The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-18
so Years Ago
Happenings of June, 1871.
Taken from the Files of
The Phoenix

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Cheney & Clapp offer an elegant stock
of family Bibles.
| Strawberries are selling freely at the
: stores for % cents a quart.
A strawberry festival is to be held at
| Crosby's hall Thursday evening for the
: benefit of the reading room.
Hydropath Engine Co., No. 3, pro
poses to attend the firemen's muster at
Rutland on the coming Fourth of July.
NJ. Moody and \. S. Howe have
/ business. They will make a strong
| team.
| About 80 persons left town on Mon
! day afternoon to attend the Odd Eel
lows demonstration in Boston on the
goth inst.
Miss NJ. \. Sprague assisted by her
friends and pupils will give a concert
at the town hall next Wednesday eve
ming, June 21. Among the attractive
features will be the performance of
Roots cantata, the Flower Festival, by
GO misses and juveniles. That they will
, be greeted with a full house is a fore
gone conclusion.
portance in relation to the robbery of the
First National Bank of this village on
the 18th inst The team of white horses.
the driver of which was suspected of
completely with the robbery, was traced
to North Adams where it was found to
belong. The driver, however. who rep
resented himself as Il drummer had
disappeared. Two men were arrested at
Saratoga on Saturday on suspicion. but
an examination proved them innocent.
In addition to the $4,000 currency re
ported last week as stolen, several
individuals, which were on deposit for
safe keeping were also taken. The bust
ness of the bank remains unaffected.
D.
The windham County lodge of Free
and Accepted Anti-Masons are requested
to meet in Crosbys hall at half past
one o'clock p. IN. on Saturday the 18th.
All who are not afraid to come are re-
Spectfully invited to attend No fees
for initiation and no tyler at the door.
The religious interests among the
MethodistS in District No. 10 and vicin-
ity continues with remarkable results.
May 9th 23 persons were baptized and
last Sunday 10 were baptized on Dunn
merston hill, while many more are ION
the road
~ smith, ludIAuAdCthAGI VI bdbS
carriages at Guilford. has lately added
circular saw to his establishments
which. we take it. means business. lie
employs FIVE hands.
On Monday. June 9th, Mrs. John Tn
defwood of Putney with her little
danghtcr of six or seven years returned
from Brattleboro on the five O'Clock
train and i'm walking from the platform
of the ear to the platform of the depot
at the Putney statiou-which is done on
a plank laid from the ear to the station
platform-the little girl fell from the
plank striking her arm in such a way as
to break it below her elbow.
James Willard of Halifax. who adj
vertised his wife last week. now states
that the act was done under the iutlu-
cnce of liquor and the advice of others.
Having come to his right mind he wishes
to retract and a notice to that effect
will be found in our advertising col
umns We understand that he has also
bid a final adieu to Intoxicating beyer-
ages.
The village library is to be removed
July l to rooms on the second floor of
Crosby block There will be a reading
room in connection with it and the
whole will be under the charge of IL
brarian. The Arrangement strikes MS as
an excellent one and we are confident
that it will prove n source of increased
h,