Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-08
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOE THE PAST WEEK.

State Cattle Quarantine Removed Aeeting Oh
Employers Killed Beneath Load Of Lumber
Proctor Stores Will Divide ProAts-Post-
Office Burglarissd- at Cambridge
The annual session Of the grand
bodies of Odd Fellows will be held at
Enosburgh Falls May 1921.
The state normal school commission
met at Burlington last week to plan
for examinations. There is to be
new 90, 900 training school at Randolph.
DR.. f. A. Smith of Brandon an.
nounces the annual camp meeting OF
the Queen City Park Spiritualist asso-
citation for the month OF August. lie
states that for every dollar OF money
found to be Incorporated he VIII
give them 3D.
The French people Of Burlington are
raising money for the erection OF
monument to the memory OF Cham
plain, the discoverer of Lake Cham
plain. Ali the French societies In the
state will be asked to help. The mon
ument will be of bronze.
Frances Metcalf, an inmate at the
Burlington almshouse, committed sui
eide Saturday by jumping into els
tern. She left the almshouse unnotlced,
removed the cover of the cisterD,
jumped in and was drowned in about
three feet of water. The woman had
been at the almshouse for about two
years.
The large two-story dwelling house
at Cambridge, owned and occupied by
w. S. Noyes, was burned to the ground
Thursday. The fire was caused by
sparks from the steam mill nearby.
The contents of the house were saved.
There was no insurance. Other resi-
dences nearby were badly damaged and
barely escaped being consumed.
Mayor Hawley of Burlington has ve-
toed the resolution giving the city EN-.
ployees a nine-hour day, with 10 hours
pay He stated that be did not think
| legislation on the question was advis-
able or necessary at the present time.
! The resolution has been before the
board of aldermen three times. 1t was
once passed, then rescinded and passed
again.
A meeting of employers OF labor
from all over Vermont was held at
Rutland Thursday under the auspices
of the Vermont Employers Assocla-
ton. The question of trade unionism
and employers associations were dis
cussed. About $50 were present. In
the evening the formation of state
federation of employers associations
was discussed but no definite action
was taken.
The farm buildings of Frank Down
| ing in Washington were burned to the
ground Sunday. 1t is supposed that
| the fire started from a defective chin
ney. Mr.. Downing was away, but his
neighbor removed part OF the house
hold goods including the furniture.
Two horses and the wagons were taken
from the barn. The loss is we'll Gov
cred by insurance.
Dan D. Burditt, president OF the
Rutland County Agricultural society,
has received telegram from Senator
Redfield Proctor, at Washington, te
the effect that the quarantine which
has been on Vermont cattle has beer
removed. Cattle may now be sent out
of the state. This is the result Of siren
uous work on the part of Mr.. Burditt.
The quarantine was on account OF the
foot and mouth disease.
Beginning May l the pronts. II an!
are made, at the stores of the Vermont
Marble company, located at Proctor,
West and Center Rutland, will be di.
yided at the end of each year, in cash
among the employees of the company
in proportion to the total amount each
employee has traded at any of the
stores during the year. The percentage
of net profit made in 1902 in the three
stores was little less than 4 per cent.
A committee from each place has been
elected to represent the employees.