Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02


blood of oxygen. 1t is always fatal.
its course is short, and the animal
drops dead suddenly as though shot
An outbreak similar to the present
one occurred about 10 years ago when
10 COWS died. II appears that the
germ of anthrax has found Judgment
i'm the "intervale" along the Winoo-
ski river between Winooski village
and the mouth, II is not known now
It came there, but IL is suspected that
it may originally have come from
Australian wool used at the mill the
germs being washed down by high
water and lodged in the grass. The
disease therefore, is liable 10 break
out at any time in the cattle in that
section.
The animals which die should not
be skinned. Neither should they be
buried. There is danger in doing
to the men who DO
the skinning and danger in the germs
being carried to the surface by worms
If buried. The carcass, therefore.
should be burned 1t is supposed that,
in the present case, young Goodrich
skinned the diseased COW before the
veterinary surgeon was called. the
latter says that the disease does not
affect the milk of the COW. only the
blood.
The state Christian Endeavor soci-
ETY. will hold its annual convention in
during the last week in
October, probably october 1927.
Byron $. Abbey, 67 years old, fell
into tank of hot water which feeds
the boiler To his steam mill in Orwell,
Saturday, Aug. 81, and was so badly
burned before he received assistance
that he died Sunday morning. Mr..
Abbey was a lifelong resident of Or
well and leaves a son and two daugh-
tiers.
The cases of Eugene Sargood, John
Doyle and Robert Bonn, concerned in
the Arlington poisoning affair.
which it was believed would be tried
this week in Bennington county court
will be held over until the December
term This is owing to the decision
of the supreme court in refusing Sar-
good and Doyle new trials.
r. s. Currier, president of the
Vermont Good Roads association
has written to John f. Gale of Gull
ford, chairman of the farmers legis-
ative committee, warmly approving
Of the plan to appropriate 100000 per
annum from the state treasury for
highways, in addition to
the present highway tax
Several Rutland liquor dealers who |
were arrested some time ago on the |
charge of selling without licenses, APP
peared in city court Tuesday Aug. |
30. All the cases were continued in |
not, tn al
I'D the places, remove all evidences of |
liquor selling, and not to sell in the /,
future. This action was taken on the !
advice of the city attorney who be-
ieved it would be impossible to con- |
Wet in a higher court under the pres
ant law.
John w Bagley had one leg crushed /
the ankle and the knee near |
he Central Vermont bridge at Mont |
oelier Saturday, Aug. q, by a train 1
Is it was coming down from Barre, |
Bagley had been at the clothespin /
shop but a few minutes before and .
vas on his way down the tracks. He .
vas crossing the tracks to avoid .
reight train that was shifting in the .
Yards at the time when the train COM
ng out of the bridge struck him.
Mary Thomas. whose home is in
oownal. was taken into custody late
Saturday night, Aug. o. at the Union
station in Troy, n. Y, where she had
ust stepped off the train. While
working at Hoosick Falls. she says
,he received word that her parents
we're on their way to get her She OBJ
ects to returning home with them
he says, because they insist on her
marrying a certain young man for
whom she has no love. The girl was
ent to the rooms of the Humane So
iety for the night
The state board of health investigat-
d the conditions of st. Adams last
week. Dr. H. D. Holton, of the board
,aid that many of the public buildings h
we're simply outrageous, and in case of
ire they would be nothing less than
Ieath traps. The same was true of
everal of the school buildings that
lad then been examined by the board
lie further declared that it was
rhine to allow such a source of dis
.ase and contagion to exist as what
S known as the Stevens brook and
wondered that the local board of
health would allow it.
Mrs. Blake B. Snow, wife of the
Keeper of Lake Mitchell clubhouse at
sharon met with a serious accident
friday. Aug. 26. She was driving
rom the club house to Sharon village.
One mile south of the village is a
steep hill with an embankment on the
vest side at the foot of which is
White river. Her horse became
frightened at an automobile and
packed down the embankment, 25 feet
high, with Mrs. Snow standing in the
wagon. She was thrown out and her
mike was badly injured and the car
iage was completely wrecked. The
of the automobile were I'M
.nown. They Immediately left,
landing a bystander a $40 Canadian /
ill to give to Mrs. Snow.
The state Line" house. situated
artly in Wflliamstown, Mass, and
artly in Pownal. was raided early ,
sunday. Aug. 2S. by officers from the
wo towns. and the proprietor Jo-
eph Burnash. was arrested on
barge of Illegally selling intoxicating
ouors. Burnash was seriously i'll ]
nd unable to be moved, and I
uard was placed over him, and wiz &
e continued until he is sufficiently J
improved to appear in the Williams- 9
own court The raid was engineered
Y Walter Towsley. chairman or the !
cense committee of Pownal, and Z
18th him were officers from the two 6
owns. A two-gallon jug about half '
lied with some kind of liquor and 8
bout 40 bottles of ale were found in I
"a o,,,cfor.-,a side n the house. C