Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-07-21

Main street there was II bubDnng toun-
tain Friday. Two water pipes go
through the street and it is probable
that recent excavations there to lag
conduits for telephone wires caused Il
leak in one of them.
1t has been decided to publish in
permanent form q record of the cen
tcnnial celebration of the Centre Con
grcgational church including the his
torical paper, together with list of
the names of the entire church mem
bership from the beginning, 100 years
ago.
Herman Nesbitt Gordon, chauf
four of Brattleboro, and Miss Janet
Elizabeth Stowcll of Dickinson
street, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
j. Stowcll, were married Saturday af-
tcrnoon by Carl S. Hopkins, Esq, in
the Office of the town clerk. They are
TO make their home in Brattleboro.
Charles r.. Marsh, government super
visor of the new federal building, will
move his quarters into the new building
this week. The contractors are dcsir-
Gus of starting the approach work and
Mr.. Marsh will receive bids until
Thursday for the sale of the Office build
ing in which he has had his quarters
since the work of construction was
started.
John f. Nichols of Putney has
brought suit against the New Eng
land Telephone & Telegraph Co. for
s 900 damage to % acres of his
property. lie alleges that the damage
was caused by linemen of the com
pauv carelcssly setting fire while
working there in May. The papers are
from the Office of II. G. & +. T.. Bar
Der.
The milk wagon of Ashley l.. Spen-
Ger Of Guilford broke in two on Main
street in front of Rice restaurant
Sunday morning and number of
empty bottles were thrown out and
smashed. Only little milk was
spilled. The wagon was taken to
White S livery and Mr.. Spencer fin
ishcd his route in borrowed wagon.
The woodwork ON the under side of
the wagon had rottcd to the breaking
point.
Mrs. Richard Lynch of Newton Up
per Falls, Mass, whose husband, Rich |
ard Lynch, an employee in the Brooks
House kitchen. was drowned recently in
the Connecticut river and was found
by Alfred Ryan, has written Chief-of
Police Wilson TO know the circum-
stances. She says she had not heard
from her husband in 10 years. She
was notified of his death by the I'M
dcrtallcr in Jamaica Plain, Mass, |
where Lynch S relatives live.
MIR. and Mrs. George T.. Sherman have
received Il letter from their son, Laurence,
who is employed by the Du Point Powder |
Co.. in Haskell, y. j., where the fatal
powder explosion occurred last week.
lie wrote that he had been working on
the night shift in one of the buildings of |
the plant and was in bed and asleep when |
the explosion took place. He said that he |
was blown out of bed by the force of the !
explosion. With the nine others who |
were asleep in the house he ran into the
street without observing any Of the form |
alites required by the rules of costume
He was uninjured
Mrs Pearl NJ. J1lson Of Wilmington, |
a trained nurse who is rOoming on
Clark street, was slightly injured
Thursday, July l3, when the steering
gear Of the automobile she was driv-
ing ON the Putney road near Crosby !
pond broke. She managed to bring the !
car almost to a stop before it ran into
the gutter throwing her against the
windshield and injuring one shoulder.
The others in the car with her were
not injured. They were brought to
town by aut0mobilists who happened
to arrive soon after the accident and
the ear was towed to Manley Brothers
garage for repairs.
A jury was drawn Monday in
the municipal court to hear the case
of Warren G. Doolittle against John
Moore of NGwfune. This is an eject
mcnt proceeding, the plaintiff seeking
to have Moore leave property owned
by the plaintiff. The ease was heard
recently, but the jury disagreed. The
following were drawn on the new
jury: Walter Phelps, Clark Boyd, Wor-
thy G. Wordcn and Emory Evans of
fGuilford, Gilman A. Dix, Ernest c.
Miller Sherman Abbott and Walter
NJ Robbins of Brattlcboro, William
w. Burnett and MYron +. Dutton Of
| Dummerston and Bert II. Newton and
J A. A. Martindalc of Vernon. The case
is set for trial Aug 81.
Two former Brattlcboro men are
candidates for representative in the
! Massachusetts Legislature from the
| third Franklin district, Robert II. Ham
ilton of Montague and Myron l.. Cor
bett of Bcrnardston. Mr.. Hamilton
has served on the Republican town
committee in Montague, and for many
wears he was widely known ms a mem
Der of the l.. j. Gum ball team of
Milers Falls. Later he played profess
sional ball in Lawrence and Salem of
the New England league and in sew
eral Western league clubs. While EN-
ployed for years in the assembling de-
partment of the Millcrs Falls com.
pany at Millers Falls, his home has
been at Montague Center. He ha;
been master of the Bay state lodge
of Masons. His nomination papers
have been circulated the past week
Mr.. Corbett represented the district
in the Legislature some years ago.
, The funeral of Mrs. Ada Orchard
ardson) Scott, wife of Leslie Scott
who died in the family home in Mon
clair, N. j., Wednesday night, July
II. was held in the home, % North
Willow street, Friday night at $50
o'clock. The body was brought to
Brattlcboro on the White Mountain
express Saturday afternoon for burial
"a, Drocnoct HIN conatorU on1 vvac ne.