The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-21
BrattIebOrO Local


Grout touring ear, 1907 model, of l.. D..
Taylor.
A carol service will be held in the
Unitarian church Sunday afternoon at
clock, to which all are cordially
invited.
-Bratteboro lodge, n. +. o. r.,
will hold a basket picnic at Harvey
Noble 5 farm on the Dummerston road
July 1.
The annual meeting of the grange
sewing society will be held next Fri
day afternoon. The officers for the en-.
suing year will be elected and supper
will be served at $50.
The annual meeting of the society
of seamstresses, needlewomcn and shop
girls will be held in Festival hall
Thursday evening, June %. The meet
ing will open at 7.30 P. m.
Rev. D. +. Trout of Tufts college
will preach in the Univcrsalist church
Sunday and will occupy the pulpit reg
ularly hereafter. His pastorate begins
July l and at that time he will move
here.
Company c., second regiment Yer.
mont Volunteers, is holding a reunion
in G. A. r, hall today \ dinner was
/ served at noon and the rest of the time
was spent in fighting over the battles
of the Civil war and talking over the
old days.
A new boiler room has been built
/ on at the south end of the Leslie Smith
woodworking shop on Flat street and a
new 5Ohorsepower boiler installed.
/ The boiler room is of brick and a new
brick chimney has been built. The di-
mansions of the addition are llx25. An
other addition will be built on the east
side of the shop. This addition will
be of wood and will be II by 50 feet.
\ new rotary planer and a jointing
saw will be placed in the addition.
John II. Henry secured his fourth
letter of patent from the patent office
at Washington, D. C.. yesterday. All
his inventions have been on the tools
Of his trade which is. that of a ear
pentcr. His latest device is an adjust /
able counter sinker and counter bOrer,
a simple attachment for an ordinary /
bit SO that when boring holes for .
screws the holes are bored to a uni
form depth and the ,ops of the holes
are countersunk at the same time Mr..
Henry intends to sell the rights Of his
patent if he gets what he considers a
fair offer.
Eli Clark, SO, died at the home of
his nephew, J. 7. Hildreth, on the Put
ney road yesterday morning after an
illness of year and half. He was
born in Dummerston, the son of Thomas
and Martha (Tenney) Clark and a
member of a family of six children, of
whom he was the last survivor. He
spent his life as farmer and lived for
several years in the old stone ferry s
house in Dummerston. He had been
married but his wife died several years
ago. He left no children but there
are several nietes and nephews He
had lived at the home of his nephew )
for the past year and half.
The closing exercises Of st. Mi
rhael's Parochial school will be held at
the school rooms next Wednesday after
noon at o clock. Owing to the lack
Of room no public graduation will be
held, The pupils in the class, of which t
there are nine members, will be pre- o
'ented with diplomas and Rev. FIR. NJ. I
J. Carmody will make a short address s
utter which ice cream and cake will Il
)c served to the school children of the W
Dom. The members of the graduating il
lass are Misses Elizabeth Perry, Kath- b
'rine Sullivan and Susan Blake, Will d
lam Riley, William Blake, Peter Blake OF
francis Lynch, John Lee and Joseph m
1ckels d,
Horace Scott, son of Mr.. and Mrs III
freeman Scott of this town. was over &C
ONE by the heat Tuesday afternoon tie
nd it was thought at first that he eI
'ould not recover. He is a member of IN
he class of 1909 of the Rensselaer, &C
Polytechnic institute of Troy. n Y. til
nd was working as a rodman with the a
lrveying force at the dam site in Hins- he
ale. As soon as his fellow workmen an
oticed his condition he was carried be
, the home of NJ. I. Reed in Vernon hi
nd DR.. A. |. Miller and Dr. G. r. An co
erson summoned from this town and tn
lso members of his family. He an
gained consciousness at about 9 sa
clock at night and was able to be We
rought home Wednesday evening Dr sill
'uSh' H'iii' NCuuCHutF evening. III
Liller states that he will be as well in
) ever within a week or two and that to
lere will be no permanent i'll effects Gle
George NJ. Clay, the local insur- t tn'
ice agent through whom the effects NV NV
w. NJ. Colburn who was burned II
1t in the fire of a week ago last Mon els
~ night were insured, has refused to "l'
tile the amount of the damage until ti "'
| investigation has been made to de- .l''
rhine the cause of the fire. sus- - ~
cion is current that the fire was not ~, y,
cidental. Soon after the fire Col ~,
I'm, under oath, in Mr.. Clay s office o I
ore that he meyer previously had a ar ar
e but before the investigation was ~
er Policeman J. II. Evans appeared let.
the scene with letter from an in can
rance man in Northampton, Mass,
lting that Colburn had been burned H
in that town and had collected $475 act
'urance. The fire there, so the insur- hor
ce man stated, occurred under sus- go
'ious circumstances but no evidence T.
incendiarism could be collected Col Me.
I'm has placed the matter in the hands Her
Haskins & Schwenk and if the in Is =
'ance company refuses to pay the o oieo
ney at the expiration of 60 days fo ,T
ps will be taken to collect the money husl