Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-07-19
BRATTLEBORC

Harlan Fl. Howe has sold his interest IL
the real estate business 10 key. J.. :.
Morse and the firm will now he known as
Crown IL Morse
Willard Edwards was properly proud
and happy last Saturday when he picked
and exhibited the trst ears OF sweet corn,
fully grown. and beating the previous rec
ord by three or four days.
The large house on South Main stree.
owned by Mrs. John Brooks now of Au-
burn. y. Y, has been sold through her
son. a. C.. Brooks of Penn Yam. y. T.. %
George Il. Ryder, who will raise mp the
main building and make other improve
ments on the property
The rails OF the trolley railroad hay.
been laid TO Mr.. Pellet house on Central
street The line will ne extended to Pros
pect street when another supply of rails Is
received. The generator Is being sci up iu
the electric light station ald q Representa-
tive of the WESTINGHOUSE concern is put
ting motors into the cars.
Henry = Weimau of the firms o..
StarKey s. Weilman and /. \. StaTkev 81
Co... has been elected a director of the
Peoples national bank. The vacancy Oh
the board OF directors was caused by the
death OF s. y. Herrick. M Wellmau is
a man whose business ability and sound
Judgment have been thoroughly tested.
and he will be a valuable member of the
board.
Work on the town building repairs Is
proceeding with a very proper degree OF
rapidity. The ground moor has already
been lowered % its new and permanent
place, and of the interior generally it is
true that the places which used 10 know 10
will know IL no more forever in its old
form, There are rev who regret seeing
the labOrious pile OF granite steps disap-
pear from the front of the building. Good
progress mas been made with the eXcava-
ton for the rear wall of the extension.
David Cooley of Hrattleboro was taken
20 Dr. Pierces hospital I'm Greenfield.
Mass, early Tuesday afternoon suffering
from injuries sustained by falling from the
dry bridge at Cheapside, where the Boston
a Maine railroad crosses the tracks of the
Consolidated road lie was uicket up boy
Mr.. Bacon. who works "a, the Hammond
company S refrigerator al East Leerneia
Cooley had been drinking and had laid
where he fell for some time. as people i'm
the vicinity recall having heard a man 8
cries some time before. A the hospital II
was found that his left arm was fractured
near the shoulder and ms hip was also
broken. One eve was also badly injured. He
is apparently doing well and will probably
recover. Cooley is a well-known carpenter
and has lived here and in Guiltord toI
many wears. He is a good workman. but
his habits are Incorporate and on this &C
count his wife left him.
L. II. Babbitt, the bridge builder for the
Vermont Construction company, IS in town
waiting for the iron for the West Brattle-
boro bridge 10 arrive. Yesterday he re-
ceived a telegram saying that the iron had
reached ST. Albans and the chords and
beams would be shipped from there today
Ii the material arrives promptly the work
OF placing the bridge will begin early next
week and will be quickly finished. The
DELAY has been due 10 the sudden scarcity
of iron which materiallzed as soon as
the recent rise IN that commodity began
The contract for the bridge was made lus
before the rise At that time iron wa
abundant and the ST. Adams company eX
pected TO have no trouble in filling theil
order. When the rise in iron began every
BODY began TO buy and the company could
not at once get the material required. The
town is tnrobsbly the gamer by $500 o.
$500 frOnlthe fact of the contract having
been ma cwhen it was instead OF mpnti
later,