Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-11-23


on Cottage street yesterday afternoon
"A meeting of the members Of the
IIniversalist church will be held at the
church tomorrow evening to act upon
the resignation Of the pastor.
Fort Dummer colony, Pilgrim Fa-
Tiers, held their regular meeting Tues
day evening at the home of Mr.. aud
Mrs. j. =. Mack on South Main street,
The voting for the choice of plays,
which was left TO subscribers to tickets
for Modieska, resulted ms follows:
Mary Stuart, 90; Camille, As; Macbeth,
li3.
The High School Dial was issued
yesterday. The paper contains many
good articles and some that are not SO
good. The trip which the seniors VIII
take to Washington is commented upon
II will cost each member who makes the
trip the sum of $3.50 which includes
all expenses of travelling.
The Lorne Elwyn company sup
porting Miss Gladys Gray will be at
the auditorium all next week, giving
six evening performances and two mat
inees This company was in Brattle'
boro last season and was considered one
of the best "rep' organizations that
ever appeared in this town.
The food and flower sale which the
women of the Congregational church
hold annually will be held in the church
parlors next week from Monday noon
until Tuesday evening. a large collec'
ton of Thanksgiving cookery Will be
for sale and there will also be a Jap
anese tea room in which japanese arti'
cles will be sold.
In a signed communication Hon. II,
NJ. Mansur of Newport says he shall not
be a candidate for governor OF Yer
mont in 1906. Brattleboro friends OF
Attorney General Fits hasten to re-
mark that he viii not be candidate
and some of the friends of Hon. j. a.
DeBoer of Montpelier are saying that
he cannot afford to be a candidate. In
the list of mentioned the name OF
Hon. A. NJ. Fletcher of Cavendish alone
seems to stick.-Bellows Falls Times.
Two local dogs were shown at the
bench show in Hartford, Conn, this
week. The English toy spaniel, King
William, exhibited by Mrs. Charles II.
Welcome won a second and two thirds.
Billings & Weatherhead showed their
cocker spaniel, Sandie which did so
well at the Valley Fair Kennel club
show but the competition at Hartford
was so warm in the cocker classes that
the local dog could do no better than
WIG. Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Welcome
and Mrs. A. l.. Billings attended the
show.
The inhabitants of the town in the
neighborhood of Crowell 5 park were
slightly startled Monday evening by the
explosion of a large number Of revolt
vers among the Italians living in the
deserted house in the park. Particu-
lars are wanting but as all the Italians
appeared the following morning ready
for work, and none seemed to be wear
ing perforated anatOmies it may be as
sumed that no damage was done. There
is a possibility that they were holding
Il water meeting among themselves but
it is far more likely the meeting was
not water meeting.
Three empty box-cars started tray
tlln1 VI lItlI phu dNNbA' bt"h AA'N
grade from the ear scales OF the Central
Vermont railroad Monday evening.
They kept up the trip until the dump
ing pit for the engines at the round
house was reached. There two men,
James G. Anderson of this town and
John W. Rhodes, were working on the
eccentrics of an engine and were IN
der the engine when the bOX-cars collid-
ed with it. They hastily ducked but
not before Anderson received bad
bump in the ribs and Rhodes was
knocked down. The ears passed on and
the men crawled out of the pit thankful
to escape so lightly. Rhodes went to
his home in st. Adams for a few days
and Anderson after being patched up
was able to work the following night.
The Murray club of the Universal
ist church presented Jerusha Dow 5
Family Album at the church Wednes-
day evening Mrs. Henry r. Brown,
as Aunt Jerusha, exhibited the album,
and the "pictures shown were as fol
lows: Grandmother, Mrs. a. J.
Stearns; father, G. f. Warner; mother,
Mrs. G. E. Warner; Aunt Pauliny, Mrs.
Walter Sturges; Uncle John, F. c. Sar-
gent; John Dow, Harry Sargent;
Darkie Joe, Rollin Holbrook; Parson
Briggs. Frank L. Barber; daughters,
Marion Simonds, Marion Knight, Min
ME Leitsinger and Maude Leitsinger;
cousins, Alvena Walker, Lottie Mather,
Edith Applin and Maude Applin; I'M
Gle Jake, L. S. Higgins; Deacon Brown,
Ray Smith; district school teacher, Hi
land Tasker; Mrs Brown, Mrs. Lyman
Goldsmith; grandson, Wallace Gold
smith, bride, Mrs. Sherman Abbott;
bridegroom, Harold Smith.
A large force of men began work
this morning on the West River railroad
between here and West Dummerston.
About 1000 new ties are now in Brattle-
boro and distributed along the road-bed
and these will be laid as rapidly as pos
sible. The 40-pound rails between Brat
tleboro and West Dummerston have
been ordered taken up and replaced
with iron heavy enough to allow the
use of standard mogul locomotives. This
will be done this fall if the weather
permits. In discussing the shortage of
freight ears, about which many ship
pers on the West River road are com
planning, railroad men say that this
shortage has been general throughout
the country although at present it is
not nearly as bad as it was two months
ago. Brattleboro shippers felt the
shortage nearly as much as did those on
the West River line and it is only with
in few weeks that there has been any
great relief.
E. Cyrus Miller of Northampton,
Mass, prominent fruit grower Of
western Massachusetts and recently APP
pointed by the state board of agri-
nnltnrn ono of It's rernlar lecturers on