Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-12-20


he and the woman quarreled short
time before the shooting. He was asleep
when the first shot was fired. The thumb
of one hand was shot through. showing
that he put up his hand before the second
was fired. The thumb has been ampu-
tated.
Timothy Tufts, aged Il. of Alstead, died
tuesday from pneumonia Mr.. Tufts had
kept a general store continuously there
for over 60 years. He leaves one son.
professor at Phillips Andover.
The selectmen of Bernardston will give
a hearing at the town hail Dec. % on the
petition of the directors of the Greenfield.
Bernardston & Mortified electric road.
for franchise to lay tracks in that
town.
Mrs. Flora a. Simpson. widow of
Frank. r.. Simpson, formerly proprietor
of the Simpson inn at Mortified, rep
resents that the estate of her husband
is insolvent. There are debts amounting
to SS55.S7. and assets of $500, leaving bal
ance on the wrong side of $455S7.
E S. Wilkinson was reelected mayor
of North Adams Tuesday. but in total
vote of 3l37 he had a lead of only 104 over
John H. Mack, young Democratic law
yer who ran once as a candidate for lieu
tenant governor. The result was great
surprise to Mr.. Wilkinsons friends, who
expected him to win by 900 to 500 votes.
The majority for license was 46S.
Henry j. Field. one OF the younger
members of the Franklin county bar. was
appointed Tuesday by Gov. Crane to sue
coed William S. Dana as associate JUS
tice of the district court of Franklin.
Judge Field is a graduate of Amherst
agricultural college and the law school
of Cornell University. He has had "a
successful law practice for the past five
years. Judge Field has been secretary
of the Franklin County Agricultural So
ciety several years.
The people of Bernardston are greatly
pleased with the town clock which has
been placed on a tower of the town hall.
The clock has four faces and sweet
toned bell which can be heard in all parts
of the village 1t is the gift of Mrs.
Lucien Coy of Little Rock, Ark, daugh
ter of the late Isaac Burrows of
expense of building the tower by the
town was $500 but a society known as the
Cheerful Workers contributed 800.
Sheriff Moors and officer Mercy raided
the Winchester House and the premises
of Amos Lawrence in Winchester We'd
nesday. Beer was found at the former
place and beer and hard liquor at the
latter. Mr.. Watkins manager of the no.
tel, and Mr.. Lawrence were brought be-
fore Judge Pierce in the police court
Monday morning. Both pleaded not
guilty, and the former was put under
5000 bonds and the latter under 800 bonds
for their appearance at the April term of
court.
The 5Oth wedding anniversary of
Dwight Newcomb Carpenter and Mary
Caroline Mowry Carpenter was celebrated
at their home in Leyden last Thursday.
They were married in Bernardston, and
have lived in Leyden the entire 80 years,
for the past So years in their present
home. Children, grandchildren and
friends were present at the celebration.
A bountiful dinner was served. Mr.. and
Mrs Carpenter were presented with
beautiful presents. They have three
sons Manley D. of Greenfield, Frank B
of Richmond. Va, and Newcomb A. of
Cambridge, Mr.. Carpenter was one of
the selectmen of Leyden more than 20
years
The will of Mrs. Helen Richards
Healey, who died Dec. 4, was admitted to
probate at Claremont last week. The
larger part of her estate or what is esti
mated TO be nearly $4,000 goes to the
Stevens High school. The principal is to
be carefully invested and the income is
to be used for the benefit of the school.
Requests to various relatives amount to
nearly $1,000 Trinity Episcopal and the
Universalist church each receive $500.
Some paintings were willed to the Stevens
High school and other paintings to the
Fiske free library. The remainder of the
estate will go into a fund for Stevens
High school. This. added to the Paran
Stevens fund, gives the school an en-
dowment that should make it self-sus-
tanning.
The directors of the Greenfield, Deer
field and Northampton electric railroad
have been unable to reach an agreement
with the selectmen of Hatfield. The d.
rectors say the connecting link will not
be built. The demand which the direc-
tors considered most unreasonable was
that the fare from the Hatfield, Whatley
line to the Northampton and Amherst
road should be 2is cents. This was in
tended to give fare of cents over the
two roads between North Hatfield and
Hatfield, but the conditions as stated
applied as well to the division of fares
for through traffic. The selectmen would
not agree to give more than $500 toward
relocating a highway and building a
bridge, though the town had authorized
| them to eXpend $4,000. The selectmen also
wished this line to cross highway twice,
and this the directors considered I'M