The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-07-19

aud Mr., Burwell were seen carrying a
pipe through the streets OF the village.
| Lest their respective wives be alarmed,
we hasten to state that it was neither
a meerschaum nor an Indian peace-ppe
but a long one made of iron and carried
on the shoulder instead of in the mouth.
II was in fact the long hoped for pipe
! for conducting the winter from the spring
| to the fountain IN the common. 30 the
good work goes on.
Although the apple season has not yet
| begun the women are telling thrilling
| stories Of snake encounters. One day
Mrs Fred Randall entered her kitchen
and found on the back platform large
adder. Mrs. Nose Randall was sum.
moned and with the aid of an AK and a
| hoe the two women disposed of ms
snakeship. Then as Mrs, Il, b, Batchel'
der was walking in her garden, she saw
long rope which upon examination
proved to be an adder. This was dis
patched with some assistance. Soon at
the path to the barn she saw an adder
lying in the path evidently hestating
whether to visit the chicken coops or the
house. Its days We're soon ended and so
is this tale.
their son of Pittsfeld, Me-, who have
been visiting Mrs. Landmarks parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A, Blood, went to South
Londonderry on Wednesday to spend the
rest of the week Prof. Landman has
with him some handbooks of the Maine
Central Institute of which he is princi-
pal. Mr.. Landman disposes of 2OOO OF
these every year. They contain in pref
everything that boys or girls would Ike
to know about a school of which they
hoped to become pupils and can be car
RED in the pocket. The advertisements
at the back of the book pay nearly half
the expense of printing The professor
SAYS that this is the best form of adver-
Using that he has found yet. Why not
have some for Leland and Gray?
The books belonging to the Townshend
public library were moved the first OF
the week to the reading room at the semi
nary All those having books belonging
to the library are requested to bring them
in by next Monday and to leave
them with Mrs. ii. w. Lewis, who will
act as librarian. 1t is thought best at
this time to rearrange the books with a
view to having catalogues printed in the
near future. New books will be ordered
at once. The chief object in moving the
library was to secure reading room
where its patrons could see the current
papers and magazines and consult refer
ence books at leisure. The library will
be closed until reaTanged. 1t is to be
hoped that the town appreciates the
debt that it owes to Mrs. +. l.. Osgood
for having cared for the books so long
and so faithfully.
At first there was some doubt as to
how to pronounce the name of the new
hay-loader 1t is spelled New Deere.
When it took five men nearly two days
to put it together (some working and
others giving advice and when it began
to upheave hay so fast that it looked
as if it would take seven men to load
it, the general opinion was that if should
be pronounced dear; but now that
new rack of sufficient width has been put
on the hay wagon and the proper speed
at which to draw it has been ascertainel.
it is fondly called by its owners 'deari1.
Indeed, with its bright red paint and its
tags (some 10 or 20 Of them flying, it is
great addition to the haying process
sion. Moreover it does its own tumbIing
and pitches on faster than two men could
do it without lameing its back in the
process so those who knew that it
wouldn't work. will be obliged to give in
and to discuss some other subject.