The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-06
Annual Repor, A, ,,ermardston.

Inc annual reports OF the oiOrers anu com
miitces of 'crnardston are complete. The re
port this year contains the valuation list. Tn,
property exempt from taxation is s31,5i0 Tn,
number of residents assessed ON property Is 23l
nOnrc sdouts -; persons assessed $50, and
number OF polls assessed, ri. The total valua
ton Is siS0,T23. The expenditures of the select
men are as follows: Old accounts, $l07; Cush
man hall committee. $50; Cushman park com
mittcc, Sej; library, 50; Memorial day, S25
state aid, SsS; mi itarY aid, SlG; ianttor tow
hall SHi; sexton, 833 tramp-, Sl7; inspector o
cattle and provisions, 500; Powers portrait
So: Powers institute, 1928 salaries of officers
sip0; repairing roads and bridges, ss67 pau
pers, SOS; incidcntais, s24j; taxes abatcd, 70;
total, @ilSi The liabilities and assets are
each $1,000. The town has invested funds to the
amount of S20,s;9
Davenport Estate 100000.
The appraisers of tho late Oliver Davenport
OF Lyden have finished their work and filed
their report this week The estate amounts Il,
ssslO10 of which The bulk: considerably over
blind vooi.buycr Of Leyden and makes Inn
probably the richest man In Franklin county,
a Guardian Appointed.
There was probate hearing before Judge
Long ut Greenfield Tuesday, on the petition of
relatives that. guardian be appointed over
Mrs Sarah y Atwood OF Sorthiield. An inlunc.
ton wasissued blythe court January ID, restrain.
ing George L Blackburn from disposing OF
property which Mrs Atwood had conveyed to
him. She is evidently insane and processes a
younger. twas shown at the hearing that she
was unit to manage her affairs and that Black.
burn was not proper person TO live with her.
Her relatives have tried to persuade her to go
and live with them. Judge Long granted the
petition and continued the case until the 9Th for
the appointment OF II guardian. The hearing on
the petition of the sclectmen for the appoint.
ment OF guardians over Uri and Frcelove Brad
ley was continued until the 9Th.
The Montague seleetmcn have granted tho
franchise for the building of tho two-mlc
branch from Montague Center 10 tntersect
the present electric railway system at Lake
Pleasant. The legislature has passed the bill
authorizing the Greenfield and Turner's Falls
counties TO purchase the stock Of the Montague
and thereby consolidate the two systems.
4 stove in the house of Clinton Hawkes. at
Charlemont wa, broken into fragments the
other day by the too sudden expansion Of fro.-
Gu water pipes.
Mrs Calista Roberts Rice, wife Of Select man
l. Rice of Charlemont, died Wednesday NOR.
ming after being Ill but a few days with pneu.
monia. She was a native of Gill and highly
respected woman.
Mrs Leonard Severance, 50, died at Gill Tues
day after an Illness Of about eight months. She
il survived by an invalid husband and two sons
and daughter, The funeral Will be attended
at p m to-day.
Tie estate ofthC late l. G Darkcc the blind
Boston liquor man, whose will provided for an
elaborate tomb at Mt Pleasant in NorthiicId
and for the founding Of ahome for aged people
IN Franklin county, foOts mp only 81, 36e above
debts, indicating thar he much over estimated
his wealth