Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-26
sLocAt.un.oTEs AND GOSSIP.


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The High school pupils Will hold
n dance In Grange hall this evening.
The dental offices Of Drs. +. q.
and L. A. Pettee have been thoroughly
refinished this week.
The grange dramatic club Is plan
ming to present the drama STRIFE IN
grange hall week after next.
There will be hearing Saturday
before Referee II. ID. Il. Stowe In the
Walter M. Ware bankruptcy case
The meeting of the Alliance
study class will be held at the parson-
age Monday evening at $50, Inc
subject is "The Scientific Spirit
Fred S. Knight is planning to
open his shoe store one week from
tomorrow. He will have a complete
line of mems and women's foot wear
Hooker winchester. the milk man,
fell on the ice Monday evening whale
entering August Anderson's yard IN
Esteyville and fractured his left col
lar bone.
The Pilgrim Fathers will hold
card party in G. A. X. hall Tuesday
evening. Members are requested TO
bring their friends. Refreshments VIII
be served.
Mrs. Emma G. Peckham Of Bos-
ton, secretary of the Baptist womans
home mission society. spoke interest
ingly in the Baptist church sunday
morning and evening
Joseph Martin of West Brattie-
boro was arrested by Chief Hall Mon
day night. He was arraigned peiore
Justice Newton Tuesday, pleaded
nd
and costs.
"A. V. Mays agency has sold Tor
Charles C.. Miller his farm In West
Rrattleboro known as the Mack Mil
Ter place to Mrs. Matilda Exner OF
New York city, possession to be given
soon.
The Brattleboro Womans club
viii hold its next meeting at the
Brooks House Wednesday afternoon
at $50 o'clock. A paper on Tne
Right Hand of the Continent Will be
given by Mrs. Elizabeth b. Daven-
port.
sydney ]. Hall has sold his lunch
room In Judges building TO Claren H.
bliss who has already taken posses
sion. Mr.. Bliss has been employed as
chef at the American House for some
time and is well qualified to carry on
the business
An art study class has been
formed by several young women IN
town. The purpose of the class is 10
familiarize itself with the lives ana
work of the worlds famous painters.
meeting was held at the home OF
Mrs H. c. Rice last evening and the
study Of Raphael begun.
Charles Berry and Miss Lucy
Sargent, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Sargent, were married AT o.
Main street Sunday afternoon az
o'clock by w. S. Newton, Esq MRS.
Berry has lately been employed a,
Dykes restaurant and formerly iiVeo
with relatives in Dummerston.
THE visiting board of the Home
for Aged and Disabled held Its annuai
meeting at the home Saturday after
noon when the old board OF onicers
were chosen: President, Mrs. G. n.
Rvder. vice president, Miss S. e.
Clark; secretary and treasurer. Mrs.
c, III. Davenport. A light lunch was
served after the business meeting.
Three Hinsdale young men were
unceremoniously thrown from their
sleigh in front of the Brattieboro
House Sunday afternoon, the accident
being caused by the slueing OF the
vehicle. The horse made no attempt
to run away after the capsizal SO mat,
ters were very quickly rearranged ana
the Young men continued on their way
home.
Engine No. 4 Of the narrow gauge
SQUAD returned Monday from st. Al
hans where II has been for the past
five or six weeks in the Central YER
mont repair shop. new set OF
wheels has been placed on the tenuer
to No. S, which has been using tne
No. 4 tender while No. was IN 81
Adams so that the narrow gauge mo.
tive mower now consists of two coal
burning and two wood burning loco
motives.
Thomas Pellet of Worcester,
Mass, has been in town TINS week "
comnlete arrangements with r. Z.
Gale q Co. for the construction OF
their hotel on the island. The struc-
tire will be begun as soon as the
snring high water Is over and ought
to reach completion early In the sum
mer. It will be three stories high
with an office, parlor. billiard room
and bar on the first floor, and sleeping
room on the second and third.
The freight blockade through the
west has its effects upon business
locally. several dealers being badly IN
convenienced by the delay In traihc.
ON Tuesday Crosby & Co, received a
car which left st. Cloud Mimi, Dec.
26 and ought to have arrived here over
q month ago. The blockade Is begln-
ming to be broken up now, and WITH
In two or three weeks all the local
freight roads will be rushed TO tnelr
limit
The annual town reports have been
distributed this week. In addition 10
the reports already mentioned In the
Reformer they contain that Of the IL
cense commissioners, which was over
looked by the selectmen and not CIV
en- to the printers until the first OF
this week. The license commission
ers' report gives a summary OF .ne
nroceedines since their appointment
March Is, 1903, and the amounts re-
ceived from license fees and fines the
total of which is 1881.
James Dunleavy IS. died Monday
nj the home of his daughter, MIS-
Daniel Duggan, In Hinsdale, N. n,
after long illness. He was rla.ive
Of County Galway, Ireland. and came
10 this country in 1868. He lived in
Ashuelot from that time until ABOUT
10 wears ago when he went TO i've
with his daughter in Hinsdale He
is survived by three sons ana thres
daughters: Michael Dunleavy OF
Providence. Thomas Dunleavy OF
BOSTON. John Dunleavy of this town
Mrs. Mary Harmon of Fox Point CT
Mrs. Bridget Sullivan of lawrence
Mass and Mrs. Duggan of Hinsdaie'
Funeral services were held in Hins-
dale wednesday morning. Rev: Father
Lind officiating. The body was
brought to Brattleboro for burial.
a Vermont gubernatorial letter in
,ha Roston Sunday Globe contained
The following: James l. Martin, U. ;.