Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-04-08

Joseph Couilard, %. Of Bellows Falls,
died yesterday in the Memorial hospital.
! DR.. Martin i. Bruce has received an
! appointment as census cnumeratOr for the
entire town of Windham.
All the schools of the incorporated
| school district will reopen Tuesday after
| the Easter vacation.
James f. Hooker will deliver the Me-
mortal day address before the Grand
Army post in Schenectady, n. Y.
The Pilgrim Fathers will hold a rum
! mage sale next Friday and Saturday in
! the NintUn building on Main street. on
! Saturday there will also be a sale of
| homemade food, including baked beans.
The Girls club will hold their annual
| meeting in the rest room Monday April
! Is, at s o'clock, for the election of officers.
! AS other important business will come
| before the club at that time every mem
! Der is earnestly requested to be present.
The chemical engine was sent on a
| wild-goose chase Saturday by telephone
! message about a fire near H. G.. Clark's.
| The fire proved to be in a woodlot remote
| from any buildings and the department
| was unable to get near it with the APP
| paratus.
The maple sugar season has closed
/ back on the hills as well as along the
| valley. Altogether it was one Of the
| most satisfactory seasons in years, with
/ large production of first quality sugar
/ and syrup. The local dealers have been
/ sending out large quantities by express
| to every state in the union and to nearly
/ every country in the world.
a hearing on the petition for temper
airy aimony in the divorce suit brought
/ by Lulu Ross against Seth Ross of
| Readsboro was held before Judge +. l..
/ Waterman in Chase & Daley's office Mon
| day Judge Waterman made an order
| giving the custody Of the two younger
/ children to the mother and of the older
| child to the father with alimony of s.
/ per week until hearing in the Benning
! ton county court
At a meeting of the officers and teach
/ ers of the CONGREGATIONAL Sunday school
! in the home of the superintendent, George
! l.. Durham, Sunday evening II was voted
/ to divide the main room of the chapel
/ with curtain SO that the room could be
/ shared by the unojr and intermediate
! departments 1t was voted also to hold a
! teachers meeting the first Sunday even
| ing in each month, meeting in the homes
! Of the teachers.
L. Cyrus Miller the apple specialist Of
! Fayetteville. Mass, was in Brattleboro
! Tuesday. He visited the Retreat and
| the Bradley estate and met number of
men interested I'm fruit growing. Mr..
| Miller saw enough Of the San Jose scale
| in Brattleboro to enable him to form
| some definite opinions as to the best
methods Of graduating it. He advo-
. Gated spraying for All valuable trees and
shrubbcry and cutting out the worthless
. stock.
Work was begun this week on the big
| tile drain in the oak street district.
| This drain was started ~ years ago.
but it never was completed. Road Com
missioner David T. Perry has "a lO-inch AMI
/ Finch drain tile ready to put in at once,
I and the work will be pushed as rapidly "a
possible The drain will be laid from
1 near Henry b. Aliens livery stable
down oak street Grove street, and
! through Howard street The drain for
. Central street and nearby streets will
be put in soon. also the drain through
Organ street This season the conditions
! in those streets have not been az bad
| as usual. owing to the small amount of
frost in the ground but the need of ad-
| ditional drainage in all three places is
very apparent
\ stranger who arrived in town on the
| lilo train Friday forenoon acted so sus-
! piciously that it was thought ne might be
the man who committed murder in
Springfield Mass. the night before and
/ Chief-of-POlice Wilson made an fnvesti-
| cation that afternoon The man bought
! a Springfield newspaper in the news store
about ll.30 and his face bore such an
|
! clerk who waited on him, remarked about
! II to others in the store. His description
! tailed with that given of the Springfield
murderer. and so Chief Wilson was noti-
| fled He found that before the man went
| to the news store he stopped at Halls
| restaurant and ate a luncheon and that
his appearance there was such as to at
! tract the attention OF the proprietor. II
| was learned later that he came from
! Philadelphia
Road Commissioner David T. Perry has
! been having a general street cleaning
this week. The cleaning is practically
/ over and the streets Of the village are
| much improved in appearance. Mr.. Perry
/ urges that people refrain from using the
! cutters as a dumping ground for the
| raklngs from the lawn. Not only does
/ the dead grass and leaves in the gutter
give the street a very untdy appearance
! but al the first rain it washes down TO
| the first grated catch basin and lodges
| there. The gratings over the basins are
/ plugged up by the leaves and grass and
much trouble results. Now that the
! streets have been given one good clean
! ing Mr.. Perry hopes it will not be neces-
! sary to make the rounds again for some
time. No one should dump debris into
| the stTeet with the idea that a town
| team will be along in a few days to take
care of 1t.
Bertram G. Spencer, whose confession
TO the murder of Miss Martha b. Black
stone in Springfield, Mass, last week, and
to the commission of many burglaries in
Springfield, Greenfield Brattleboro and
| White River Junction, is recorded on
page two of this paper. cleared up an
other mystery in Springfield yesterday by
stating that he was the man who held up
Motorman NJ. j. Gilhooley in that city
August T. 1908, and shot him through the
leg with a big revolver when he tried TO
get away. DR.. c. S. Pratt was in Spring
field yesterday and identified as articles
stolen from his house, in addition to the
ring and pin referred to on page two, a
glove buttoner. a chain pendant, a ring.
a garnet bracelet, a woman's gold fox
tail chain. a woman's gold scarf pin
pearls and amethyst, a three-stone ring
garnets surrounded by opals, and pair
of cuff buttons.