Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-12

The bailifs meeting Wnlcn was "
4 have been held Saturday evening, was
4 postponed for one week.
1 The annual banquet of the Hydro
/ fountain club will be held In the Am
erican house tomorrow evening.
! %. NJ. Laughton is planning to erect
4 a new stable in place OF the one when
now adjoins his Linden street resi-
/ dence.
4 The Ladies' Enterprise society viii
meet with Mrs. John Henkel. Estey
I street. Thursday evening. supper VIII
be served at the usual hour.
Chief of Police Thompson of Bel
| lows Falls was in town yesterday with
a drunk" bound for Newfane. This
/ is the fifth consecutive week that
Chief Thompson has been In Brattle-
boro on such business.
Pellet Brothers of Worcester
Mass, are making plans and specihca-
lions for the hotel which F. c. Gale
& Co, Intend to erect on the island in
the spring. The structure will be three
stories high and situated where the old
toll house now stands.
The last of the Vermont Wheel
clubs ladies nights" will be held
Thursday evening in the form of leap
year party TO which any lady who
wishes may invite club member.
/ Tickets may be procured of Mrs. Geo
T.. Foster. The entertainment viii con-
/ sist of a dance and supper served IN
the grange banquet hall
3 90 Drown
was held Saturday afternoon from ms
4 late home on High street, Rev H. X
Miles officiating. Mrs. a. II. Brasor
sang two selections. The body was
placed in the vault at Prospect Hill
cemetery to await burial in the spring
The bearers were John l.. Roess. f. H.
! Howard A f. Miller and II. w. Sar-
gent,
! Prank Murphy was arrested Mon
day evening for vagrancy by Chief OF
Police Hall He was arraigned be-
fore Justice Newton Tuesday and SEN
fenced to three months in the house OF
correction, Chief Hall taking him 10
Rutland Tuesday afternoon. This WIN
ter Is proving a severe one for the
hoboes. Five were lodged In the Gala
boose last night.
ON account of the many out
town people who will attend the Howe
Moving pictures tomorrow night and
who are Obliged to leave on the 10.lo
train, the performance VIII peglh
nromptly at s o'clock. No one will be
seated while the views are being
shown Brattleboro theatre goers nave
been getting lax lately in reaching the
auditorium promptly. Manager FOX
hopes that hereafter everyone viii be IN
his seat so that the curtain may DO
rung up at s o'clock.
Two local fishermen had curl
ous experience with n muskrat recent
lly. They were taking pickerel through
the ice at Kilburn pond when they
noticed the rodent sitting up beside
one of the holes. Upon inspection they
discovered that the animal was de-
youring a sinner. AS the fishermen
anproached the animal dove into the
water and as he did so the hook 10
which the sinner was attached caught
the thief Just behind the foreleg. He
was hooked so securely that the men
had no trouble In landing him ana
he filed substantial portion OF their
fish basket
Mr., and Mrs. Bert Leitsinger were
called to Hartford, Conn.,, this week
to attend the funeral of Clarence H.
Wells who died from the effects OF an
operation In the city hospital there
Mr.. Wells, who had been a frequent
visitor In Brattleboro was fine mu-
stefan, being a permanent member OF
Hatch's Hartford orchestra In whicn
he played the clarionet. He also mao
led the Briggs band of Middietown
! Conn. for several years and was re-
Gently presented with a gold trimmed
baton in appreciation of his services as
conductor of this musical organization
He is survived by a widow who Is sis
ter of Mrs. Bert Leitsinger. Burla
was in the family lot In the Middle
ton cemetery.
Mrs. Anna c. Boardman, who ar
rived in New York last week aftei
snending two years at Freetown, Sier-
RI Leone, Africa, in missionary work
: smoke Mt the evening service in the
Baptist church Sunday to good sizec
audience considering the weather. Mrs
Roardman went to Sierra Leone In lso|
with her husband who died OF fevel
only n few weeks after his arrival II
I that country. For number OF months
afterward she and another woman
were the only white people within
!. radius of 90 miles, but in spite OF ne
} unfamiliarity with the country ana III
. inhabitants the mission work was push
ed steadily onward. Mrs. Boardman de
scribed graphically many of her ex
e periences She left Tuesday for Bris
: fol where her mother and sister live.
Rev. Isaac McAnn, at one time pas
: tor of the Methodist church here, ]
o now. at the age of so, at the head
( the Boydton institute at Boydton, va
:, The significance about his holding tina
n position. says the Barre Telegram,
that he has voluntarily retired severa
|. times. hoping to spend some time y
: rest. but each time there comes a lou
= call for him to return, as the ma
: chosen for his successor, whatever nj
o age Is not equal to the situation. I'M
h shows extraordinary virility upon tn
: mart of one who was a hard workin
: pastor and eloquent preacher and pre-
e siding elder In Vermont for man
$ wears. And this helps to prove that
IS Is not work which kills most men. ou
= something a great deal less import
: lant-worry. overeating. the taking {
stinuiants unnecessary exposure ct