Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-12-23
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

&C. A. McRae has swung a hand
some new sign above his clothin
store this week.
The women of the Universalis
society will hold their annual fair Ii
Festival hall January 10.
The 'postofiice will be open unit
noon Monday. the carriers maxim,
only the morning delivery,
The postponed semi-annua
meeting of Quonektacat tribe o
Red Men will be held this evening.
Mondays live stock shipment,
from the local station consisted OF A
calves, is hogs and 22 head of cat
tie.
Up TO Tuesday the record at the
Brattleboro Memorial hospital was
20 cases, 2S operations and one
death.
Beginning January l the Baptist
Christian Endeavor society will hold
Its meetings Sunday evenings. Off,
GERS for the ensuing year Will be
elected Tuesday evening.
The International Sunshine So
ciety. Brattleboro branch |, will meet
Friday, Dec. 80, at 3 o'clock with Mrs.
F. w. Putnam, SO Green street A
large attendance is desired.
AT a special meeting of the pro-
bate court Saturday Mrs. Amy Haley
of Marlboro was adjudged insane and
ordered to be supported at the ex-
pense of the state. C. 1. Knapp was
granted license to sell property of
Sophia French estate.
About 40 couples attended the
ladies' night at the Vermont wheel
club rooms Friday evening. A por-
ton of those present enjoyed dancing
in grange hall to music furnished by
Leitsinger's orchestra while others
INDUCED in playing cards.
An oil stove in the kitchen of
III. b. Larkin's Centerville home set
fire to the woodwork Monday after
noon and for few minutes the safe
ty of the house was threatened. Mrs
Larkin succeeded in extinguishing
the flames without serious damage.
The children's committee of the
grange will give the annual Christmas
next Friday evening
to which all grange children are in
vited. Supper will be served at 6: 30.
All members of the grange are So
licited to bring sandwiches and cake.
Company D, I'd New Hampshire
regiment, held its 10th anniversary
observance Monday evening at Clare
mont, n. H. Col. julius c. Timson, |
of Brattleboro and the COM
pany's first captain, was present and |
presented the organization with an
elegantly framed portrait of himself
AT meeting of the Methodist |
Sunday school board Monday evening I
he following officers were elected: |
John w. Howe: as
OF NJ
md C. d. Smith; secretary, DIR. C. G.
Wheeler; treasurer, Frank Allen; IL
,rarian, William Moore.
The Congregational vestry will
'e open all day tomorrow and Mon
lay forenoon for the reception of
lifts for the Christmas box which
will be sent to Rev Antonio Alright,
astor of the Italian Evangelical
hurch in New York city, for distri- /
ution among his Sunday school I
1embers.
The Street family who were |
mong those rescued from the burn c
lg steamer. Glen Island. in Long
'land sound Saturday were known
| Brattleboro through their visits ]
18th Rev. E. T. Mathison. Two of $
r. Mathison's cousins We're drowned
Tree years ago at a point very near t
here the Glen Island was burned.
Leon T. Foster, formerly clerk in r
reene's drug store, has bought the y
'ug store of Troll & McGillivray in s.
'akefield, Mass, where he has been o
nployed for the past year or more. +
ne business will be carried on I'M o'
r the name of Foster & Co Mr.. W
sister is registered as pharmacist W
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire al
id Vermont. w
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davenport of
is town spoke before the Keene, n. ki
art club last week on her trip to sc
e Faronlone islands. The Keene G.
ntinel says: Her thorough study ia
bird lore and her love of nature in &C
its aspects, her vivid imagination, tn
reception of color and choice use of til
lguage, united with scientific ac- d
racy, make her written and oral l.;
scriptions as delightful as they are ry
'tructive." ne
Water in the springs in this sec ", w
n is very low, and unless relief I'D
mes soon the situation is likely to
wv critical. Many farmers are M
liged to drive their stock to va
cams to drink and others have to oh
'ry water a long distance. George st;
Pierce says that the springs of
ich supply the Brattleboro Retreat ST
tn water are unusually low but tn
re seems to be no danger of their TT
ng dry at present. ISIS
The annual roll-call of the w. C. su
U. will be held at the home of Mrs. 81, i
lrdner s Walnut street, Thursday wi
ernoon at 2.30. The women are WI
ing box which is to be sent to
nberman's camp in Winhall. Any G.
wishing to give magazines or las
iodicals for this box can leave them thu
Mrs. fuckers home, Williston ers
eet It is earnestly hoped that sic
ry member will be present at the an
-call. Refreshments will be us
we'd. lar
"A large audience gathered in the GU
ptist church Friday evening to ms
r Madame Tsilka tell the story Of tei
captivity at the time when she no
Miss Ellen Stone, the missionary, lui
e held for ransom by party of
ldits. Madame Tsilka told her Civ
ry in straightforward manner w,
held the attention of her hearers the
oughout. She said that the sole Br;
ect of their captivity was ran by
and that they suffered no harsh Hi
ltment at the hands of their cap Lei
J. The only deed of violence in wit
nection with their capture was str
murder of a Macedonian traveller, by
happened to be witness. few
lame Tsilka was accompanied by His
husband and her baby, who was stri
\ while her mother was a prisoner. son
The following extract from let
from General Freight Agent ]. E. :
rymple of the Central Vermont Dor
road to a friend in this town We
VS. the attitude of the company in hou
lrd to the narrow gauge: In ref sioi
ice to the standard gauging of WEI
Brattleboro & Whitehall railroad Pre-
extending it, we are sorry to say and
nothing can be done in this mat tive
until the tar,,1ipa fio,, NJ tha sniff