Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-07-05
BRATTLEBORO.

Treasurer c. A. Harris of the Brat
tleboro Savings bank has bought this
week a locomobile, with top, of Mr..
jaeger, representing the Locomobile
company of Bridgeport, Conn.
The warrant has been posted for
the annual school meeting of district
No. 2, to be held at the school house
at p. m, Tuesday, July 16. There
are nine articles, relating to routine
business.
II. H. Holman and Frank Dickinson
of Hinsdale caught 30 pounds of black
bass at Spofford lake Monday. One
fish weighed 81 pounds, two weighed
three pounds each, and four weighed
two pounds each.
The contract for equipping the High
school building with new heating and
yentilating apparatus has been award
ed to the Boston Blower company,
the contract price being $3S45. The
work of installing the new apparatus
will be begun at once.
D. P. Cobb was overcome with sun
stroke about o'clock last night just
after leaving the Central Vermont rail
road blacksmith shop. He was car
ried home and was unconscious sew
eral hours, but is more comfortable
this morning.
The probate court has appointed
administrators as follows: Clarence
d. Whitman, on the Clara L. Whitman
estate of Brattleboro; Lyman M. New
ell, on the j. d. Watson estate of
Wardsboro; T. C. Marsh of Whiting
ham, on the Lyman c. futile estate
of Heath, Mass.
A Ludlow correspondent writes: A
very pretty wedding took place Mon
d2y~ at p. m, when Miss Ida Chand-
Ter was united in marriage to Harley
Bragg at the home of the bride on
High street. The bridesmaid was
Miss Ada Creaser and the best man
was Fred Chandler. Rev. A. V. Bliss
performed the ceremony. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bragg left in the afternoon, amid
a shower of rice and good wishes, for
Brattleboro.
The will of Caroline S. Balestier,
prObated last Saturday, beuueaths a
large picture, "The Guido" to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, 5000 to the Unitarian society of
Brattleboro, directs that Mrs. Bales
tiers library be sold in some suitable
place in New York, and provides for
new stone on the Balestier lot in
Greenwood cemetery, New York. The
Balestier estate will be divided accord
ing to the terms of the will of Mr..
Balestier.
The Broadway players, supporting
Miss Beatrice Thorne, will be the
next attraction at Brookside park.
The presentation of a repertoire of
plays at the park is new departure
and company of unusual merit has
been selected to present several in
teresting productions during the week,
with complete change of vaudeville
acts each evening. Large crowds
have been at Barber's park, Bellows
Falls, this week, where the company
is giving great satisfaction
The small boys were much in evil
dence with explosives and horns the
night before the Fourth, but there was
less noise than usual on this anniver-
sary and only a few acts of vandalism
were committed. One of the brick
posts at r. G. Hardie's on Canal street
was broken, and the water was turned
on at the stand pipe at the corner of
Canal and Birge streets, where the
street sprinkling cart is filled Bon
fires were built in several places in the
village. In West Brattleboro an old
Strengthening house building, standing
IN lot far from other buildings, was
burned, causing a loss of about 500
Z The building was owned by Mrs. AIDE
line Miller. Chief-of-Police Hall and
IA regular and special policemen kept
the boys within bounds during the
night Two policemen were on duty
yesterday forenoon and six 4 in the
afternoon. There were few cases of
drunkenness and but two arrests yes
terday.