Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-07-04


open this evening, Thursday, but will
be closed all day Friday.
Four new members were voted into
the Vermont Wheel club at the regu-
lar meeting Tuesday evening.
A meeting of the Y. M. c. A. base
ball team will be held in the rooms
this Thursday evening at o'clock
The special town meeting to vote
upon the exemption Of the b. Souto &
Co., furniture manufacturing plant
will be called Saturday at p. m.
The Patrick Austin house on Birge
street was sold by auction Saturday,
by auctioneer F. w. Mcclure, to AL
fred W. Bushnell, who paid $S05. Mr.
Bushnell bought for an investment
The regular monthly meeting of
the Audubon society will be held at
the home Of Miss Maud Emerson, IL
Oak St., Monday evening at 7.30. A
paper on the American woodcock will
be read and reports of bird walks
will be given.
Quonektacat tribe of Red Men held
its semi-annual election of officers.
Friday night. The officers elected
were: Sachem c. p. Spencer; senior
sycamore. A. C. Winchester; junior
sycamore, II. E. Miller; prophet II. f.
Harris. ]. e. Mellen and c. E. Graf
fam were elected representatives to
the great council in Boston in August
John Ahern of West Brattleboro re-
ceived a bad wound in his right arm
Monday afternoon while at work in
Bragg & Oakes's steam mill in Vernon.
While attempting to remove chips that
had accumulated in the blower pipe
under a saw his arm came in contact
with the under side and was cut to
the bone below the elbow. Ahern was
brought to Brattleboro Several
stitches were taken in dressing the
wound.
The Baptist Sunday school elected
these officers last Sunday: Superin-
tendent l.. w. Hawley; first assistant
superintendent. Fred s. Knight:
second assistant superintendent Mrs.
Henry Tucker; secretary, Fred l..
Smith; auditor, Jesse Haynes: libra
rian. II. F. C. TOdt; assistant libra
rians. Miss Nettie Harris and Mrs.
Marshall d. Grout. All of the bills of
the school have been paid and there
is cash in the treasury. The election
of treasurer was postponed.
The closing session of the probate
court for the month of June was held
Saturday, Judge Waterman presiding.
The will of Eliza NJ. Cushing of New
fame was probated and allowed and F.
A. Dewitt was appointed executor.
The account of Julius C. Timson. ad-
ministrator of the estates of C. II. Tim
son and Mary f. Timson of Brattle-
boro. was allowed. The will of Lyman
J. Brown of Halifax was probated and
allowed and Walter S. Brown was APP
pointed executor. The will of Charles
II. Davis of Brattleboro was probated
and allowed and Althene e. Davis was
appointed eXecutriX. License was
granted John e. Gale to sell at private
sale the real estate belonging to the
estate of Mary A. Tyler of Vernon, of
which he is administrator. Fanny
Eddy Weeks was adopted by Frank G.
and Maria Fl. Wilder. Clara S. Morse
was appointed guardian of Bessie L.
Morse of Guilford, a minor. G. s.
Goodnow was appointed guardian of
Phoebe Wheeler of Nottingham on
petition of the overseer of that town.
Owners of cottages at Spofford lake
have received bills this week of a fire
precinct tax on their real estate. To
say that the tax is high would be put
ting it mildly For instance, one Brat
I tleboro man who pays to the town of
Chesterfield a regular tax of about S19
on his real estate at the lake is as
sessed $3.50 additional as a fire tax.
This additional tax exceeds the
amount paid for regular insurance on
the property and is larger than the
regular tax would be on the same pro-
perty if it was located in the village of
Brattleboro. Another man is assessed
$500 fire tax. He pays about the same
amount of insurance and has the salts
faction that comes from the knowledge
that If his cottage burns his insurance
will have saved him from a heavy loss.
He will pay the fire tax with the
knowledge that If the cottage gets on
fire the chances are not one in so that
the Chesterfield fire apparatus will get
to his property in time to save it.
The cottage owners knew, however,
that the assessments were coming as
they had been notified to that effect.
1t appears that some time ago the
young people of Spofford. or Factory
Village, presented to the village a fire
engine. In consequence a fire com
pany was organized and a fire district
was laid out, including property in the
village and extending around the lake,
a distance of nine miles. To owners
of cottages which stand any consider
able distance from other cottages the
protection afforded by the fire COM
pany practically is of no use whatever.
Where several cottages stand together
the company might do good service to
some of them.