The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-09-10
THE BRATTLEBORO REFORNlER FRIDAY SEPTEMBER TO- 1909

The Clawson-l Hamilton Commercial col
lege opened Tuesday morning with larg'
number of pupils and the prospects TO
the years work is assuring.
up to this morning 50 licenses haC
been issued from the town clerk I
office to resident hunters. No nonres
dent licenses have been issued by Brat
tleboro s town clerk yet.
About 20 members of class No. Z
of the Baptist Sunday school enjoyed
q corn roast at the residence of John
w. Thurber on Orchard street Monday
evening.
a skeleton dance, concert and one
act farce will be given in grange hall
Saturday evening, Sept. %, for the
benefit of the choir of st. Michael s
Roman Catholic church.
Eric Landry, administrator of the
{. f. Neet estate, will sell the personal
property belonging to the estate at %
Chestnut street at half past one clock,
Saturday, Sept Is. George Miller auc-
tioneer.
The Mission circle of the Univer-
salist church will hold its annual meet
ing next Thursday afternoon, Sept 16.
Business meeting at 3 o clock; watch
word, Truth. There will be an cleo
tion of officers.
The summer colony on Ames hill is
to receive an addition. Assistant Com
missioner of Pensions Cornelius G. Bill
lings of Washington intends to erect a
summer home there. Mr. Billings has
pure hased building lot on the hill
ana plans to erect house for occupancy
next season.
Jerry Downey and R. L. Madden
were transferred Saturday from the
jail at Newfane to the house of correc-
tlon that they may be given hard labor
as called for in their sentences. Downey
was sent down from Bellows Falls and
Madden was sentenced for 80 days for
petty larceny committed at the Brattle-
boro Retreat. Deputy Sheriff d. p.
| Thompson accompanied the men to Rut-
land
- Coming events cast their shad-
owS before and the recent reports of
early. frosts foretel the coming zero
weather. 1t is time to prepare for
lower temperature and your comfort de-
mands a little artificial heat in your
home, shop or office. Nothing is more
reliable than a gas heating stove. and
the Twin State Gas and Electric com
panY mas an up-to-datc line on exhibit
ton at its Officially.
An all-night closed arc light has
been installed on Main street opposite
Ambrose Knapp's store. This is an adj
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be appreciated not only by the mer-
chants along Main street at that point
but also by pedestrians obliged TO be
on the streets late at night A supues-
ton has been made by merchants near
the corner Of Flat street that another
are light to burn all night ought to be
Installed at the corner of Flat and
| Main streets.
Mr.. and Mrs Albert Coburn with
nc oh . tlnV 1
others in the party numbering seven
met with what might have proved a
bad accident on their way to Sunset
axe Labor day. While going up the
steep hill with a span of Howard &
Yearly S horses, the animals became
unable to hold the load and began to
bac down the steep hill. They luck
lily backed against tree and fence
which saved the carriage from going
down over steep bank
Another contribution was made to
the Central Vermont s hard luck score
Monday afternoon when by a narrow
margin a bad freight wreck was avert
ed. A derailed car on a south bound
fast freight piled up few cars a short
distance north of the South Vernon sta
ton between and 4 clock. The for
ward trucks of a freight ear climbed
the rails and the result was a pile-up
VI IL DulbH VI Iut lOlllHS SUCK. mo
damage resulted to either roadbed or
rolling stock and traffic was resumed
after two hours wait for help from
Brattleboro. The train due from the
north at 4.25 was held at Brattleboro
until the road was cleared
Daniel Lynch possessing no parti
cular residence was taken into custody |
last evening at the railroad station by |
Chief of Police George Wilson with
Romulus Tassey and Zepherin ST. Mar
tin. The first named Of the trio plead
ing unable to raise So and costs amount
ing to $10.24 goes to Newfane for the
alternative sentence of 10 days. The |
rest of the trio answered guilty in
court this morning to in
toXication and were fined $l2.05 each.
They had $40 between them and be-
lieve that Springfield, Mass, friends
will come to their rescue today. Tas,
sey and ST. Martin had some sort of
an argument on the train reaching
Brattleboro at 1925 and one of them
was pushed through window.
The September term of Windham
county court will open at Newfane
Tuesday morning with Judge Alfred
A. Hall presiding. The first two cases
on the jury calendar will not be
brought on for trial until toward the
end of the term if at all as an in
junction has stayed proceedings in one
Of them. The case of Elias Prouty VS.
Herbert Nichols, apt, Halifax ease
which was entered on the jury calendar
for the first day of court, cannot be
tried until an administrator is appoint
ID for the plaintiff who died this week
It is expected that the alienation of af
lection case of Angelina M. Larrow
against Warren G. Doolttle will be
he first case to occupy the attention
If the court for any length of time.
This case is likely to last the best part
If two weeks. Attorneys who have
studied the court docket are not in
lined to look for long term of court
md say that six weeks or less ought to
lean up the cases that will be
brought on for trial.
The first shipment of the new equip
nent for the electric light station of .
he Twin State Gas and Electric COM
ANY arrived this week and the work
# installing the new switchboard will
'egin Monday. The switchboard is
AZ feet in length and s feet high. .
he board is equipped with all kinds
f devices for registering disturbances
pon the lines of the company and to 4
eterminc the amount of current that
5 being distributed upon the lines I
through this village. When the trans
ormers are in place the high tension y
wires from the Vernon dam of the 4
River Power company will
ring 1880 volts of current to the 4
tation where it will be ''stepped
own to 2300 volts. Smaller trans
ormers will step the current down to