The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-14

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on the morning of the 18th inst.
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| The annual parade of the fire depart
ment will take place on May 9th.
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ii. t. Taylor has gone to Boston as a
| delegate to the reunion of the Grand
Army.
| Every invalid should see DIR. Urann at
the Revere House this week. Thousands
have been cured by him after others
failed, Consultation free.
| 4 two days soaking rain from the
east has given the earth such a satura-
ton as it has not had since the freshet
of 1869. Notwithstanding the large
amount of rain that fell, the streams did
not overflow their banks and no damage
of consequence resulted.
George Cutler and family have re;
turned from Philadelphia where they
have resided for the past few years. Hr.
| Cutler is about to rc-engage in the boot
| and shoe business in this place and is
now fitting the stand in Fisk's block
| lately occupied by |. \. Thorn, for the
purpose.
James Reed and family returned from
| Florida last week and Henry Burnham
also came day or two ago. They report
themselves well pleased with their south
| ern experiences.
4 foot race of 100 yards for a purse
of $50 took. place on the grounds of the
| Park association last Saturday afternoon,
between John Dewey and T.. Z. Reed of
this village. Dewey won by a few feet.
Time 1113 seconds.
The business Of the Vermont National
bank will be transferred to their new
quarters this week and a very neat and
convenient location they will have. The
counter, made by Douglas & Hawley, is
Of ash with black walnut trimmings and
is fine specimen of workmanship.
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\ wild cat has been seen several times
and once shot at in the neighborhood of
Joseph Bemis's at West Brattlcboro. His
>creeches have also been heard i'm the
night. Here is evidently a chance for
sportSmen which it would pay to improve.
Captain Beniah Dudley celebrated his
S0tlI- birthday on May 9TH at the house
Of his sHu-in-law. l.. +. Clark at West
BrattlebCro. Children and grandchildren
with a few other relatives, p in all,
were present to greet the OCt0genarlan
and presented him with a $40 easy chair
aud a SO walking stick. Captain Dud-
ley, in his younger days, was a celebrated
teacher of common schools and possessed
an excellent faculty for training unruly
boys as several of the present inhabitants
of Brattlcboro Guiford. Vernon and
some other towns can doubtless testify
His admonitionS were always emphatic
and sometimes they were enforced by a
practical application that was not easily
forgotten. In those days our little vii
lage of West Brattleboro was the larg-
est one in town and the center of bust
ness. Here was the Hlly church edifice
i'm town here was Brattleboro Academy !;
here We're held March meetings, state
elections and military trainings and here
We're the principal hotels. shops stores.
etc. Tho East village was a small "one-
horse" affair when the captain was a boy.
Long may Captain Dudley live-a con
Meeting link between the pest and the
| present.
The village school at NGilliamsvilIe will
begin May 10th with Miss Georgia Morse
az teacher.
Mar~ied-in BrattIeboru. MAY Q. by
| Rev. ". II. Harris. Mr.. Henry \. Raw
son Of Cornish. n H.. and Miss Allie
| f, Bcment of Brattlcboro.
Married-In Mortified. Mass. April
y, Joseph Mattoon of NorthfeIa and
| Mrs. Julia NJ. Pratt of Brattleb0ro.
Married-In Chesterfield. n. H.. April
| IL. by Rev. O. q. Woodbury.. Dram T..
Randall and Maria \. Smith, all of
Chesterfield.