Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-08-25
BRATTLERORO.

At meeting of the Estey guard Thursday
evening it was shown that the daily expense
of living in camp at the recent muster was
30 IL cents each.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Newton drove up to
Brattleboro from Springfield, Mass, Tuesday
and will spend the rest OF the month with
Mrs. Newton's sister, Mrs. George Lane.
A. w. Childs & Co. have adjusted the loss
on the house of Rev. +. S. Morse which wa
burned last week Wednesday night at $1,000.
and the loss on Charles Cattanach's furniture
at $3.50. The latter is $65 less than the face
of the policy.
The auction sale of the livery equipments
of H. M. Adams, which was to have taken
place the 10Th, was postponed Friday to
September s. The first meeting of Mr.
Adams creditors will be held the 30th, and
an injunction restraining the proposed sale
the 25Lh would have been asked for in a few
days.
The school committee of district No 2 has
engaged Miss Carrie Shattuck, who has been
teaching in Amherst, to teach in the third
grade in the Brattleboro high school building
who taught the third grade last year, will
teach the fifth grade in place of Mrs. Clary.
resigned. No other changes in the list OF
teachers is in prospect.
1t now appears that the hydrant from
which water was taken to throw upon the
burning building OF Rev. K. S. Morse
Wednesday night had been tempered with.
which is another indication that the fire was
of incendiary origin. The chain with which
the cap was fastened had been kinked up so
that it was impossible to unscrew the cap,
and it was necessary to break the cap with
an AK.
Prof. L. A.,Butteriield, who is known in
Brattleboro and vicinity principally as the
manager OF Bradley Newell, the healer, is to
leave Brattleboro about September |, to take
chair of oratory in the Chauncey Hall
school in Boston. He has had wide expert
ence as a teacher of oratory and physical cul-
ture, having taught ten years in the Emerson
college OF oratory, in Dartmouth college
Newton theological seminary, Buchtel col
| lege at Akron, o., and other places. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Butterfield had charge of the depart
ment of oratory and physical culture at the
national summer school at Saratoga anC
Glens Falls, n. Y for five summers, ant
| Mrs. Butterfield has assisted her husband il
various other places. Both are graduates o
the Emerson college.
The announcement Of the resignation o
D. N. Bartlett, formerly Of Brattleboro, a
general secretary of the Young Mems Chris
| tian association of Nashua, N. H., wa
received with much interest in Brattleboro
Mr.. Bartlett has been appointed assistan
| state secretary of Massachusetts and Rhod,
Island. The Nashua Press says: "Secre
tary Bartlett has been connected with associ
alton work for alb, ut ten years, coming t
Nashua as general secretary, May |, 1893
His work in this city has been highly com
mended. When he came to Nashua, tn
association had membership of 325. To-da
| it has in all its departments 63l members
He established the yourg mems congress
formed baseball club for the season of "a
opened the young mems gymnasium, man
| aged the Star course entertainments, and i
tact established aud carried forward to sue
cess many different branches which hav
made this association so popular"
The Brattleborn grange block associatio
held meeting Saturday afternoon to CON
plete organization and elect its officer.
About $50 shares of stock were represented
The constitution and by laws, 10 in number
reported by the committee appointed at tn
last meeting were adopted and TIE followin
officers were elected: President, L. j.
Cudworth; secretary and treasurer, w.
Goddard; directors Mr.. Cudworth Mr.. Got
dard, W. E. Banks. H. f. Yeaw and T..
J Eames auditors, w. II. Bracket, E. y. Ii
and K. 4. Mather. The association will rel
the two west bents of the store to the farmer
and mechanics exchange and the latter wi
rent the front half of the west bent to G.
C. Richardson, who has bought the farmer
and mechanics meat market.