Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-02-17
TOWNSHEND.

| G.. III. Willard made "a business "Trip
to Wardsboro Thursday
Earl cobb and wife from Wardsboro
visited at II. O. Cobb's over Sunday.
| Il. b. Batchelder is receiving con-
gratulations over his appointment as
game warden for this county
The ice In Jennison's pond, which Is
now being cut, is about rs inches
thick and of fairly good quality.
The supreme court is holding al
most daily sessions in the local stores,
having under consideration the Rogers
case.
! H. NJ. Burke, the genial landlord at
| Townshend Inn, has been confined to
the house with the grip for several
days.
Mrs. Wilmer Turner, Mrs Arthur
Rand and Mrs. p. B. Perkins have
been on the invalid list for some days,
but are better.
The auditors, Messrs. Holland, Lowe
| and Harris, were in session three days
of this week and have the business OF
the town pretty well audited now.
The auction which Constable Phil
| lips held Saturday at the hotel to dis
pose of some of the Joe Bean" relics.
did not develope very much enthusi-
asm.
Alice and May Barnes, students at
the seminary, are having the measles.
Miss Cora Barnes. their sister. from
Westminster West, is caring for them
at Mrs. Thayer's in Simpsonville.
Mrs. Clara Blanchard, VINO has been
spending several weeks with her
mother, Mrs. Cutler, has gone to Join
her husband in Boston, in which city
,l IN
The many friends of Mrs. Cheney,
Mrs. Charles Willard's mother, will be
glad to know that she Is getting along
nicely since her operation in the hos
pital in Chicago and will soon be well
again.
william Sanderson from Savannah.
Ca with his wife and son have been
in town for a week or more on account
of the illness of Mr. Sanderson's faith
err. They started for Georgia We'd
nesday.
Tax Collector Phillips has handed in
a list of "a delinquents who have failed
to pay their taxes on or before the
time prescribed by the new law. These
delineuents represent taxes uncollect-
ed to the amount of about $1,000.
People are asking somewhat eagerly
now and consulting the oracles TO
learn whether or not they have had
the measles. A goodly number have
already been exposed and there prom
ises to be quite a number of cases.
Mrs Irving Watson, who went to
the Mary Fletcher hospital at Burllng-
ton for an operation. returned Satur-
day night. Mr.. Watson met her at
Saxtons River, and although she was
.; ha
trip remarkably we'll
E. B. Batchelder attended the B. &
w stockholders meeting in Brat
tleboro last week to confer with the
officials of tne c. V. railway The
people along the West river are well
pleased at the prospect of standard
gauge road.
Miss Blanche Brigham entertained
some of her friends Friday evening at
a progressive finch party at the home
of her parents Mr.. and Mrs. beia
Brigham. There were four tables,
with four at a table. Refreshments
were served and each guest was pre-
sented with a carnation.
Reports from Fred Ford, who is IN
a hospital in Savannah, show some
Improvement. The inflammation IS
II,
some LIQUID nourishment into his
stomach. The indications are howev-
er. that he will be in the hospital sew
eral weeks yet.
There are rumors of war on a smali
scale in the northern part of the town:
The first engagement involved a LOAD
or two of logs which at one time were
in the road and little later were not.
Another engagement involved TWO
men and some damaged features, ana
still another engagement was proilnc
of words many and strong.
Mr.. Willard is learning the truth Of
the saying concerning old bottles and
new wine, only in his case it is new
steam in old cylinders. Not only has
the odd wound which was bandaged,
broken open, but new ones have come.
Mr.. Willard is specially anxious to
make the old engine hang together
for while longer as he has some rush
orders to fill.
The Womans Missionary society of
the Congregational church holds its
next meeting Wednesday afternoon at
the parsonage The women continue
the study of the Book -Leavening of
the Nation, and have arranged an in
teresting program for this meeting on
New MeNlCOs the country, lue fto-
pie and their Customs and Language,
Child Life, and the Work of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. Heald in New Mexico.
Dr. Osgood did not go to Boston on
Monday as he intended because the
Narrow gauge was notional, but he
drove to Brattleboro Tuesday, taking
Mr.. Davis of Newfane to the hospital.
Mrs. Osgood accompanied him as far
as Fitchburg. where she visited at the
Cages. They returned Wednesday
night Mrs Dale and Mrs. Baker also
started for Brattleboro Monday and
they arrived. too, between and 4 o.
clock in the afternoon. They came
home also. but not that night. The
train left Brattleboro at 1850 Tuesday
morning and made the run to Town
shend by about o'clock in the after
noon They admit that the narrow
gauge trains do not run quite so fast
as the trains on some of the other Dig
systems, but they are of the opinion
that there are certain social opportu-
mites afforded by the narrow gauge
that other roads do not offer, such as
gramophone concerts, inspiration for
poetical composition and the facility
of telling yarns.