Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1903-05-14
Bellows Falls Times
THURSDAY, MAY ii, 1908.
NeighbOring Towns
BRATTLE8ORo.


Work on Brattleboros public hospital
has been indefinitely postponed. This
announcement will carry widespread dis
appointment and regret for it had become
a matter for general congratulation that
the town was soon to be in possession of
a modern hospital with the equipment
necessary to an ideal institution.
Mrs. Mary S. Morgan of Wilmington,
sister of c. ID. Spencer of Shelburne
Falls, will sail for Europe next week as
Nermont'S delegate to the worlds cOnVen-
tion of the Womans Christian Temperance
union, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland,
in June. Mrs. Morgan will also attend,
this month, meeting of the Woman's
Temperance association, of which Lady
Henry Somerset is president, in London.
Mrs. Henry Tucker has been elected
president of the Womans Christian Tenn
perance union; vice presidents. Mrs Mary
Warder, Mrs A. A. Stearns, Mrs. George
II, Clapp, Mrs. Henry Moore, Mrs. James
Cain: recording secretary, Mrs. Robert
Baker: secretary Mrs. j. S. Brown; treas
urer, Mrs. N A. Hemenway auditor, Mrs.
Frank E. Perry.
The Brattleboro baseball league will
open its second season with a game
between the Vermont wheel club and the
Young Mems Christian association teams
Saturday the 10th at $50. Riverside park
will be put in good condition before the
game
Rudyard Kipling writes from South
Africa to Walter H. Childs of his great
sorrow over the illness of DR.. James Con-
land. A cablebram informed him of the
doctors death.
The S. A. Smith company, manufacture
ers of children's carriages and toys, has
been informed of the acceptance of its
terms, by which, July l the company
paSSaS into the hands Of the National Nov
city corporation.
Rev. John A. Mitchell of Lynn, Mass,
and graduate of the Newton theological
seminary, has accepted a call to the Bap-
fist church in Wilmington.
Mrs. Helen Warren Angler of New York,
daughter of Mrs Jennie T. Warren, teach
er in the Brattleboro public schools, has
been elected a delegate by the Queens
musical society to attend the national con-
venton at Rochester next week.
Col. H. E. Taylor S. A. and G. A. Smith
and S. S. Hunt are on an automobile trip
through Bennington and Windham coun-
ties.
Mrs. H. B. Pittman of Troy, N. Y, is Wis
iting her father, j. d. Plummer.
C.P. GILsoN's HOUSE ROBBED.
The house of Capt. Calvin P. ellison in
Esteyville was robbed at an early hour
Sunday. His pocket-book, containing $40,
and his gold watch, chain and Knights
Templar charm We're taken, and some $40
in checks. H. P. Hunter, who lived in the
house, lost $3S. The robbery was discov-
cred Sunday, and an arrest was made, but
the man was discharged later. Three or
four other houses are said to have been
burglarized.
PAPER MILL BURNED AT PUTNEY.
Capt. William Robertson's paper mill at
Putney was burned Sunday morning, with
most of it's contents. The loss will be over
$780, 900. The fire was discovered about
o'clock but owing to the shutdown of
the other mills the usual water supply was
cut Off and there was no means of control
ing the fire. The mill was one of the old
est in New England, built by the late John
and William Robertson some so years ago.
PROPOSED NEW DAM.
A public meeting of the citizens of Brat
tleboro, Hinsdale and Chesterfield was
held in the town hall in Brattleboro Fri
day night to hear the report of the commit
tee appointed to secure a survey of the
Connecticut river with view to the con-
struction of dam across the river at Brat
tleboro. The attendance was about 300
The committee reported that in addition to
the survey they had secured charters from
Vermont and New Hampshire. the sur
vey was based on the expectation that the
dam would be 20 feet high. 1t showed that
the water would set back so as to cover "a
acres of the Brattleboro Retreat meadow
and about 10 acres of the Dorman B. Eaton
estate, but aside from that, little damage
would be done in the way of overflow
1t is understood that dixie could be con-
structed so as to prevent large overflow on
the retreat meadow, but it would involve
large outlay
An expenditure of about S45, 900 would
have to be made to protect the Boston &
Maine railroad bank with piles and rip
rap. The sewer system would have to be
extended in order to bring the outlet be-
low the dam. The committee said that the
cost of the dam had not been estimated as
that was not within the province of the
committee.
The power developed by 2O-foot dam
would be about 5000 horse power A dozen
or more inquiries have been received from
companies who would like to consider
proposition to construct the dam and sell
the power. The corporators named in the
charters granted by the two states will
take such steps as they deem necessary to
carry out the undertaking.
MONUMENT TO DIR. COMMAND.
At the suggestion of Ex-Governor Frede-
rick HolbrOok and others the two Brattle-
boro newspapers, The Phoenix and The
Reformer, Friday afternoon opened sub
scrlptlon accounts for memorial to the
late DIR. James Conland. 1t is proposed to
erect handsome monument on his grave
the size and kind to be determined later
The amount of each subscription is limited
to s. or less. The plan is meeting with a
ready response.