Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-07
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
THE STATES NEWS RECORD FOR
THE PAST WEEK.
Historic Site SoId.-Aeeident Not q
Suicide.-Golf Event.-State Sunday
School and Firemen's Conventions
Test Of New Carbon Fuel.

Suieide.-Golf Event.-State Sunday
School and Firen,en's Conventions
Test Of New Carbon Fuel.
Aug 10 will be governors day at the
state muster ON the camp ground at
Fort Ethan Allen. There Will be a
review and dress parade of the First
Vermont regiment.
The recent assignment of Norcross
Bros. of Worcester, Mass, does not af-
feet the firms Vermont interests.
Work goes on as usual in the Man.
chester Depot mill and quarry at So.
| Dorset.
Joseph DeLorme Of Burlington was
fined 500 Saturday for stealing a
horse and buggy from Louis Pomeroy
last November. He says he took the
horse while intoxicated and traded
with the Jewish peddler from whom
the animal was eventually recovered.
Edwin NJ. Clark, Sd, won the open
handicap tournament Of SO holes at
medal play on the golf links at
Manchester Thursday for a handsome
prize offered by d. H. Hostetter.
Clarks card was 162--6-156. His
gross score in the morning round was
rs.
Mrs. Mary Rogers and Stella Bates
who were in Jail at Bennington havs
been taken to the house of correction
in Rutland where they will be kept
until their trial for the murder of Mar
Gus Rogers is called at the December
term of the county court. They pro-
tested considerably against being re-
moved.
The two young actors who eloped
recently with two 1S-year- old girls of
West Burke and who were subse-
quently driven out Of town by irate
citizens, have returned and are liv-
ing there quiet and unmolested. The
young brides are still in the custody
of their parents and are under strict
surveillance.
Robert Ingram, a brakeman on the
st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain rail-
road, was almost instantly killed at st.
Johnsbury depot Friday night while
coupling cars. The train passed over
his body and he lived only 20 min
utes after the accident. He was I'M
married and had worked for the rail-
road six years.
At the monthly meeting of the Win
ooski selectmen last week a petition
was received asking for the removal
of Chairman John Blais of the license
commissioners. The petition was
signed by is prominent taxpayers.
They claim that Blais is unfit to hold
office. The people think that the
board have not been active in enforc-
ing the law.
Mark H. Daniels of Goshen, n. H,
and Frank Crossman of Claremont
who are charged with obtaining seven
horses upon false representation, CIV
ing bogus checks in Windsor county, |
were arrested near North Montpelier |
Thursday. Crossman claims to have |
recently entered the employ of Daniels |
and thus far nothing has developed |
to connect him with uttering any boz |
gus checks.
The annual convention of the State /
School association will be held |
at Burlington Oct. 20 to 20. Among |
the speakers engaged are Marion Law |
renee, general secretary of the Inter- |
national Sunday School association; I
Prof. Fl. II. Horne of Dartmouth COL
lege w. n. Hartshorn. chairman of |
:.
onzo Petit, president of the New Jer-
sey Primary union.
The neighbors and friends of Albert
Bliss. of Calais, whose suicide last
week by drowning in water tub was
are confident that the death
IF Mr.. Bliss was due to an accident.
A cut on the nose of the deceased leads
his friends to believe that he fell while !
aking a can of milk from the water
ub, struck his nose on projecting
BOARD and when thus stunned fell
nto the water and was drowned.
An historic site at Bennington has
,een sold, the purchase being made in
he interest of Frederick B. Jennings
Who is erecting a s25OO00 house near
I and who will, it is said, erect an ex- (
'ensive mausoleum upon it. 1t is the
lite of the house that was occupied for
everal years by Ethan Allen of Green ]
fountain Boy fame. For many years .
fter its construction the lower part
vas used as public hall and known
ethan Allen hall.
The 14th annual convention of the
state Firemen's association will be {
ED at Burlington, Sept. %. Chiefs {
f departments throughout the state
re invited to inform the secretary on !
r before Sept. l of any subject per- !
aiming to fire matters that they would :
Ike to have brought before the con-
ention. Every company in the state c
J asked to send delegate to aid in &
preading among the firemen of the a
tate the knowledge and experience of I
lodern appliances and methods. |
Charles Sawyer of Woodford, while q
igging gravel with which to repair y
ne highway in Woodford. found a Z
old watch, five feet below the sur I
ice, under a large rock. The watch II
as of Swiss make and old fashioned Y
awyer sold it to Charles Wood for IS. Il
If. Wood. life long resident, re- u
rendered that over 40 years ago, a V
ian who claimed TO have been a /
lilor came to Woodford and had with "
i'm a watch that was then curiosity y
he man lost the watch in the woods ii
I'D Mr.. Wood believes that the one he Y
ought is the same one h
The Orleans County Historical So o
ETY. on Aug. 81 will place a tablet at II
azen's Notch. Westfield, to mark the I
rminus of the old military road be- I'll
IN in 1716 under Gen Bailey at New g
Try and in 1873 worked to that point Sc
: Gen. HaZen. The road was built Z
connection with a plan to provide q
ghway across the state of Vermont to
axe Champlain, in order to cut off
Id repel invasion from Canada. The
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