Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-29


of the members of the Universalist
church will be held in the church par
lors Thursday evening, April H. Sup
per will be served at o'clock.
Rule 26 of the county court rules has
been amended by the superior judges by
the addition of a new paragraph, NO. 8,
reading as follows mo divorce case
shall be brought on for final hearing until
the judgment fee has been deposited with
the clerk"
The Ideal laundry has moved from Ret
ting building one door east of where 1t
formerly was. Carpenters are at work
| preparing the sample room In the Brooks
House for L. II. Barber who will move
| from the Retting building, which Is to be
| torn down to make room for the garage
| which E. c. Crosby will built on its site.
| Manley Brothers, automobile dealers,
| have rented part of the Centreville
| ia ctory for the storage of cars. They VIII
| use the garage in the rear of the Brooks
| House for cars owned by local persons,
| also the garage in the milestone build
| ing. Demonstrating and livery cars also
will be kept in both down town garages.
| Several cars which were stored in the
building in the rear of the Brooks House
which is being torn down will be taken to
| the Centrvile storehouse.
Routine business took up the greater
part of the time in the meeting of the
board of selectmen Monday evening.
Road Commissioner II. c. Squires and
County Road Commissioner ID. 7. Perry
were present and discussed road prob
lens with the members of the board. A
complaint from a resident of Fairview
street that that street had not been
broken through after a storm all win
ter took a few minutes of time and
the road commissioner said that after
future snowfalls he would see to 1t that
the road was broken through.
A registered Guernsey COW, four years
old and valued at $1,000, came by express
Monday for Frederick Holbrook's farm,
the old Scott farm, managed by e. c.
| Tenney Mr.. Holbrook, whose home is in
Boston and who Is a grandson of the late
| ex-Gov. Frederick Holbrook of Brattle-
boro, bought her from the Fillmore herd
| in Wellesley, Mass. She gave 29a quarts
of milk Saturday. Mr.. Holbrook is building
| up a valuable dairy and he expects to
market butter in New York and Boston
| He has built a modern and sanitary cow
! sta BILE addition to his barn, building the
| floor of concrete and the stalls of steel
Dhere are 32 stalls in the stable. The herd
| now numbers II head, and eight or nine
more head will be shipped to the farm
| soon.
When Rev. D. e. Trout stood up to
preach his sermon in the Universalist
!
gregaton that he was going to do some
! thing that he never did before and
might never do again. He said he was
going to lay aside the sermon he had pre-
pared and preach from an entirely new
text. The morning was stormy and the
congregations in all the churches were
small While the choir was singing a
selection just before the sermon a new
sermon with clear outline came to Rev.
Mr.. Trouts mind and with no prepa-
ration he delivered an excellent discourse
from the text, Matthew IS, 20: For
| where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am l in the midst of
| them"
Mrs Minnie Doolittle Rice, whose hus-
band, G. Romance Rice, died JAN 81, has
| filed in the probate court, through At
torney II. G. Barber, a waiver of her
husbands will. In other words she
elects to take such part of his estate
as would come to her through a settle
ment of the estate by an administrator
rather than to abide by the will. The
| estate amounts to about $4,000, it is I'M
derstood Mr. and Mrs. Rice were mar
| ried in 1909 following an effort on the
| part of Rice's son to prevent the mar
| riage by the appointment of a guardian
| over his father. The guardian was APP
! pointed but the marriage took place just
| the same Rice made his will Aug. IA,
, wife. After Rice's death the Brattleboro
| Trust company was appointed executor.
> In her waiver Mrs. Rice not only seeks
to secure the usual widows share, but
| asks that the executor be ordered to pay
her a suitable allowance from time to
| time for her reasonable support and
maintenance pending the settlement of
the estate.
Gov. woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
| in ran 70 praGideDt nj the
| United States will speak in Auditorium
Saturday evening, April G. 1t is ex-
pected that this will be the only town
in Vermont in which Governor Wilson
will speak during the campaign, and
he will discuss the issues of the day
, Invitations have been sent out to leading
men in the county and state including
Gov. John A. Mead, President Jay Pot
ter Benton of the University of Yer
mont, President G. B. Lawson of Yer
mont academy, Major Spooner of Nor
witch university, President j. NJ Thomas
of Mddlebury college and other leading
educators 1t Is expected that an in
formal reception will be rendered Gov
ernor Wilson before the meeting in the
Auditorium, at which Letsinger's or
chestra will furnish music Gov. Wilson
is coming to this town on the invitation
of members of the Democratic town
committee and will be introduced by
will speak in Syracuse, n. ~, the fol
lowing Monday evening.
The New England Power Co.'S first
mortgage to the New England Trust Co
for $l4, 000, 900 to secure the first mort
gage per cent sinking fund gold bonds
was filed in Boston Saturday. This
action was only requisite legal step In
the program of this Chace- Hartman hy-
dro- electric proposition. No early audi
tional financing under this mortgage is
contemplated in addition to the 5000 O0O
bonds issued hereunder last summer
which were underwritten by a banking
syndicate headed by Baker, Ayling & Co
Proceeds of these SO, 900, 900 bonds is ade-
quately providing it is believed, for COM
pletion of the particular construction
work now under way in Deerfeld river
valley This work will result In develop
ing about $4,000 horsepower, 5000 OF
which, it is expected, will be available
for sale by Aug. l. next, while enough
more will be generated and transmitted
by the end of this year for requirements
of electrical operation of Hoosac tunnel
The S14,0 1000 mortgage, now being
filed, is designed to cover all develop
ment during future years of the Deerfield
river water power rights now controlled
by the New England Power Co. interests
Copies of this mortgage are being re-
corded I'm ~ Massachusetts, and Vermont
counties The mortgage was drawn by
Moorefeld Storey. and covers rs printed
pages, more than half of which are