Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-06-03

III annual lnt'NiIlE W NI' N'oN'l u
Aqueduct association will be held in the
Office of Z. f. Thompson in Crosby block
next Tuesday evening at $50 o'clock.
The stockholders of the Brattleboro
Water company will hold their annual
business meeting next Monday evening at
80 o'clock in the Brattleboro Savings
bank.
\ meeting of thrs religious work com
mittee of the Y. NJ. G. \. was held in the
association rooms Tuesday evening, when
the subject of open air meetings for the
summer was discussed. 1t is planned to
make the meetings more aggressive and
more effective. The committee will meet
again next Tuesday at $ o'clock.
The annual drill and inspection of Com
pauy /. Vermont National Guard. viii take
place next Friday. Majors Howe. Dyer
and Johnson, capt. c. f. Durham, the
ordnance officer, and Quartermastcr
General Gilmore win act as inspecting
officers. The drill will be held in some
field if the weather is favorable.
Miss Flora IS. Coolidge entertained sat
urday evening at her home ON South Main
street a few friends and classmates, the
occasion being her birthday anniversary.
The guests presented a handsome gold
chain and lockct. Music and games were
enjoyed and dainty refreshments, ice
cream ana cake, were served.
Mrs. Harriet Dearborn, who has been
pianist for Protective Grange several
years. has resigned that position on ac-
count of i'll health. She has been "a very
efficient pianist, and the Grange regrets
very much that circumstances make it
advisable for her to give up her position.
Miss Eloine Franklin has been elected to
take her place.
The Clarcmout Eagle contained the fol
lowing i'm its last issue In its report of the
Choral society concert i'm that town: Mr..
Edwin II. Miller of l}ratt'phOru. Vt. bdri-
tone. was delightful lie has "a rich,
clear voice. of great power ana scope,
and appears to be able to do whatever
he pleases with it. Ills work was very
pleasing in every instance"
Thirty members of Company 1, Yer
mont National Guard, attended service
i'm the First Baptist church Sunday even
ing by invitation of Rev. George T.. Law
son. chaplain Of the regiment. Rev. Mr..
Lawson preached a very interesting and
able sermon on patriotism, showing that
there is an opportunity and a duty be-
fore the man who stays at home to bc a
patriot just as much as the man who goes
to war.
Congressman Kittredge Haskins has
been notified by Second Assistant Post
master General Shallenburger that an al
lowance has been made for sufficient
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railway postal car service, concerning
which a petition. circulated by Postmas-
ter Taylor. was forwarded to the depart
ment early in May. Mr.. S"hallenburger
says that it is probable that the arrange
ment cannot be made effective until the
beginning of the incoming fiscal year.
which is but a few weeks distant. Under
this arrangement a railway postal car
will be attached to the train leaving
Springfield, Mass, at $3.50 p. m, pass
ing through Brattleboro at 2.30 p. m,
and arriving at st. Albans at D. m. Re
turning this car will leave st. Adams at
II a. m, passing through Brattleboro at
4.35 p. m, and arriving at Springfield at
$50 p. m. At present there is no mail car
attached to any train running through
Brattleboro between Hos and $50. but the
>. 80 train carries over 80 closed pounchcs
of mail besides about loo sacks of news
papers, delivered at only 9 few of the
large towns. The proposed change will
give regular communication between
man. small towns not now touched by
the closed pouch service and will improve
the service all the way from New York
to St. Adams, as well as on the Passump-
sic division of the Boston Il Maine road.
The May session of the probate court
Saturday was of more than ordinary
length. Following is the record of bust
ness transacted: Newton |. Hawley's will.
with codicil, presented by George l.. Dun
ham, was allowed and Mr.. Durham was
appointed executor. c. w. Dunnam ana
w. II. Bracket being appointed com
missioners. The will of Harriet G.. Taft.
presented by II. G.. Barber, was allowed
and Mr.. Barber was appointed executor.
r. f. GordOn's account as administrator
of the Warren Briggs estate was allowed,
also his account as administrator of the
Lucretia Briggs estate. The account OF
c.. f. Thompson, executor of the will of
Susan B. Salisbury, was allowed and the
balance ordered distributed according to
the terms of the will. George Plant of
Marlboro was ordered removed to the
Brattleboro Retreat and there supported
at the expense of the state, being inca
pable of support, destitute and insane.
Frank Worden's account as administra-
tor of the Oliver p. Corse estate of Will
mington was allowed. on petition of a.
l.. Miller, Laura Pratt of Dummerston
was examined. adjudged insane and in
need of a guardian. In Ihe Willistou
Winchester estate of Marlboro r. L. Cor
don's account as administrator was al
lowed. ~. 5. Aliens account as admin
istrator of the Frank H.. Putnam estate
of Nottingham was allowed.
The license commissioners decided at a
meeting held in the selectmen's room
Saturday afternoon to grant a first class
license to John Bissett and James Sui
Ivan for the sale of Intoxicating liquors
In the Brattleboro House. Only four per-
sons were present at the hearing aside
from the commissioners and the petition
ers. Bissett and Sullivan filed with their
petition a statement to the effect that
their proposed lease of the Brattleboro
House was a bona tide transaction, con-
ditional upon the granting of a license to
them, and they would guarantee to run
the house to the satisfaction of the COM
missioners and the town. There was no
opposition to their request. The commits
sioners took up the application of p. l..
Shea for a second class license, which
they had laid on the table at a previous
meeting, and decided to grant it. Mr..
Shea is now conducting a saloon in the
Milestone building under a first class IL
cense. Liquors are now being sold in
town under three first class licenses and
two second class licenses. The two IL
censes which will be granted will bring
the total number to seven, all to which
the town is entitled. There. is some doubt.
however, about an application being made
for the renewal of the license at the Mel
rose House in West Br%attleboro. which
will expire this month. 1t is understood
that Levi j. Strong, the owner of the
building, proposes to take charge of it
when Mr.. Haus's lease expires, and that
he will run it as a temperance house.
Charles II. Pratt's appeal in behalf Of
Miss Florence \. Sawyer from the lis
ters' valuation of Miss Sawyer's real es-
tate on North street was heard by the
board of civil authority Tuesday after
noon, in the listers room i'm the town hall
building. r. c. Bacon appeared as coun-
sci for Mr.. Pratt. At the time of the
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