Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-08-16
BRATTLEBORO.


The First Regiment band will give their
eleventh concert of the season on the
common next Wednesday evening.
Catherine Blake. aged five months
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. Peter Blake of
Elliot street. died Monday after an ill
hess of a few hours
James i. Hooker has bought of Mrs
G. r. Severance and her sister, Miss Saw
Yer, their house on North street. He made
the purchase as an Investment.
The Spofford Lake Fish and Game league
will hold its annual meeting and dinner
Friday, Sept. =. at the Pine Grove Springs
hotel. Tickets Tor the dinner will be
$l.OO. There will be good speaking and
good music. a big delegation is expected
from BrattlebOro.
The selectmen awarded Eugene Ferriter
$50 damages Monday FOR land taken in
joining Horton place and Homestead
place in the rear of Mr. Feuiter's pro-
perty on Canal street. The driveway
was recently laid out officially and a small
portion taken from Mr. Ferriters land.
At the regular meeting of Protective
Grange Wednesday evening ~ candidates
were instructed in the first and second
degrees. The first degree was conferred
by the regular officers and the second
by a special degree team with Philip l..
Franklin, worthy master. The third and
fourth degrees will be conferred Aug rs.
Instead of the usual harvest supper, cake
and ice cream will be served.
The work which Mrs. Jennie b. Powers
is doing as general agent for the Keene
humane society was fittingly recognized
at the quarterly meeting OF that organ
ization held Tuesday evening. a vote of
thanks to Mrs Powers was passed for
her courteous. judiCious ana energetic
work, and she was presented with gold
deputy sheriffs badge and a check for
SIuU. Mrs. POwerss report showed 154
cases Investigated in the last three
months.
The dogs which killed 80 sheep owned
by L. +. Putnam in Vernon. near the Gull
ford line a few weeks ago, re-appeared
there three times, evidently in search of
the mangled remnant of the flock. MIR.
Putnam had good sight of both dogs on
tuesday and fired upon them, wounding
the hound The animals are described as
a brindle bulldog and Il black and white
hound, but efforts to trace their owner
ship have proved unavailing. 1t is sup
posed that these dogs are the ones which
chased Hubert Stebbins's sheep in Gull
ford last week, killing one lamb.
\ nearing before Judge J. l.. Martin of
the United States circuit court was set
for Monday afternoon but as one of the
interested parties claimed insufficient
notice, hearing was set for August 81
in Hartford, Conn. The court is appealed
TO by John Griffith and Patrick Hughes
through their counsel. to force the Berk-
shire Power company to lower its dam at
Enfield, Conn. When the dam was built
the water set back on land I'm Massachu-
sets owned by the complainants The
power company claimed that its notice of
the hearing was insufficient and was not
represented.
Edward c. Crosby paid fine of IS
through his attorney William A. Daven-
port, in the district court in Greenfield
Tuesday morning, on the charge of over
speeding his automobile Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Crosby was not present but his at
torney, pursuant to his request, appeared
for him and paid the necessary sum. The
Selectmen of Greenfield have made no
regulations governing the speed of auto
mobils, but according to the statutes a
speed of over ~ miles in the streets and
: miles at corners and crossings is excess
sive, while the rate should not exceed 20
miles outside the village.
The organ in the Baptist church was
out of commission Sunday, owing to a
failure of the water motor to furnish
power When Miss Izetta NJ Stewart
came to the church about an hour before
the morning service she found that the
organ would not sound and though an in =
Vestigation was made the trouble was not
located in time for the organ to be used.
\ workman from the Estey Organ COM
pany was sent to the church Monday
morning and had the organ in working
order in two minutes His investigation
showed that bits of metal and gravel had
lodged in the valves of the water motor
and clOgged them. 1t is supposed that the
distractions came down the pipe when
fRes 4
cessitated tapping the water main in the
street
High water mark in automobiling was
reached Saturday and Sunday according
TO the Brooks House register. The great
est number of automobile parties of the
season were registered and the garages
were full to overlooking Saturday night
one party of four stopped to supper
Saturday night 10 parties of from three
10 six people each, aggregating Al people,
spent Saturday night at the hotel; five
more parties aggregatng % people
stopped to dinner Sunday; a party of six
were at supper Sunday night and two
parties registered for Sunday night
Three more parties registered Monday
one of the parties was here several days
waiting for their machine to be ready
for the road again. They came in from
northampton Saturday and broke down
as they ran into town The machine
was repaired but did not succeed in
getting as far as Putney the next day
and was brought back for another session
with the repairer The tourists We're still
waiting Wednesday.
DR.. II. ID. Hoton. secretary of the
state board of health was called to
Ferrisburg the last of the week to
investigate case of smallpox As the
attending physician had never seen a
case of this disease he was not sure
that he had diagnosed it correctly, but
Dr. Holton confirmed his suspicious
The woman who is i'll came from Boston
with her two children and has been at
"A farmhouse a few days. When the
nature of the case was understood prompt
steps were taken to quarantine the pa
tient and all who had been associated
with her since her arrival number of
people whom she saw while on her way
TO the farm are being watched carefully
At the large milk farm where the woman is
i'll all the work is being done by the outs-
ders as none who lived in the house are
allowed to go near the stock for fear of
contagion. The patient told DR.. Hoton
that she did not know she had been
exposed to the dread disease but the Bos-
ton board of health informed him that
the only case of smallpox in Boston at
that time was I'm the house where
she lived. Although she is reported to
no in h