Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-07-29

meet wednesday AFTERNOON at D U ClOCh
with Mrs. Lucia Foster on Organ street.
From there they will go to Island park.
Mrs. c. E. Lockwood gave party in
honor of Mrs. w. II. Haywood of Will
mlngton, Del, Tuesday afternoon. Re-
freshments were served and a very pleas
ant afternoon was enjoyed
Prof. williston Walker of Yale uni
versity will preach in the Congregation
al church Sunday morning. Robert c.
Clark will lead the devotional service in
the chapel tonight at 745
w. d. Linnehan has had an electric
barber pole installed in front of mis-
shop on Main street. A rapidly revolv-
ing post painted red and white attracts
attention and is a decided novelty
among the attention attractors on Main
street.
Justice f. d. L. Stowe has decided for
the plaintiff in the case of J. l.. Ryan
against Mrs. George A. Gibbs to recover
$13 for board of Miss Marion Gibbs. The
case was heard July 20 in the Office of the
county clerk, II. c. & f. Il. Barber APP
pearing for the plaintiff and Bacon e
Davis for the defendant
Archibald D. Wilson and wife have en-
tered through the office of II. G. & f. E.
Barber a suit against Joseph Nichols in
action of deceit in sale of farm by the
defendant to the plaintiff. The farm In
question is the Pettee stock farm and the
sum sued for is $4,000. The case will be
heard in the September term of the
Windham county court.
Because several firms who wished to
enter their bids for the construction of
the Austine Institution did not receive
copies of the plans and specifications
until a few days before the bids closed
Monday, the trustees have decided to
give them longer time and the bids
will be received until next Tuesday,
when they will be opened.
While Clayton Barnard was riding
down Elm street on his bicycle Friday
afternoon an automobile from North
Hinsdale coming at a good rate of speed
along Flat street met him almost head
on and threw him several feet. The
boy was badly shaken up and the BIZ
cycle was damaged SO that the repair
bill will amount to several dollars.
Gilman & Helyar have completed the
work of laying a sewer to Fort Dunn
mer Heights This system connects with
the South Main street sewer and runs
! close to the Fort Drummer Mills cotton
factory so that building may receive the
| service. The village furnished the ce-
ment and tile pipes for the construction
and Gilman Il Helyar did the work. Be-
sides furnishing the material the village
paid the firm $500 for their part of the
work. The abutters will be assessed in
order to pay for the construction
During the heavy rain Monday even
| ing Main street was flooded from point
| in front of the Masonic temple to c. II
! Thompsons residence. The catch basins
became clogged with leaves and other
refuse and the street was covered with
water to a depth of several inches and
! 4 tJ,,,. H., hi,
necessary to walk on the Public library
lawn in order to avoid the water. The
sidewalk on the east side of the street
is lower than that on the west side an6
the water overlooked and ran dowr
through DR. E. r. Lynch's yard
The Brattleboro Water Works com
pany is removing a number of old pipes
that enter buildings along Main stree
and putting in new ones that wher
the macadam road is constructed the ne
cessity of digging largely will be done
! away with. Wednesday morning the en-
deaVors of ,Ie workmen to pull an ole
pipe from under the sidewalk in front o
Regal & Rcgali's fruit store were un
awaiting. A horse tried to pull it out
but the pipe refused to bulge. a pail
of heavy horses belonging to f. b. Bar
rows were pressed into service and af
ter a long, hard pull the pipe was start
concrete pavements and shutoffs for thu
water supplies will be installed at tn
edge of the sidewalks.
Although the boy scouts of this tow
have not been doing much the past few
months, last Saturday a number of thu
local patrol went on an all-nght tril
and camped by Broad brook, just below
Guilford They enjoyed two feeds ant
came home the next day in fine fettle 70
further encampments. reorganization
is going on in the boy scouts and tn
patrol that went on the trip Saturda
evening are preparing themselves to b
patrol masters and thus help along tn
work in this locality. They will 500
begin taking lessons in first aid to tn
injured and DR. Harry Greene will civ
them lectures on the subject. They wi
study woodcraft and other nature sub
, iects under efficient instruction and it
expected that before winter the activitie
of the boys connected with the scout
, will receive decided impetus. An electio
, recently was held and E. c. Stedman wa
elected patrol leader and Abbott Rich
, mond corporal.
John Calvin, the plumber, is nstallin
two Fuller & Warren combination heat
ers in the Canal street schoolhouse
the past the rooms have been heated b
2 hot air from furnaces, but with the ne
2 equipment five hot water radiators
the corridors and one in the lavator
will provide heat besides the hot a
system in the rooms. The system that
= being installed is well recommended b
| towns in the northern part of the stat
7 and Is guaranteed to give good hea
= Inside the furnaces are coils in whic
the water is heated. 1t then circula tt
, to an open tank on the upper floor, frol
( which it descends through the radiator
= The open tank insures against too muc
5 pressure as the only pressure is that
e the water. If the water gets too ht
| 1t circulates back to the boiler and tnel
e is no danger of an explosion. The III
e air for the rooms also will be furnishe
, by the two heaters thus providing tv
r kinds of heat from each furnace.
In a meeting of the board of bailif
6 Monday evening it was voted to add
T. young men to the fire department in II
q capacity of substitutes. All but three
- the men added are members of the Bra
f tleboro hose team, names being as 70
lows; Richard Crosby, Ernest Harri
n Samuel Holton, John Perry, Robert Al
derson, Lewis Ellis, John Guiheen, Rail-
, Cakes, Alcide Marion, Raymond Bancroft
: hearing was held two weeks ago upC
4 a petition of several residents of Este,
| vile for the laying of sewer pipes
Maple and Fairview streets. The balif
a took the matter up again Monday eve
q ing and decided to lay the sewer pipes
the Brattleboro Water Works compai
would also Law Water ninas On tho