Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-10

The ladies aid society Of the Episcopal
church was entertained by Mrs. Angelica
Shea Tuesday afternoon at her home on
Oak street.
The man who complains about the
weather Is still having his troubles. The
thermometer went to 80 i'm the shade yes
terday. and that record may be broken
today
Baggage Master wynn. of the New
London railroad. cut his right hand on
trunk Wednesday, making ragged
wound. The wound was sewed up in Mil
lers Falls.
The town clock in the Congregational
church steeple has stopped one of the
pulleys having given out. 1t will not be
started until new pulley is secured
from Boston.
Miss Esther Crowel and Percy Crowell
and two friends from Chicago. Miss Flor
ence Welman Miss Marion Smith of
Northampton. George and Howard Well
man are spending three weeks at Sunset
lake
At the local post office the gross re-
ceipts during the fiscal year ended June
Goth last, on postal account, were $2i,-
66S12 being 81 .4033 more than for the
previous fiscal year S26i0.6i more than
two years ago, and 60 more than re-
ceipts of three years ago.
Judge T.. L. Waterman was in Rutland
Monday as counsel i'm the United States
court in the case of Guilfoil against
O'Bren a. Sheehan. contractors of the
Rutland railroad extension. The hear
ing was on the question of who should
be held as trustees. No decision was
given.
Mrs. Moses Howe. 50. died this morning
at the Home for the Aged and Disabled
Death was due partly to her advanced
age and partly to injuries which she sus-
tanned by falling down stairs last winter
Mrs. Howe had been an inmate of the
home ever since it was opened six years
ago. The funeral arrangements have not
been made.
Roadmaster W Z. Elrod of the Cen
tral Vermont railroad, and Roadmaster
f. g. Brown of the Passumpsc division
have spent four days this week walking
the track and counting ties on the Brat
telboro Whitehall railroad. The re-
suit of their observation will be used in
afiidavits in the action of the Brattle-
boro & Whitehall road against the Cen
trail Vermont road.
Judge Wheeler has held one Of the
Cinnamon who were brought to Brattle-
boro for a hearing Wednesday. as re-
ported in an item elsewhere in this paper
and Lawyer McMannus of Rutland. who
furnished bail for the Cinnamon in the
sum of $500 each, has been eXonerated as
to that particular Chinaman. No deci-
sion has been given in regard to the
other Chnaman.
a public reception will be given to DR.
and Mrs Charles Ernest Clark in the
Congregational church in West Brattle-
boro next Tuesday evening, to which all
are cordially invited. Among the spe-
cially invited guests are DIR. and Mrs. G.
r.. Tracy. Of Antola College. Marsovan
Western Turkey, the station next to
SaVas where Or. and Mrs Clark will go.
and Miss Bessie Louise Palmer of Shell
ton. Conn who is home from the Ameri-
can College for women at Constantinople
=. u. +. Stowe. referee in bankruptcy
has filed his report of his findings in the
hearing in the f.. y. Starkey estate. on
the contention of II. G. Barber trustee.
that % certain ring which the bankrupt
turned over to the trustee contained a
stone when was substituted for a dia-
mond when the ring originally contained
The referee finds that d stone was 50 sub
Stituted after the adjudication. but that
the ring was sent to the bankrupt's coun-
sci. Il. 9. Bacon. by a New York pawn
broker without having been seen by the
bankrupt after it was left with the pawn
broker.