The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-07-07
LOCAL NOTES AND GOSSIP,

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trnde Plummer. Miss Grace Cooper and
Miss MAY Edwards.
During the shower late Yesterday
afternoon lightning bored hole IN
chimney aud Knocked of several states
on the roof of Mrs. George Whitney :
house i'm Estevyile. The piazza roof o.
Emory Eddy ( house was also struck by
bolt, hut no great damage done,
The hearing before Judge j. l..
Martin in the equity suit brought by the
Central Vermont Railway company
which seeks an injunction restraining
the public service commission from com
pelling the carrying out OF an order
for a new station AT White River june
tion will be held at Windsor Tuesday.
| Arrangements were made to hear the
matter in Judge Martin 5 chambers m
! Brattleboro last Friday, but counsel
agreed to the postpOnement.
William RYDER. ~. died in Mari.
bOrO Yesterday afternoon as n result OF
the heat He was running horse
mower in field near Baxter 5 store
when he suddenly collapsed. DR.. Il. /,
Greene was summoned when the efforts
of local people proved of no avail Dut
the man was past help when the phvsi-
elan arrived Mr. RYDER is survived BY
n wife, a mother and two children
| Mrs 4. L. Bell of West DummerstOn
was overcome by the heat at her home
Yesterday afternoon, but was much bet
ter last evening.
Fred II. Harris of this town was
defeated in the challenge round OF the
| Connecticut valley tennis tournament
in Springfield, Mass. Yesterday by X. y
/ Seaver Of Boston. who thus retains the
championship. The score was OIL ~
| 90 Harris won the final round of the
tournament from Pike bv default after
| having won number of good matches
during the week. Against the deadly
accuracy of Seaver. however. hls az
pressive net play was of no avail mar
ris and Nelson will 90 against the Cole
brothers of Hartford, Conn, in the dou-
bes finals this afternoon.
The Valley Fair association has sc
cured classy list of entries for ITS early
closing 81 900 free-for-all. II lnelques
Grace g.. entered by j. o. Reay OF Bos,,
ton. Gott Fit and Roberta j.. entered
Inv / \. Chase of Brandon; Fred d..
entered by Edward Lyons of Hadley
Mass; Aileen Wilson, entered by the
Driving club stables of Providence. Rs
H., Major Mallow, entered by W. H. Nal
low Of Washington. o., and Ruth D.,
from the Woody Hill Stock farm OF
Z salem. y. Y. None of these horses has
ever been seen on the fair grounds eN'
cept Fred D.. who was here 10 start IN
I the free. for.all two years ago but sus-
| tanned an injury the day before the race
and was drawn.
Henry Pratt. 6j. died of heart dis
ease at West Brattleboro at 5 o'clock
this morning He was born in Brattle-
boro. June II. 1916, the son of Harry
( and Abbie (Brackett) Pratt and re,
ceiyed his education in the schools OF
Z this town. For % wears he was night
watchman for Smith 4 Hunt and took
considerable pride in the fact that, he
was absent only on few occasions dur
inc that period. For a number of wears
( he was a night policeman in this vii
! lage. He married, Dec. %, 1870, Jane
McEnrue of Malone \. V. who died IN
January of the present wear. Mr.. Pratt
had been totally blind for 10 wears. lie
4 leaves one daughter, Miss Abbie Alice
1 Pratt. of Brattleboro. Funeral services
have not been arranged. but will prob
ably be held Sunday afternoon at
| Bond 5 funeral parlors.
Oliver F. Bastian. So died at his
home on Prospect street at clock
Tuesday afternoon following seven
weeks illness with stomach trouble;
He was born in Pittsfeld. Mass. and
being a mute was educated in school
/ for the deaf and dumb at Hartford.
Conn. About 80 wears ago he married
/ Miss Emma Holden. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. II. Holden of Brattleboro.
For short time after their marriage
! Mr.. and Mrs Bastan lived in Pitts
field They then moved from that place
to Brattleboro and Mr.. Bastian entered
the employ of the Estey Organ company
and at the time of his death had been
with that concern 81 years. He leaves
a wife. three sons, Bert II. Bastian.
clerk in F. H. Holden & Coz drug store
Fred H. Bastian, shipping clerk for the
S. A. Smith company; and lanes II
Bastian. and one daughter, Miss Maud
f. Bastian Funeral services were held
at the house Yesterday afternoon. Rev.
+. A. Wells officiated and burial was IN
Prospect Hill cemetery.
William Austin Pellet, 81, died of
heat prostration in Chicago Tuesday
afternoon at / clock. No further par
ticlars have been learned by his broth
err. John C. Pellet, of BrattlebOro. Mr.
Pellett was born in Brattleboro in No,
vember. 1855. the son of John {. ana
Sarah (Harwood) Pellet. His educa-
tion was received in the public schools
of Brattleboro and he was graduated
from the high school. In 1873 he left
Brattleboro for Canton. o.. where he
lived wear and went from that place
to Chicago. He was engaged in build
inc for many wears and had amassed a
competency. For several years he had
conducted a confectionery store. He
married Melinda Burnham of Brattle-
boro. who survives him. Mr. and Mrs,
Pellett owned home at the corner of
Lincoln and Erie streets Besides his
wife he is survived by two brothers.
John c. of Brattleboro and Thomas A.
of Worcester. Mass. and nephew and
niece, Leon and Jennie Thomas of
Claremont. N. Fl. Mr.. Pellet had not
been in Brattleboro since the death of
his mother in 1906. The body will be
he burial will be in the family lot IN
Prospect Hill cemetery.
The four torrid days this week
came near putting milk dealers ana pro
ducers out of business. Long before
noon Yesterday customers were clamor-
inc for milk which could not be had.
One dealer brought 80 extra quarts INTO
The peddlers who are obliged to buy
their supply from milk producers were
, hard hit Wednesday and Thursday, The
dairies began to show the effects of the
extreme heat Tuesday morning and
Wednesdays milk production was
brought way below the minimum for
, this time of year. With the demand in
creasing hourly during the hot weath-
er it was a problem Wednesday after
noon to distribute the supply in an equa-
, BILE manner One ice-cream manufactures
has been getting his cream from Fair
| Haven and Yesterday some of the larry
est dealers in milk were hunting for
dairies which could be bought even
! though the normal supply of such estab-
, lishments had been reduced. The
amount of milk shipped from the Brat
tleboro station to Boston was Of practi.,
cally no account this week. Many OF
ithe shippers were prevailed. upon to sell
: their milk to dealers and top prices
e were paid for the fluid. Yesterday, any