Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-28
MATTERS IN VERMONT.
GE NEWS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY TOLD

<N1 + NEWS Of The STATE BRIEFLY TULl
M zeal Option Statistics for This Year-Deatf
NJ Alden Speare-Barre Quarrymen Troubles
Il Smallpox in Waterbury The Liebich Big
~ amy Case Not Yet Reached.
|l| The Sons of Vermont in Buffalo to
be number of 100 held their eighth
ANNUAL banquet at the Hotel Genesee
arch IA.
Trinity church, Rutland, is to have
l35 new parish house this spring costing
81 bout S10,0 600. to contain a hall with
|93 Batting capacity of 400 and a stage Is
s ~ % feet.
|@ West Haven and Searsburg are the
3N<fAlpha and Omega of the tax rates of
be state. The former raises 20 cent
Ax and the latter "a. 40. -Morrisville
II Jews and Citizen.
|55 The Avenue house at st. Johnsbury,
NE of the leading hotels of the state,
las been closed. The st. Johnsbury
$8epublican says that this is the result
M liquor raids and prosecutions
'&N The Rutland county historical socie-
2y, inactive for II years, has reorgan-
HE'D. About two thirds of the former
members are dead The object of the
I1ociety is the collection of historical
relative to families and towns
a1h the county.
s# Vermont G. A. r. posts lost 231
Members during the year just passed
Il rhe roster of G. A. R. posts was also
81 Unfinished by four, due no doubt to
HE dying of the members until there
We're so few the organizations could
hot be continued.
81 After exposing fully 100 persons in
water bury to smallpox, William Greno,
'Se5 years old, was found to be suffering
4from that disease and has been re-
#moved to an isolated house. together
with his family, seven in all. Three
other families have been quarantlned.
81 The Barre quarrymen's union last
&Eeek. with 800 or 900 members, through
#i is officers demanded of the owners an
2bight-hour day with nine hours pay,
&the new work day to begin April TO-
RThe owners consulted and decided that
$they could not comply with these de
<mands.
w. D. Poole, prominent business
Eman of Barre, was found unconscious
Thursday and died without regalnlng
his senses. An empty morphine bottle
4 WAS found in the room and it Is be-
Ilieved that he committed suicide as
he has been respondent over business
matters for some time.
John Leahy 80 years of age, who
served three years in Co. d, 2Sth Mas |
sachusetts infantry during the Civil
war and for some time an inmate of
the Chelsea Soldiers Home was found |
dead by the side of the road neal Ben
nington Thursday, having been admit
ted to the home at Bennington from
Enosburgh.
Alden Speare of Boston, one of the
most widely known business men in
New England, died Saturday evening
at Pasadena, Cal. He was born in
Chelsea in 1925, educated in Corinth
and entered the oil business in 1851
In later years he was member of the
Chamber of Commerce and was presi
dent of the Vermont Association in
Boston.
Henry Hitchcock, brother of Secre-
tary Of the Interior Ethan A. Hitch
cock, who died in st. Louis last week,
was a descendant of Ethan Allen and
the original of Stephen Brice in Wins
ton Churchill's novel, "The Crisis. !"
His grandfather, Samuel Hitchcock
was one of Burlington's leading citi
zens and married the second daughter
of Ethan Allen.
After remaining in Jail at Burling-
ton since july 4. pending a satisfac
tory liquor disclosure, William Cilley
of that city was taken to the house of !
correction at Rutland Thursday. The
~ hn off in nf
the case amounted to S153 o. Cilley !.
was fined for the third otfense of in .
toxication and given 100 days in the !
house of correction as an alternative |
sentence. :
There was much conflicting testi- |
mony in the hearing by the state board 1
Of railroad commissioners at Cam c
bridge last week, to inquire into the a
causes of the accident on the Central
Vermont railroad March 4 in which the I
infant child of DR.. and Mrs. j. f. S
Wilson of Fair Haven was killed. +
There was some testimony that showed [
that the train was running at great r
rate CT speed over the spot made dan \
gerous by washout, and other testi- c
nony contracted this.
Local option statistics prepared by S
he state commissioner of excise for [
he present excise year, ending April n
1902, show 2S5 no-license, $40 full Iii "
,ense and 29S partial-license towns in t
he state At the last general cleo c
ion, which was held November D, n
sol. 81 towns were entitled to o
,ote on local option, but only l49 S
owns availed themselves of the privi- il
ege of submitting the local option b
question, the result, taking effect May d
:, 1902, making the status at that time
"a no-license, IA fulllicense and 304
partial license towns. Although many
owns vote no local option every year,
he relative number of license and par
ial- license towns in the state does not
change. o
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