Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-12-14


Miss May willard spent Wednesday of
last week in Brattleboro.
Everett Phillips was at work at J. o. Fol
let's the first Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Phillips and Charles
II. Willard spent last Friday in Bratileboro'
Mr., and Mrs Lyman Gale drove to Sax
tons River Saturday returning Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Barnes of Westminster has
been spending q Week with her daughter,
Mrs. Earl Knapp.
Mrs. Susan Atwood, who has been for
some time with her sister, Mrs Henry STRAIT
ton Of West Town hend has returned home
Mr., and Mrs Blanchard, who have been
visiting Mrs. Blanchard's mother, Mrs csIa
Cutler, left Monday morning for their home
in Medford, Mass.
Mrs. Edgar Allbee has large pinderosa
lemon tree not quite two years old, having
on il an unusually large lemon, which after
remaining green for about year, is now
ripenine.
There was a slight mistake in the notice
of the position held by Gerald Allbee, which
appeared in the Reformer a week or two ago.
lie is assistant manager of the Madison
Square branch Of the Brooklyn Eagle and
boards with his cousin, C. n, Snow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Willard, who had plan
ned to attend the meeting Of the state grange
in Burlington this week, were detained at
home by the illness of Mr., Willard. Edwin
Culver is carrying the pupils from district
No. this week for Mr.. Willard.
The angels gave their feather beds shak
ing Monday, so that the air was allied an
day with the feathery flakes, which by night
L 4,J .ha nd Ia
of several inches The town rollers were out
Tuesday. so the sleighing on the main road
is excellent
Miss Abbie and Miss Florence Follett re-
turned Saturday to their schools in Weston,
having covered the 10 miles between this
place and South Londonderry in four hours
in the mixed train in a wholly unmxed state
Of chill the temperature in the car being
such that they claim that frost and
snow were a fiery furnace compared to It,
graduate of Leland & Gray seminary
who visited the seminary last week came
away loud in her praises of the improved
condition of the building and OF the neatness
which prevailed throughout. The nails were
tinted during the Thanksgiving vacation ana
the academy hall will be decorated during
the Christmas recess, Everett Philips dong
the work
their windows with an unusually good dis
nlav of Christmas goods and the little boys
stand gazing with eager eyes at the sleds ana
tons and hatchets while the little girls fin
gers twitch with longing for the dolls and
books and toys as they wonder which OF
the treasures Santa Claus will place in their
stockings,
In spite of the storm, the Ladies Aid So
ciety met at the Baptist vestry last week
Thursday. As the weather was so unpropl'
tious, 1t seemed hardly worth while to serve
supper, but the public, knowing that sncn
good cooks as Mrs. Truesdell, Mrs. FRED
Willard and Miss Harriet Fletcher were TO
furnish the refreshments, focked in so that
the receipts were larger than those orai'
narily taken upon pleasant days
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur G. Follett of Gallit'
zen, Pa, spent somewhat exciting Ihanks' !
giving About midnight of the night before
the festival the alarm of fire was given and
they arose to find that the opera house was
in a blaze. There was no water with when
TO fight the fire and it soon spread to store
and several dwellings, among them the one
by Mr.. and Mrs Follett As their
house was the last one to go they were LOT
tunate enough to save most OF their furni-
ture.
The Dorcas Guild met Thursday with Mrs.
Julian Taft to make comfort bags for the
sailors on the United States battleship Yer
mont The w. G. r. U. of the state plan to
send 700 of these bags to the ship, and as F,
there is no w. G. 7. U. in town the gulld
was asked to help in the good work. For
once those living out Of the village reaped I!
the fruit of the extra efforts necessary to
attending the meeting for they were invited
IN stay to tea while the village women had
the pleasure of returning to their homes to
get their own suppers.
Last week Wednesday afternoon a large
buck was seen on the ice near Salmon mole |
bridge evidently unable to rise. 1t was sup
posed that the deer had broken through the |
ice and could not regain its foothold. inc |
game warden was notified. As it was dark
nv that time he took his lantern and went
in search of the animal Failing to find it, |
he thought that it had made its way out and |
So returned home. In the morning the deer |
was still there The warden and several men |
went down to it and found that it had been |
chased by a dog. Its shoulder was bitten
and its leg broken. The deer was taken to
the shore and killed. 1t was fine buck |
with six prongs on its antlers- Mr.. Stratton |
bought the meat while the head was taken to |,
Brattleboro. Several had seen the deer
chased by dog belonging in Brookline. We
understand that the owner of the dog was
fined.