The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-08-09
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Richard Averill has purchased a
Ford runabout automobile.
The sale of reserved seats on the
grand stand at the Valley Fair will
be in charge of w. A. Subway this
year.
The women of the Baptist church
will hold their regular fortnightly
food sale at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms to-
morrow afternoon at 2.30.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Brattleboro Mutual Aid associa-
ton will be held Monday afternoon at
$50 at the home of Mrs. g. w. Tyler.
Mrs. Nora l.. Kenney will do pub
lie stenography in the office of +. ID.
f. Stowe, county clerk. Mrs. Kenney
has been employed as stenographer
at the Estey Organ company's Office
for number of years.
E. NJ. Angler, superintendent Of
horses at Brattleboro, VT, has a prom
ising year-old mare by Administer
2.2OH, out of Molly Cromwell, 2.2oH,
by Cromwell, mare that he raced for
some years.-American Horse breeder
Between 5000 and 1000 finger
ling brook trout were received in Brat
tleboro Tuesday afternoon from the
auxiliary state hatchery at Arlington.
The fish were distributed in streams
in Brattleboro, Guilford and Vernon.
The Brattleboro Custom Laundry
has installed new machinery TINS
week. including new washing ma
chine and six new electric hatirons.
In the future as much of the work as
possible will be done with the electric
irons and the washer will be run by
an electric motor.
D. Frank Shea s dog Jack tried an
experiment Monday night on inc
| Main street hill to test his power OF
endurance. He ran along in front OF
Mr.. Shea IS auto delivery van barking
at the front wheel. The machine was
coasting along down the hill with
the power turned off. In some way
the dog missed his footing and the
forewheel passed over his BODY just
hack Of the shoulders. This so sur
prised the dog that he waited for the
rear wheel which passed over his nose,
knocking therefrOm a large amount ol
cnticle. After this the dog got up
and loped for home apparently satlS-
fed with the result of the experiment
The case of Richard Corey against
Adelbert Boynton was tried at Lon
donderrv Tuesday before a jury whlen
le4,,n,od n verdict in favor OF the
,,Ia;ntiff to recover $l37,42. The sun
was hrouqht to recover 5000 on al
leged fraud and deceit in when tne e
defendant gave the plaintiff a a ets
sigped by Richard Unwin OF ural' oi
IN exchange for a horse and it was al
Ingod that Boynton declared the hote
- he GOOD. It developed that the note
was worthless and Corey sued to re-
aouor fine face value of the note. Al
onnnal was taken from the DECISION o.
the Jury by Loren R. Pierce OF 5 hoa
donderrv and A. F. Schwenk OIL DI az,
tInboro, who were the attorneys ~
tbo defence. 0. R. Clayton OF Lon
1ondorrv and E. W. Gibson of Brattie
hOro were the attorneys for the PLAIN
tiff.
lawsuit which grew out o.
r,on+h taking advantage Of old az az
yoaS +r;ed in Halifax Tuesday Inv i
wai was Elias II. Prouty ana TN
Pla en5nnt was Herbert Nichols o.
G,,;Iford It seems that some time as'
Mr. Prouty leased his farm a. - warn W"
Albert Platt for a term OIL NV boIona
ond Platt sold a pair OF oxen poio sni'
an On the farm to Nichols VINO SUI
Ing Ing, 70 p, II. Akeley of vernon "h'
s .nH them to parties in Brighton ~. %
s sS t t an action of ejectment wa
i. tnis ol-s ooainst Platt, he was eJecte'
e1 the premises and went to Massss
from ROM vn0 The suit was brought agaln,S
Nichols to recover the value u IrSa
oven and was tried before nois.
Trank Worden. William ~ n +
l. lann counsel for the plaintiff ana " w. =
p paS for the defendant. Judge "0A
l dom reserved his DECISION
t -Denuty Sheriff c. I. Knapp , wien
nDudmerston Saturday with a, !eI ,.o
;, 10 D .p4nndnction to William SIMPLY e
o. mae unable at first to locate u 7
o .a.o Ta5 receiver of the letter.
l nue. 4Ia letter was so made OUT an
fact .ht that + demanded that shipp,e
' rive his body into the MINUS anus wbic
law to satisfy certain tractu Fr;dov h
l had made in the statutes inf a
n ro+t;no what is commonly hn nhod III
ge e,nll Sheriff Knapp searcneu u
r house ~ of shippee and had gwen na W VS.
mus loooo;r Of finding his man anu anu we
a aiI5ina away when he was lnlo e ~
drlvln " nan was in the garrett Oh u
= me .n"s Executing a rlgnt-apcu t;r
\ the officer went BACK anu der SON
= located In shippee hiding u aarret I'll
saclxing in corner OF the ss arreste
n oaicer told him that he was Sh;nnf
i on9o 20 rive himself up which oliP ~
an e,sod 70 do for some time a. ,a a%
reluseu ondered and started TO con
ne ' tbe officer. At the door ne =
WIN W - nudge but moved on WI,
fused 70 s nnlled his chilly"
: the s sn arrived here and was reiea ase
, bonds of $25' Mo4 a tbe fri
u un at 2 clock was set loi o NV
IVA # had previously been a all@n :,
ana a ~ States Attorney Bacon a.
Se,m nnee that Shippee was 10 pc .
a ohiPPo when the crucial moment q
gulltjy' sbippee was unable to COMP NJ
n rlVeu' 90 - Head so and entered a Pr
hlihse ~ gniItv. This made trouble
Oh No. Dooon had gone out OF town, .
b Mr.. Bacon Gann m 9. c. Fits at last W
= torney o Gen and represented the sta,
: procured anu at last induced to ple:i
"a guilty and as there were ,e.s eN continu
em err sentence until Aug. 81.