Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07

- L. ID. Taylor has this week bougl
- sufficient stock Ia gain Il controllin
- Interest In the Grange block associa
ton.
$. w. Edgett & Co, has sold Il
ne John c. Field n store In North Had
a" ley, Mass, 10 Baldwin a. Blodgett {
Chester
IS The Boston Il Maine railway com
J. pany Is moving Its tool house fror
the rear of the Bradley farm To
he point just north of the Walnut stree
rs engine house,
+. An adjourned session of the Ma
Al term of United States district cour
= was held In Waterman n Martin
a. office Tuesday but the entire bushes
was of a clerical nature.
C e. T.. Vanderpool, who was fine,
d SIS and costs for intoxication las
Il week Friday, raised sufficient none,
e to settle the score and was released
Friday afternoon,
: The Connecticut river lumber com
e pany Is starting Its annual log driv,
this week from the tributaries of III,
e upper Connecticut river. The drive
consists of about 100000 feet this
year,
G The trustees of the Brattleboro
. Savings bank Tuesday voted To spend
l $1,000 in improving the banking rooms
. of the institution. a mosaic floor Will
be laid In the main corridor and the
. officers and stenographer's rooms will
, be refinished In quartered oak and
equipped with luxfer prisms.
The April Mothers meeting will
be held in the Congregational chapel
Wednesday afternoon at $3.50. Mrs.
+. w. Putnam will give a paper upon
The Social Life of our Children. All
interested in children are cordially in
vited to attend and take part in tbs
open discussion following the paper.
News has been received here this
week of the sudden death In Boston last
week of Frank D. Mills, local editor of
the Reformer during the summer of
1903. Mr.. Mills was at one time con-
nected with the Springfield Republican
and before coming to Brattleboro was
employed on the New Haven, Conn.
Register He is survived by a widow
and three children.
i The Baptist church bell rang sew
era times about 4 As Wednesday af-
ternoon. The driver of the engine
horses, who was AT work with his
team in the south part of the town,
/ thought an alarm of fire had been
1 turned in. and drove madly up Main
street and out Elliot TO the engine
house only to find that bell had been
rung to notify the church members of
their annual supper and roll-call.
The funeral of Miss Bertha Thorn
as was held at o'clock Friday after
noon from her late home on the
Hinsdale road Rev. G.. II. Lawson and /
Rev. f. w. Lewis officiating. Miss
Gertrude Matthews sang two selec-
lions. The services We're largely at
tended, a delegation from the class of I
81 ho I,af t1abppp bipb gphnp1 he
ing present There We're many beau
tiful floral tributes. The bearers were +
Fordyce. William and Arthur Thomas 1
and Lawrence Barber. Burial was in /
Morningside cemetery.
The First Regiment band will give
its third annual minstrel show two +
nights, April 26 and y, so that every-
one may have a chance TO go, and II
is hoped that a packed house VIII +,
greet each performance. The proceeds
of the entertainment will be used to T,
help pay the running expenses of the
band the coming summer. The show
will be larger and better than last
year Miss Lulu Cressy +. /. Swift.
j. NJ. Perry. f, c. and Carl Leitsinger
will begin Monday to canvass the town /
with exchange tickets. Miss Cressy 4,
will also take orders by telephone.
The local Y. NJ. C. A. has arranged S
the following program for its ami h
Sunday, May I. At the morn o
ing session Alfred H. Wardle, state $
secretary of New Hampshire, will
speak in the Baptist church. William .
Knowles Cooper, general secretary of 8
The Springfield Mass, association. in /
he Congregational church, and State n
Secretary +. S. Morrison in the Meth s
ldist church Mr.. Morrison will also e.
speak at the mems meeting in the as IL
ISOLATION rooms at p. m. Two ser II
ices will be held in the evening, one r;
n the Congregational church in West 81
with Mr.. Wardle as speak N
II and one at the Centre Congrega- N
ional church where the regular ami %
'ersary exercises will take place. Mr. /.
cooper will speak and special music 8.
viii be furnished.
The annual roll-call. supper and 81
BUSINESS meeting of the Baptist church h
vas held Wednesday afternoon and Fl
vening The roll-cal, which took df
dace in the church at $50, was well et
TENDED and there was an unusually "a
arge number of responses Supper RI
vas served at $50 O'Clock to a large pa
lumber and at 7.30 the business ses- re
ion was held Reports of officers, al
ommittees and auxiliary organiza- Ids
ions We're read and approved, the
reasurer's statement showing all OBJ Ii
cations provided for and a balance gs
4 the treasury. Officers were elected IN
$ follows: Deacons for three years, H
e. Hall and C. S. Hopkins trustee Sc
Or three years, s. w. Edgett; clerk,
:. S. Knight; collector, E. j. Eddy; IN
reasurer, A. l.. Harris; auditor, II. F. 6,
!. Todt; women members of pruden- af
al committee, Mrs. S. Wilcox and ca
Irs. Lucy Cox. N
Notwithstanding the fact that ~
ale lock of intricate pattern was an
laced on the door of the Wantastiquet TO
off club house last fall the building Or
pparently has been used as a rem ma
ezvous during the past several ciN
onths. C. f. Bingham, C. NJ. Miller q.
nd III. A. Whitney were looking about sic
lie outside of the building last Fri SIS
ny afternoon when one of them no. "a
ced strong cord crossing the south cl'
indow on the inside. Examination
lowed that the cord was attached eli
the catch on one of the front win a
,ws and then passed through by
ries of eyelets to the rear of the III
om. Further examination revealed Tn
e end of the cord attached to a nail ito
ojecting slightly on the outside of w,
e building near the chimney. By alb!
lllng on the cord the catch on the wa
ndow was released so that entrance Tn
uld easily be gained Apparently sor
thing was disturbed inside but the Ba
lb's supply of firewood was gone inc
ID there We're evidences OF frequent int
sits. The mysterious part of the pie
after is how the marauders gained DIRE
trance in the first place. ter
Rev. Samuel NJ. Crothers, D. D.. etc
rmerly pastor of the local Unitarian =
ell 49,