Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-08

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morning.
The st, Johnsbury Caledonian of
July contains AN article by George
w. Morrow In reply to the article by
Charles II. Davenport ON the opera
ton of the local option law.
A brief session Of the United
States court was held In the Brooks
house before Judge II. ii. Wheeler
Tuesday. T. 5. Berg of Brattleboro
was naturalzed and several motions
We're argued.
"A special train of four baggage
cars and three passenger coaches
carrying Richard Mansfield and his
theatrical company passed through
here Sunday afternoon on the way to
New York city from Montreal
The residents of Highland street
held their annual Fourth of July pic
mic Monday on the lawn of T.. 5. Rob
inson After a bountiful supper had
been discussed a short literary enter
tainment was enjoyed. II was decided
to form a permanent picnic organiza-
ton and Mrs, H. 5. Robinson was
chosen president.
Henry " Bragg 81, father of Mrs.
William H. Bradley of this town, died
Monday at his home in Dummerston.
He was born in Westminster, son OF
Emory and Olive Whitney Bragg, ana
was farmer by occupation. The
funeral took place yesterday AFTER
noon AT > o'clock in the Dummerston
church. Rev. W. p. Jackson officiating
Jack" Allen of Chesterfield, n.
H. was driving up Main street al a
rapid rate Wednesday evening when
in front of the Brooks house he col
lided with another team and was
thrown out upon his face in the road.
He sustained severe cut across the
forehead but was otherwise unin-
iured. His horse freed itself and
when last seen was heading for home
at gallop.
Miss Emma Miller, sc, a e-long
resident of Brattleboro, died Wednes-
day morning at the home OF her heph-
ew. Henry Miller, on Elliot street.
She was the daughter Of Coz. Nathan
and Philanda Buck Miller and was
for a number Of years employed in the
office of the Household Publishing Co,
She is survived by two nephews Hem
nv Miller Of this town and Leslie MIL
Ter of Philadelphia. The funeral WIZ
take place this afternoon at 2;SO o.
clock Rev. f. Q. $. Osgood officiating.
CARPENTERS are now at work fin
ishing the basement beneath Hough-
ton and Simondss north store, and in
a short time a room 80 by 20 feet,
reached by a short flight of wide, easy
stairs from the center of the stores,
will be ready for the reception OF sew
eral new departments which Houghton
& Simonds intend to install. When
this new room is completed the store
viii have $3.50 square feet of floor
space. The firm is now holding an
expansion sale" In preparation for
the changes
The annual meeting Of school
district No will be held in the hlgh
school building Tuesday evening, July
10. The call contains no articles re-
lating TO other than routine business,
but the meeting viii probably be
largely attended on account of the
agitation which has arisen about the
present system of teaching. The term
of Rev T. @. s. osgood as a member
of the prudential committee expires
this year but it is expected that ne
will be reelected without opposition
as his work on the board has been
extremely satisfactory.
Sig. Sautelle's circus gave two
performances on the island Nednes-
day afternoon and evening. Both
were largely attended. The show con-
tanned no acts of an especially start
ling nature yet an excellent program
was carried out The menagerie
connected with the circus was better
than the average and contained a
number of extremely rare animals.
The street parade given in the MORN
ing was highly ereditable. On the
whole the show Is fully what 1t is
cracked up TO be" and that is more
than can be said of many OF the larger
circuses. James Shipman, former
resident of Williamsvihe, is travelling
with the show as buyer
"A recent number of the outlook
contains an article on Una Haw-
thorne. daughter of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. from the pen of Thomas
Wentworth Higginson. 1t contains q
letter written May 10, 1868, from the
home of Mr.. Higginson's sister in
Brattleboro, where Miss Hawthorne
was making a visit The letter de-
scribes a walk taken by Miss Haw-
thorne and Aunt Anna" as she is
called. up the steep bank back OF
Chase street and through the wood TO
what is now known as the frog pond
in Crowelrs park. The description
of the woods and trees is beautiful
Mr.. Higginson saying by way of COM
ment. Il do not see how her father
himself could have touched the very
freshness and fulness of outdoor life
with a pencil more delicate
Between 500 and 1000 Knights of
Columbus will visit Brattleboro sun
day to participate in the institution
of Leo council, No. 917, which has
been organized here this week, a
special train from Whitehall, n. y,
Rutland, Fairhaven and Bellows rams
will arrive in Brattleboro early in the
afternoon and large number Of
knights from Massachusetts councils
will reach here on the early morning
train from the south state Deputy
Felix w. McGettrick District Deputy
Donnelly and a number of other hlgh
officers are expected TO be present
The degree work will begin IN Fesu-
val hall at 2:30 and continue untll
o'clock when knights of Columbus
yespers will take place in the Roman
catholic church At $50 a banquet
will be served in grange haH and az
ter the banquet the degree work viii
continue. The Bellows Falls council
will confer the first degree, the Falr-
haven council the second and the
Lawrence. Mass. council the third
knights from New York. Massachu-
setts New Hampshire. Connecticut
and an parts of Vermont viii be pres
ent.
-Brattleboro's Fourth of July ce4e-
bration was unusually quiet this year
Very little noise was heard on MAIN
street before midnight Sunday. ana
after that time nothing out of the or
binary took place. \ large bolllre
was built i'm front of the Brattleboro
house. and a smaller one near the cor
ner of Main and High streets, but they
were watched carefully by the police,
and no damage resulted. The worst
piece of vandalism was the breaking
of two plate glass windows in the
-. e In,..lit.n 6. CO Thn work was