ricultural methods practiced in Italy.