Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-04
BRATTLERORn

The trial of Henry R. Knight was held iu
81 Reno, Okl., last week and the court in
structed the jury to bring in verdict of
not guilty"
The sale at the residence of Elliot johnson
IN Marlboro Thursday resulted as follows
The home farm to Wallace johnson for 1925;
the Robbins farm to M. H. Cheney of New
fame for $405; the Knapp farm on Higley hill
to Alvin johnson and Frank Holden for Sl75,
and two pieces of woodland to S. H. Yeaw
and Van Buren, Powers for SO and $40.
The Center Congregational church was
opened for service Sunday morning and pre-
sented an attractive appearance, as it had
week. All of the woodwork of the altar
and the front of the organ loft has been re-
finished. One of the greatest improvements
| IS the putting in of two large 32.light chande-
| hers, the gift of two of the members of the
church.
The hearing on the petition for the widen
ing ana Strengthening of the highway on
| Thursday morning and continued through
| Friday. The petition is signed by "a Cult
ford people and one Brattleboro man. The
town is opposed to the granting Of the petit
ton on the ground that there are many other
points in the village that have large traffic
and are narrower, and that the rest of the
road to Guilford is also narrower and that
there is room at the point complained of for
threee teams to go abreast. Waterman, Mar
| tin & Hit appeared for the town and G. C.,
Fits for the petitioners.
The Brattleboro soldiers aid society was
| organized by the Brattleboro chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution last
| week with these officers: President, Mrs /
j. Estey; vice president, Mrs. j. G. Ullery ;
secretary, Mrs. F. L. Smith, treasurer, Mrs
G. F. Barber. A committee made up of rep
/ resentatives from the different churches and
| cocipfinS WIS chOsan fO r,lan inf the work for
| the society and act as an executive and f.
nance committee. The society will sew for
needy families during the war. Their first
work will be for members of the Estey guard.
| Brattleboro lodge of Masons held its an
nual meeting Thursday evening and elected
and installed the following officers: VIM,
D. Cowles; S. W., W. B. Vinton; j. W.,
H. R. Randall secretary, F. W. Nichols
| treasurer, W. H. Bracket; S. D., M. G.
Houghton; J. D., w. S. Pratt; S. S., Harry
A. Walters; j. S., Harry R. Rhodes; chap
lain, David Young; marshal, F: r. Vaughan
tyler, P. F. Connors: musical director, E
Clark; trustee. F. r. Vaughan; visiting COM
mittee, Harry Rowe, D. A. Young and W. H.
Vinton; auditors, H. H. Crosby, G. F. Bing-
ham and P. F. Connors.
When the Brattleboro company is called
into service, one Brattleboro family, that OF
Gen. and Mrs. Julius J. Estey, will have sent
FIVE members into the conflict. They will be
| AA"J' ~ ia IISoOJS q. AIdllJ ASbCy, ASe liOu-
tenant of Co. l !; Charles Gray, son of DR.. G.
A. Gray Of Hinsdale, a recruit in Co. I; j
Willard Cobb, son of Mrs. A. G. Cobb, pri.
vate in Co. l, and Charles Anderson, son Of
Rev. John Anderson of Cambridge, N. Y, 8
member of an Albany regiment. The moth
ers of the two last named are sisters of Mrs
Estey, and DR. Gray is Mrs. Estev's brother
Rev. G. 0. Day, chaplain of the LIST regiment
has been pastor of the Congregational church
in Brattleb 'ro for nearly. ID years. He has
been granted leave of absence for three
| months by the trustees of the church. Rev
Mr.: Day is we'll known in the Connecticut
valley. his first pastorate after graduating
from Yale having been at Williamsburg, il
Hampshire county. Capt. Haigh Of Co. ha
served in the English army, and is an all
J round soldier. He succeeded Major Estey il
the command. Second Lieut.. Frank B. Put
nam is son of Adjutant E. II. Putnam of tn,
Fuller battery and grandson of the late B
F. Bingham, Brattleboros "old schoolmas
: ter