Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-12-20

e. II. Hoffman, the widely known
dealer in Morgan horses who had often
been an exhibitor at the Valley fair,
died Friday after a long illness at his
home in Lyndonvlle.
The Christmas party for the begin
ners' and primary departm and the
entertainment for the older members of
the Centre Congregational Sunday
school will be postponed.
A public good roads meeting under the
auspices of the board of trade will be
held in the Auditorium the week of Jan.
20. An address will be delivered by
Charles w. Gates, state highway COM
missioner
The household goods of the late Mrs.
Charles W. Durham were moved by the
Crystal Springs Ice company last week
from the home on Linden street to Mrs
H. e. Hamilton's home in Greenfield,
Mass MIR. Durham was Mrs. Hamltons
brother. Stewart Durham, son of the
late Mr.. AMI Mrs. c. w. Dunham now
makes his home with Mrs Hamilton.
1t will be of interest to the friends of
Miss Mary A. Averil to know that she
has been appointed supervisor of the
Young Folks Educational League Insti-
tute of Boston. The organization Is ma
tional in character having for it's object
u
feet cooperation between the home and
school in the educational work of the
country. Miss Averil is sister of
President George c. Averill of the Yer
mont National bank.
In view of the recent formation of a
cooperative savings and loan associa-
ton in this town it is interesting to
read the report just published of the
Greenfield Cooperative bank, which was
established seven years ago and now has
assets of $170,3S0.40. Five per cent in
terest has been paid from the start, and
there are now 600 depositors who own
over 1900 shares of stock. The invest
ments of this bank are in first mortgage
loans on real estate in Greenfield, Tur-
ners Falls, Shelburne Falls and South
Deerfield.
Residents of Western avenue, near &C.
dar street were awakened about
O'Clock Monday morning by a loud crash
and on going to their windows they saw
horse galloping toward the business
section, a badly damaged wagon in close
proximity to telephone pole and a
man standing near brushing the dirt
from his clothes. Somebody asked from
a window if he was injured and his re-
ply indicated that his strength of lung
and variety of vocabulary was not in the
least affected. He went to livery sta
BILE and secured a horse which took the
damaged wagon to the stable.
Deeds to the s. A. Smith factory prop
erty on Frost street were sent to Brat
tleboro from New York late last week
by A. E. Cudworth, one of the receivers
of the Hardware &c Woodenware COM
pany, and on Saturday the transfer of
the property was made to the S. A.
Smith Manufacturing company, recently
organized, of which Arthur B. Clapp
president of the Brattleboro Trust coma
pany, is president. The new company is
making plans for materially enlarging the
business and increasing the output 1t
mas been necessary to refuse orders the
past season because they could not be
filled in time for the Christmas trade.
The new company expects to make
supply of staple goods during the dull
months and store them so as to relieve
the rush next season. 1t is planned to
install some labor saving and time saw
ing equipment
A meeting was held in the Brooks
House parlor Friday evening to discuss
the advsability of forming an outdoor
club in order to add to the interest in
outdoor sports in this locality. The
meeting was not largely attended, but
those who were there expressed their
desire to form club. Fred II Harris
in booming outdoor sports and told of
what had been done in other towns in
Vermont. j. p. Taylor, president of the
Green Mountain club and formerly as
sistant principal of Vermont academy,
described the great interest in outdoor
pastimes at the academy. A tentative
organization was formed with the fol-
lowing officers: Pres. Fred II. Harris:
vice pres, E. G. Chace; treas, C. F.
committee. the officers and E. Burr
Smith. During the evening copies of the
Vermonter, containing a description of
the work and plans of the Green Mount
ain club, were distributed.
Clinton Pratt, IS, pleaded guilty to
drunkenness in the municipal court yes
terday morning and was fined $15 and
costs, the costs amounting to $5.4S and
sentenced to serve 30 days at hard labor
in the county Jail at Newfane Upon
payment of the fine and costs the jail
sentence was suspended and Pratt was
placed on probation for a term of one
year. The young man was arrested
Tuesday night by Chief Of Police George
Wilson. His arrest was brought about
when Mrs. A. d. Wyatt telephoned to
Mr.. Wyatt, who was working in his
studio late in the evening, that she
thought somebody was trying to get
into the house on North Main street. In
company with the chief Mr. Wyatt
hurried home and they found Pratt, in
an intoxicated condition near the Wyatt
home He was placed under arrest and
wednesday morning appeared before
Judge Daley and the case was continued
until yesterday morning on furnish
ing bail to the amount of $500 In i'm
posing sentence on Pratt, Judge Daley
gave him good advice and the youth
promised to do better
When Henry j. Allen of Vernon street
looked out of his window Sunday morn
ing he saw what looked like a new shoe
lying on the sidewalk. Taking another
look he saw not only one shoe, but two.
This excited his curiosity and he step
ped out of the house and investigated.
Near the railroad track he found three
pairs of mems shoes and two boxes con-
tanning heavy socks. Further investiga-
ton brought to light pasteboard boxes
that evidently had contained shoes. Mr.
Allen notified Chief Of Police George
Wilson. 1t was learned that the shoes
were shipped by the Durham Brothers
company and were intended for II. A.
Williams of Williamsville. The shipment
was made so that they should have gone
in two cases on the mixed train Satur-
day afternoon. The conductor in charge
of the train remembered Monday that he
was shy two cases of shoes for Williams
vile and Tuesday the railroad officials
were notified. 1t is not known whether
the cases were removed from the freight
car on the mixed train after the car was