Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1920-09-03
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afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Makeup examinations in algebra /,
chemistry, English 2, English 3, plain
geometry and French will be held Tues
day at 10 o'clock at the high school build
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. C. +. Shorey are moving
from the Manley apartments on High
street to the farm they bought recently
of Ernest j. Waterman on the upper
West Dummerston road.
The school year at the Austinc 1nsti-
tuition will open Monday. Sept. 20. An
informal reception by invited guests will
be given to the new principal Professor
Weaver, and family Friday evening of
this week.
r. j. Coogan, proprietor of the meat
market in the Emerson building on Elliot
street bought Friday of j. i. Foritcr
his house at Howard street. Mr.. Coo
gan will move his family here from
Windsor Locks, Conn, soon
News has been received here of the
death in Hartford, Conn, of LYMAN Will
lis Butler, 10, of Ithaca, n. V, which
occurred in the home of his n-in-law,
G.. +. Rebass. He was q nephew of Mrs.
Abby d. Harris and Mrs. Della Thomas,
both of Brattlcboro.
George J. Pfcincr of the importing
firm of George Borgfeldt & Co. of New
York. has bought of Miss Nellie L..
Archer the Amcs hill property known
as IIilcrest, situated at the top of
Amcs hill Mr. Pfeifler buys the
property for summer occupancy with
his family.
Patrick and Hannah G.. Finn of New
Haven. Conn. have sold through Will
liam C Horton 5 real estate agency
their house at 14S Canal street to Will
liam r. Bruce of Conway, Mass. Mr..
Brucc has bought for home. lie will
finish the barn into Il sixroom house,
beginning the work at once.
Mrs. Florence (Phillips) Sodcn, who
married Michael j. McCarty Aug. 5
without knowing {nat McCarty had a
wife living, says that McCarty s state
mcnt that she threatened to commit
suicide if he did not marry her is false.
The statement was repeated to the
court at Mr. McCarty's hearing.
At special meeting of the board of
directors of the Ashuclot National bank
in Kecne Monday to fill the vacancy
in the Office of president of the board
Windsor H. Goodnow of Keene was chosen
president unanimously. He has been
director seven years. Mr.. Goodnow is
the head of the Goodnow chain of stores
which includes the Goodnow, Pearson &
Hunt store in Brattleboro.
The fall term of school in the incorpor-
ated district will open Wednesday, Sept.
8. For the three upper classes in the
high school the doors will open at $50,
but the freshman class will not report
until II O'Clock. Principal j. f. War.
rem has arranged to be present at the
building for consultation next Tuesday
from 10 to II a. m. Elective blanks
for the year should be in his hands
by noon of that day.
Robert C. Curtiss of Canaan, Conn.
has been engaged as principal of the
Brattleboro Business Institute for the
coming year to succeed G.. A. Speer,
who resigned to 90 to Iowa. Mr.. Cur
tiss already has taken up his work here,
and is making preparations to open the
school sept T. He is graduate of
Columbia university, held a principal
ship in Hartford, Conn, four years, and
recently completed course at the Bay
Path Institute in Springfield Mass,
of which the Brattleboro Business In
stitute is branch. He is unmarried.
DR.. f. l.. Tracy's automobile and a
Hudson owned by j. NJ Bousquet of
MiddlcScX were in n head on collision
on Woodstock avenue in Rutland Sun
day night. Both machines were dam
aged, and DIR Tracy received n cut
over his right eye from flying glass
from his windshield, but otherwise no.
body was injured. On account of
roughncss of the street DIR. Tracy was
driving nearer the left side of the road
than he otherwise would have done,
and heavy rain and fog caused him
TO mis- Judge the distance to the other
ear, so he did not turn out soon enough
TO avoid an accident.
S. f. Douglas has moved from the So
called Tenney house, which was bought
recently by st. Michael's Roman Catho-
lie society, on Walnut street, to p. Elem
ings house on the corner of Walnut
street and Putney road. The Tenney
house will undergo repairs and rcnova-
ton and then will be occupied by j. T.
Denning and family. The house on
Green street which the Denning family
now occupies and whch belongs to school
district No. 2 will be occupied by Clin-
ton II. Goodnough and family, who now
live in the upper tenement in the Hines
house at 92 Green street, which also is
the property of the school district The
tenement in the Hines house will be occu
pied by Mr.. and Mrs. Leon C. Gould and
daughter, Miss Ruth Hinckey, who now
live on Main street, over j. L. Rogers
plumbing shop.
William Garland of Putney was ar
rested on Washington street Saturday
by Chief-of Police George Wilson, who
went there on receipt of message by
telephone that man there was intoXi-
Gated. He was sitting at the wheel of an
automobile which stood in a yard. The
officer placed him in the lookup, but later
he was bailed out; Arthur Wilson becom
ing surety for him, Attorney n d. Claw
son acting as counsel. Later he started
home, his wife driving the car, and on
Putney road the car stopped suddenly
and another car which was following
closely bumped into it, doing some dam
age to the rear car. Mr.. Garland came
here Monday TO have his case disposed
of in the municipal court, but on account
of the absence of States Attorney T.. w.
Gibson the case was put over until the