Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-10-05
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

runabout Tuesday
The midnight trains between New
York city and Quebec were taken off
Monday,
Mrs. w. +. Neal holds her opening
in velvet and ready.to.wear hats Sat.
urday, October 6.
AT the auxiliary meeting Tuesday
afternoon the women voted to have a
sale of dressed dolls at Christmas time
AT the annual senior election of
Amherst college Monday Samuel Earle
Arnold of this town was chosen mar
shall.
The grange sewing society will
meet every Friday at $50 p. m. All
members of the grange invited to come
and help on work for the fair.
About 80 couples attended the
High school dance last Friday evening
in Grange hall. The party broke up at
a reasonable hour and all had a pleas
ant time.
Three hundred tickets from Kcene
were sold for the Brattleboro fair We'd
nesday morning and good number
from this city went over in carriages
and automobiles. Thursday morning
only 80 tickets were sold-Keene, y.
4 H., Sentinel.
The Brattleboro street railway did
a rushing business during the three
DAYS of the fair. According to the
statement of Superintendent Bryant
between 10000 and 1900 people were
carried on the ears Conductors turned
| in to the company Office $ll7i.S5 dur
/ ing the three days, and about 5000 tick
cts were sold at various places.
The Central Vermont railway com
pany will sell round trip tickets to the
annual fair and cattle show at Belcher-
town. Mass. which is held Wednesday
Oct. 10, for $l.40 from Brattlcboro,
/ $l.25 from Vernon, SllO from South
Vernon. 81 from Mortified and North
( field Farms. Tickets are good going
Oct. 9. not returning until Oct. II.
Work on the front of the new
/ American block is still delayed by the
non.arrival of the consignment, OF
pressed brick which is needed TO finish
4 tie wall. The brick was shipped sey-
eral weeks ago but the railroad com
Ipany is unable to trace the ear. The
4 brirk-masons are at present engaged IN
LAYING the east wall of the rear build
/ ing. while a large force Of carpenters
is completing the woodwork of the
( front block
/ Clarence Crosby Of Dummerston
and Guy Whitney of Springfield passed
4 through here Tuesday on their way
/ home with the spoils of two-nght
coon hunt strung on the back Of Their
carriage. In all they captured SIX
coons. five the first night and one the
second night, the latter an elderly
specimen weighing nearly 20 pounds
The hunters had a pack of three dogs
trained especially to hunt raccoonS
The last coon caught put up game
/ fight before he was ovcrpowered.
The Eastman deluge set, recently
bought by the village, was tried by the
bailifs Friday afternoon and pro
nounced all right. The set consists OF
five nozzles, three OF which may bt
connected with one SO that a stream
two inches in diameter may be thrown
The trials were made at the Estey or
gan factory, on Flat street and neal
the town hall. From Estey's steam
pump stream was thrown nearly 300
feet horizontally. At the town hall
stream was thrown from an inch ant
threc-quarters nozzle about 10 fee
higher than the building
Charles Kenyon of Landerdale, n
Y. lust across the line from Benning
ton, was robbed of horse, buggy, sun
of clothes, three watches and some Jew
elrv Saturday night by young mar
who claimed to be from Brattleboro
Mr.. KENYON notified Sheriff II. 5. Will
son of Bennington early Sunday morn
ing. saving that he believed the thlei
to be on his way to Brattleboro by way
of Arlington. Sheriff Wilson arrested
the man about two miles south of Ar
Iington village and turned him over t
the New York authorities, the culprl'
having expressed willingness to re
turn without requisition papers.
The New England Telephone 4
Telegraph company hopes to get mt
its new quarters in the American blocf
nv January |. The new exchange
which will occupy the north room OF
the second floor, will be equipped witt
a switchboard of the common battery
tvne With such a switchboard 1t VII
he unnecessary for subscribers to rms
for the central office. All they WI
have to do will be to take down then
receivers. thus making a connection
which lights small incandescent iamI
on fine switch board. Wherever thu
hos hppD
Iished it is found a great improvement
over the bell method. The equlpmen
for the new exchange is already mere
and the work of installing it will be
Gin as soon as possible. By January
+ is expected the local exchange VII
have 700 patrons.
C. S. Smith of Hinsdale, n. ii.
,ras leading some colts from the pas
t,,ro to his barn about three miles iron
+ba village of Hinsdale Sunday nlgh
when he discovered the carcass of
large buck deer lying in the edge o.
the water of Lamson s pond. lie ire,
to null the deer out of the water pu
was unable to do 50 without assistance
He found the body still warm showing
4 +ba+ the deer had been dead but a re"
Minutes He then notified Selectmei
lanes O'Brien and Frank W. lllden
who after seeing the carcass notl I,'
tbe fish and game authorities. A butch I,
or was hired to dress the animal, whlcf
Weighed over 200 pounds In the body
we're found several gun-shot "ouno'
showing that the animal had been sho'
before taking to the water. If the law
breakers are caught they Will Suiiei
the penalty of the law.
The open season for deer in in Yer
mont will begin Monday, Oct -, a 8-
continue through Saturday, Oct; =
Ia ,,ariod being the last full week II