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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
4
Brattleboro residents celebrated spring amid rumors of a visiting railroad parade. Locals cleaned, scraped, and prepared as officials in a private car supposedly arrived. By morning the expected display never materialized and residents found their scare for nothing.
Mrs Bela M Chamberlain widow of Bela N Chamberlain died at her home on Green Street aged 70 after Bright's disease and uremic coma. Funeral Monday at 2 30 p.m. Rev George B Lawson officiated, burial Prospect Hill. She leaves son Herbert and sister Mrs John Liscom, husband died 1847. She was born Hannah Jane Oram in Waldo Maine April 20 1824 and long served in Brattleboro Baptist church activities.
Misa da Robb is absent with illness while Mr Roberts the blacksmith also ill. Town notes include May 1 move of L. W. Knapp, lectures by Mrs Abbie Snell Burnell, and various church and civic updates. Fire on Linden street slight. Grange dramatic club next week. numerous personal notices and social events.
The item lists residents and visitors across towns with names such as DeWitt, Lin, Dunas, Lamb, Stoll, Angler, and Harris. It notes trips to New York, Springfield, Worcester, and Boston, plus a medical association meeting in New Orleans and an exposition opening in St Louis.
The new magazine rifle weighs 83 pounds, two pounds less than the Krag Jorgenson and it shows higher accuracy. Its barrel is 24 inches long, magazine holds five cartridges, and it can be charged from a Mauser style clip with a single band movement. Muzzle velocity is 2300 feet per second versus 2000 for the current arm. It will feature a red bayonet ten inches long, with full fielding planned within a year.
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