Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-20
ANNOUNCEMENT
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.


e. w. Gibson has sold the King
farm In Marlboro to Henry G. Clark
who will cut Off the timber
Livestock shipments from the To-
cal station Monday were as follows:
3S cattle, A calves, two sheep and
one hog.
1t is not unlikely that steps will
be taken at the citizens meeting
Monday evening. looking toward the
formation Of a board of trade.
The $3.50 north-bound train was
five hours late Saturday evening on
account OF freight wreck which
took place near Bernardston, Mass.
The examination Of John f.
Morse, bankrupt, which was to have
taken place before Referee +. ID. II.
Stowe Saturday, was continued in
definitely.
--Amidon & Miller, who recently
bought the grocery store Of A. f.
Roberts & Co., will have their open
ing tomorrow Hot coffee Will be
served free all day.
There is some likelihood that a
new electric plant will be established
in Brattieboro in the near future.
Several local men have agreed to
take stock in the new venture, and
plans for its formation are now be-
ing discussed.
The Vermonter, which was chos-
en- the official organ of the Vermont
Federation of Womans clubs at its
last annual meeting, has begun de-
partment devoted to that organiza-
ton in its January number The
editor Is Mrs. II. X. Whitaker of this
town.
The baillifs held their regular
meeting Friday evening but the inn
portant question of appointing a day
police was continued until February
when in all probability Chief Hall
will be appointed chief of police under
the law and given the day job. The
choice of night Waterman lays be-
tween officers Worden and Amidon.
Hunts agency has received no.
tice of the granting for the following
pensions Originals, James p. Elmer
Brattleboro: Violet l. Chase, New
fame; increases, +. III. Morse, West
Brattleboro, A. H. Sparks, Townshend,
Charles Mather, Dover Congressman
Haskins has secured pension OF
$50 for Lorenzo Streeter Of West
Dummerston
A proposed reduction in the price
of gas is being considered by the d.
rectors of the Greenfield Gas COM
pany. The present prices are $3.50
per thousand feet, with S1.50 for
stove purposes provided 1000 feet is
used per month. The directors adj
NIT that these prices are too high,
and it is the belief of many that con-
siderably more business can be done
at reduced rates.
The directors of the Choral union
met Wednesday evening and decided
to suspend rehearsals until further
notice. Nelson P. Coffin. who has
conducted rehearsals, Is seriously Ill
with typhoid fever at his home IN
Newport, N. H., and further plans of
the Organization will await his recov-
cry. The concert planned for Febru-
airy has been given up.
The annual meeting of the Brat
tleboro Gaslight company was held
Monday evening in the Office of the
corporation. the following officers
being chosen: Directors, H. d. Hol-
ton, G. C. Averill, ]. L. Martin, G. III.
Thompson, r. e. Gordon; clerk and
treasurer, c. F. Thompson; auditors,
C. w. Richardson and James f.
Hooker. The reports of the officers
were read and accepted.
Meetings under the charge of the
state board Of agriculture are to be
held in this county next week as fol-
lows: at Townshend, Tuesday; at
Newfane, Wednesday; at Brattleboro
Subjects of vital import
ance to farmers will be discussed and
the meetings are free to all. There
will be two meetings each day at p.
m. and D. m. Fuller particulars are
given elsewhere in this paper
Engine 81 on the train which
leaves here for Millers Falls at
L0.l5 broke an eccentric blade Mon
lay morning just below Mortified
and then knocked hole in her boil
ar. She was hauled back to North
field and sidetracked, later being
to Brattleboro and shipped
% st. Adams for repairs. The train
a freight engine to carry 1t
IN the remainder Of its journey.
The past year at the Farren
Memorial hospital in Montague,
Mass, at which institution many
Brattleboro people have received
treatment has been the best and
most successful in its history. The
number of patients treated during
he year was 361, 231 of whom PAID
ull rates and the remaining number
either reduced rates or nothing. The
otal receipts for the year were $780,
,S1.07 and the expenditures $9S11.49,
eaving a balance of $269.5S
A natural bowlder, weighing
ully three tons, to mark the grave
If the late Newton /. Hawley was
ylaced on it's foundation in Morning
tide cemetery last Friday. The stone
las one fiat side on which is
,ronzed tablet from the Ames COM
,any of Chicopee, Mass, bearing Mr..
1awley's name in fac smile of his
writing and the place and date of
leath in Gothic lettering The
marker is left in it's natural state
ust as it was taken from the Wilson
arm in Dummerston. Not long be-
ore his death Mr.. Hawley selected
he bowlder as the marker for the
grave of close friend.
There was a hearing before
Judge ]. NJ. Tyler in the county
Jerks office Monday on a petition
appear and show cause why he
should not be dealt with for contempt
If court. At the last spring term of
county court Judge Tyler ordered
hat Redfield should pay his wife
,limony amounting to SIS a month
bending divorce proceedings. This
rider Redfield has defied since Sep
ember and at the hearing he filed a
petition asking for its modification. |
Judge Tyler held Redfield in con- !
empt for not paying the money as
lecreed and gave him until to-day TO
make full settlement H. G.. Barber
appeared for the petitioner. Carrie
2edfield. and a. F. Schwenk for the
defendant.
There was a large attendance at
he meeting of the Congregational
Tub i'm the Brooks house Friday |