Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-03-04

Q Fort Drummer colony. PllgrI
b Fathers, gave card party In Graz
: army hall Tuesday evening. the eve
being attended by n large number
members and friends, Refreshmen
, were served during the evening
, Twenty young people made
snowshce trip from the Wantastiqu
golf club house over the hills TO u
Melrose hotel Wednesday evening.
sugar supper was served AT the hot
and the party returned about mid
night on wood sled.
The members of the young PEG
pies home missionary circle of IN
Methodist church held a pleasant co
lonial party last evening nj the HON
of Mrs. f. II. Beaman on Canal stree
The members and their friends ap
peared In antique costumes and spen
the evening playing games. Refresh
ments were served.
&C. H. Thompson and force o
men went TO West Dummerston yes
terday to prepare the dam OF tn
Brattleboro Gasllght company agains
damage from high water and Ice. b,
use Of dynamite the Ice on the tol
OF the dam and below II was cleared
/ anu lUuNN lUt ltt WHICH tONtTH tU'
still water TO depth of nearly 30 In,
ches will be broken up.
The narrow gauge has been hay.
ing another OF its off weeks. the morn.
ing passenger train having failed
since Monday TO make any of its reg
ing 1t was the snowstorm which caus-
ed the delay; on Wednesday il was q
broken journal on one of the passenger
90. nd NaGfarlpN IL a Eae ya
In the locomotive hues. The passen-
ger train did not reach Brattleboro I'M
til about 9 o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
arriving here between IL and IL We'd
nesday and yesterday. Freight traffic
on the road is also badly tied up.
When f. w. Kuech went TO din
nef Wednesday noon he had forgotten
to clean the sidewalk In front of his
store: the warm weather had melted
the snow and made the walking very
poor When Mr., kuech returned he
found Ambrose Knapp. Fred C. Cres-
sy and Frank Laughton cleaning the
walk with the aid of three shovels
that they had borrowed. Mr. Kuech
was very glad to find that his neigh
bors We're 50 accommodating. He got a
box in the rear OF his store, seated
himself upon II on the front steps
and directed the work.
Albert Thomas of Green Noun
tain. Ia, who has frequently visited
with carloads of horses
to G. T. Gilman, was killed
with five other horsemen In a rail-
road accident which took place last
Friday. Thomas and his companions
were In the caboose of stock train
hat had been sidetracked to allow
train to pass. Some one
lad failed to close the switch. how
ever. and the passenger train, run
hing Mt a speed OF so miles an hour.
,rashed into the eaboose. Young
Thomas was son of Walter Thomas
Who has been associated with Gilman
or several years A part of the hors-
IS in the train were consigned 10 /
<eene n. II.
The family Of Walter II. Thomas,
living on the New Hampshire side Of 1
he Connecticut, not far from the sus- /
tension bridge missed their pet house (
ut the other morning and little lat 4
r discovered all their poultry dead (
n the hen-house. Following the !
racks OF wild animal up the noun
ain side. they found their valued fe-
ne half devoured by some strange
east. which must have been we'll nigh
tarved TO have ventured inside the
lrmer's building. Reports of the pres
nee of strange animals come from
arlous parts of the country. their
being attributed to the seve-
ty of the winter, which has driven
lem from their mountain haunts. --
pringfeld Republican.
Among the dramas and comedies
/ the repertoire OF the Howard Stock
)mpany, which phys at the auditor !
I'm next week are the following: The |
1ening bill announced Is "Cumber- /
nd 81" an exciting military drama, I
flowed during the week by "A Ken c
cky Outlaw" ~ Stranger from a 1
range Land" Nevada" Shadow OF J
e Cross" Jesse Games" The EN- ]
issy Ball" The 0ctoroon" "Ostier z
'e" and others. Miss Mana Bascom X
oward leading mdy, is pronounced c
e of the handsomest and cleyerest d
the country, Tom Ripley. come
an. and Edwin Trevor leading man. q
ID Jack Goodwin Heavy" with c
iss Pearl Turner. n charming SOU Z,
mpany. Il
AT the regular meeting of the v
attleboro Woman's club Wednesday e
LtlIOpH MtS. isilSdDtln -. lpdNtfl- 4 ~
IT gave an able paper upon her re- a
lt tip across the continent I'm s.
npaE with the members of the pl
nericin Ornithoogists' union. the y,
ject of the trip being to hold tn
needing with the western con- m
gent in San Francisco In Civ
a brief outline of the journey
$. davenport told OF the IL days
m Chicago to California spent in NC
hi seeing. the party being side mr.
cked at many interesting places in ~
Ter % enable the tourists to visit 10,
NY historic towns and make side lia
ps {, the Fossil forest. the Grand MI
nyor. the Yosemite valley and -,
ng he central coast of the Faral- nc
Islands, the hot valley of San Joa- ~
n md Lake Tahol. The speaker or
cit especially upon the life In the do
regions. describing the scenes in ri
utinil word pictures. NJ;
MIS-. Sally Prouty "a, widow OF fa'
'dicS Prouty died Tuesday morn 4
at the home of her daughter. Mrs. =
ar Smith, on High street from the
rmties incident unon old age. She
: Torn in Marlboro Dec. 10. 1909
Ind spent the greater portion of
life in that town. Eight years ago
cane TO Brattleboro to make her
ne with her daughter. She was
rrid to Mr. Prouty in 1881. Mrs
ut was n real Daughter of the
'olition, her father having served
a common soldier I'm the colonial
'es She is survived by two sons
two daughters: Albert NJ Prouty.
n clerk of Marlboro, Plummer
ut' of Halifax. Mrs. C. T. Walcott
Greenfield, Mass, and Mrs Smith of
Dwn. The body was taken to
'ltoro today and the funeral will
1ed from the church there this af
om. Rev II. Fl. Shaw officiating
III viii be in the Marlboro ceme-
.