Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-28
MASSACHUSETTS NOTES
A New Houses in Greenfield.

The Amount Expended i'm that Town
in Building Operations I'm 1904 Was
SI54 ,OOO---the Record I'm NorthfieId,
Orange and other Towns.
The number of new houses built and completed
in Greenfield during the year is A, and they have
cost SlO5,jOO. Her public and business buildings
completed during the year add in cost by $4,000
to the total. The reconstruction, alterations and
improvements which can be taken note of amount
to Sl3,750 The expenditure for building is thus
shown to be S15I95 To compare this with the
work of 1893 is to find that the house building is
nearly as large, the whole number in that year
being 50 and the cost Sl2i 800. The public build
ing of 1898 as large as that of the current
year, the Union depot being its heaviest item. and
the business item was larger, including as it did
the new Columbus block. As whole, last years
BUILDING was SlS1,OOO Orange has erected a
model new schoolhOuSe at a cost of $4,000, and
20 or more new buildings, so that her total eX-
pendture for the year is $4,000. Mortified has
record of $4,000 for new buildings, the largest
sums beng $50 600 for the new auditorium $780,
600 for Frank Schell's residence, and Sll,5OO for
Henry w. Rankin's residence. In Turner's Falls
the Keith Paper company has built new mill at
a cost of $4,000, and the Montague Paper com
pany has enlarged mill No. at a cost of $4,000,
and $4,000 has been expended for new dwellings.
A Sensational Liquor Case at North Adj
ans.
North Adams has a sensational liquor case. 1t
at the house of j. Broderick of Five Roads
Broderick, wife and son were recently before the
police court on 90 warrants and were held for the
superior court. The police raided the house
again Sunday and secured more liquor. The
Broderick trio in court Monday. An anus
ing feature of the hearing was calling to the wit
ness stand newspaper reporter, several mem
beers of the fire department and the town con
stable. The reporter %set up the drinks" at Brod-
erick' s for six of the Temen after fire in Octo-
Der. j. L. Robertson. the town constable, who is
also fireman, admitted that he did likewise for
several of his companions who were wet ana
cold. Chas. Fuller, a neighbor OF Frederick $,
gave such suspicious testimony that he was held
on a charge OF perjury.
DIR. Minis Began at the BrattIebOrO Re
treat.
. The state lunatic asylum at Northampton with
a'previous highest record of inmates $50 and 400,
has.reached of late SO DR.. Minis, the superntend-
emit who has been connected with the institution,
first as assistant and then as chief, Tor q years
has total record of 20 years, having been assist
ant for two ears at the Brattleboro asy lum with
the late DR.. Draper. Next TO the eminent DR..
Piny Earle, who was so long at the head OF the
Northampton institution, Dr. Minis is one OF the
best of the hospital managers IN the state.
Drowned In Six Inches of Water.
The body of an unknown man was found near
the Cutler shoe shop at Greenfield Saturday
night. The man was lying face down in a few
and died from drowning. 1t was found Monday
that his name was Brussee, and that he lived in
Burke, n Y. He was on his way To Boston with
a carload of potatoes, and it is supposed that he
| left the train at Greenfield TO get something to
| drink.
Fell Ninety Feet Down SHAFT.
Frank McNeily, an Englshman employed by
the Davis Sulphur ore company of Ware fell 80
! feet down a shaft last Friday and received in
! iuries from which he died soon atterward. He
was an odd Fellow and leaves widow and
| child
The new editor of Harper's Weekly, Henry
Ioomis Nelson started on his journalistic career
| in the office of tine Franklin County Times, a
| weekly paper published in Greenfield half cen
| turv ago. The paper was not success, but Mel
son saws il was that experience, costly as 1t was,
mat made him what he is today
Rufus A. Packard, aged 90, president of the
psctard national bank, Greenfield, died suddenly
"Wednesday of neuralgia OF the heart. He had
resided M Greenfield 40 years and was cashier Tor
many wears of the Franklin county bank. He
staItsda private banking house in lS'2and organ
i1ad Ire Packard national bank IN 1873. Three
sons Who are connected with the bank, and a
daughter survive him.