Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-07-28
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Festival hall is being redecorated by
c. A. Borden, giving it a much improved
appearance.
THE golf team of the Wantastiquet
Golf club did not go to Springfield Sat-
urday, as the country club there was not
able to get team together.
M Edward Haskell, formerly of Brat
tleboro, a son of w. B. Haskell of this
town, was married last Monday in
Springfield, Mass, where he is now en-
ployed, to Louise Marguerite Nelson.
The terms of enlistment Of several
members of Company l expire next
month and some of the men will not re-
enlist. Capt. f. w. Gibson would like
to receive applications from good reliable
men.
Search is being made for Napoleon d.
Young, IA, who disappeared from his home
at Bellows Falls July 3. He is about five
feet three inches in height, has black
hair, brown ees and wore gray and green
suit, gray cap, white shirt and collar and
blue and white tie Any person sending
information as to his whereabouts to
Chief of Police A. H. Thompson of Bel
lows Falls will be rewarded.
Louis Boutot, a Frenchman who had
charge of logging job in Marlboro for
H. G. Clark, had the small bone in his
right leg broken in two places Saturday
The flesh was deeply lacerated for about
eight inches. Boutot was chopping down
tree and as 1t began to fall he started
to run, but did not get out of reach Of a
large limb, which struck him in the leg.
He is in the Brattleboro Memorial hospi-
tai and is doing well. He is a brother
of Alcide Boutot of Brattleboro.
Miss Lucy L. McCloud of Northampton.
who has just passed the examinations Of
the state board for admission to the bar.
graduated from Hopkins academy In Had :
ley and from Smith college in 1885. She
taught at Glenwood seminary in West
Brattleboro. She has been employed in
the office of the registrar of deeds in
Northampton 10 years. Miss McLoud Is the
first woman of Hampshire county to pass
the bar examinations. She studied law
through correspondence school
The hearing on the claim Of ]. s.
Henry against the G. H. Phillips estate
of Putney was finished Saturday, before
the commissioners. Mr. Henry's claim
was for $10,63734. The commissioners
found balance Of $5824.0S in favor of the
estate. The total amount of the dealings
between the two men during 20 wears
was $1.272, S96, in addition to partnership
dealings amounting to over 100000, in
CorSer farm matters. The commissioners
round balance of about $500 in favor
OF the estate In the partnership account,
Out the amount Is included in the total
balance as stated. Mr.. Henry has a right
to appeal to the county court The
estate was represented by Lawyers H. G.
Barber and John e. Gale, who went over
the accounts item by item, which required
vast amount of work
A joint meeting of the board of bailiffs
and the directors of the Brattleboro Gas
Light company was held Friday night to
consider the question of new contract
Tor street lighting. The report of Alton
D. Adams of Worcester, the expert who
investigated the local conditions for the
bailiffs, was read and was considered at
some length. Mr. Adams made certain
recommendations as to the kind of a con-
tract the village ought to make for lights,
and the directors took the recommended
lions under advisement, promising to sub
init in few days a schedule of prices.
Under the present arrangement the lights
are turned on 300 nights in a year. The
all-night lights cost 500 and the mid
night lights $50. Previous to the be-
ginning of the administration of the
present board of bailiffs the prices were
respectively $40 and 1885,