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

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shipped to Vermont but that the
goods had been sold to nearly all of
the small grocers throughout the
state, and these could not be reached
| In order to protect its customers, the
company asked that grocers having
stock of this baking powder on hand
be allowed to sell II, the company
promising not TO sell any more Of 1t
in this state. 1t is not probable that
the request will be granted.
The quarry workers of Barre have
made new demand upon the quarry
owners, the present agreement ex-
pring July l. The demand includes
a continuance of the present eight
hour day and a regular bill of wages
At the annual gathering at New
York, Thursday evening, March 80, of |
the New York Alumni association of |
Norwich university at Northfield, ii |
was announced by the president of the |
association that Andrew Carnegie |
would contribute $4,000 for a library /
for the university and $4,000 for cleo
trical equipment for the engineering
department.
Ezra Brooks, recently custom tall
or at st. Johnsbury, has been brought
back there from Littleton, n. H., to
answer to a charge of running lot
terry and disbursing of goods by /
He went through bankruptcy
shortly before leaving st. Johnsbury
and investigation by the local officials
showed that his business dealings /;
We're of questionable nature.
L. E. Reagan and Frank Wheeler. L
who. 1t is claimed, swindled Nathan 6
Saunders of Bennington out of his Il
house in South SALISBURY, We're in
recently with the inten-
ion of settling the matter with Saun-
1ers. The attempt was not a sue !,
cess. 1t is said that they offered $500
o straighten things up, and this Mr. =
saunders was not willing to accept.
D. NJ Silsby of Lyndonville has !
leeded to the town of Lyndon his lot =
livery stable will be removed from h
he lot by June 15 leaving the lot I'M =
ncumbered. Eber Cobleigh. who, +
ONE months ago, gave $4,000 for i,
library. has just given $500 towards Il
he purchase of the site and others
ave given most generously toward it.
Mrs ID. c. Pierce of Rutland recent .,
z found the manuscript of sermon i
in that city more than a II
entury ago. The manuscript belonged n
} her grandfather, Henry Dodd, IN
rinter. Data written on the back of h,
ne of the sheets shows that the IN
reacher delivered the sermon at "a
radford March II, 1770; at Rutland ~
eptember 20, 1889, and again in 1895. %
The Whitcomb high school building ia
eight rooms at Bethel, cost
G 100000. was opened to the
Iblic by reception Monday, no
pril 8. The old buildings will be o or
Id at auction. The new structure is re-
wood, furnished for 800 scholars, n
ID is equipped with telephones and q
actric bells in each room, steam r.,
.ating apparatus for corridors and 70,
mace heat for rooms. If
An old Vermont pamphlet, A Public CHI
.fence of the Rights of the New ms
lmpshire Grants, brought the highest Al
ice, $40, at the auction sale of the NJ
rary of the late Rev. H. A. Hazen an
Auburndale, Mass, at Boston last Ia
EEK. 1t was printed by Alden Spoon H
Dresden 1879, and contained the am
It four pages of resolves. missing in pre-
,st copies. Dodd, Mead & Co., of be
w York, were the purchasers,
The rates for the different classes ton
liquor licenses in Colchester have Itril
an fixed as follows: First class, ST. att
, an increase of 500 over last year; ers
'ond class, $500, as against $500 last car
II; third class, $3.50; fourth class, anc
D00 fifth class, $50, as compared Ha
h $40 last year: seventh class, $500. Arr
e cost of a first class liquor license by
Mortified has been set at $1,000; on
ond class, $11O0; fourth class ST. ten
rett
Ger
lore than 200 natives of the Green 80,
untain state were present at the -
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