Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-06-30
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

d rehtlahd, Jr, has the con-
tract Tor Installing three furnaces in
'he Congregational church.
THE Peoples national bank has
declared Its regular semi-annual div
iuehd or four per cent on the stock.
The women of the Unitarian So
c'ety are to hold their annual fair fol
lowed by dance, In Festival hall
Thursday night July 20.
Since the summer train schedule
went into effect the Boston ana
Springfield papers arrive In Rrattle-
boro over an hour earlier.
e. II. Fitzhugh. q. c. Jones and
several other Central Vermont on
Gals made an inspection of the Brat
tleboro q Whitehall division Wednes-
day.
Holden & Martin have bought the
Samuel Adams farm on the Putney
road. about four miles north of Brat
tleboro and will cut off the timber
within the next year.
The funeral of Mrs. Thomas KAYE
took place in West Brattleboro Bap-
list church Sunday afternoon and was
very largely attended Rev. f. D..
Smith of Bernardston Mass, officiat-
ed and the burial was in Prospect Hill
cemetery.
-Quonektakat tribe of Red Men has
elected the following officers for the
ensuing six months: Prophet, H. f.
Harris; sachem Charles Brockington;
senior sycamore, Fred Miner; junior
sycamore. John Kali: first represen-
tative. f. L. Parker; second repre-
sentative, r. II, Baker.
Mr.. o. H. Jones, wilmington's en-
terprising postmaster has issued a
series of most attractive mailing
cards as souvenirs of that beautiful
town They are printed in colors in
Austria by special process, and the
samples sent to the Reformer are
really very handsome.
Beginning today Hollis Streeter Of
Chesterfield, n H., will act as mail
carrier between Brattleboro and Spof-
ford. n. H., in place of Henry j. AL
len who has held the position for the
past eight years. During that time
Mr.. Allen has not missed a trip ex-
cept when the weather made the roads
impossible.
A petition for the pardon of Will
lam Dempsey. who is now serving a
sentence in Windsor state prison, is
being circulated in Greenfield, Mass.
where Dempsey formerly lived Demp-
sey was sentenced. together with
Blake and WEIGH, for assaulting Jo-
seph Houghton of Guilford six years
ago. Both Blake and Welch have been
pardoned.
BY the terms of the will of Dr..
Louis Prefontaine. who died in
Springfield, Mass, last week the Mer-
cy hospital receives $4,000 bequest
and a valuable magnet which DR..
Prefontaine used in practice II Is
stipulated that the $4,000 shall be ap.
piled to the payment of the hospital
debt. The will contained no other pub
lie requests
A quantity of mail which was in
| the wreck of the Twentieth Century
limited express at Mentor, Ohio, last
Thursday. was received at the local
postoffice Monday. All Of the letters
were badly charred, the addresses on
several being almost illegible. Among
the letters were several to Brattlebo-
70 people from Mrs. Angelica b. shea
and daughter, who are now IN Japan
Justice f. D. E. Stowe has render
ed his decision in the case OF MISS All
ME Kirwan against Mrs. Hattie II.
smith. which was heard several Gays
ago. ordering the defendant to pay
| 500 and costs. The action was brousht
| r. recover a board bill, F. e. Barber
appearing for the plaintiff ana y n
Williams of Bellows Falls FOR the ue-
| PENDANT. An appeal was taken "
county court.
According to dispatch from Lep-
anon. n. H., to the Boston hecoIu
sherman Abbott, son OF u. u Appoe''
had a lively time with steam auto
mobile on a hill near windsor, recene
ly. In climbing the hill, Whlch mas
E,ita stean oujte a quantity of steam
was used, and when near the top tlenu
was NOT a sufficient amount TO carry
tha machine over. Accordingly Az,
hott anplied the brake but That faiieu
~ az It's duty. The ladies riding Wltll
IN, iumped as the machine gained
n,,ite d momentum. going bacKWal,u
down the slope. towards the Conhecu-
ont river at the foot of the NIL
The 23d annual reunion OF Conas
nony r I'd Vermont volunteers Mas
held at Grand Army hall mere s a..
T,iday The comrades met al ~
a,ncL and after talking over ola uil,e9
49, a trolley car for west bra'tie,
49, where they had dinner at tiis
p Ma,rose about 20 sitting down 10 ed,
Ar / n. m. they adjourned TO ~.
hal, again for a business meeting 80
elected the following omcers: Moss
ident p. A. Streeter, Holyohe. as,,r.
vice president. secretary anu tt1ot,oro
or G. ]. Stockwell. west 3d.. viii
The next meeting of the c1l riSav lime
o oe There are but three OF the o,is ),
-, ,,,amhers of the company lele ~
Ial ..,ahoro G. ]. Stockwell, 1eorse
r,.....x, opd r A. HeScuch.
The meeting on the Common Of .
day afternoon will take the W. ha,d al
n5friotic service and VIII Tha hand
Iii, he decorated with Ainelie ~
STAN ,,,usic will be furnished py sn
il las, Peoiment band and ConslJ,S
fns' Ir;tfredge Haskins VIII prea 80
man nrngram will begin Win ILL
Inc .ions nv the band ana coli., a.o, !,
seiect,ons HYMN. onward Christlau
as ao nrayer Rev. H. n. Mn
Soio Rrattleboro male quar'e,.e
seiecut address. C. c. F1tts' ser.
AZ! AZ hand. selection, male qua a,;toE Tor
~ minute address. H. n. W. sing
IT, meeting will close VIII w sci.
;nn of America and several ,a a are re.
as;ons by the band. chairs Ir
ouested TO bring their o" ,r;II he held
case of rain the fhee'S
in the auditorium -.
,. 7 Ward, so, died a. s m,.
a., west Brattleboro Mo era
nolu after an illness Oh 9e was
anths with Brights disease. Of Geo
,inun in west Brattleboro; s Ward ant
W and Emily Stockweh rants unit
lived at the home OF his nm the no.
Is years oiu e.. as clerk and late'
ton Mass. and later .n wv WNiIlimantic