The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-01

promissory notes for such aid and con-
tinued TO do SO from time to time and did
also assign and transfer his insurance
policy to the said trustees to secure them
for such advancements as the trustees
made for the benefit of said Ada"
Three instances are given where relief
was administered by way of loans rather
than gifts, among them this one:
Miss Frances Cutler, 81 Main street,
is nearly IS years of age, and has been
sewing woman practically all her life,
and was personal acquaintance of
Thomas Thompson and his wife when
| they came to Brattleboro for the sum |
mer, and talked with Mrs. Thompson
about the hard time the sewing girls |
of Brattleboro were having in those days. |
| Miss Cutler was without flour or gro |
| ceries n few years ago and without
funds TO procure them, and applied toll
Mrs. Wells for help from the Thompson
Fund Mrs Wells told her they would
loan her three dollars, and she had that
amount, in groceries, delivered to Miss
Cutler In few months Mrs. Wells
dunned Miss Cutler for the above loan,
and Miss Cutler was able, at that time,
to pay all but three cents Of the loan,
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never been able to repay. Miss Cutler's
earning capacity, for several years, has
been very limited and she has been as
sisted some by friends and charitable or
| CARNATIONS" Miss Cutler has received
some assistance from the fund since July
! 1919
Numerous other cases are cited of bene
ficiaries who have refused to bind them
selves or any future interest in equity,
of disabled or aged persons who have
been refused aid, of persons who have
been furnished aid which fell far short
of their needs, of women put to needless
humiliation and indignities, of applicants
who were impressed by Trustee Bradley
that they We're disgracing themselves by
applying and We're making themselves
objects of charity and "in effect assum-
ing the position of paupers," and of wo
men who have been forced into the class
OF pauper poor.
Referring to the account of the trus-
tees filed in the Suffolk county probate
court for the period from June !, 1917,
to May 81, 1918, the bill of particulars
says that under item of money expend-
ID in Brattleboro it appears that pay
ments were made for the following OBJ
jects outside the town of Brattleboro:
Margaret Mcdonald, school
; nurse, Bellows Falls s 5000
| Mary L. Hayes, school nurse,
g St. Adams 10000
q Mary f. Wakefield, field secre.
d tary, salary and expenses, 2,4445s
Y Mary E. Wakefield, field secre-
4 tary, visiting and school
n nurse in Windsor 900. 90
4 Tutoring Miss Wakefield in or
thopedies 5000
e Mary f. Wakefeld's expenses
attending nursing conference
o in Cleveland, Ohio $500
: Alice Mckinnon. school nurse
!, l and aid to Miss Wakefield
l. salary and expenses l9l 5e
A. ". Whitney, school nurse
Townshend district, salary
and expenses ll6.7!
. Elizabeth VanPatten, school
nurse, Bellows Falls, salary
, and expenses 363 80
;. DR.. Parker for hygiene work in
n Vermont schools SAL.
a Vermont state board dental ex-
e. aminations, expenses DR.. Sal
mon 56Sl
ID Ford car, repairs, supplies, etc. 5e4.5
es Printing health cards and slips sac
L. School for attendants ut Lynn,
ID Mass. l,o74l
Detroit Home Nursing asso-
10 citation $3.50
lg Delaware Health and Welfare
at League $3.50
~ Buffalo Emergent Home, Buf-
falo, n Y. 5000
RS Bureau OF Home Nursing, Mil.
I'd waukee, Wis. 1000
40 Emergency fund 1850
~ Total $S,l2l.f
r. The bill states that the trustees hav
j. not filed any account for the year enc
ing May 81, 1919, and the petitioner
a are therefore unable to specify for whs
fe, particular objects money was expende
Is, during that period which are not kindre
Ie- charitable purposes within the meanir
RS and intent OF the testator and the d
"a crees of the court
IL The petitioners again assert that Il
ISIS trustees have failed to provide sufficiel
y funds for the maintenance of the Bra
as tleboro Memorial hospital, that the
Ter have failed to provide a home for Il
ISIS care and support of aged and disabl.
lie, persons, and that they have failed
GU provide any school in Brattleboro. exec
iiu kindergartens, for the education of Il
las children OF the classes of persons nam,
zee by Thomas Thompson in his will.
.or Replying to the query as to alleg,
ne mutual ill feeling, the petitioners state
~, IA The hostility that has arisen betwe.
-, 10 the Trustee Bradley and the beneficiarie
IA both direct and indirect, has been co
no stantly and gradually increasing for Sc
-, eral years; it is not attributed to al
IN one act or any one time. In Brattlebo
70. 1t has extended to the community ge
orally and to charitable and relief orga
es. izations working for the amelioration
us the condition of poor and disabled pc
of sons IN Brattleboro."
or Following is the list of names of pc
MS sons mentioned i'll the bill of particula
de- as having been refused aid, as havil
ich declined to transfer property in ord
to receive help, as having been hun