Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-07-14
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

/ P''i'ihS the SDtrp al
'he congregational church this week
The last of the machinery and
Stock OF the Brattleboro overall com.
Tuesday. ~
Since the beginning of his frs,
Term OF ONCE Congressman Haskins
mas been instrumental In the establish
meht OF lo6 rural free delivery routes
e {. Crosby bought a Rambler
touring car last week through Manley
Bfothers. he and John Marley bringing
.he machine from Boston to Brattle-
ooro Saturday afternoon.
Charles A. Boyden has bought a
HaihDler touring car of Manley Bros.
ana went To Boston Wednesday after
noon In company with John Manley to
return with the machine.
Members and friends of the An
duDon society will meet at the Lorenzo
rhayer farm in Esteyvile "Wednesday
AFTERNOON at o'clock for walk over
mayer hill. All are requested TO
Winfield w Whitney of Halifax
ana b. A. Covey of West Brattleboro
TOOK civil service examinations before
the Brattieboro post-otfice board Sat
ufday on applications for rural free de-
livery positions.
A big crowd went to West Brat
tlebofo last evening to attend the
concert given on the veranda of the
Melrose hotel by the First Regiment
band. Ice cream and cake were serv-
ed to large number.
"A large delegation from the Meth
odist Sunday school went on the picnic
To Central Park. Vernon. Saturday and
tho dpV was an iowa hIx-5 e,ap, a., ,,a
rious sorts of recreation Most of the
picnickers went 10 Vernon on the $40
train in the morning and returned at
$50 p. m.
1t is now practically decided that
the widening of the track between West
Dummerston and South Londonderry
will take place Sunday, July 2S,,a suf-
ficient number of men being employed
to complete the work in one day. The
last of the ties will be down by the lat
ter part of next week.
AT the midsummer meeting of the
Vermont Press association. which will
take place in the Brooks house next
Friday evening Clifton L. Sherman.
managing editor of the Hartford, Conn.
Courant, will give an address on News
papers and Newspaper Men. The Wis
iting newspapermen will be given an
automobile ride about town by several
local machine owners Saturday morn
ing.
The ladies Of the Unitarian society
will hold their annual fair. followed by
a dance, at Festival hall. Thursday,
July 20. Among the novelties offered
will be specimens of Merrimac pottery.
Japanese ware from Hatch's. Boston,
and Indian war clubs, toys, pipes,
"A n,.l- fpny
tas. Doors open at four o'clock. SUP
per from six to eight. All are cordial
ly invited.
The employees of the Brattleboro
overall company's factory in keene, n.
IT. have formed a branch of the Unit
ed Garment workers union with the
following officers: President, Miss Ma
bel Goodhue; vice president, Miss Hell
en- Martin: secretary, Mrs. May
Weekes: financial secretary. Lewis
Black: treasurer. Miss Gertrude Can
edy: guardian. F. ID. Croker; guide,
Miss Nellie Sullivan.
There was a hearing in west
Dummerston Monday before Justice +.
ID. e. Stowe in the case OF Charies
Taft against Louis Zancan on an actlon
n recover $3.50 claimed to be due on
q grain bill and for rent of hall. f.
p. Barber appeared for the plaintiH ana
A. f. Schwenk for the defendant JUS
tice stowe allowed the plalntift TO re-
cover $3.50 of the amount when with
costs amounted to VII.
Frank Chickering, the well known
horseman. is showing a young cot q.
ire driving park which promises 10
he good one. 1t is about ten days
aid and of a pretty bay color ana looks
more like horse than most colts OF
that age. 1t is out of the veteran pa.
Ger Kittie Wilkes, (2.1SA) ana sireu ~
Administer (2.21h). Chick mas m,aue
a good deal of money with hlttie Wlih
yacino her in about seventy races, ~
,,nna ~ which did she run behind the
money. if report are cofrec''--hee'o
Sentinel
The July Vermonter contains a.,
article on the automobile IN Verli i
together with a list of all n,a ao i.t,s
registered. The total given Is o'2 WILL
rs from Burlington. ~ from ,, pni ID
90 aoh from Brattleboro and Rutland,
20 from, st Johnsbury, 10 from 81 Al
80 and II from woodstock IL -
onohahle however, that Brattiepolu
pa,, boast of more machines tnan any
ether town in the state, there pe T,,
hatween As and so here at preseiit; ~
War,,onter also contains an articie VI.
coif ana Country Clubs with snoi
s,,atoh Of the Wantastiquet CRUZ oi tnis
| town.
pavmond Ranney, the west Can
DON n IT.. lad who was placed III Nv ;,
zone iail last Wednesday TO avail u 90,
i.a,,ast;gation relative to the ai1sN
LIFT of $40 from Elias Prouty OF MAR
~ was discharged Tuesday by 'u l;,
..p r Bacon and returned " III,
80 in west Canaan in compan! W.,
Nc IA ther. Frank Morrill,, VINO ii I,,,,, i
tha hov to leave West Canaan ou rSa IN
naeotiated \ the questionable u tbe
with Prouty and afterwaru from his
clutcnee has not vet been found anu 10
Waso,, far out of the state py III
,rbere was no evidence 10 slo :. J"
tiihe' a,,ng Ranney had anythihs ~
ina u,itb taking the money lio"i
Prouty. the
-the-slot machine at tne
p., was broken open MohuaN
iocai h,,t only a few cents were no
niens THE thief very dexterousH
cureu. nanel in the side OF .he nc Go,
moeeu fortunately the recep,acN Ia
chine put loi ,,ad been emptied the ga.
the coppo on the same night the 80.
peIoie -as entered and 10 OF ~ ~.
station tnon, the stamp drawer II, .n'
stolen -, ,,ost office. A bicycle oeio ne
Duiii ~ the Vernon station .hat III.
stolen. and it is propa9 80 where
49, rode il to Northneio. Ne, In tn,
s1r VAS secured from the III ~, trace OF
,;cket office of the s.allon 5;scoyered but
the cuiprl, - he someone who Is lam
Il it's Is With With the neighborhooo'
''''' oar;ng was resumed yester,,
The hearl w Kidder of TownsheIn no
day befo rseT Of Vernon and Moses IN,
z: r. "a aH Putney. commissioner e OF Claim