The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-11

ceived the rite of baptism.. 1T
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o. J. Pratt has just received an elegant
assortment of llama lace shawls and jack
4 ets-prices from SO TO $40.
/ Those people contemplating suicide
| may have their desires gratifed by tray
| cling their teams smartly across the
bridge over Milestone brook near Mr..
| Loomis's blacksmith shop. The chance
is good and mot to be sIeezed at.
/ The room in the Revere House block
| lately occupied by the Vermont National
Bank has been leased by G. \. Boyden,
proprietor of the hotel and is now being
fitted up foR an office. The present office
is to be used as sample room.
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The meeting of the Good Samaritan
| temperance society last Sunday evening
was spirited and interesting as usual.
| The list of speakers included Rev. \.
AIighill, Edward Crosby, Henry Glover
by the Sabbath school of the Centre
church.
| The First National Bank of this vii
| lage was entered by burglars on the 18th
| inst. at about half past twelve o'clock.
| noon, and robbed of upwards of $4,000
| in currency, mostly ones and twOs. No
| bonds are known to have been taken. Mr..
| y. c. Sawyer, the cashier, was the only
| person in the bank at the time and the
| circumstances as related by him are as
| follows: At the hour named above n
man entered the bank and bought a
draft on New York. He then presented
| a bag of gold and silver coin which he
wished to sell The coin was poured
| upon the counter and Mr.. Sawyer pro-
| ceeded to count the gold while the
| stranger counted the silver. Mr. Saw
/ y-aF. l,n NJ ,E +F, hut
stranger insisted that there was so
| more. The money was again counted
| with the same result and some minutes
| of conversation enSued which resulted
| IN the stranger rc-pOcketing his money
| and leaving the bank. No suspicious
| were raised by the transaction and no
money was missed until about two
o'clock. The. suppositiOn is that during
| the conversation the vault was entered
| by second person and the money taken.
| Officers We're Immediately put on the
| scent and aS-we 90 to press we learn that
Il person answering the description had
| been seen passing through West Brattlc-
| boro and Marlboro driving a span of
gray horses and apparently going in the
| direction Of West Dover. Two men who
| have been hanging around the Glen
| House at West Brattleboro for three or
four days. driving a similar span of
| horses and a team answering the same
| description. was observed hitched on
! Asylum street about the time of the rob
| berry. \ reward of $1,000 has been of
| fered for the arrest of the robbers and
the recovery of the money.
We learn that the Baptist church of
Jamaica has prohibited the admission of
| Free MasOns to its membership.
Decoration day was observed in Hns-
dale. y. H., last Saturday. Under the
marshalship of Col. Barker of the old
| New Hampshire 9Th, a procession led
| by the Hinsdae cornett band and consist
| ing of soldiers of the Grand Army. Free
Masons, pupils of the public schools and
| citizens, marched to the beautiful Gene
| terry where an eloquent Grafton was
given by Col. X. Haskins Of Brattleboro
and an original poem was read by Rev
| ]. s. Batchelder of Hinsdale.
| Mrs. II. 4. Jones of Wiliamsville has
| just returned from Boston with greater
variety and more fashionable assortment
of goods than ever before. New style
hats, French flowers, ribbons. etc, which
are considered very recherche.