Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-06-08


block Tuesday at p. m.
A new serial by Mary e. wilkins Free
man, by the Light of the Soul" begins
in the current number Of Harper's Week
ly.
The Barnum & Bailey circus is expected
to pass through Brattleboro Sunday fore
noon on its way from Montpelier to Hol-
yoke.
The woman's auxiliary of the Y NJ. c.
A. will serve a strawberry supper at the
Y. NJ c. A. rooms Wednesday, June 10,
at 6 o'clock.
A. V. May has sold a building lot on
Maple street for II. G. Clark to 10. NJ.
Vale of South Londonderry. Mr.. Vale
is getting out lumber with which to build
a house.
F. II. Young, for the past 10 years man
ager OF the Metropolitan Furniture COM
pany of Springfield, Mass, has resigned
that position TO go to Wilson, Conn, to
manage the brickyards which he has
bought with A. B. Clapp of Brattleboro
At business meeting of the Congrega-
tional church Friday evening J. G. Stat
ford was elected deacon and Louis A.
Whitney was elected treasurer of benevo-.
lences to succeed the late Charles r.
Thompson. who held those offices many
years.
tiers of the American Revolution will be
held with Mrs A. s. Edwards, II Pros
pect street, Thursday, June a. instead
of Tuesday, June II. The hostesses will
be Mrs. A s. Edwards, Mrs. r. T.. Flagg
Mrs. F. L. Smith and Miss Esther
Thomas.
President Pierce has appointed James F.
Hooker, Capt, q, w, Gibson II; F.
| Brooks, Col. L. d. Taylor, and c. A. Boy
den a committee to arrange for a deco
rated automobile parade to be held the
| second or last day of the Valley Fair.
An effort will be made to have 100 deco
rated automobiles in line.
John Lilibridge, A. of Maple street died
| Wednesday of tuberculosis He came to
Brattleboro from Wilmington a month
ago and was i'll at that time. He leaves
family. The funeral was held in Moran
& Co.'S funeral parlors on Elliot street
| at 3 o'clock yesterday, Rev. L. M. Kenes-
| ton of West Brattleboro officiating. The
burial was in Prospect Hill cemetery.
George L. Durham. representing the
| directors of the Bratteboro Memorial
Hospital association, received yesterday
| from the trustees Of the Thompson estate
| a check for $4,000 with which to clean up
| the Indebtedness of the institution. This
leaves the hospital Uhe unincumbered
property of the incorporators, who rep
resent the people Of the town. There are
now 20 patients at the hospital.
Substantial progress has been made on
| the dam which is being built on Stickney
| brook by Crosby & Parker. All the pipe
| has been laid in readiness for turning in
| the Stickney brook water, and the work
of covering the pipe and giving things a
| general smoothing up is nearly finished.
| The construction of a big reservoir on the
| Atkinson farm will be begun soon. The
water was turned into the new pipe line
| yesterday for a trial and the result was
| very satisfactory to the contractors 1t
has a head of SIS feet. which will be in
creased 10 feet when the dam is COM
pleted.
An injunction order was served by Con-
stable +. r. Thayer on John Retting Mon
day. restraining him from erecting a
| building across the driveway between
| Retting building and the Green street
| bank wall so as to cut off access to the
| lower stories of John Manley's house.
The entrance to the lower stories of the
house is from the driveway, which is on
Mr. Retting's land. On Saturday Mr..
| Retting drove stakes for building which
| would come within few feet of Mr..
Manley's doorway. On petition of Mr..
| Manley's counsel. F. +. Barber, an in
junction order We're issued Monday by
Judge James NJ. Tyler.
The Central Vermont freight office
force began work in the new freight
building Monday and shippers began
| leaving freight there on that day. The
new Office is in the south end of the
building and is finished in hard pine II
Is well lighted and is equipped with new
desks and other Office furniture. The old
brick building, which was sold to Adams
& Crosby, Is well nigh demolished. AS
soon as 1t Is removed the tracks will be
Strengthened and the passenger platform
will be extended about 300 feet south
which will be a great convenience during
the summer and autumn when long trains
are run. surveyor has been at work
this week surveying for a Encouragement
Of the tracks.
The directors of the Y. M. c. A. met in
the association rooms at O'Clock Mon
day afternoon and elected these commit
tees for the coming year: Religious work
L. w Hawley, F. A. Bagg, L. NJ. Stick
ney, William Douglas, A. L. Maynard and
]. p. Hall; finance, E. c. Crosby, C. C.
Fits, f. w. Gibson, S. w. Edgett, H. F.
c. Todt and G. II. Clapp; membership
G. l.. Durham, H. F. Jordan, w. B.
Smith. c.. NJ Miller and Thomas Pent-
land; reception and entertainment, George
Perry w. A. Gilbert, c. B. Crowell ].
70. Mann and George Wilbur; gymnasium,
Earl Woodward, Vendall Johnson, Scott
| Eames, Frank Briggs and Alfred Jordan:
boys work, Alfred Jordan, Lawrence Put
nam, Onslow Thompson, Oscar Whitney,
Sherman Jenne and Merrill Whitney.
A final hearing on the report of Com
| missioner A. r. Cudworth in the matter
! OF DR.. H. d. Holton's accounting OF the
Blakesee estate while 1t was in his hands
was scheduled to be held before Chief
Judge John w. Rowell in Woodstock
Monday, but Judge Rowell held that he
did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
| III. c. Barber of Brattleboro, John e.
Gale of Guilford and Gilbert A. Davis
of Windsor were present In behalf of Mrs.
Mary Blakeslee Piggott, and c. C. Fits
| and j. L. Martin of Brattleboro repre-
scented DR.. Holton The case was enter
ed with the court at the September term
in 1905. A statute of 1898 provided that
cases standing upon reports may be heard
| during vacation by the judge who pre-
| sided at the last term. Judge Rowell
held that he did not have Jurisdiction,
! the term at which the case was entered
having been superseded by the last April
term. The case probably will go to the
supreme court.
Three short trout cost Charles F. Will
liams of Dummerston $3.50 Wednesday
forenoon. Williams is a neighbor Of
Fish Warden Lewis H. Lynde. trout
brook which flows through the farms Of
both men has been stocked by Mr. Iynde
who has personal interest in it for that
reason He has an eye out for violators
| OF the trout law, particularly on that
brook, and when he saw Williams fishing