Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-24
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.
Barre Man Killed by Live Wire-The New
State Golf Champion An Aged Suicide
gennss Bank Officials Sued for Recovery Of
Dividends Shetland Herd at Barre Sold.

UVluouus -0uotlduu heIu ~ 0ath0 cVAu'
The entire business portion Of Bran
don was endangered Friday morning b.
a blaze in the old scale shop building
on Center street. The fire started from
a barrel in which hams had been smok
ing, and was with difficulty controlled
The Burlington fall festival promise
to be great success. Organization ha
been completed and the date set a
Aug. 31-Sept. 5. A Ferris wheel vii
be among the attractions Very low
rates will be given on all railroad ant
steamboat lines.
Mrs. Catherine Potter, aged 70, o.
Burlington, committed suicide las
week by drowning herself in Linsley':
slip. She has been ailing of late and
is believed to have been temporarily
out of her mind. No other cause il
known for the deed.
The engagement is announced OF
Miss Alma Wright Of Castleton to Ma
son S. Stone of Montpelier, former
state superintendent of education, who
has just returned from the Philippines,
where he was at the head of depart
ment of educational work.
Eight hundred Winooski wooden mill
employees are taking an enforced vaca-
ton Of about two weeks. This is not due
to scarcity of work hut because some
of the departments are congested ow
ing to the inability of the finishing
room to complete the work started by
the other departments.
Murray Durkee. aged u. of Barre.
was killed near Middlesex Friday after,
noon while at work on l. s. Viles,
electric plant wires. His neck struck
a live wire. u. 600 volts passing through
him He died before the doctors ar
rived. He was unmarried. but leaves
father and brother.
f. G.. Barnard has been tried and
fined $500 and costs AT Verpennes for
keeping LIQUOR with intent to sell.
This trial was the outcome of the re.
cent search and seizure made at the re-
Quest of the liquor commissioners. who
saw they are determined that the law
shall be enforced. The case has been
appealed TO county court.
W. ,rota az, :, .ho d. ..ou a.
G. Iehusi' 20 S.i ~ sie l,oo' aoo'e sne
Thursday. The damage to the build
ing, owned by ". J. Caldbeck, was
estimated to be about $1,000. The
goods in the wholesale store owned by
Henry n. Wilson were badly damaged
by water His loss was about 5000 !;
covered by insurance.
Georpe Cassie If Barre has sold for
5000 his herd Of Al Shetlands n Dr
s Elliott. secretary Of The Willard
hospital Redford Mass The hard
includes brood maras colts and staI
lions. Mr., Cassie is Undecided wheth-
er he VIII handle any more Shetlands
or not he has been engaged in the
business fol Is years, at times having
as many as ~ ponies ID his herd.
Robert Spellman tried to stop a man
panied Butler from working at plaster
ing and whitewashine in a Burlington
house last week. Butler is not a union
nan but argued that he had as much
light to work as anyone and refused to
stop. Spellman was so much battered
n the mixup that followed that medi
al aid was necessary Ind he was found
gum. vi oteaGn OF the peace ana nneo
'oou' GU ihcluuing cos's'
Rutland Mystic Shriners went to
Saratoga and secured a charter for a
lew temple which will soon begin work
With headquarters in Rutland. Mount
Sinai temple at Moptpelier has hereto /
ore had jurisdiction over the whole |
tate but the difficulty in getting from
ne side of Vermont to the other made /
{ desirable to have n shrine ON each .
ide of the mountain line. The work
( Cairo and Mount Sinai TEMPLES will [
~ done in entire harmony.
~,
me annual lheeIing o. the trustees
the Vermont Soldiers home, Ben
orr of the superintendent showed that
Or June 30 there were q admissions
nd Dc readmissions. three DISCHARGED
even died and 60 in the bospital The
reatest number ON the rolls. ito. was
D January. The total REGENTS during
he wear we're 500 $50 Of which 5000 /,
AS from the state s6lo) from the cen.
raj government and 5000 from men.
ons The total exner ses for the Year
ere sls. 795, 90
Because number OF the stockhold.
RS OF the defunct Farmers National
ank OF Vergenpes lave refused to
sturn the dividends paid on their
. Gcs S' nee h hpr,a, toS, L. risn' re-
ewis and Others for the recovery. OF
n ne;s seSe RAJ amounts mounts receiver M Fisn
,tnrn snnh d;r;d hnGi 81 ~ ~ " &