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BRATTLEBORO. There will be a special meeting of the Red Men this evening for a rehearsal. Rev. Dr. Harris of Worcester will preach as a candidate in the Universalist church at North Adams next Sunday. The Vaughan & Sargent Electrical company have moved their office into Crosby block, into the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Dinsmore. Steamer No. 3, which was recently sent to Seneca Falls, N. Y., to be repaired, was returned Monday. The pump has been repaired, the nickel jacket has been removed and the boiler given a black coating and the wood and metal parts have been repainted and renickeled. The expense of the improvements was about $600. Frederick Swift, who was married recently to Miss Ethel Dalton, formerly of Brattleboro, is a member of the firm of Edward C. Hodges & Co., bankers and brokers, who assigned at Boston, Wednesday. The company had several thousand shares of United States Mining company's stock, which the banks refused to receive. These officers were elected at the annual meeting of Dennis Rebekah lodge held Tuesday evening in Odd Fellows' hall: Noble Grand, Mrs. F. E. Beeman; vice grand, Mrs. W. D. Gilson; recording secretary, Mrs. J. A. Amidon; permanent secretary, Mrs. Eric Landry; treasurer, Mrs. C. L. Spears; trustees, Mrs. Samuel Brown, Mrs. F. E. Perry and Miss Lulu Coates. These officers will be installed the second week in January. The annual meeting of St. Michael's Court, Catholic Order of Foresters, was held in Red Men's hall Tuesday evening and the following officers were elected: Chief Ranger, D. S. Carey; vice chief ranger, J. C. Sullivan; recording secretary, T. A. Austin; financial secretary, E. J. Lavelle; treasurer, H. B. Haus; first trustee, P. B. Lavelle; second trustee, P. Drislane; third trustee, W. O. Young; medical examiner and court physician, E. R. Lynch. Judges Frank Worden and Daniel Kellogg have examined the account of George C. Averill, treasurer of Windham county, and they find that the income of the county for the year ending Dec. 1, was $1624.18. There was a balance of $5.43 in the treasury Dec. 1, 1898. The balance on hand Dec. 1 of this year was $29 32. The amount of county clerk's orders now outstanding and unpaid, against the county, is $712.29. To provide for the payment of the indebtedness and for the county expenses for the coming year the judges have ordered the treasurer to levy a tax of one cent on the dollar on the list of the polls and ratable estate of the several towns of the county, said tax to be paid on or before June 1, 1900. Charlotte M. Fletcher sold her saw mill on Birge street, operated by W. H. Fletcher, together with a two-tenement house and two acres of land, to the P. H. Potter company of Springfield, Mass., Saturday through the real estate agency of F. J. Bailey. Mrs. Fletcher took in part payment two good houses in Springfield. The Potter company, which is one of the largest lumber, sash, door and blind concerns in New England, has a large business in this county and it proposes to operate the mill in connection with that business. The company owns about 3500 acres of land in the county, and now has a steam mill clearing off a wood lot in Jamaica. Another mill will be put into that section of the county soon. The new owners of the Fletcher mill are ready to receive from the board of trade any proposition as to furnishing room and power for new industries, and would build an addition to accommodate a hundred hands or more. The mill has one of the best water-powers afforded by Whetstone brook, having a fall of 27 feet, and it is in every way adapted for manufacturing purposes. This property formerly was owned and operated by Jordan, Marsh & Co. as a woolen factory, and is one of the historical plants of the town.
