Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-04-13


w. 4. SUBWAY, Erie Landry and
l.. Guy Tasker have been appointed
house committee Of the Vermont Wheel
club,
"A special train will leave Braltle'
boro al his Monday morning for
Newfane Ia accommodate those who
wish 10 attend court,
The Grand Army will meet In It's
hall saturday afternoon, April IL, at
| , y. ~. to attend the funeral Of its late
qunrlermastcr, q, Prescott,
col. @. 4. Miles has consented 10
repeat his paper on Old Heidelberg for
the Young Peoples union NJ the Bnp-
fist church Tuesday evening,
The last of the series Of sociables
in |. o. o. r. hall will be held Wednes'
day evening There will he dancing
In both halls and all Odd Fellows aud
friends are invited
The last OF the Y. NJ. e. \, course
Of entertainments took place In the
auditorium last evening, Albert Arm
strong giving readings from Lorna
Doone. Mr.. Armstrong; interpreta'
tion Of the various passages was eN'
ceedingly good.
AT n special session Of the probate
court Saturday the will of Lorinda
Miller of Vernon was allowed, aud
Bertha NJ. Martindale and William ).
Miller appointed executors; the account
of +. 4. Barber, administrator Of the
Merrill IL. Adams estate, was also al
lowed,
The snow storm of Monday night,
while distasteful TO those anxious for
the arrival of spring, reiuvenated the
maple sugar season, and helped the
lumbermen. In spite of the dubious
predictions of few weeks ago, the
sugar season this year will prove better
than the average. Sap is running
splendidly today.
The negotiations committee Of the
village water board held an informal
conference with George T.. Crowell and
his son, c. b. Crowell, last Friday af-
ternoon in regard TO the water situa-
ton. The committee asked Mr. Cr0well
for an opportunity to buy the holdings
of the Sunset Lake company separate
from the Chestnut Hill system, but Mr.
Crowell reiterated his statement that
the two were for sale together or not
at all.
AT the meeting Of horsemen from
Athol, Bellows Falls and Keene held
in the Cheshire house April 3 TO talk
over the matter of holding matinee
races in those towns, nothing definite
was done. but plans were talked over
to hold another meeting in the near fu-
ture. The plan discussed was to hold
six meets, two in each town, with half
mile heats, and sometime during the
season to have two meetings with
mile heats. Those interested will try
and get Brattleboro to come into the
Sentinel.
F. 4. Raymond of Belmont, n. Y,
father of Francis \. Raymond who
committed suicide here last week We'd
nesdav, was in town Tuesday and
Wednesday to learn what he could
about the circumstances attending his
son 3 death. 1t seems that the young
man was brought up a Roman Catholic
and it is the wish of his parents to
have his body buried in the Catholic
cemetery in Belmont Under the rules
of the Roman Catholic church suicide
cannot be buried in consecrated
ground unless the circumstances are
such as to mitigate the crime, and the
purpose of Mr.. Raymond S visit here
was to find out if his son was in his
right mind when he killed himself. Mr..
Raymond took home with him letter
from a local physician to the effect that
in his opinion the young man was
troubled with mild form of epilepsy.
Edgar Burr Smith, principal of the
high school, spoke in half joking
way at the dedication of the Putney
school building this week about the
need of new school building in Brat
tleboro. As matter of fact he gave
voice to need which the school board
has come to realize is imperative. The
schools of this village have become so
large that the question of what shall
be done in the near future in the way
of providing for the pupils is a serious
problem. There are 100 pupils in the
high school room, and the class rooms
are so fully occupied that necessity
has made it common practice to hold
two recitations in the main study room
at the same time. There has been
some talk of consolidating the primary
schools into a new building. Mr.. Smith
thinks a new building should be erect
ed for the separate use of the high
school. making the present high school
rooms available for the grades:-Brat
tleboro letter in Boston Sunday Globe.
The Connecticut Valley Street
Railway company, in which +. Z,
Crosby of this town is a prominent
has now established the
arrangement which was the basis of the
plan and is chiefly relied
upon for the payment of unfailing
dividends to stockholders of all the
component companies. Last week
Thursday it began the operation of its
system by power supplied by the Green
field Power company and procured by
water-power. The electric current for
the southern division is carried from
Greenfield to Hadley by cable, and
transformed in a new power station
The establishment of the cable line and
the construction and equipment of the
new station made large item of ex-
pense. but it is believed that there will
be substantial reduction in the cost
of operation. This saving, with the re-
duction of expense already made by
consolidation of management, is expect
ed to insure long series of successors
to the single dividend for the stock
holders of some of the individual com
panies which was declared six months
ago.
Mrs. Julia Houston West, 70, whose
singing of the Star-Spangled Banner
in the great Boston peace jubilee in
1869 was one of the principal events