Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-08-09

The Universalist church will be opened
again Sept. s.
The ladies' Enterprise society will meet
with Mrs George Fuller on Estey street
next Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
New metal ceilings and new electric
fixtures are being installed in the Grange
store and in Patrick Fleming's store.
Brattleboro chapter, d. A. r., will be
entertained by Mrs L. X. Fuller at her
home Friday afternoon, Aug. IT, at 8
o'clock. The program will be musical, in
charge of Mrs. w. f. Hubbard.
Charles Cassidy found tobacco bag
containing S2O11 on the sidewalk on Main
street near the bridge going to the depot
The bag belonged to w. G. Beebe of
Marlboro and was returned to him the
next day.
The sand which has covered the new
granite paving at the corner of Elliot and
Main streets was removed yesterday
giving the public the first chance to see
the great improvement which has been
made in the street.
Despite July's heat the agency force
of the New York Life Insurance company
wrote over 81 millions of new business
during ,ne month, represented by more
than 1900 applications The Vermont
Kingsley, secured the largest July bust
ness in many years.
Several applications have been made
to the directors of the Y. NJ. c. A. for
the position Of general secretary left va
cant by the resignation of c. f. w Cum
ningham, who will become assistant gen.
eral secretary of the Pawtucket, r. L.
association Sept. l. The directors will
hold a meeting in a few days when a de-
cision may be made.
Mr. and Mrs. oscar +. Benson attend
ed the SSth annual reunion Of the Ben
son family held in the home Of Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Il. Smith in Orange, Mass,
Wednesday, The first reunion was held
in Shelburne Falls July IS 1869, in the
home of Mr.. Benson's grandfather and
reunions have been held eacn year since
with one exception About 40 members
of the family were present.
Good progress was made this week on
the alteration on the second floor Of the
Vermont Natinal bank building to fit it
for the offices of Attorney General c. C
Fits and Judge A. f. Schwenk Of the
probate court The two fireproof vaults
are in place directly over the bank vaults
on the first floor and the masonry about
them is nearly completed. The partitions
in the apartments have been mostly torn
out and the refinishing of the offices will
begin next week.
1t is proposed to have a special train
run to Mortified to give Brattleboro peo-
pie an opportunity to attend the confer
ence on Sunday, Aug is, providing a
sufficient number will go. The train
would leave at a. IN. and return at 6
p. m, and the fare would be so cents for
the round trip. The Baptlsts have the
matter in charge, and people wishing to
go are requested to give their names to
Chamberlain, I. o. P. Smith Of J. f.
Hall
The case Of Elias Prouty of Halifax
against Herbert Nichols of Guilford was
heard in Halifax Tuesday before Judge
Frank WOrden. The plaintiff brought
suit to recover 1890 alleged to be the
value of a pair of oxen owned by the
plaintiff and sold by Mr.. Nichols The
defense submitted no evidence except a
lease from Mr.. Prouty to Albert Platt
in which it is claimed that the right to
dispose of the cattle was given Mr.. Platt
who sold them to Mr.. Nichols The case
of Mr.. Prouty against Mr.. Plat was re-
Gently heard and appealed to the county
court. Decision in this case was reserved
Chase & Daley appeared for the plaintiff
and F. f. Barber for the defendant.
horse trade between II. II. winches-
ter, the milkman. and L. L. whitney, the
coupe driver last week resulted In legal
complications which have not been alto
gether settled. 1t seems that Mr.. Whit
ney snapped a black horse which he re-
Gently bought, with Mr. Winchester for
the horse which the latter drives on his
milkcart, giving some boot" After try
ing the horse one day on the milkcart
Mr. Winchester decided that he did not
want 1t, claiming It was very different
from what Mr.. Whitney represented
COnEppIlapt1E 10,
manded his old horse in return Mr.
Whitney declined to give up the animal
and Mr.. Winchester secured n writ of
replevin and with an officer went to Mr.
Whitney's barn and exchanged back
again. He also returned the money given
him. Mr.. Whitney put the horse which
was thus unexpectedly returned to him
into Mr.. Winchester's pasture. where it
has been living a life of indolent bliss
since. Both have secured legal advice
and the horse trade may yet be aired in
court.
A new automatic canceling machine
made by the American Postal Machine
company of Boston was installed in the
post office yesterday by Charles j. Hack
ley, agent Of the company. The new ma
chine is decided improvement over the
old drop-feed machine as it has speed
of $50 letters a minute as against about
100 a minute by the old machine The
new machine was ordered installed by
the United States postal department
without application from the local Office
and the first knowledge Postmaster II
r. Taylor had of the change was when
the order reached him about two weeks
ago. The machines are not sold to the
government but are leased and kept In
repair by the manufacturers. Mr. Hack
lev installed the old machine May 20,
1899. He arrived in Brattleboro Wednes-
day afternoon and had the machine in
place late yesterday afternoon. Last
month he installed six of the
new machines in San Francisco
and has since been inspecting ma
chimes but this one seems to give the
most general satisfaction. The only OBJ
lection to the new machine is the noise,
which, under the high speed is I'M
avoidable.
"The Toymakers" August IA.