Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-14

AFTERNOON. DetallS went 10 tne TduB
from the several companies as usua
and had target practice.
The annual meeting of the Militar
Order of Foreign Wars was held Sat
urday night at the camp grounds Re
ports of the various officers were re
ceived and several new members wer
elected. A pleasing feature was tn
presentation to Col. Estey, the retir
ing commander, of an insignia OF tn
order. The presentation speech Wa
made by Col. +. L. Greene Of st. Al
bans. Col. Estey responded in
happy manner, thanking the member
of the order for their expression of re
gard.
Sunday is always a visitors day IL
camp but this year the rain kept TIL
crowd away until late in the Afternoon
and even then not many were present
General inspection was held in thu
afternoon. Monday morning thu
time was devoted to company drills
dress parade and regimental drills
Little work was done Tuesday CI
account of the rain.
| The Vermont state and Rutland
county joint fair will be held at Rut'
| land city September s, 9, 10 and II.
DIR. H. Nelson Jackson, Mrs. Jackson
and S. X. Croker, the chauffeur, ar
rived in Burlington Friday evening
the two men of the party thereby
completing a journey by automobile
across the continent.
Capt G. E. Mitchell, who has been
military instructor at the university OF
Vermont, has been ordered to the Phil
ippines to take command of Co. NJ,
18th cavalry. He left Burlington last
Saturday for San Francisco to sail for
the Philippines.
During the severe storm at Rupert
Sunday afternoon lightning struck
the barn Of Henry Rosey, setting it
on fire. The barn, with ten tons of
hay two horses, COW. and a bull,
was burned. In the same storm a barn
belonging to H. F. Moore was struck
and burned with several tons of hay.
Henry c. Ide, Of the Philippine COM
mission, left st. Johnsbury Monday
night for Washington. enroute to his
post in Manila. He will sail from San
Francisco August IS. During his stay
in st. Johnsbury Judge Ide has been
engaged with an assistant in prepar-
ing a revenue law for the Philippines.
He has the measure well formulated.
The President has designated Lieut..
Gen. S. B. NJ. Young, at one time in
command of the Third cavalry at Fort
Ethan Allen, to command the army
from Aug. s, the date of the retirement
of Gen. Miles, until Aug. Is, when the
general staff law goes into effect and
the office of commanding general of
the army is dispensed with.
Frank Dunn of Graniteville, light
weight champion of Vermont, and
Andy Watson, colored, of Boston.
light weight champion of New Eng
land, had a ten-round sparring con-
test for points at Montpelier Aug 5.
w. H. Brown of Hardwick was referee
and gave the match to Dunn in the
fourth round on a foul amid loud cries
of fake"
j. w. Perkins of Vergennes who
was under $500 bonds, charged with
illegally selling liquor, and who ran
away the day before the one set for
his trial, has been caught at North
Hudson, N. Y, and brought back to
await trial. Perkins said that the
only reason he jumped his bail was
that everyone was down on him and
he had become discouraged.
There were go starters out of an
entry list of 1902 in the SO hole play Of
the open scratch qualifying round
tournament for the presidents cup at
Manchester, on the Ekwanok links,
Thursday morning. Walter j. Travis
lowered the. amateur record by three
strokes, making the IS holes in II.
The record was held by A. NJ Reed
at "a.
Rev. w. S. Martin, who became in
volved in financial difficulties Mt
Highgate Springs last week and who
was arrested and confined in the
Franklin county Jail, has appendi-
citis. Several citizens, who looked
up Mr.. Martins case, had their SYM
pathies aroused and furnished the
necessary bail to allow Mr.. Martin
to leave the Jail and go to the hospi-
tal
Chief Justice John w. Rowell will
not do any court work this fall, on
account Of ill health. Judge Loveland
Munson will therefore preside at the
term of the Rutland county
court which begins Sept. 2. The other
for the September term
are as follows: Judge Tyler at Chit
tenden. Judge Start at Windham,
Judge Watson at Franklin Judge STAFF
ford at Orleans. Judge Haselton at
The fall session of
supreme court begins Oct. 81.
The post office at Gouldsville was |
broken into Wednesday of last week |
md the safe and money drawer emp |
led of stamps and money. The gen.
.ral store in which the post office was
coated was also robbed. The same /
lay a horse was stolen from Thomas
Ward of Moretown. The thief was
raced as far as Gouldsville and it is
bought he was the one who commit
ed the robbery. Winfield, George
nd Edward Stone were arrested in
With the burglary. They waived ex-
and were bound over IN
500 each. Monday Edward plead
utility and was sentenced to the in
ustrial school at vergennes for the
of his minority.