Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-14
THE wINDHAM COUNTY REFoRMER FRIDAY, a, 1908.


Articles of agreement were drawn
up Saturday for a settlement of the
strike of the quarrymen on the lodges
of the Woodbury. Granite company
and of Ellis & Starrett at Bethel The
settlement includes the eight-hour
day and the employment Of only union
labor, and 1t Is to run until Jan. /,
1906. All disagreements are to be
settled by reference to a board of ar
bitrators. The minimum wage
fixed upon is 23 cents an hour.
Two new Massachusetts ,organiza-
tions will be formed to carry on the
business of the Norcross Bros. COM
pany of Worcester, which has large
business interests in Vermont and
which recently failed. In this pro-
posed plan both Norcross Brothers
Company and o. w. Norcross are re-
leased from all obligations direct and
contingent. and all creditors receive
bonds and extension notes in settle
ment of their claims.
In addition to the donations by the
late Silas L. Griffith to the town Of
Dandy which have already been an
nounced it is now learned that a con-
tract had been made by Mr.. Griffith
for a receiving vault to be constructed
in the cemetery for the free use of
| the town. Work will be begun on
it within a few weeks. The work of
constructing a public library for
Dandy may be temporarily delayed
by the death of Mr.. Griffith but
provisions had been made in his will
for its construction and endowment.
Fred Lewis, better known as Nc
Clusky. made an attempt to commit
suicide last week at a Brandon liv-
cry stable, where he was employed.
Lewis got enough whiskey to get in
toxicated and in the evening went
to the Office at the livery stable,
where the horses medicine is kept
and finding a bottle of arsenic So
luton he drank nearly half of it, hop
ing it would prove fatal. Hard work
on the part of two physicians saved the
young mans life, much to his distaste.
He says he shall try it again as soon
as he is able to be out.
The championship in the Vermont
state tennis tournament were played
at st. Johnsbury, Friday morning.
Mollenhauer OF Kings County club.
Brooklyn, challenger. beat Arthur G.
Sprague. st. Johnsbury. holder,
rs, IL, 6-2, 6--3. Mr.. Mollen-
hauer wins the state championship
and holds for one year the
silver cup offered by the Old
Pine Golf club. T. C. Trask OF
the West Side club, New York, as
runner up, was presented with cup
and the cups given to state champ
ions in the doubles, Mollenhauer and
B. F. Tillson, Montclair, n. j., Yale
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The exercises of dedication of the |
monument TO the late President Ches
ter A. Arthur will be held on the site |
of his birthplace at Fairfield Thurs |
day, August 20. The Grafton will he |
delivered by William E. Chandler, of
New Hampshire. who was secretary of |
the navy under President Arthur. An |
address will be delivered by Robert |
T. Lincoln, Of Chicago, who was sec
rotary of war under President Arthur.
ado secretary of the interior under
President Arthur, is expected 20
make a brief address. Gov. McCul-
Tough and staff will be present, also
Senator Proctor, Congressman Foster
and Haskins and various state officers.
Carter Lodge. a physician who has
lived in Waterbury, Conn, about
three years and who has acquired con-
notoriety during that time
shot himself in the head Thursday
night and died without recovering
He built up a large
practice but lost il gradually after he
had been dropped from the roll of
the Waterbury Medical association.
The trouble occurred during the small
pox epidemic Of 1902. Ee disagreed
with other doctors about the nature
and treatment of the disease and
wrote several letters to papers in crit
lcism of the methods pursued. The
association retaliated by eXpelling the
physician. OF late his actions have
been considered eccentric. DR..
Lodge graduated from the medical de-
partment of the University of Vermont
in the class of 1899. being one of the ,
five honor men.
Martin c. Carrick of Woodstock
went to Bethel Wednesday of last {
week and going to the residence o. ,
his wife, made vicious assault upon ,
Ter. knocking out her teeth and badly ,
cruising her. The wife called for ,
help and Carrick was later arrested 7
1t the tenement of George Riley. which !
lie had entered threatening the Riley r
amily with death If they informed on /
lin. He was covered with blood, said ,
lie guessed he had killed his wife, but =
f he had not was going back and fin '
sh her. Carrick was arrested and fined r
or intoxication in May, and three +
lays later was bound over to Windsor +
county court for a serious assault on a
ohm BraZille, an Italian. About this I
ime his wife brought a petition for 1
livorce against him. Carrick plead d
,uilty Thursday. then waived exam I
nation and was bound over to county a
curt.
Ending to West Burke Elopement. s
The excitement which attended the $
ecent elopement and marriage of S
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