Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03
WAR VETERANS ORGANIZE
DEPARTMENT OF VERMONT,
UNITED SPANISH -AMERIC CANS.
Peculiar Case Of Counterfeiter John
D. Saulsbury-Timothy Standby to
Visit Vermont Sunday Schools
Missing Money Traced.

night, February 2s, at the an
lnual meeting of the state camps
of Spanish American War Neter'
ans. officers were elected as follows
Commander, Il. IL. Prouty OF Bur
lington; senior vice COMMANDER, IL
Edward Dyer of Rutland junior vice
commander, NJ, ID. Ripley of st. Johns
bury; Inspector w. T. Haisht Oh
Montpelier; surgeon, j, NJ. Hamilton
of Rutland; judge advocate, +, L.
Greene of ST. Adams; chaplain, III. ID,
Fillmore of Bennington; council ad-
ministration, f. Il. Sweet of Burling-
ton, c. +. Burnham of Burlington, w,
Il. Frost of Bennington, Il. IL. Stick
ney, of Rutland, III. w. Ellis of st.
Johnsbury: chief musician, F,
Swift of Brattleboro; sergeant, Harry
Hall of ST. Adams. The next annual
meeting will be held in Rutland
]. w. Ketchum, the Vergennes bank
wrecker, has been transferred from
the Chittenden county TO the Addison
county jail. He applied to the attor-
new general of the United States for
the transfer on the ground of Ill
health.
l.. p. Perry, employed at the lum-
Der mill of Johnson & Nash, North
Springfield, fell backward upon cir
cular saw Feb. 23 The blade passed
through his shoulder blade and all
the ribs on the left side, entering his
lungs. The man died soon after, He
leaves a widow and three children.
Some 25 years ago, ii is said that
James Leet fell on saw in the same
place and position and was literally
cut to pieces, dying Immediately.
Dr. L. j. Delehanty leading Cath
Ollie physician of Rutland, was fined
$40 and costs in city court last week
for violating the state health laws by
failing to report a CONTAGIOUS disease
in case of a child dying of membrane
Gus Group. Complaint was made by
the state board of health. An appeal
was taken and bail furnished IN
amount Of S1O0 Respondent held
that membraneous Group was not
contagious and that the child died OF
heart failure.
The First Congregational church
of Burlington celebrated its centen-
NAL last week, the exercises closing
Sunday. Prof j. f. Goodrich gave
an historical address Thursday
evening. Feb. %; Woman's Work was
the chief topic Of discussion Friday; |
n memorial tablet in honor OF MISS |
L. M. Strain was unveiled Saturday |
and the exercises closed Sunday with |
a sermon by the Rev. Washington
GLADDEN. of Columbus o., and an ad-
dress by him in the evening the
other churches uniting.
The Vermont Press association
held its quarterly meeting at Burling-
ton Friday evening, Feb. "a. 1t was
thot n HarvpN
er's Weekly be invited to attend the
next meeting Of the club and that the
meeting be held in Brattleboro on
some date in June that would best
the local newspaper
men and Mr.. Harvey. A letter from
w. b. Howe of The Burlington Free
Press was read in which he ex-
pressed the opinion that clubbing /
with outside papers was not to the
of Vermont papers. F. e. ,
Langley, proprietor of The Barre {
Times, followed this with an informal {
talk on The Model Country Daily. a
Richard B. Eastman died at his {
home in Passumpsic Sunday, Feb. 49, \
He was born in Buffalo, Mar. 10, 1S49, S
spent his boyhood in Vermont and S
IN early manhood went to Brooklyn, b
n Y, where he became a prominent o
architect, the Kings county insane il
asylum being his most notable work. |,
He married, IN $780, Emily, daughter 4
IF Judge Ezra A. Parks of Passump-
SIC, and after Judge Parks's death in
1897 Mr. Eastman came to PaSsump-
tic to occupy the fine property which
Mrs Eastman has developed into a L
ancy dairy farm. Mr.. Eastman had
|. fine library and valuable collection
# engravings. He was man OF wide =,
culture and rare literary attainments. a
The Vermont Sunday School asso- &c &c
iation will hold a series of five Sun ~
ay school rallies throughout the o.
tate, the first to be held in Burling- 2,
on March 16 and the Others as fol- 10
ows: ST. Adams, March II; Brad a,
ord, March 10; st. Johnsbury, March ca
0; and Brattleboro, March 81. DIR. ht
oseph Clark, general secretary of at
ne Ohio Sunday school association, q,
nown to the Sunday school world as s stt
timothy Standby and one of the eli
est known Sunday school workers in oil
lie world, will speak at these meet 70
lgs. DR.. Clark's grandfather was
n many years a pastor in Bradford,
nd a desire to visit his ancestral pu
ONE makes these appointments pos wv
BILE. ~ ~,
The federal grand jury at Bur -
ngton this week will take up the I'm
Use of John d. Salisbury, the Poult- 20 20
ay counterfeiter, arrested Nov. 2. ie'
is case is one of peculiar interest 80
lille with the United States army ap
the Philippines and sick in a hos
tai, he acquired the morphine habit, me
hfch he was unable to shake off.
hen he went to Jail four months tor
%, he was in a pitiable condition,
It prison life having compelled him vii
dc without the drug, he has re-
ined his health and is a changed
an He is said to have spent his SP
1ney in an effort to cure himself !
d then to have devised the counter TOW
ting scheme to satisfy his creditors. ing
expects a light sentence owing to A
2 conditions which led to his crime. spe
Fan
Mrs. Ada Spaulding. wife of Fred T,
Spaulding, of Barnard, was arrest e.
Friday, Feb. "a, charged with the NJ
1T of $1,000 lost by George H. W.
aldo of Bethel Jan. 10. 1t will be
rendered that Waldo was making Gre
.parations for buying some real the
ate and had taken this sum out of ton
bank. Waldo roemed in the N
aulding house and took the money and
ne with him and placed it in the and
tick and when he went to get it ingt
money was gone. Mrs. Spauld- the
was arraigned Monday, Feb. q, Mrs
Bethel and held to await the ac- Mas
l of the Windsor county grand duri
Y, which sits the next June term.
was fixed at $500 and was fur
ned by the brother of Mrs. Spauld
the Rev. william NJ. Newton. of 81
It'll Royalton. presiding elder of uah'