The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-12-18

"A faEes Or men has hern ~ wcfh
this seek covering Crosby 4 company )
naw grain elevator with hre proof roof
lng, Tho maehinefy for conveying
sIaln 10 tho dinefenl bias sill he In
stalled soon.
Miss q, N. Park has sivsn ap prlr
Nate teaching after 10 years expert
eneo 10 become tho teacher al Sseisen
Home, Barre. Mass. The Institution u
for homeless boys and Was founded BY
NJ feEeaT. n millionaire Of iSnn'
-Depuiy sheriff Dan u. Thompson
went 20 Newfahe last nigh, with three
men whom he placed IN Newfanc lall
10 serve sentences Of 80 DAYS for lnlaAi'
cation, The men were fpm Bellows
Tails and were taken 10 hTaitleboro BY
sheriff A, II, Thompson,
William q. iioTion' : real estate
agency has this week sold Charles u
Davis > farm, known as The sieddafd
farm, In Chesterfield, y. H.. 60 AlonHo
given az once although Mr.. saxi0n h
not likely Ia move there at present.
Tho bailiifs have had numerous
complaints about the snoMhallins ~
which boys have been indalglng on
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notice that II the practice II continued
some of the offenders will be arrested
and brought before the municipal court,
The following societies and indi'
yiduals have catered the piano con
Star chapter o. +. 4. Townshead
Company /, Y. n. O., BTaiilehoFo; Kent
Rebekah lodge. South Londonderry;
salvation Army, hraitlchoro; West
Dummerston grange. Miss Katherine i,
Eckels, Miss Katherine q, Manning,
Miss Elsie Smith aud Mrs. Alva Stacey
Of this town.
IA iroyer writ was served on NJ. u,
Martin Of Brookline. who Is employed
IN Braiileboro. Wednesday by Deputy
Sheriff II. y. Willis Of Jamaica. The
writ charges the conversion OF property
on which there was mortgage. The
plaintiff. Adelbcrt Boynton of south
Londonderry, seeks to recover slI5. Mr..
Martin claims the mortgage has been
maid. A hearing will be held in South
the 30th. Mr.. Martin fur
nished bail.
The cook book that has been com
piled by the ways and means commit
tee of the Brattleboro Woman's club Is
finished and will be ready for sale on
Monday, Dee. 81. Copies may be oh.
tanned from Mrs. e. T., II. Jenne, Mrs.
A. W. Rockwell. Mrs. NJ. I. Davis, Mrs.
+. ID. +. Stowe. Mrs. Martin Austin
and of the treasurer, Mrs. G. q. Staples.
II is certain that every member of the
organization will be interested in max.
ing this effort n success 10 the extent
that she will feel the responsibility. Of
buying not only copy for herself, but
A taK fttnnAS M Hnnlf
this book will prove Of value TO n
much larger circle of housewives than
that included in the club. The food
sale which had been planned in con
nection with the sale of the cook book
is omitted necessarily, but will be held
later, probably during the month Of
February.
1t is interesting TO note that the
results of the eye and ear tests among
the pupils of the graded schools OF
show that there are II
times as many pupils having defective
sight as there are pupils having de.
fective hearing. A Brattleboro physician
who has been more or less interested IN
the Brattleboro schools attributes this
excess of defective sight partly to the
large amount of work which these chill.
dren have been obliged to do with their
ewes, and partly to an Unborn tendency
to eve weakness brought about by the
of children g books for two
or three generations. He thinks there
is no question but that some of the eye
weakness in the present generation was
inherited. and that more was caused by
forcing the eyes before they were suf-
developed. He believes that
ON the latter account the kindergarten
is of doubtful value.-Brattlebor letter
in Springfield Sunday Republican.
Many ear. loads of young evergreen
trees have been shipped through Brat
tleboro the past few days for the Dos
ton, New York and Philadelphia mar
kets. Nearly every south-bound freight
has three or four carloads of trees. 1t
is apparent that the dealers in Christ,
mas.trees have found way to avoid
the payment of dealers licenses this
wear. Under fine licenses taken out last
wear dealers were allowed to buy trees
until the expiration of their licenses,
and it begins to look as though they
had avoided paying a second license
fee by buying up all the trees they VIII
need for this season before their IL
censes expire. The statutes provide
that any person, firm or corporation
buying or selling more than 20 ever
green trees in one year, less than SIN
inches in diameter at the butt, as, cut,
shall be termed a dealer and snail pay
TO the clerk of the county in which he
does business a license fee of $50, the
license to be good for one year from
it's date In some counties where
good sum was realized from Christmas
tree licenses last year. not penny has
been received this year, but the trees
are being shipped just the same. there
being nothing unlawful about shipping
the trees after they have been bought,
The hearing which was in progress
before Justice A. p. Carpenter on Fri
dav of last week in the case of Charles
Kane against the General Accident AS
Corporation of Philadelphia TO
recover on policy taken out by the
plaintiff in 1904 occupied the better
part of the day, and at its conclusion
Mr.. Carpenter reserved his decision
until the return of DR.. Lynch, the only
unexamined. His testimony is
essential in determining several points
now in doubt In the hearing it was
brought out that the plaintiff took. put
the policy as claimed; that it provided
for sick benefit, the several proviisory
clauses in the policy being threshed out
by the attorneys. 1t was also proved
Fiat the plaintiff underwent an opera
lion as claimed and that the claim for
The benefit on account of the number
Of weeks of illness was as stated by
The plaintiff. Counsel for the company
did not attempt to deny these points,
and claiming that due notice of the
PLAINTIFFS illness was not given within
10 days, that being the time limit for
the presentation of claims for damages
as fixed by the health clause of the
policy. This seems to be the. only point
in doubt, and the Judgment in the case
rests with the testimony of DR.. Lynch,
in regard to the matter of the notifica-
lion to the insurance company.
An order has been issued by the
postal department relative to the re-
luced rate on mail matter between the