The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-09

DAY, SEPTEMBER 9.
aductions," remarked Stockwell, in an 7
wer to question to this effect.
When?' inquired Gen. Sherburne.
GA month ago 1 dropped the price
rom 65 to 60 cent for beef was the
eply.
Gen. Sherburne, reading from the
ook, noted several declines in the buy
ng price and remarked that Stock
veil had never passed them along to
he customers.
VERMONT NEWS.
The st. Adams city schools opened this
week with an enrolment of about $50
which is unusually large The eighth
,rada has the largest enrolment in the
history of the school, over 90 students be-
ng registered.
Patrick Burke, committed suicide Satur-
lay afternoon by hanging himself at the
home of his brother, Michael Burke of
Fair Haven, by taking his belt from his
and hanging himself to stair
case railing. His mind had been slightly
deranged for some time.
Montpelier seminary will open the fall
term today with some lib new students
of whom about 45 will be boys.
With the students who were here last |
year this will make total of about 200 |
students, 80 of which are boys which is
the largest number of boys in the school
in several years.
Douglas Cairns of Middletown Springs
in Fair Haven municipal court
Monday and plead guilty to driving an
without an operators license. |
Mr.. Cairns is now a student at the Lyn-
donville agricultural school and had been
operating his fathers automobile truck
during the summer vacation in carrying
milk to the creamery.
St Johnsbury, held last week, the mem
bers voted unanimously to recommend tol
the town and village that they give
George c. Carey 10 years tax exemption
on a big maple sugar factory if he will
erect it in St. Johnsbury Mr. Cary has
already purchased a lot in Summerville
and will erect the building there if the
tax exemption is granted by the voters.
Charged with DESERVING her three small
children, Mrs. Matilda Besaw, of Burling
ton, was arrested by Sheriff Allen Satur-
day at st. Adams and brought back and
lodged i'll the Chittenden county Jail The
youngest of her three children is but a
| year and a half old. This is said to be
the third time she has left the children
and gone to ST. Adams, where she was
| formerly employed.
| o. w McShane of Poutney and Mi
| chael j. Green of Green Brothers of FAN
| Haven were each fined $50 and costs Mon
day for selling chocolate ice cream be
low the state standard in Fair Haven mu
nicipal court, by II. n Locke, acting
judge. In each Of the cases the ice cream
was sent in from out of the state, bein:
manufactured by the Trojan Ice Cream
company OF Troy. n Y.
At a meeting of che Commercial club il
George T. Chaffee of Rutland was elect
ed president of the Automobile Club O
Vermont at the annual meeting held il
: Montpelier Saturday afternoon. Georg
Fl FL Morrill, of St Johnsbury and Georg
: ID. Stratton of Montpelier, vice pres
! dents; Lester II. Greene. of ! Montpelier
secretary and treasurer, and John
: Adams of Montpelier, director. The clu
: has membership of 2,ls6.
$ Mr.. and Mrs Thomas II Cave of Barr
5 celebrated their Goth anniversary Sunda,
e MIR. Cave was a printer by trade an
5 sold out his interests about eight year
. ago He learned his trade in Montpelie
J. and worked for the Vermont Watcl
: man. for many years He also worke
e for the Argus & Patriot in Montpelier
He is ST years of age and his wife is
: and both are enjoying good health.
4
fl W. ID. Bull of Castleton has in his po
@ session for mounting one of the larges
G trout ever taken in that part of Vel
|. mont. 1t is brown trout % inches lon,
J. the live weight of which was eight pounds
o The fish was taken from the Battenki
river at Manchester 1t was caught III
r der rather odd circumstances The angle
Il cast his fly into big pool, and sma
q fish snapped it, not getting hooked. I'll
s wielder of the rod made the customar
; strike, but in the instant before he coul
Y recover the line, the eight-ponuder too
the feathered lure
Prof Henry f. St Antoine of Burlin
> ton, graduate of the University of We
r. mont, and who took a post gradual
a course at Harvard university, has bee
= appointed a member of the medical sta
of the United States marine hospita
"a Remington avenue and 3lst street. al
- will be i'll charge of the new psychiatr
j. ward building, which will accomoda
about 30 patients Professor St. Anton
q is quite a young man and is an expe
on mental and nervous diseases, havir
n treated hundreds of cases while servir
in France. where he was located at Ba
n