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

--Windham County Pomona grang
will hold its annual meeting will
Protective grange next Thursday
There Will be election OF officers.
The next meeting of Protectiv,
grange will be held Wednesday eve
ming instead Of the 14th as stated II
the directory. The officers will MAKE
their annual reports.
AT meeting OF the trustees OF
the Home for the Aged and Disabled
Tuesday, O. NJ. Laughton was chosen
| to fiji the vacancy on the boaro
caused by the death Of Richards
| Bradley.
--Windham county Pomona grange
will meet with Protective grange Dec
| s. the date having been changed from
the 18th ON account of the state
meeting. Officers for the ensuing
year viii be elected and installed.
Senator George w. Pierce has
this week introduced a bill incorpo-
rating the Austine sanatarium which
is provided by the will of the late
Col. William Austine. The bill has
been referred to the committee on
corporations.
AT the mothers meeting to be
held Wednesday afternoon at 1880 In
the Congregational chapel, Rev. Il. II.
Bradley of Lincoln, Mass, will speak
upon education by handiwork as
shown in the Sloyd system. Mr..
Bradley has wide experience in
teaching Sloyd and will bring tools
with which 10 demonstrate his
talk. The invitation to attend Is
Next Tuesday evening there will
be an address in the Methodist
church which should be of general in
terest, but is designed to be of spe-
cial advantage to Sunday school
workers and those who are interest
ed in that work. Rev. o. S. Baketel
d. D., of Manchester, n. H., is the
speaker, and was well and widely
known even before he accepted his
present office of field secretary OF
the Sunday school union.
The Brattleboro branch of the
United Garment Workers union held
a meeting in G.. A. r.. hall Saturday
afternoon to meet Miss Lillian Fred
ericks of indianapolis, member OF
the executive board of the national
body. and arrange the schedule of
prices which will prevail in the two
local overall factories the coming
year A schedule was submitted to
the owners of the factories the early
mart of this week, but it was re-
fused on the ground that 1t took
away what little profit they were
making.
A cablegram received Wednes-
day announced the safe arrival at
Cairo, Egypt. Nov &c. of the Cook
&, Sons Round the World" party
which sailed from New York Nov
70, and that all the party were well.
Mrs. Angelica B. Shea and daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Ritter Shea are
members of this party. On Dec. 8
they leave Cairo for 20-day voyage
UP the Nile to the first cataract
and return to Cairo Christmas day
three days later embarking at Fort
Said for Bombay. Travel through
India will cover period OF hve
weeks. nine principal cities being
visited. Then a month in Ceyion
and the Federated Malay states, and
six weeks in China and Japan, and
day in Honolulu. expecting to
reach San Francisco about the mid
die of May.
1T is always difficult to judge the
life of play, and many of the most
talked of successes rarely survive
second season When Our New MIN
lister, Denman Thompson and George
w. Ryer's greatest of all character
PLAYS, which comes to the auditorium
Tuesday evening, was first produced
four years ago its most ardent ad-
mirer could not have foretold It's
lasting popularity. Our New Minis
ter is synonymous with the word
success and its destinies are careful
~ watched over by that enterprising
managerial firm, Miller q Conyers.
Always the best of everything OF us
kind is their watchword, which ac-
counts for all the favorites OF the
now famous all star cast being re-
tanned year after year. THESE prih,
ciples have created and maintained
The liberal patronage that Our New
Minister enjoys.
News has been received IN town
this week of the death in Seattie'
Wash, Saturday, of DR., FRANK A
Thorn. Youngest son of the late l.
n Thorn. for many years proml-
nent druggist in Brat tleboro. Or;
Thorn was a native of this town ana
was employed for some time in ms
fathers store He afterward worked
in the drug store of the late Henry
Chapin. He left Brattleboro some
16 wears ago and went to Newton
Mass where he continued his pro-
fession of pharmacist, later going TO
New York city. thence to Chicago
In the latter city he began the study
of medicine. receiving his degree
about six years ago. Since that tltne
he had been pracucing IN Seattle
where his death took place. Dr. morn
is survived by a widow, a mother
,rbo made her home with her SON
and three half brothers, Clinton, !. -
and e. c. Thorn. The body will be
brought to Brattleboro for burial.
A decision was made Saturday by
the United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals of New York in the case OF
p G Bacon. administrator of the es-
tate of Winfred p Randall, against
the Pennsylvania Casualty company
reversing the decision of the United
states Circuit court given at Rut-
land last October. The opinion states
that the trial Judge (Hoyt III. Wheel
cry erred in refusing to instruct the
iurv to find verdict for the DEFEND
ant on the ground that the insurance
nolicv on which the case hinged had
never become operative because no
premium had ever been PAID. ms
action was first brought in Wlndhain
county court in December. 1911, anu
the following year went to the cir
cuit court. coming up for trial be-
fore Judge Wheeler and a jury year
ago last October. At that time a
verdict was rendered for the plaintlir
TO recover s5625 and costs, the en-.
tire amount claimed. The case went
tn the court of appeals on exceptions,
one Of them being that the policy mad
never become operative because the
first premium had not been paid. The
decision of this court does not mean
that the case will be renamed lor
trial but that the verdict is IN Iavo,
Of the defendant company. Counsel
for the nlaintiff were r. c. Bacon ana
e G. Fits. for the defendant. Water
man & Martin.
wv, ~. coov;lla proprietor of