Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-03-30

The annual meeting OF the Yer
mont Wheel club will be held Tuesda,
evening, April 3, 1906, at 7.3O P. m,
!, The first meeting of the creditors o
Truman Barnes, bankrupt, will be hel'
before Referee i, ID. +. Stowe Satur
day, April T.
The committee appointed TO clos'
the affairs of the Brattleboro Catholic
union met Wednesday evening and vot
ed TO divide the money left in tn,
treasury among the members.
AT special meeting Of the Uni
versalist church last Friday evening
Rev. Frank l.. Masseck was engaged
as pastor for another year and reso
luton passed commenting his work
The April Argosy contains a story
by Elliot Balestier entitled, The Mar
They Delighted to Honor, the scene OF
which is laid in that part OF Dunn
merston familiarly known as "Slat
Hollow
The selectmen decided Saturday ia
do away with the steps which break
the sidewalk on the east side of Main
street near the American House site
The walk will be graded before the
new block TO be built by l.. +. Adams
and c. II. Crosby is erected. The Sc
leetmen have also decided to give the
town hall building "A fresh coat OF
paint.
A special civil service examination
for clerk and carrier in the Brattleboro
postoflice will be held there April II
at o'clock. Application forms and
pamphlets of general information may
be had by applying to Miss f. Il.
Guild at the postoflice. Applications
must be filed with the secretary of the
board of examiners, postoflice building,
Boston, not later than April $ at i.3O
p. M.
David G.. Adams, an employe of
Abbott & Dennison Brothers market,
and Mrs. Bessie Titus were arrested
Tuesday morning by Sheriff f. W. Me
IClure on state S attorneys complaint
charging them with adultery. They
were arraigned before Justice X. C..
Bacon and pleaded not guilty. Later
in the day State Is Attorney II, D..
Ryder mol pressed the case for lack
of evidence The respondents were rep
resented by A. C. Spencer.
The outward tonnage from the
local freight office for the past nine
months was l2,6Sl tons, an increase OF
about 1900 tons over the same period
of the previous year. The increase in
the local freight business is causing
the Central Vermont officials to con
slider seriously the need OF new
freight depot in this town, and IT
would not be surprising if preparations
for the construction of such building
were begun before the end of the. pres
ent year.
Richard II. Timson and daughter,
Miss Florence Timson, We're cited be.
| fore Referee +. ID. +. Steve Saturday
TO show cause why they should not de-
liver piano to f. Il. Barrows, trustee
of Mr.. Timson IS bankrupt estate. Mr..
Timson purchased the instrument in
1900, four years previous to going
! into bankruptcy paying for 1t on the
installment plan. He claimed that he
made present of il to his daughter,
and that it did not belong to him. Mr..
Stowe held that the bankruptcy laws
did not give the referee authority TO
act summarily in determining the dis
position of the piano.
/ -Adwin NJ. Rickert. %, died Satur-
day noon at his home ON Prospect
street after prolonged illness with
consumpton. He was born in Hub
bardton, VT, and came to Brattleboro
from Londonderry in 1900. He had
been employed by the Estey Organ com
pany. the S. A. Smith company, and
the Brattleboro Cabinet company, but
for the past several months had been
unable to work He is survived by one
sister. Mrs. Carrie Franklin, of this
town. The body was taken to Raw.
sonville Monday afternoon and funeral
services were held there Tuesday.
The following members of Wantasti-
quet lodge, l. Q. Q. f., acted as bear
ers: Noyes II. White, Melvin Cooper,
George Dix, and George Cain.
Vermont sportsmen are interested
lin measure to be taken before the
Legislature next fall by hotel men for
a repeal of the law passed in 1904
which cut the month of August from
the trout fishing season, says a White
River Junction despatch to the Boston
Globe under date of March "a. Sports
men favor the shorter season, because
Fin August trout are nearly ready 10
spawn and are too easily caught in the
IsmaH streams where they make their
spawning beds. Hotel proprietors-
however, are fighting the law because
August is the month when the largest
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state for trout fishing. The legisla-
ture favored innkeepens in Bennington
county by allowing the longer season
there, where the largest summer hotels
|are located, but hotel men in other
parts Of the state are all the more up
IN arms ON ttnat account.
-Wilfred Burnett was arrested
Tuesday evening by Night Waterman
w. b. Warren for disturbing the peace
and on "Wednesday morning was fined
SIS and costs, amounting to $l0.4s,
which he paid. The arrest was made
as dhe result of "a fight between Brunett
and Henry Fecto in one OF the Water
Cure buildings on Elliot street. 1t
seems that Fecte, who recently left his
wife. found her talking with Burnett
and immediately proceeded to punish
him. The struggle waXed SO hot that
a call for the police was sent in, but
before Officers Warren and Evans ar
rived the participants had disappeared.
Brunett was afterward found at his
boarding place on Canal street. but
Fecto left town on an evening freight.
He went from here to Windsor where
he communicated with Sheriff .Kiniry
abeylt the trouble. On Wednesday
Feeto and the officer came ito BrSttle-
boro and the former paid a fine Of S.
and costs.