Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02

The regular meeting of the Yer
mont Wheel club will be held Tues
day evening In the club rooms.
w. G. Doolittle has sold tn
Moseley farm In Vernon, where h
has been living this summer. t
George +. Brooks of Vernon.
The high school class of 1904 or
ganized an alumni association Tues
day evening, electing Frank Eckel
president and Miss Marion Chapii
secretary,
The W. c. 4. L. began to hol,
regular meetings again Thursday. |
has been decided to hold the meetings
mi-monthly instead of weekly, ant
they will be held the first and thirt
Thursday in each month until furthe
notice,
Services at the Universals
church will be resumed Sunday morn
ing. During the summer vacation
the interior of the church has beer
frescoed by C. A. Borden and new
carpet laid so that 1t presents a very
attractive appearance.
The auction sale of building lots
on oak Grove park continued FRIDAY
and Saturday afternoons. free banC
concerts and free trolley rides being
given on both occasions. A number OF
lots were disposed of at more or less
reasonable prices and presents of one
kind and another were given away
Superintendent f. d. Nash and
General Roadmaster Elrod of the
Central Vermont railway company
made a trip of inspection over the
aft -
the site at West Dummerston
for the new iron bridge to take the
place of the one which was washed
away last spring.
The annual meeting of the So
ciety of seamstresses, sewing women
and shopgirls of Brattleboro was
held in Festival hall Saturday even
ing when the following officers were
elected: President, Mrs, A. ]. Cur
rier: vice president Miss Addie NJ.
Fay: secretary. Miss Helen Leahy;
treasurer, Miss Abbie Pratt.
One of the finest concerts ever
given by the First Regiment band
was that on the common Wednesday
evening. The regular players We're
helped by 10 out -of-town musicians
making a team Of 80. and their rendi-
ton of the excellent program which
Conductor Leitsinger had prepared,
was excellent, The concert was
heard by the largest crowd of the
season, nearly 1000 people being in
attendance.
The September term of Windham
court convenes in Newfane
next Wednesday with Judge George
NJ. Powers of Morrisville presiding
A special train will leave Brattleboro
for Newfane Wednesday at $3.50.
There Is a prospect of n term of
about the usual length. AS soon as
The grand jury meets it will consider
he cases of the two men now in
Newfane Jail awaiting trial for rob-
oing the Windham county savings
bank.
The hunting season in Vermont
opened yesterday and a large number
IF local nimrods journeyed forth IN
luest of game. They found. how
ever, that both partridge and wood
cock are badly scattered on account
If the extremely dry weather and
very few good kills were made.
Charles Cox of Guilford, after shoot
ng one partridge over a promising
pointer puppy he has been keeping
or DR.. G. f. Barber, saw the dogs
egg broken by bite from a large st.
The accident took place IN
Halifax, and needless to say spoiled
Mr. Cox's prospects of good hunting
his season.
The current issue of Farm Poul-
ry saws: THE 10th annual Valley
air will be held In Brattleboro Sept.
IS and %. Mr.. d. +. Tasker, since
he first fair superintendent of the
poultry department, is now secretary
If the association. Mr.. w. F. God
lard who for many years has been
assistant superintendent takes Mr..
rasker's place, while Mr.. c. B.
,rowell has been made assistant. The
3rattleboro fanciers hold no winter
how but always make the poultry
of the fair substitute
hat leaves no regret on that account,
t goes without saying that |. X.
Telch will judge. Readers who wish
o see model fair should make it a
,oint TO visit the Valley fair
The Brattleboro woman's club
nnounces an evening of song to be
,iven in the Brooks house Thursday
vening at $50 o'clock by Mrs. Har-
lett Brasor Pratt, Mrs. Pratt Will
ecite Tennysons poem. Enoch Ar
len. and will sing several selections
rom Tennyson's In Memoriam The
nelodrama Enoch Arden. with incl
Iental music by Richard Strauss, one
# the most noted composers of mod
IN times, has been all over the world
Turing the past two years. The mu-
lie was written by the young compos-
II about seven years ago and Is
one poem of great beauty and pow
-. following the lines of Richard
Vagner's music dramas. The prin-
ipal thought in the music is in the
Use of the "leit motif" each parsonage
n the poem having his own musical
,hrase to announce his appearance IN
he action of the play. Tickets for the
ecital may be procured of any MEM
er of the woman's club.
The body of Mrs. w. W. New
omb. 43, formerly of Brattleboro. was
ound on the tracks of the Boston &
albany railroad, near Charlesgate
asst, Boston. Wednesday morning.
he head was severed from the body
which was badly mangled, and there
: little doubt that the woman
walked upon the railroad track with
uicidal intention. Mrs. NeWcomb
ad been visiting her brother. Frank
Ioughton, in Boston and had COM
,lained of sleeplessness and general
ad feeling for several days. She had
lot been strong mentally or physl-
ally since the birth of child four
months ago. Mrs. Newcomb llved IN
a number of years ago,
er husband being employed as
eweller here. OF late they had been
wing in Fitchburg, Mass. where
Hrs. Newcomb was prominent IN
Methodist church circles. She IS
urvived by two brothers, Frank
of Boston and F. G. Hough-
on of this place, and one sister, Mrs.
:. E. Westgate of Fitchburg.
Way Down East, with its pretty
tory and quaint characters of New
England life. will be seen at the audi
orium next Friday night, Sept. ?.