The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-01-11

dance IN He'd Men nan Shlufuhi wv
ming. Another will be given tomorrow
evening, to which the public is invited
A meeting OF the Knights and La
dies of Honor was called Monday eve
ming for the election Of officers but since
there were but two present at the ap'
pointed time the meeting was postponed
On account Of the illness Of Game
Warden X. W. Snyder of TUwnshendr
the hearing in the case Of Fred Cutler
of Brookline, charged with keeping a
dog that killed deer, was continued from
Wednesday until the following Tuesday
The Ladies Aid society of the Epis
copal church will give social to all
members and friends of the parish NJ
the home of Mrs. +, 4. Thompson on
Western avenue next Tuesday evening
at o clock. 4 small admission fee
will be charged.
The village schools began Monday
with about the usual attendance In
some of the lower grades several were
absent ON account of whooping cough
and chicken POKE Not many of the
children of the higher grades were
kept away by these ailments.
The Baraca team of West Brattle.
boro and the High school freshman team
were scheduled for game of basket
bali last Wednesday evening in Aeade'
my hall but the freshman team did not
show up at the appointed time and so
practice game between the two teams
from the class was held.
In the New Hampshire house of
representatives Tuesday Mr. Taylor OF
Hinsdale introduced an act in amend
ment of the charter of the Connecticut
River Power company of New Hamp.
shire. On motion of Mr.. Aheran Of
Concord il was read twice by its title
and laid on the table to be printed, then
to be referred TO the committe on re-
vision of statutes.
The next meeting of the Brattle-
boro Ministerial union will be held IN
the Y. NJ. C. A. rooms Monday at 10
a. M, Rev. f. l.. Leavitt of Bellows
Falls will preside. The following pro.
gram win be presented: Conduct OF
Weddings and Funerals, Rev. II. A.
Goodhue of Brattleboro; Public and
Private Prayer, Rev, l.. Olin Sherburne
of Bellows Falls; book review, Roman
Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
by Samuel Dill, Rev. d. NJ. Wilson of
Northfeld.
Attorney General Fits is prepar-
ing TO bring action against George /.
Howard of Craftsbury, formerly mem
Der Of the state board Of railroad com.
missioners, carrying out the recommend
alton of the legislative committee, who
alleged that Mr.. Howard was guilty
of grating upon the state while mem
her of the board. He has demanded
that Mr. Howard return 10 the state
the money alleged to have been received
by him Illegally, and he will submit
the evidence in the ease to the grand
jury,
Examinations for the Rhodes scholar
shin available for VermOnters will be
held at the Billings library in Burling-
ton Thursday and Friday, January II
and is, beginning at 10 O'Clock on
Thursday, the 18th. This is quail
fying, not competitive examination,
and the selection Of scholars viii be
completed before the end Of March. The
selected scholars will begin residence
at Oxford next October. Scholarships
are of the values of 81 500 a year and
are tenable for three years. Candidates
must be unmarried and between ID and
% wears of age. Scholars must have
reached, before going into residence at
| least the end of their second year work
at some degree granting college.
The Vermont Supreme court Tues
day affirmed the verdict of the county
court in the ease of George I. Shanks,
administrator of the estate of Almar
w. Shattuck, against the Central Yer
mont Railway company. This suit was
brought to recover damages on account
of the death of Mr.. Shattuck, an engln-
Ger employed by the Central Vermont,
who was fatally injured in a railroad
accident near Williamsville August rs,
1905. A defective rail caused the en-
gine which Shattuck was running to
leave the track and 90 down an embank-
ment, and Shattuck was pinned under
the locomotive and so badly scalded
that he died a few hours later. The de-
cision of the county court was for the
plaintiff to recover $4,000.
-Ebenezer II, Allbee died at the
home of his niece, Mrs. Frank E. Al
drich, on Elliot street Tuesday, the
cause of death being meningitis. lie
had made his home with his niece
during the past several months. The
funeral was held from the home of DIR.
IL. s. Allbee in Bellows Falls yesterday
afternoon with the burial in Oak Hill
cemetery. Mr.. Allbee was born in FAIR
lee, May %, 1925, and most of his
Younger life was passed in Londonderry
and Jamaica. In 1873 he went to Bel
lows Falls and for seven or eight years
was employed in George X. Russell s
paper mill He then moved to farm
in Westminster where he lived until
about six years ago. Since then he has
made his home with his sons in Bel
lows Falls until last summer. Mrs. All
bee died in 1880. Mr. Allbee left two
sons. DR.. f. S. Allbee and Judge q. H.
Allbee of Bellows Falls, two brothers,
one living in Middlebury and one in
Illinois, and sister, Mrs. Ellen Wheel
er of West Townshend.
A decision handed down by the
Vermont Supreme court Monday affirms
the decision of the lower courts in the
case of Charles H. Davenport against
the E. p Carpenter company, the Car
penter company and George E. Crowell.
About three years ago Mr.. Davenport
secured temporary injunction against
the Carpenter company restraining it
from issuing to Mr.. Crowell more than
$4,000 under the company's plan OF
$4,000 in stock under the company IS