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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1905
Page
7
Northfield residents heard of road work talks near Winchester on the Northfield line and of plans to abolish two dangerous grade crossings on the road to South Vernon. Local gatherings included lectures and dances at Veterans' Hall and a Winchester Dramatic Company performance of David Harum, with proceeds benefiting town projects.
Charles E. Davis returned from White River Junction to visit his brother. Mr and Mrs Fred Jackson and daughter Ethel visit Charles Jackson. Heard farm timber sold to S A Smith & Co and cut to Prescott's mill near Vernon station by E H Akley crews. Capt and Mrs B R Allen attend Bernardston family reunion for T W Johnsons 63rd birthday with a surprise and a plentiful supper and card games.
In Syracuse N Y a father recounts treating his son’s severe eye burn with Bucklen’s Amica Salve. He claims the salve quickly heated the injury and saved the eye, praising its efficacy for burns and ulcers. Available for 26 cents at F. H. Holden & Co. drug store.
Clarke Howe suffers measles while W H Taft visited Gardner on business last week. John Prouty and family move to Cambridgeport. Mrs D E Boyden spends weeks in New London Conn. Locals attend a South Londonderry play. Raymond Grout visits cousin C H Grout in Newfane. Mrs Henry Allen of Brattleboro visits daughter Anna Deane. Wayland Worden leaves Taft employ to move to Massachusetts. A well attended Congregational church concert features the Morgan family orchestra and Garfield sisters.
Sunday evening an illustrated lecture on Africa the Dark Continent drew listeners at the Baptist church audience. A stereopticon showed about 70 slides and a missionary offering was taken. Local society notes include visits, classes, library notices, and a birthday surprise for Webster Johnson with a family gathering and supper.
Mrs Fannie Francis visits In n Lawn BE Co Parker of East Putney ill with pneumonia. Ludlow man Chase spends week at M D Whitman. Mrs A D Johnson in Springfield Mass for spring openings. Frank Fuller attended funeral of his son Pred Fuller at Aldread NM. Ellery Patterson returned from Montpelier visit. Rev N B D Parsons of Fairfield CT visiting friends and former parishioners. In town, Ida I Stowell and daughter Helen return from Windsor. Woman's missionary meeting planned for Mrs HH Farr Saturday. Mrs M Kilburn attended funeral of her youngest son Fred Fuller in Alstead NH. E E Blood returned from trip. carload of fine horses on exhibition at his stables. H R Waite moving into upstairs tenement of house sold to J W Shaw. Myrtle Kilnht of Brattleboro attends G L Piano’s. Miss Cook heads to Westminster Wheat. Auction held to wind up bankrupt CW Brooke estate. W Adagine bought real estate. Guy Tatum finished BE EK Blood's work, to be employed by Mr Bemis at Saxtons River. Dorla Geron visiting Mrs A A Langley, then Dr G C S Foster’s, returning to New York City. Mrs Ellen Willard fell Friday, breaking two ribs. Mrs Wil lonik 0 great sufferer and invalid sister Mrs Kidder. J Washburn called to Chester by Whitee of her father Mr Wilcormb, with Hulda Ingerl d, to stay a few weeks at Chester.
Robina sings as geese head north and crows call. Alice Hemenway of Grafton visited M. H. Ingalls's, Morrill of White River Junction toured town, and Mr and Mrs Martin Underwood of Mt visited Myron Ingalls. Roscoe Ingalls returned from Whitehall. Some sugar orchards tapped, J W Gould and son with 500 trees. A A Goodell bid off the West Townshend to Windham line sold at auction. Elva Mack visited Crafton and returned home from North Derry N H. A store prospect at South Windham with Wilton Batherie behind the counter and George Goolehough of Newfane as clerk.
About 18 inches of snow fell in West Guilford on March 21. Miss Edna Phelps was ill after returning home. Mr Betterley's son from Athol visited briefly. H L Nichols and Henry Merrifield were sick with grip and shingles. A Reed saw mill fire near Algiers was blamed on disturbed attention to the blaze. Rev James Jones and Rev L H Beman escaped a runaway sleigh after the horse bolted, wrecking the sleigh but causing only minor injuries to the pair. The cutter, nearly new, suffered about $20 in loss.
Miss Abbie Jaqueth assists at Orlean Hale s, James Thayer helps at F B Thayer s through the sugar season. F L Wellman s children sick with measles as are others in town. Farmers prepare for first sugar run. Don Franklin s son and Arthur Franklin s son improve from pneumonia. Reed brothers steam mill on J C Cutting farm burned Saturday evening, many job losses. rebuilding hoped. Moving pictures show at Grange hall starting Thursday for a week. entertainment by Green River troupe, boarding at E W Legate s. audience speaks highly of show.
Medical blurb extols Dr Kings New Life Pills as sole remedy to prevent and cure appendicitis and peritonitis with testimonial from M Flannery of 14 Custom House Place Chicago praising relief from Constipation and Biliousness. Pills priced 25 cents at F H Holden Co druggists.
Fred Smith works for W H Hamilton while Arthur Gleason sells his horse in Windham. Eric Penor returns from illness. W S Allen and Ralph Howe operate H E Howards sugar business. Mrs Almedia Boynton of Jamaica visits Mr and Mrs N F Leone. Robinson family inherits measles at grandmother Mrs Vionna Howe's home. J H Peck baggage master visiting his mother Mrs Marthe Howard. Mrs Sarah Robinson, formerly of this town, dies in Hartland on March 15 with funeral in West Townshend and burial at River Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Clyde Wright are away on their wedding trip. Comfort club will moor at Mildred Bacons Tuesday March 2. George Dodge has been unwell but improving. Fred Parker and bride of Waton Mass visit Gilbert Park ers. Henry and Orin Stowell are in town by their brother in law Alen. Asa Bacon clerks at C KE Bacon. John Cummings starts work mid April. Mrs J H Hathorn returned home after being summoned by her mother’s death in the northern part of the state. Dr Arnold injured his shoulder when his sleigh tipped over. The town laments the death of Serrell Allen at his home Friday morning. Funeral Sunday at his late home conducted by Rev G W Perry of Chester. Allen descended from Ethan Allen, survived by two sisters Mrs Moses Barrett and Mrs Lucy Pierce who could not attend due to illness.
L T Landman on the sick list and grip threat. Arthur Holden sold oxen to Wheeler of Jamaica. Mrs. Laura Jenkins returns after weeks away. George Marsh of Chester buys the McIntyre telephone line. Postmaster Pierce suffers quinsy. George Walker of Westminster visits. Elmer Lampsonmills logs for C D Farnum. Lynch moves onto S M Holden’s farm. Warner Townshend of Saxtons River buys horses cattle and hogs. H H Howe moves to H Collins’s place and rents farm for year with Collins remaining as boarder.
About a foot of snow fell Tuesday as residents received visitors and moved on. Measles spread with most patients recovering. Various folks visited Brattleboro and Fitchburg while others relocated to Boston, Turners Falls, or California. A Bem Bellows Falls Gazette note recalls a mild unusual winter.
Discussion of kidney disorders in women versus men with symptoms such as nervousness headaches and back pain. Promotes Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy that stops irregularities strengthens urinary organs and purifies the blood, claiming benefits for thousands of women. Sold by All Druggists.
The week’s happenings include A A Goodell in Bellows Falls, Roger and Howard returning to Orange, Mase and Bernard Gleason at work, John Shaw sighting geese moving north, Mrs Ed Moulthrop recovering from a runaway accident, Henry Jenison at work for sugar season, K L Turbee on a business trip to Orange, Mrs Howe and son Bert on business, several people listed as sick, Pinker planning a trip to New York, Miss Gable Farwell visiting Springfield, play attendance, Jackwood in South Londonderry, Miss Roth Dutton returning from Bellows Valle, and mail delivery delayed by thaw.
Ribert Beck left for Canada Monday. Kinney & Co finished their log job landing about five million feet. D. R. company may hire 100 men for this year’s log drive. Several locals including Sam Laclair, Herbert Tudor, Dr. Cattler, Martin Brown, Carl Bond observed on business last week. Roads are poor with four feet of snow.
M. A. Smith is sick with the grip. Carl Newcomb, afflicted with rheumatism, is recovering. Mrs. Maria Johnson has returned home after sewing in Brattleboro. Walter Kidder shows rapid improvement from a blood poison in his hand. Ernest Cobb is moving to a farm bought from his sister Mrs. Dorsett in South Londonderry. Charles Goodfellow, former blacksmith, closed his shop and will work near Albany, New York.
South Wardsboro reports Mrs. Josiah Gleason failing while Wit Duncan is housed with the grip. Louis Thomas works for F. M. Rice as farmers prepare for sugar making. The community welcomes a late January thaw after a two month delay.
Nearly a foot of snow fell Tuesday. Mr. Robinson lost a good horse recently by a sore in its throat. Mrs. A R Robinson is in East Jamaica to assist caring for daughter Leone ill with measles at Grandma Howe's. Mrs. M Rice returned from West Hampton New York then went to New York City after a telegram. On her way home she stopped at the funeral of her nephew Jos Smith.
Seth White works at A. A. Austins for the sugar season. Hoyt Marsh has gone to work for Nelson Smith of Athens. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hitchcock of Athens spent Sunday in town. Miss Grace Marsh is at work at Arthur Farnum's in Newfane. Miss Edna Marsh is helping Mrs. Co. BP. Stickney with her work. H. P. Gale of Walpole has commenced his season's work at C. P. Stickney's. Isaac Woolley works for F. C. Carter in sugaring. The sugar season commenced sharp Wednesday morning. A. Wellman aids at C. P. Stickney's for the sugar season. N. C. Marsh is at his son's, A. M. Marsh's.
Foley and Co of Chicago originated Honey and Tar as a thras' and lung remedy. Due to its great merit and popularity many imitations are offered, but consumers are advised to ask for Foley's Honey and Tar and refuse any substitute.
Friends and neighbors of A L Childs mourn his sudden death at his son Frank A Childs’s home after a brief illness. Born August 26, 1834, in the town, he spent years in Boston and Minnesota before returning to Wilmington in 1855, the town’s oldest continuous business man. The funeral will be held at the Universalist church this afternoon, with Rev Blackford officiating. The notice continues with the death of F Wayne Fairbanks, former Wilmington resident, in New York City after a long illness, detailing his career from Newfane to Wilmington and his long baking and trading work, and notes his widow Ellen Flags Hall and daughter Blanche M. Fairbanks.
Rexall Mucu Tone is advertised as the sole remedy that cures debility by cleansing catarrh. The ad claims catarrh causes debility and that Mucu Tone destroys catarrh germs, tones mucous tissues, and heals irritation. A trial bottle for fifty cents is offered with a guarantee of results.
The bulletin records bereavement and funeral details for Frank W. Aldrich with lay house services and Woodlawn burial. J A Kidder appointed administrator. Farmers begin sugaring with good sap flow. Social Lodge first degree conferred at a special meeting. Savings Bank directors’ room receives steel sheathing. C E Butterfield moves town clerk offices to Wheeler’s building, with dentist Wheelock nearby. 10th wedding anniversary celebrated at the Fox home. Logs from Readsboro Chair Company shipped to Readsboro. Hope expressed for rebuilding a mill after the August fire, with no concrete action yet.
Trained nurses urge Comfort Powder as the best healing skin powder for infants and adults. Hospitals in New England buy it in large quantities and rely on it for skin soreness chafing bed sores prickly heat eczema and offensive perspiration. Be sure you get Comfort Powder.
The Champlain Transportation Company will construct a new lake steamer at Shelburne Harbor. The vessel will cost 150000 dollars and be completed on June 16, 1906.
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