Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-08-07
BRATTLEBORO.

The First Regiment band played at
the water carnival at Spofford lake
last Saturday.
Windham county Pomona Grange
will meet with Victory Grange at Will
mington Aug. 10.
DR.. C. S. Clark has received news
of the safe arrival of his son and wife,
Dr.. and Mrs. Charles Ernest Clark, at
Southampton, England.
Marshall Noyes has been awarded
a scholarship in Norwich University.
He will go there next term to take a
course OF study in civil engineering.
Greenfield has a sensational divorce
case. in which both husband and wife
make discriminating charges, the lat
ter using the names of two former
Brattleboro women.
Station Agent Burke finds that the
railroad ticket office received $500
more in July than in any correspond
ing period. and that 500 more trunks
were checked here than in any other
month of July.
The brook trout fishing season
closed in Southern New Hampshire
July 81. Fishing is still permitted in
the three northern counties, but in
other parts of the state the penalty
for catching trout out of season is a
fine of $50 or six months imprison-
ment, or both.
Mrs. Jennie B. Powers will speak
on humane work Monday evening,
Aug. 10. at o'clock in the vestry of
the Congregational church. The meet
ing will be under the auspices of the
Audubon society and everyone is in
vited. There will be no charge for ad-
mittance.
The leaks in the West river dam
have been stopped by an expert this
week The power from the West Dunn
merston electric plant is now entirely
satisfactory to the Brattleboro Gas
Light company. The company contem-
plate declaring an increased dividend
at their coming semi-annual meeting.
Company / is represented at the an
nual muster of the Vermont regiment
near Fort Ethan Allen by Sc men,
which is but four short of the full
membership. Quartermaster Sergeant
H. A. Miller and Privates Trendall,
Slater, MCGOWAN and Wardner were
detailed to the camp ground Monday
to assist in making camp and the rest
of the company, under command of
Capt f. J. Waterman, left Brattleboro
on the o'clock train yesterday morn
ing. marching to the depot from the
town hall building.
Two members of the Castle Square
Opera company who are spending the
summer in Mr.. Gilson's stone cottage
at Spofford lake. narrowly escaped
drowning Monday. Their canoe was
overturned between the island and c.
II. Thompson's boat house when the
white caps were running. Both the
man and the woman on coming to the
surface were able to grasp the over
turned canoe and to keep afloat.
Their cries were heard and three or
four boats went to the rescue, Mar
shall Moves reaching them first. They
were pulled into one of the boats and
taken ashore.
supreme court decision in the
Stoddard will case was handed down
Saturday. After the will contest was
settled certain legatees made a. de-
mand on the administrator of the es-
tate for interest on their legacies after
one year from the death of the tesla
trix The administrator rendered his
account to the probate court, not al
lowing any interest. The legatees
contested the account and the probate
court, Judge Allbee of Bellows Falls,
allowed interest as claimed. The
residuary legatee appealed to the
county court, where the decision of
the probate court was reversed and no
interest was allowed. The legatees
took exceptions to the supreme court.
who have now affirmed the Judgment
of the probate court, allowing interest
after one year from the death of the
testatriX.