The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-04-29

probate court will be held before Judge
A. D. schwenk tomorrow morning III ~
o clock.
The last dance Of the season 20 be
given by the Odd Fellows Was hold IN
both halls Friday evening. The atlen'
dance was up 10 that Of previous dan'
ees held by the order
The board Of bailiiis viii meet in
the Office OF Gibson a Waterman al
7.30 clock tomorrow evening To re-
wise the checklist 10 be used al the
village meeting May J.
There was an unusually good ation,
dance at the chahng.dish supper served
by the woman : Alliance In Wells hall
Tuesday evening. A flower sale TOOK
place following the supper
Several motor boat owners have
launched their craft on the river during
the past week and many others VIII
nut their boats in ms soon as they are
oyerhanled. Hayes Bigelow, proprie'
tor Of the island boaihonsc, Is planning
numerous changes this season including
veranda on the south end OF tho
building.
Prank q. Carpenter has brought
suit against the town OF Brnttleboro TO
recover SIZE for work alleged 10 have
been done ON the highways OF the town
between the Harris place and Mr.. Car
penter's residence In the Oliver Carpen.
Ter district. The case will be tried
before Justice l.. II. Lynde Of DUN
merston in the municipal court room
tomorrow morning. The hearing VIII
begin at 10 o'clock
The present bailifis will stand as
candidates for reelection according 10 a
statement made Tuesday by o. I. Ware.
Mr.. Ware was asked IL he would be a
candidate for reelection and said that
he and the rest Of the board would be
happy 10 serve the village of Brattle-
boro il such is the will Of the voters.
lie said that with his colleagues he
had talked over the matter ahd that
the board felt that II asked u ought
to serve another term IN view OF the
electric lighting contract which u has
under consideration and also the matter
of installing hydranis which the board
has contracted for during the WINTER
A motion will be made within n
few DAYS 10 have the verdict set aside
in the Larrow.Doolittle ease. The
grounds for making such a motion are
that the verdict Is excessive anu
against the evidence. The motion to
be made by the defendants attorneys
Gibson g. Waterman and j. *. Batehel'
der. will claim that no evidence was
introduced TO connect warren IT, BOO
little with the alleged alienation OF the
affections Of Frank A. Larrow. IL the
verdict is not set aside as asked the
ease will 90 TO The supreme court on
numerous exceptions taken by the ae'
PENDENT
Mrs. Anna l.. Robinson in attempt
ing 10 cross the street from the post,
office Saturday morning was knocked
down by horse driven by II. L. yearly
and received n bad cut on her enln pc'
side being badly shaken up. \ mix
team stood near the crossing ana MIS-
Robinson was unable to see the ap'
preaching team driven by Mr.. yearly.
She stepped directly, in front OF ,ne
horse which was coming at good e,.P
and was thrown full length upon the
navement. DIR. W. II. Lane was riding
with Mr.. Yearly. The woman was
taken into the postoi1ice where her IN
furies were attended to by Dr. Lane,
after which she was sent to her home.
Health Officer Henry Tucker re-
ceived Tuesday from the state iapora-
tory at Burlington a report OF the an
alvsis made of samples OF water taken
from Pleasant Valley reservoir March
II. The analysis shows. practically no
| bacteria as 100 per cubic centimeter Is
NOT worth taking into consideration
whom IL is stated that as high as 4ouo
bacteria have been shown in sample
of wafer taken in this vicinity. No
trace of colon bacilli was shown ana
there was only trifle more chlorine
than usual. Dr. Tucker pronounced
| the test the best made for many months
| In view of the belief that the dead
deer recently found in the brook above
| tho reservoir had been in the stream
FOR n number of weeks and probably
months this analysis shows that no con,
tamination has originated from tha'
source.
The voting for the International
Correspondence Schools scholarship,
which has been going on for number
of weeks at the Brooks House pharma'
CIV. closed Monday afternoon. me TO-
| tal number of votes cast were l4:4vo;
Jobn Avery was high man with 59233
votes 10 his credit The second place
was taken by Ira Spaulding with. 1854
votes. Each will receive 1928 scholar
shin. Those receiving over 100 votes
were James Denning. 1918, Harold
h. Smith, 1923. i. J. Hudson, 2oi'
Bert Ober. 517, Ben Weeden, 3s2, lar Lar
old Gedds, $50, John ]. Eckeis; ~
Shirley Rosis, 277, Miss Nettie BOWIE,
1S5. There were % persons, receiving
less than 100 votes each of which seven
bo5 one vote each. The tellers were
r. C. Averill, L. G. Tasker; II. w w
Mitchell. Glenham Jones and Harry f.
Douglass.
Anna Jeanette Gilbert, 70. widow
of James r. Grant, died at the town
farm about II o'clock Monday evening
from intirmities incident to advanced
age. She had lived there about iour
years since the death of her sister, MIS-.
David Ellis, with whom she mace nea
home. Mrs. Grant was born In western.
Massachusetts and was the daughter OF
Tillev and Sarah Holmes Gilbert. she
came IN Brattleboro about TO years
ago Her husband died shortly before
ale came to live with her sister, Mrs.
Ellis. She leaves two sisters, MIS-,
Clara Jane Clark of Brattleboro and
Mrs, Ruth E. Finley of Bedford, Mass.
Brief funeral services were held IN
Morop's funeral parlors Yesterday
morning. Rev. John r. Cow ofiiciated.
The body was taken to West Brookheld,
Mass. for burial. Though Mrs. Grant
has been removed from the activities
Of life for number of years she had
never ceased to be interested in passing
events and was always of an optimls-
tic nature.
DR.. w. R. Moves has an interesting
antique in his office in the shape OF a
small Aax-wheel and bunch of flax on
the distaff lust as it was left by the
spinner probably nearly 100 years ago.
The wheel is doubtless over $50 years
o1d and comes from Westminster as a
reiic of colonial times. DR.. Moves
houeht the wheel this week of Joseph
Palmer, ianitor of the American build a.
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