Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-11-09
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

hoCAb NoTES AND GOSSIP,
A skylight has been placed in the
roof of the ullcry building this week.
Judge James l.. Martin has hired
offices on the fourth floor of the Amer
lean building,
-Vespcrs and benediction will be
celebrated at 1 clock every Sunday
afternoon ut st. Michael's Roman Cath.
Ollie church during the winter months.
The Brattleboro Calendar for 1907
will be ready for delivery Nov. |. Or
ders may be left at the Brattlcboro
News Go. s, Clapp a Jones or w, r.,
Geddis s. 40
The w. G. 4. L. will celebrate its
anniversary with a social and enter.
tainment at its rooms in Emerson block
next Wednesday evening at go
o clock. Everyone is welcome.
Very nearly 100000 bricks have
been used in the construction Of the
new American building and annex If
these bricks were laid end to end, they
would make Il row slightly over lOl
miles long.
About 80 from Protective grange
attended the fair given by Evening
Star grange in Dummerston Wednes-
day evening and report very ENJOY
able time not the least of the attrac.
tons being the fine game supper,
The fire department was called out
Saturday afternoon in answer to an
alarm from box % to put out a small
brush fire in Crowell 5 park, The
bushes and leaves had taken fire when
the alarm was sent in, but the iiremen
quickly extinguished the blaze. No
damage was done.
The Chinese laundry on Elliot
street which has been run for the past
few years by H. S. Chang, has changed
hands and will be run by Charles
Chung, who has been conducting a laun-
dry in New Haven. Chang has left for
New York, where he will open Chi
nese restaurant ON Pell street
Thomas Doyle has had a gang Of
men ut work during the week putting
in granite curbing along the outside
of the walk in front of the lot on Green
street owned by C. w. Richardson.
The new curb takes the place of the
old rough slate curbing and gives the
lot a much more trim appearance.
A peculiar accident happened to
Charles A. Harris Stevens-Duryea
touring car Saturday afternoon. Mr..
Harris was passing Il load Of lumber on
West River hill when one of the pro
iecting timbers caught in the canopy.
Before Mr. Harris could bring his ma.
chine to staudstill the canopy had
been badly torn, and the force of the
collision strained the tonncau badly.
The Brattleboro postoffice receipts
for October amounted to $3,742.6s, OF
which $332712 was from sales Of
postage stamps, envelopes and cards and
$294.3 6 was from Brattleboro publish
ers on mailings of second-class matter
The receipts for the year ended Oct. II
were $34,50S.5l, which shows that the
October receipts were $S679I more
than the monthly average for the year.
The musical service Mt the Congre-
gational church Sunday evening was
well attended. All the solos were well
rendered especially that by +. T.
Adams. But the Lord Is Mindful. Thy
viii Be Done and The Lord Is Great
were well rendered by the chorus. The
musical services viii be repeated the
first Sunday evening of each month
during the winter.
DR.. J. NJ. Ryder, who was bound
over to county court last week on the
charge of abortion, was in Brattleooro
for "A short time Saturday afternoon on
his way from Bellows Falls to New
fame where in default of bail he viii
remain in the county jail until the
April term of court. DIR. Ryder was
lavishlv dressed and wore silk ha'.
Thrown over one arm was a light over
coat which concealed the handouts by
which the doctor was shackled to an
other prisoner. The two men were IN
charge of Sheriff A, II. Thompson
An aftermath of Hallowe EN- was 4
small fire in the residence of DR.. H. L.
Waterman Friday evening at 6 o clock
The doctor S young daughter Marjorie
was playing with a JACKIE Lantern ana
nlaced il in a bay window in the front
part OF Che mus o1. era nd wore oil in
the "iilu Io,, Nm ~ Waterman rushed in.
names t Mnea ara ~, down and quickly
Pnileo sne u.% ~ Lio2o an ovtin6nisber
stamped ouI 'io e e,.ano +ho engine house
was prought up ~" Tbo rarnet naint
and ceiling about the window were
badly scorched, but no other damage
was done.
A., po.;no lpoLer, Rurnbam, SO,
Mrs po'ln" ~ 10 u;gb street
died at 0bT HuhlC "u - ''S