The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-07-17
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NEE, with Miss Florence Poster, / On
gan street, next "Wednesday Afternoon
. al clock.
The band concert Wednesday nigh
was attended by large crowd of pco
pie Many took advantage 81 the ice
cream sale held by the women 81 III,
tiniycrealist church On the corner ol
North Main street and Park place, and
before the concert was finished th,
! supply Of ico'cream had run out.
"A strong baseball team from ~,
Adams, composed from employees OF
the Central Vermont railroad company
in that city will be pitted against tho
local railroad team IN hratileboro july
20, The game will be particularly ia
teresiing rs the 81. Adams aggregation
is determined TO avenge themselves on
account Of the druhbing that the local
team gave recently IN White River
Junction.
Road Commissioner John =. Mich.
OILS began yesterday on permanent road
work on Canal street. II will be con
tinuation Of what was put in last year
and will extend from a point opposite
| the Canal street school building 10
Birge street. A part Of this work Is
paid for out of the appropriation made
/ by the state for permanent roads and
! the remainder Is given by the town.
just how much ~ the expense will be
borne by the town is not yet definitely
settled but this will be decided within
the next few days.
The Vermont National guard will
not hold It's competitive shoot in North
field until the Goth Of this month. The
reason for the delay is the slow prog
ress made in completing the range.
The meet will bring $50 men to North
field every year. The winners In the
contests win be sent 10 the national
shoot ut Camp Perry, Ohio, Aug. - 10
Sept. l. Company ! will send eight
men and one alternate 20 compete In
the meet, three men ms markers aud a
cook. Lieutenant Charles II. Davis is
captain Of the rifle team that will 90
from here.
Burglars attempted TO enter the
house of Mrs. Mason Wood on Cedar |
street Friday night, but before they
had succeeded in breaking in they were
scared away. They did get bottle Of
port wine that was on shelf near the
extent of their booty. Patrick Elem
ing. who rooms in the house, was
awakened bv foot steps on the piazza
about l2 o clock and going TO the win
dow near the piazza asked what was
wanted. Al the same time he looked
out and saw two men running swiftly
away from the house.
Members of the Unitarian Sunday
school held a basket picnic at l.. ID.
Taylor's cottage at Spoiford lake yes.
terday. Boating, bathing, games and
were enjoyed. over 30
reached Mr.. Taylor Is cottage
at y o clock and Immediately separated
TO different points about the lake. Mr..
Taylor was kept busy during part of
he day in giving parties Of five or six
rides Several who enjoy
swimming took advantage of the op. F,
portunity in the forenoon. Others fish
ID but no fish stories accompany the ac-
count of the days trip. Dinner was
served at | o clock and the party broke
lp AT an early hour, reaching Brattle
1oro before 9 o clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Williams and
Fred Grover, who were arraigned in
he municipal court last Friday on the
harge of intoxication, disclosed before
liquor at the establishment of John
'onnell on the Chesterfield road. ,
state s Attorney X. c. Bacon has re
,orted the matter to City Solicitor O.
J. Cain of Keene. n. II. 1t is under. {
TODD that Cornell has agreed to plead
utility 10 being a common seller and
ubmit to the maximum fine and sen
ence of six months in jail, and that he
as further agreed to 90 out of the IL I
nor business absolutely if the author /
les will agree TO suspend these penal
les People who have been to Con.
ell s this week and attempted to buy
amor thot IL is Irr Iasnrt
here. 4
A suit for damages in the amount
{ $4,000 has been brought in the Mid
lesex superior court by William +.
orman of Auburndale, Mass, against
FRS. Paul c. Sykes. a teacher in the
uburndale grammar school. Mrs r
ykes was formerly Miss Susan f. =
river and taught in the eighth grade
the Brattleboro schools during the N
'hool year of 1866. Mr.. German al
gcs that his little daughter, Esther F
(. German, IA. was injured May l6
hen Mrs. Sykes is said to have pun.
he'd the child in a dressingroom of
lie schoolhouse. He alleges that the IA a
lid was taken by the throat and "a
aiken so severely that she dropped "
faint. Mr.. German states that 1 -
,urs later the little girl was sc I -
me in q carriage, and that her ~ ~
other in her anxiety to meet the r,
lid tripped and fractured her ankle
id has been i'll during the past two "a
Dnths as result Mrs. Sykes de- he
ines to discuss her side of the case. w
The affairs of the Lowell Scale pl
mpany, which have been more or less -
implicated for some time past, are a ].
i'll in an unsettled state and since ~,
ly 3 Deputy Sheriff A. w. j. Wilkins u.
S been in charge of the local plant ac
behalf of several local creditors. A III
,eting of these creditors took place
and although no agreement ~ a.
is reached at that time it is expect oip
that matters will be adjusted with ii ii
t resorting to the inconvenience of n na
ownership. The company has a good 20
siness but since the financial depres nt ,,
n it has been handicapped more or sii
s for lack of working capital OF ~
e there has been an attempt on the ~
TT of certain outside interests to gain cxs
ltrol of the concern and move it -
TX to Lowell, and it is this plan that :,
local creditors are anxious to pre- on
1T. 1t is not unlikely that the con a az
n will be reorganized Suits brought I ia
INST the company by Robbins & en- en-
vles and the Twin State Gas & Flee rs Is,
company VIII De neard IN tne mu-
ipal court tomorrow. wa
John Keenan, and Elroy Kent, in iii,
ties of the state insane hospital at bio
terbury, escaped from that institu- del
n last Saturday. Kent pried off the alw
III of his door and liberated Keenan,, foo
the two sealed the wall around the NIT
lding by using a spring bed as a it
der. Keenan,, who has an artificial retl
and is unable TO travel raDidly was g
tured late Monday night about five lift