The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-08-07
The Meddler
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"nal tou know ilfy had oausAi Keats
unmarked satlemm individual Yesterday
"Aa, Nhrw was hff h5raihlesslg M
guipai ~ friends.
"iie Weni m,o ! lalai rare ihls mum
iHg and bought a rgif # shars aui iirf
punched him. tad iht Hfet sirsk5f,
q heam Il diNruHt" said ihlul
TaffE. "llet fuil me DE- Was caught in
lenhause, TIE hens had heu living for
A ihi. Io.ui a candidate ior town f5p.
rretnialitr stunllei uH "a tie group
"Ihry didn't catch him az all5 b. s1ia
quietly n train ran over him not an
hour ago
"Ncs.H he continued In answer 20 the
lool,s III asianishment that Rftgici be- ~.
s,ffi0n "gau sse Il Nas like this, 10 vas
sitting under a railroad bridge washing his
feet when thr train went over, Have q
cigar on mef'
The crowd At once dispersed.
The following excerpt :. taken from the .
police court uews ol a BIattlrbota paper
dated Aug !, lalSs
The usual gti.t II sabbath law breaker 1
luitcnd in the corridor 81 the federal I
building Monday morning when judge .
Whitney opened the regular session oi the 4
municipal court, In addition 20 those .
who had ltrn able 10 get bail there we've
a number who were not 80 fortunate and .
had been obliged 90 spend the night m
the lookup, The judge did not waste a
great deal Il time on the criminals, Pines
81 - and costs were imposed on IT. X,
Brown for curryIng a horse without sie'
oial uermisson from the sabbath Prutec
tive league. on g. T.. Gmiitm for sutfcp'
titInusly compromising a prescription LOT
the use ot a patient who was not known
To be- sick unto death, aud on Nalbfilge
Horton for coming down street SUNDAY
evening Go hll his peanut ruaster With
gasolcue. ID. Frank Shea was artaigued
Tor allowing the curtains on his market
windows 20 be mp more than six inches.
He rltJded in defence that he did not dare
oil the curtain pullcys for fear OF breaking
he law. but thc Judge said be Thought
that excuse was a fish story and lined the
respondent $40 Detective Dompier re-
ported that Il was currently rumored that
a Sunday newspaper had been smugged
into town the day before. and Judge Whit.
neg issued Is wood box search warrants IN
an effort To determine the truth OF the
story. III any such l1Nlessncss exists,
he said. the hand Of justice cannot deal
with il too stemly.' An old resident said,
after attending the court session that he
could remember the time when a man
could buy a drink OF soda on Sunday and
still keep in good standing IN the church.
The Judge overheard this remark as he
was leaving the courthouse and lmmeIi.
ltely fined the maker Of il for contempt of
court such language he said, is dctri.
mental TO the moral tone OF the com, .
nunity. At that time our population
was much greater than at present and
contained many undesirable citizens
The Peoples National bank force, from !
he cashier down to the junior clerk, were !
obliged TO work 10 music for an hour or I
more Tuesday. About ll.30 a hurdy gurdy !
appeared in front OF the bank and began J
o deliver canned music In yolumn0us
Quantities. The tellers were inst begin 5
ing TO get accustomed to counting money q
o the swing of the Merry Widow waltz
when the operator outside suddenly !
hanged over to I'm Afraid to Go Home in !
he Dark. This went directly to the {
nerves of the cashier, who thought OF C
omebody who went home in the dark not {
ong ago with $40 in new bills, and he lthu I
ASHER was fast getting into hystencal ]
condition when the street piano switched z
nto Money Musk, a very appropriate tune
o play in front of a financial establish
ncnt After going through his tunes a
nee the oTganrgrindcr stopped to wipe ms I
orehead and then started all over again, c
welng with much fondness ut seemed to n
he CASHIER on the second selection. FL a
ally after an hour or more the itinerant n
musician looked at his watch, stopped II
laying, and told his assistant to drive on. g
.ater in the day it developed that two of I
he cashiers friends had paid the hurdy- II
urdy man dollar to play for an hour for p
he cashiers especial benefit. a