Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-08-04
BRATTLEBORO.

BRATTLEBORO.
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Collins, with their son.
sailed for Halifax Tuesday.
| 1t is possible that President Mckinley NAV
visit his Brattleboro relatives after the Ches-
ter muster.
new, three-ton safe has been placed in
| the office Of the county clerk, to take the
place OF the one which was removed to the
probate office.
The saw mill and chair shop of Edward f.
Reed Of East Dummerston has been sold by
A. V. May to Mark W. johnson OF Dummer-
ston, formerly of Fishers Island, N Y. Mr..
johnson will take possession September l.
The women of the Unitarian society held
their nnual fair and dance. in Festival hall
Thursday night. About the usual number
| were present and the society Melted between
$500 and $500.
Miss Sarah Haskins, who left the Brattle-
| boro home of Mrs. Prentice more than two
years ago, and whose whereabouts was the
| cause OF much solicitation on the part of her
family whose home is in Londonderry, has
just been located in Pennsylvania, where she
was living in destitute circumstances.
The selectmen held a meeting Saturday
| afternoon to hear the objection of DR.. G. S.
| Clarke of West Brattleboro to the granting
OF the petition OF large number of citizens
| of West Brattleboro to have the highway in
| front of the two burned districts Strengthened.
Such strengthening would cut off II feet of
DIR. Clark s property. No decision was rem
| dered, but it is probable that compromise
will be reached and that the selectmen will
take off little less than half the land called
| for in the petition.
Further arguments will be heard before
Judge II. H. Wheeler in the United States
circuit court, the 10th, on the demurrer of
the American loan and trust company to the
bill brought by the Grand Trunk railroad
company against the Central Vermont rail-
road company and also on the demurrer of
the Central Vermont company to the FORE
| closure bill brought against it by the Ameri-
can loan and trust company.
Traffic on the Brattleboro and Whitehall
division of the Central Vermont railroad was
temporarily suspended last week between
Bra,tleboro and West Dummerston, owing
to combination of unfortunate circum-
stances. The train which left Brattleboro
Friday morning was derailed about three
miles north of Brattleboro, by the spreading
OF the rails, and as there was no engine in
Brattleboro which could go to the scene to
pull the train on, and as the bridge north OF
the train was washed away so that no engine
could reach it from the other side, it was left
in a rather difficult situation.
There is Brattleboro interest in the pro-
posed consolidation of American brewers,
maltsters and hop growers, from the fact that
the wife of Seymour Scott of Lyons, N. Y,
VIM 10 CcuuuCCiuS Inc safe OF the malt-nOuSG
plants in Chicago, Milwaukee and other
western cities, was Mary Atkins, we'll
known Brattleboro girl. Mr.. Scott denies
that the sale Of the plants has any connection
with the proposed consolidation of breweries,
but the fact that both schemes have devel-
oped simultaneously carries with it more or
less significance.
The will Of Miss Catherine Driscoll of Brat
tleboro has been filed in the probate office.
There are several benevolent requests. Be-
sides several individual bequests, 800 is
given to st. Dominic church in Limerick,
Ire., for masses, and $1,000 IS left in the hands
of trustees for the Roman Catholic church
of Brattleboro, to be paid over to the church
when it shall have placed in the church bel
fry bell or chime of bells provided the bells
shall be bought within q reasonable time.
The Catholic school is given $500 for repairs,
and the remainder of the estate-about $1,000
is left to trustees to be invested and the in
come thereof to be distributed among the
worthy poor of Brattleboro. The fund is to
be-known as the Catherine Driscoll poor
fund" Miss Driscoll came to Brattleboro
about 40 years ago and by doing homework
had accumulated about $4,000.
Col. N. G. Sawyer of Brattleboro will 20
in a few days to Washington. d. c., where
he has been directed to report for duty, hav-
ing been reinstated to the position of special
examiner of the pension bureau-a position
which he held at the close of the Harrison
administration. Col. Sawyer was additional
paymaster in the army during the war, with
| the rank of major, and in 1865 was made one
of the first brevet lieutenant colonies in the
pay corps Z" for faithful and meritorious serv-
| Ice. Alter disbursing over two millions
| and settling his accounts he was mustered
| out of service in October, 1866, at San Fran
cisco. He then returned to Brattleboro
where he lived until 1882, when he was
| appointed clerk in the pension bureau and
served there until July, 1889, having one
promotion during the interval. In July,
1889, he was detailed rs special examiner of
pensions and stationed at Northampton, and
afterward at North Adams, Mass. In April,
1893, Col. Sawyer and some 25 others were
discharged, no reason being assigned for
| their dismissal.
FARMERS AND MECHANICS BLOCK TO BE SOLD
In response to a call the stockholders of
| the Farmers and Mechanics exchange met
at Grange hall Saturday afternoon to consider
a proposition from syndicate composed of
members of the exchange to buy the Farmers
and Mechanics exchange block on Elliot
street. The proposition was that "the under
signed" buy of the exchange its real estate
consisting of the lot of land and brick block
1000, provided the sum of $4,000 ''shall be
hereto subscribed for that purpose" that
amount to be paid to the exchange by surren-
dering to the corporation for cancellation
certlfIcates OF Its capital stock now held by
the corporation to that amount, the balance,
or $4,000, to be paid by assuming the pay
ment of the mortgage to that amount now
owing by the corporation aud relieving il
from all further liability thereon. The ex-
change agrees to rent for a term of Is years
| two-thlrds of the present store and basement
at price to be agreed upon. A resolution to
this effect was adopted by vote of II to Z
The east third of the store will be set off by q
partition and will be rented. Under this
arrangement the store will be relieved of the
burden of the building, which has been toe
great for it to carry and pay a dividend
Cashier w. H. Bracket of the People ;.
national bank was appointed agent to make
the transfer. 1t was also voted to discontinue
the D per cent discount for trade. The new
company will hold meeting next Saturday
to complete organization and make arrange
ments for the annlicatinn for a charter