Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-07-21

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the pastor being given vacation of five
weeks.
Col Kittredge Haskins has accepted an
invitation to deliver the address before the
Vermont Officers Reunion society at N ew-
port, Aug. 20.
The work of laying the second floor of
j. g. Ullery's new block is now In pro-
gress. The brick walls have been built up
some distance above the second floor.
Manager Henkel of the local telephone
exchange established a class exchange in
South Londonderry Tuesday to connect on
the proposed new line from Brattleboro to
South Londonderry.
Thayer & Rohde are putting up steel
ceiling in the store formerly occupied by
Pratt, Wright g. Co. The basement has
been sheathed in hard pine, and the store
has been repaired extensively.
Major j. G. Estey who was elected a
member of the school board Tuesday night,
has written to the school district clerk de-
clning to accept the position. There is
talk of calling special meeting TO elect a
third committeeman.
The workmen employed in paving De-
pot street have been delayed this week be-
cause of the inability to get sufficient
number of paving stones from the West
Dummerston quarry to keep them supplied.
The work is nearly done, however.
The electric cars were delayed nearly an
hour Tuesday evening by the breaking of
the trolley wire near the Main street switch.
The accident occurred between 10 and IL
O'clock and many people were kept from
coming home from Brookside Park until
nearly midnight.
The third meeting of the creditors of So
phia l.. Van Doom was held in the pro-
bate office Wednesday. Several claims
were presented and allowed. The assignees
fled their account The preferred claims,
amounting to $50, we're paid and divi-
dend of 20 per cent was declared on the
claims not preferred.
About 20 members of the Epworth
league spent Wednesday at Sunset lake,
leaving the Methodist church about s
o'clock in the morning and returning at
o'clock in the evening. Their headquar-
tiers we're at the Crowell and Hescock cot
tages. Dinner was served at noon, and
the rest of the day was spent in boating,
bathing, etc.
Plans and specifications we're received
this week by Gen. G.. II. Bond, chairman
of the committee, for the carriage for the
20-pounder Parrot gun which the govern
ment has given to Sedgwick Grand Army
post. The gun has arrived at the freight
yard and will be set up on the common as
soon as the carriage can be built. 1t will
be set in front of the soldiers monument
and will point from it, signifying protec-
tion TO the monument.
The pavement in the north gutter of
Elliot street, which was put in three weeks
ago by local workmen, was torn up yester
day and relaid by the men from Webster,
Mass, who are paving Depot street. The
stones were not properly laid, the outside
being too low and the inside too high.
The cost to the town for the extra work
will not be heavy, inasmuch as the PAYERS
were idle on account of not having stones
enough TO complete their job on Depot
street.
At special session of the supreme court
in Burlington Tuesday Judge II. II.
Wheeler was appointed chairman of COM
mission to determine at what point the
Rutland Canadian and the Central Yer
mont railroads shall cross in Burlington.
The other commissioners are James 4.
Childs, general manager of the New York,
Ontario and Western railroad, Thomas
Tate of the Canadian-P Pacific road, Perez
val W. Clement, vice president of the
Rutland Canadian road, and 4. II. Fitz-
hugh, general manager of the Central
Vermont road.
Judge j. NJ. Tyler filed his decision
Wednesday in the suit of Merriman d Til
den of Hinsdale, n. H., against w. II. &c
E. S. Minor of Brattleboro, which suit
was brought to recover $40 for castings al
legged to have been furnished the defend
ant from December, 1894, to November,
1895, also a balance of 1882 due the
plaintiffs on an old account. The defend
ants claimed that they did not order or re-
ceive the castings, but that the castings
were received by the Valley Machine com
pany. The plaintiffs claimed that the
Valley Machine company was w. II. & E.
S. Minor, The plaintiffs introduced let
ter from W. FL. & f. S. Minor in which
the latter admitted that there was bal
ance due from them of 1896. Judge
Tyler's decision allows the plaintiffs to re-
cover the old account. with interest,
amounting to Sl1.S0, but he disallows the
account of $40. Inasmuch as w. H. d Z.
S. Minor went on record as saying that the
Valley Machine company received the cast
ings the plaintiffs will bring suit against
the company to recover pay for them.