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


Aug. a. at Mrs. Bigelow's grove in West
Brattleboro, taking the car that leaves
Prospect hill at o'clock
Donald Mcintyre, three months old,
son of Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Mcintyre of
Westminster West, formerly of Towns
bend, died in the Memorial hospital Sun
day morning of peritonitis.
For the next six Sundays Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament will be held
Immediately after the 1890 mass in st.
Mlchaers Roman Catholic church. There
will be no evening devotions.
The members of the w. C. r. U. went
Wednesday to Guilford, where a pleas
ant afternoon was spent on the lawn at
the home of Mrs. Dudley Crosier.
Luncheon was served on the rawn and
a good time was enjoyed by all
s. w. Edgett e. Co. have sold this
week to Sherman f. Abbott the house
and lot on Cedar street belonging to
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliot G. Phillips. Mr. Abb
bolt will remodel the house and make
an attractive home. He will take pos
session about Sept l.
Attention is called to the statement of
the Brattleboro Water Works company,
on the first page of this paper. Many
people have been using water on lawns
and gardens contrary to the rules and
regula lions of the company. Hereafter
excess rates will be demanded for such
use.
Something happened to the hydraulic
elevator in the Brooks House Monday
morning and the water came rushing up
the well with a roar, ascending above
the second moor The carpets were dam
fRed and the floor of the Office was
flooded. One of the employees shut off
the water and the deluge was stopped.
Smith of Hinsdale against Kenneth f..
| Mosher of Brattleboro to recover $500
of damages for alleged misrepresenta-
lions in a horse transaction. The writ
was served by Deputy Sheriff c. e.
Mann and is returnable at the Septem-
! Der term of .Windham county court.
| Chase & Daley are attorneys for the
! plaintiff.
Judge j. L. Martin has bought the
| Bencasson cabin on Newfane hill, for
merly owned by the late Mrs. Caswell-
Broad. Judge Martin intends to keep
! the cabin open to visitors and to allow
| picnic parties to meet in the grove as
| formerly A telephone will be installed
| i'm the cabin soon. The family are there
this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Nelson, who re-
Gently moved from Brattleboro to West
| minister West, met with a serious loss
| Monday night, when lightning struck the
barn on the Ranney farm, where they
| live. and started a fire which destroyed
the barn and contents, including 10 cows
six calves, six pigs, a large amount OF
hay and nearly all the farming tools. The
farm is owned by Mrs. Nelson's mother
| Mrs. Augusta Ranney, who holds a small
insurance on the barn. Mr.. Nelson hat
$500 insurance on his stock.
A number of owners of motorboat
i. /, S,t,f,
their craft with lights and whistles. Sew
eral times recently boats with light
have had narrow escapes from collisions
with unlighted motorboats and canoeist
have reported cases of hustle when gas
oline propelled boats suddenly hav
doomed up before them. Person
without lights on their boats ar
liable to a 800 fine if United State
inspector should happen to drop int
town and find them unequipped with tn
para phernalia required by law.
A hearing on the petition of the Hol
stein Friesian association to the board o
health in regard to what it claims is
smoke nuisance at the gas house wa
scheduled for last evening and at
o'clock a good number of persons were il
the selectmen's rooms. Town Agent A
p. Carpenter was present to represen
the town, III. c., Barber and c. NJ. Mile
and +. NJ. Adds came in the interest o
the Twin State Gas & Electric company
Nothing was done until $50 O'Clock a
TIE petitioners had not appeared, an
upon motion of Mr. Barber the hearn
was postponed to next Thursday even
ing at 100 o'clock. The selectmen after
ward discussed road matters and sewe
problems with Road Commissioner /
T. Perry.
A suit brought by James II. Lamphea
of West Wardsboro against Henry {
: Smead of the same place. allegin
breach of contract in the sale of
. farm, has resulted in counter actio
in chancery brought by Smead again'
! Lamphear alleging breach of contrat
+ in the same sale, and an injunction Is
sued by Judge f.. l.. Waterman ha
, been served on Lamphear restrainir
him from proceeding with his suit III
| til further order of court II. G..
+. Il. Barber of this town are couns
, for Smead and A. V. d. Piper of J5
: maica is counsel for Lamphear. Smea
= says he sold farm of 60 acres ar
some live stock and other person
- | property to Lamphear Oct 20. 1910, f,
!, 1880. agreeing to give a warranty dee
and bill of sale as soon as convenien
: | He says that Lamphear paid him at di
;. ferent times s625. that about jan
> | Lamphear took possession and RENAME
. on the farm until May 26, when
= abandoned it. that Lamphear sold son
= of the stock and had the income fro
the farm and personal property. Smea
says he has kept his part of the col
y tract except as prevented by Lamphea
e whom he says has refused to take Il
d title to the property or pay the balan'
t due. He says that, relying upon Lar
|. phear's promise to pay, he bargained f
n another farm and put up a forfeit, whiC
II he lost, that he paid the f, A. Stro
o company a commission of 800 for il
= ducing Lamphear to buy the farm, al
It that he has been put to expense in !
h gal fees, all of which he seeks to r
o cover. He also seeks to have the co
d tract enforced
l. Prof j. w. Votey of Burlington, san
g tary engineer for the state board
: health came here yesterday and wi
: the the selectman and DR., Henry
Il" Holton, secretary of the board of healt
- inspected the line of the proposed sex
er in West Brattleboro from a poi
> near the Bonnyvale road east to Il
e cement bridge. At present a l2-in,
i sewer pipe which carries sewage fro
,e houses westerly of Milestone bro
- empties into the brook near the Bonn
y vale road, where the brook crosses [
:, street, and when the water is low co
~ ditons are bad. Citizens in that locs
ity have been trying to improve CO
4 ditions a long time. From the east 81
s. of the brook opposite where the 12-n
pipe empties an eight-inch pipe for 81