Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-10-06

their increasing business in the line of
fine book printing.
Charles Wood of Rutland was arrested
the last day of the fair by Cnief-of-
Police Wilson and Friday morning was
fined $15 and costs by Judge w. r.
Daley. 1t was his second offense.
In the adjourned meeting of the w. C.
T. U. Monday afternoon in the rest room
it was voted not to send a delegate to
the state convention. The next regular
meeting of the union will be held Monday
afternoon at 8 o'clock in the rest room.
A full attendance is desired.
Hunters who have been in the woods
the past week report that gray squirrels
are numerous, and a fair number of
pa rtridges have been seen. Earlier in
the fall a number of flocks of partridges
were seen in several localities, but since
the season opened hunters have had only
fair luck in bagging them.
George s. Perry has been engaged as
assistant secretary of the Y. NJ. c.. A..
in jamestown, N. Y, and will go Mon
day to take up the duties of the po-
sition. Mr.. Perry has taken an active
interest in boys a long time, working
with them in the Y. NJ. C. A.. here,
camping with them in Mortified and
teaching a class in the Congregational
Sunday school. He has sold his tea
business to w. f. Chase.
A hearing was held yesterday morning
in the rooms of the Brattleboro Savings
bank before c. A. Harris and c. l..
Stickney, commissioners of the estate of
George w. Estabrook. Gibson & Wat
erman and j. Is. Batchelder represented
r. S. Childs, who seeks to recover sew
eral thousand dollars for board and care
of Mr.. and Mrs. Estabrook, and r. c.
Bacon and II. G.. Barber represented j.
l.. Roess, administrator Of the estate of
c.. w. Estabrook. The commissioners
gave judgment for the estate and an APP
peal probably will take the case into
the next term of the Windham county
court.
Inability to have cars located so that
material could be taken from them dur
ing Valley fair week caused a delay in
the construction work on the Austine In
stitutiOn off Maple street, but Architect
Paul r. Henkel expects that by the end
of this week the workmen will have COM
pleted the outside work of the basement
and first story. The men were idle from
Tuesday night of last week to Monday
afternoon Of this week on account of a
lack of material, otherwise the brickwork
would have been finished practically to
the third story by Saturday night. The
building will be three stories high in addi-
ton to the basement and rooms next to
the roof, and the contractors intend to
have the exterior work lone before ex-
treme cold weather begins.
Attorney Harold E. Whitney of C. C.
Fitts's office has brought a bill in
chancery for William II. Vinton against
Henry c. Stowell, Warren G. Doolittle.
Leonora w Howe, f. B. Warner, Henry
G.. Clark, Arthur l.. Maynard and Mary
O'Connor asking for an injunction order
restraining them from polluting the
waters of the Vinton pond. A tempo
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Chancellor E. l.. Waterman, the papers
being served by Deputy Sheriff C. |.
Knapp, and a hearing will be held in
due time. The orator AYERS that he owns
a pond and canal between Canal and Flat
streets from which he derives power for
his paper mill and water for making pa
per. The defendants own houses or are
tenants on Canal street, bordering on
the pond and canal. He AYERS that they
have, by themselves, servants or tenants,
deposited ashes, debris and other refuse
in the canal or pond, polluting the water
and rendering it unfit for MANUFACTURER
purposes.
James Dolan. a knight of the road, was
arrested Friday by -of Police
George Wilson and arraigned before
Judge William r. Daley charged with the
larceny of a suit case from o.. S. Bishop
of Vergennes, who had charge of a sheer
exhibit at the Valley fair. According tC
the story of Tommy Bartlett, a boy seven
years old, someone whom he claimed was
Dolan lifted him into a freight car in
which there were some sheep and per-
sonal belongings and ordered him tC
hand out a suit case which was there
He did as he was told, according to his
story, and then the man disappeared
Dolan was without counsel, but Myror
p. Davis volunteered to defend him
Tommy said he had seen Nolan go into
a store and buy a hat, Previously he
said the man who put him in the ca
wore a cap. Two women testified tina
they had seen a man put the boy in {
car, but that he was darker than Dolan
Dolan's hair is coal black and his face
is dark, At this point States Attorney
f. +. Barber mol pressed the case. Late
Mr.. Bishop asked Mr.. Davis to try t.
locate the suit case, and Mr.. Davis founC
it in the possession of an express drive
who had taken it from the fair ground
but had failed to deliver it. 1t was sen
to Mr.. Bishop by express Monday morn
ing.
A dill in chancery was filed in tn
county clerks office Tuesday by At
torney H. E. Whitney of c. C. Fits
law office in the case of the Connection
River Power company against Henry
Allen and his wife, Emily f. Allen, o
Vernon street. The defendants are sum
moned to appear in court at Newfan
for a hearing on the question of dam
ages to their property by reason of tn
fowage from the Connecticut river, du
to the construction of the dam at Yer
non. According to a document repro
duced in the chancery papers, Mr.. an
Mrs. Allen and the power compan
:, agreed before the dam was complete
that when the land was flowed the par
2 ties would undertake to adjust the dam
} ages and that if they could not agre
1 each side should name an arbitrator, tn
2 two so named to choose a third arbitra
v tor and the three to fix the amount t
be paid. The orator company aver
that, the parties failing to agree, tn
| Aliens named A. C. Griffin and the com
= PAN named Kittredge Haskins, but tina
A while Colonel Haskins has undertake
to perform his duties he has been unabl
to bring about the choice of a third al
Il bitrator. The company AYERS that tn
=. value of the land is not over 1850 an
that it has offered in settlement man
t times the amount of actual damage, an
the court is asked to hear testimony an
make an award that shall be bindin
- permanently. Mr.. Griffin is manager {
the Snowflake corn canning factory.
Engineer George NJ. Tompson, /
& charge of the Boston & Maine corps {
t civil engineers, came from Boston Nor
= day and returned Wednesday. He re
d ported that he did not see Presidei
= Mellen while in Boston and so had n
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