Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-15

mont Marble company will, but are
nowerless while the largest of all runs
on the present plan. They could not
compete unless all We're on the same
footings. 60
The men are out as follows: Column
bian. 200 Rutland Florence, SO; rem
pie Brothers, %; W. r. kinsman, IL;
Vermont Marble company, so III ai
their plants. Only a handful went out
at Proctor. the reason being that the
men are not well organized. The
goods of the companies will be boy
cotted all over the country, but tins
will not affect other departments
There is no talk yet of a sympathetic
strike among other marble workers.
Most of the employees in the monu-
mental shop of the Vermont Marble
company at Proctor left work We'd
nesday, july 13, in response to union
orders received Tuesday. The bulk
of the work of the company at present
is in the monumental department
and for the time being the companys
business is paralyzed, though the Of
ficers win not admit this.
South Royalton is to hold its sew
enth annual Old Home week celebra-
ton Wednesday, August TO-
George Marshall of Wells was fined
5000 and costs Monday July II, Tor
selling liquor without a license, by
Justice Costello of Poultney.
The ten year old son of Frank
Blay of Derby was drowned in the
Clyde river while bathing Monday
july II. The body was soon found
Leo Duchene. the nine-years- old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bruno Duchene OF
Burlington. died Saturday, July 3, OF
lockiaw. the result of injuries received
July 8, while handling toy pistol.
c. S. Harding of Bennington at
tempted suicide Friday night, July s.
in a saloon by trying to take lauda-
mum. \ bartender knocked the bottle
from his hand after which Harding
reioiced that it was done He mad had
some slight trouble with his wife. rms
is the fourth attempt Harding has
made on his life within three weeks
BY a single stroke of lightning at
Charlotte, Monday, July Il, Roderick
Emo lost is out of his herd of y cows
Sixteen were killed instantly and two
Others were so shocked that they died
later The cattle We're in the pasture
and when the heavy shower came up
went under some trees for protection
and We're so close together they were
nearly all affected by the shock. The
loss will be from $500 to $500
Albert G. Pierce. one of the oldest
and most successful business men Of
Burlington, died suddenly Monday,
July II, in a way that puzzled medical
men. He was seized with pains in his
stomach, became unconscious and
died in an hour without regalning con-
seriousness. He leaves a wife and one
son, the latter at Springfield, Mass,
He was a director of the burlington
Savings bank and had large business
and financial interests.
Wilbur Blair, IS, entered the grocery
store of John Symond at Burlington
Friday, July s, secured about $50 from
the cash drawer and escaped. He
went to Winooski, bought himself a
suit of clothes, cap, shoes, stockings, a
buttonhole bouquet, then dressed him
self and lastly purchased ticket for
Montreal. He then boarded the train
and started for his native city. Mrs.
Symond having seen the boy as he left
the store, notified the police, who
caught the lad at Essex Junction.
In county court at Hyde Park Mon
day. July II, the case of Bertha May
Isham VS.. the town of Georgia, an APP
peal from the decision of a justice
court, was continued at the request
of the plaintiff owing to the serious
illness of the mother of one of the
witnesses. The case is an action to
recover $11O, payment for II weeks
teaching school at $40 a week. Two
of the five school directors claim that
Miss Isham was hired without their
consent and that she did not teach
school in the regular school building
but in the old academy building and
against their protest.
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tended the picnic rally held Friday,
den opposite the home of Charles j.
Bell, the republican candidate for