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

William G. Horizons agency mas sou 1or
Mrs. Sarah Il. Cook her house at Al
Canal street to Fred A. Betterley, who
bought ii for a home.
Miss Jennie Bushee began this week
to place furniture in the rooms in the
Miner building on Elliot street which
she will conduct as lodging house.
w. II. Proctor has bought the Melrose
on Linden street Mrs. Flora Il. Strong,
who conducted it as a boarding house
several years, left on the $50 train last
evening for New York, from which city
she will go to California to live Mr..
Proctor has not decided what he will do
with the house.
A fifteen weeks session of evening
school for foreigners will begin Monday,
Jan. 6, in the high school building, in
charge of the education committee of
the Womans club. Mrs F. l. Swift,
chairman. The school will be conducted
on the same lines as in former years,
and the same fees will be charged.
In the meeting of the I. c. s., last
Friday night James Mccormick of Hart
ford, district superintendent of the
Hartford district. and w. S. Gould,
supreme registrar, spoke. The following
executive committee was appointed to
work with the officers already elected
M. e. Dunn, A. w. Cutting, Elmer Ste
In the meeting of Protective Grange
Wednesday evening these officers wers
elected: NJ, Walter Robbins o., Fred
II. Spaulding, jr; L., Mrs. E. d. Will
son; s., Fred Smith; A. s.. Leon Stew
ems; chaplain, Mrs. c. II. Grant treas,
Fred ID. Weld; Sec, Mrs. NJ. A. Fisher
G. X, Scion Cummings: Ceres, Mrs.
Walter Robbins Pomona Mrs. Waldo
Wells; Flora, Miss Bessie l.. Farnum !;
L. A. s.. Miss Louise LABEL; pianist
Mrs. Fred II. Spauljing, jr. A complete
report of the treasurer and auditors will
be given at the next meeting. The offic-
ers will be installed at that meeting to
be held Jan. 1 and supper will be served
after the installation.
Farmers in and near Westminster are
looking for A Wolf, who said he came
from Springfield, Mass He visited that
section of the county this fall and
bought farm produce, paying with
checks. which the farmers say 1t is i'm
possible to cash They have asked
States Attorney A. V, d. Piper to be-
gin proceedings against Wolf, but he
has advised them to place the checks in
the hands of a Massachusetts lawyer, al
though 1t is thought the chances of
their realizing anything are small. Isa-
dore Groper a story of whose disappear
ance will be found in another column, is
alleged to have worked the west part
of this county in the same way and
county Last fall people in Jamaica
sold a number of hens and dozens of
eggs for which they received checks that
cannot be cashed.
1t was with some degree of satisfac-
ton that the engineers in charge of the
new railroad job for the Holbrook, Cab
OF & Rollins corporation found this week
that the ledge beneath the bed of the
Connecticut river on which pier No for
the new bridge will be built was level
enough to allow them to begin work A
cofferdam will be built around that Sec
ton on which the pier is to be built and
the work of building the pier will be
carried on with a rush. The bridgemen,
in the employ of the American Bridge
company have not been rushing things
much this week because pier No l has
not been begun and a good part of the
other work on the bridge is nearing
completion, Engineer Wyles Russell, one
of the chief engineers in charge, said
this week that the ledge under the river
was one of the most difficult problems he
ever encountered in construction work
of this nature.
H. C. Wood & Co, contractors. of
North Adams, Mass, began work Wed
nesday on the new Boston G. Maine
freight house about 100 feet south of the
railroad station. When the proposed
union station is completed the new
freight house will be moved to the pre-
sent site of the Central Vermont rail-
ways passenger station. The building
Is being built in such a manner that it
may easily be moved and 1t will be 300
rect long and % feet wide, except one
end, which will be not quite so wide.
AT the south end a platform 100 feet
long will be built. The roof is to be of
hreproof material and covered with
gravel and the contractors hope to finish
work by Feb. l. When the new railroad
work reaches that section of the yard
IN which the freight houses are located
the present Central Vermont house will
be moved and the new house used by
both railroads. After the changes are
made it is expected that Agent E. ].
Guthrie will have charge of the Central
Vrmont railways freight and that an
other man will take charge of the Bos-
ton & Maine freight.
Fourteen cases of diphtheria, eight
OF mumps and two of whooping cough
are under quarantine in town The
cases of diphtheria are in the homes of
Louis l.. Clapp, SO South Main street;
W., A. Belden, Maple street; Mrs Dom
ovan, "a South Main street; John Wright,
Estey street; Frank Woods Spring
street; Z. A. Jondro, 3 South Main
street; George A. Metcalf 81 South
Main street; II. A. Miller, Chestnut
street; Mary T. Macdonald, Is Cedar
street; d. Frank Shea, Elliot street; An
sci Pierce, SO Canal street; A. A. Cham
berlain, "a Birge street and Jerry Cur
tin, 25 Pine street, Miss Marion lyman
and Miss Ethel Turner, student nurses
at the Memorial hospital, are quaran-
tined with the disease. culture taken
from Leighton Noyes, son of DIR. and
mrs w. r. Noyes, was sent to Mont
peher Monday but was delayed in trans
portation and another has been sent. 1t
Is supposed that he has dphtheria, and
ne Is under quarantine. DR.. Tucker has
no expectation that the disease will stop
until more care is taken by those who
complain of sore throat, as many per-
sons who have it mildly spread it by not
remaining away from public gatherings.
Mumps have been reported in the homes
of j. c. Newton on the Putney road: Fl.
p. Yearly, Is Green street; Mrs. III. III.
Thompson. SO Main street. DR.. A. l.
Miller, High street; John Waite put
ney road; Linde Kali, IS Birge street:
II. C. Rice. 80 Oak street, and Chester
L. Fisher. 131 Western avenue. Whoop-