The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-04-12
WILMINGTON.

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j. Wheeler's,
Nearly Is inches of snow fell Monday
and Tuesday.
TYLER Goodell of Readsboro was guest
in town Monday night.
Mrs. Gertrude Kingsley visited Whit,
ingham Friday and Saturday.
j. T.. Kellas of Malone, n. Y, was
in town Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Florence Burnett of Brockton,
Mass, recently visited in town.
Rev. and Mrs. 4. y. Blackford are en-.
loving two weeks vacation,
Ralph Mann of Vermont university was
in town for few days this week.
The prospect is that the sugar season
will be one OF the best for several years,
Mrs, NJ A, Brown and Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. 4. Roberts are in Boston for few
days,
The little daughter of r. p. Crafts is
slowly improving at the North Adams
hospital,
NJ. w. Stickney is in town. During
the winter he has been in western Yer
mont selling pianos.
Mrs. Fred Averill and son, Donald and
friend, Mrs. Wood of Bellows Falls, are
guests at Elbie Pixies.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Adams left last Sat
urday for visit with Mrs. Adams's pa
rents in Hartford, Conn.
B. V. Butteriield has returned to Lake.
vile, Conn, where he is attending the
llotchkiss preparatory school.
Gilbert Morris has moved his family this
week from Shafter street to the Redway
house on North River street.
Mrs. Herbert w. Miller is suffering
from heart disease and her sister, Mrs.
b. u. Wheeler, is caring for her,
c. W. Reed who has been employed
at Mountain mills for the past year. start
ed Tuesday for his home in Maine.
II. w. Stearns of New York has been
in town this week. He has sold his cot
tages at Raponda TO New York parties.
Mrs. c. NJ Russell and ner daughter,
Mrs. Nicholas Macdonald, gave very
enjoyable whist party Friday afternoon to
a number OF their friends.
A special meeting of the stockholders
in the w. \. Choate Manufacturing com
pany is called for next Monday evening
at the office of the company.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leonard \. Brown will be pleased to
know that they have returned TO Whining
ton and will make this place their resi-
dence in the future.
Ernest Moran, head filler at Mountain
mills for the past five years, has resigned
his position and has gone to Woodstock,
n. H., to work for the North River
Manufacturing company.
The friends Of Mrs. Lizzie Comstock
will be sorry to learn that she is suffer
ing severely from rheumatism and has
been confined to her bed for several
months. She lives in New York.
Mrs Carl Adams went to Hartford Sat
urday to look after the shipping Of their
household goods to this place. They will
occupy the tenement in Mrs w. X.
Boyd's tenement formerly occupied by
II. i, Bray.
Clifford L. Mann, assignee of the prop
erty belonging to Guy o. Howe d Co,
has obtained leave from Referee A. Z.
Cudworth. to sell the stock of goods at
private sale and the sale will commence
Saturday, April 10, Prices will be made
at a low figure in the expectation that the
stock will be quickly disposed Of, Allen
& Brown will occupy the store when va.
Gated.
The schools will begin next Monday
with the following teachers: Village
schools, Miss Edna L. Hammond, prin-
cipal, Miss Alice II. johnson, Miss Jes-
sica L. Ballou, Miss Rose l.. Shumway
and Miss Mabel /. Medbury; Castle
Miss Alice V, Whitney; Dix school, Miss
Ethel Boyd; Cutting school, Miss Flor
ence Negus.
Albert Q. johnson died at his resi-
dence in this village Thursday, April A.
l., Iol hear, Ill for Ettla than n
week with the prevailing disease, pneu-
monia. He was 33 years of age Jan. !,
1907. He came to this place from Dover
and had been employed in the Choate
factory. He was an excellent workman,
respected by all who knew him, and gen,
eral regret is expressed at his sudden and
untimely death. He leaves wife and
two children to mourn his DEATH The
funeral was held Saturday and the body
was taken to Jamaica for burial.
Edward Davey, who claims Hardwick,
Mass. as his home town, and who went
to North Adams, Mass, from Whining,
ton. was adjudged insane Saturday and
taken to Northampton asylum by Deputy
Sheriff Charles l.. Frink. Davey has had
a pitiful string of hard luck for the last
few years, and it has finally proved upon
his mind to the extent that it is unbal- |
anced. He lost his wife a year or two ago,
but a baby which was born at the, time OF
her death lived. Davey had another son,
and redoubled his efforts to support them.
Soon while working in the woods he met
with an accident, in which he suffered a
badly broken leg, and was laid up for
some time Next he lost an eye in an
other accident and this so affected the
other one that he is now almost totally |
blind. Crippled and unable to work he
went to North Adams discouraged, and
after being taken in charge by the police
begged to be allowed to commit suicide
as the easiest way out of his misery