The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-29

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opened on the fair grounds for three
days session Tuesday morning. The omen
ing day was devoted to the entering and
arranging of the exhibits in all depart.
/ ments
| c. B. A. Ames, for 20 years associated
with the Vermont Farm Machine com
pany as office manager and accountant
will go to Boston Sept. |, having accented
position with a prominent concern in
that city.
Harold Brouillard of st. Adams was ar
rested late Tuesday afternoon charged
with the robbery of $500 in cash and
checks from the safe in the bakery of
Harry Holmes. Later in the day Brouil
lard confessed.
The local organization of the Friends
of Irish Freedom at Bellows Falls conduct
a drive this week and next to raise contri-
bntions to the sum devoted to the cause
OF freeing Ireland. A large canvassing
committee has been chosen and a house to
house canvass will be made.
Melville f. Smile, 65, who was for
many years county clerk in Washington
county and who was prominent in affairs
Q, Montpelier for a great many years.
died at Jeffersonvlle Wednesday. Death
was due to heart disease with practically
no illness. He left Montpelier on Wednes-
day to visit at his old home in Cambridge
| \ Ford car, driven by Alfred Demers
bookkeeper for the United States Bob
BIN and Shuttle CO., at its plant mile
| south of Willoughby, colided with a
motorcycle with side car, driven by
Frank Naut OF Barton, Tuesday morning
\ Dung Nault sustained a crushed left
| leg, Which necessitated its amputation
just below the knee.
| An electric car of the military post rail
road jumped the track while rounding
the curve near St Michael's college in
| Ninooski. Miss Bertha Barnes of Essex
junction was the only passenger injured
| She was thrown against one of the iron
side hand bars. She was taken to the
| Fanny Allen hospital Her condition is
not thought to be serious.
Mr. Gridley, manager of the National
Acme Machine shop at Windsor, has stat
ed that he thought the strike was peter
li.t out, that men were coming back to
their jobs every day At the Thursday
evening meeting of the strikers it was
stated that another meeting would be held
| last night and it was their belief that
| there would be climax to the affair one
way or another Friday.
The steamer Ticonderoga was removed
| from Point an Fer reef Wednesday morn
ing and proceeded under her own power
| 10 the dry dock in Shelburne harbor.
where the necessary repairs to her hull
| will be made The vessel struck the reef
while carrying nearly 400 excursionists
Sunday, Aug. II, tearing hole in her
| hull on the starboard side the passengers
being taken ashore in life boats.
| No agreement having been reached be-
/ tween the officers of the Black Cat Tex
tile company of Bennington and the en-
| ployes who have been out on strike since
Aug. Il, the mill will be closed the last
of this week, unless there are new de-
velopments before that time The strike
does not interfere with the nainsook ath-
letic underwear department. which will be
continued in operation indefinitely.
Wednesday afternoon gasoline tank on
an automobile exploded in the Landon
Automobile company's garage at Bristol
and Clinton Mccormick was badly burned
| on lis right. arm and chest and George
| Devoid was burned on the chest and head
and face, Mccormick was soldering the
tank when the explosion occurred An
alarm of fire was turned in and the blaze
was eNtinguished before much damage
was done.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w Rocker of Bellows
Falls, are the proud parents of two pairs
of twins. The first pair, both girls, Vera
and Verna, We're born May IL. 1917, and
the second pair April Is, 1919 boy,
Lloyd, and girl. Lille Besides the twins
there are three older children Mrs. Rock.
er the mother, was born in Watertown,
\. y, one of a pair of twins Mr.. Rock
er, machine tender for the Interaation-
al Paper company, is 81 years old and his
wife is 80.
Thomas A. Diven, the young man who
| left behind him a number of worthless
checks when he left St Adams about 10
days ago, is still handing out checks
drawn on the Weldon National bank OF
that city. The last check received was
from the Ritz Carleton hotel in Philadel-
phia. 1t is also understood that Diven
did some of this work in Washington and
| New York The Weldon bank will not
| he the Jonah any longer as it is under
stood that Owens check book has been
exhausted.
Mrs. Arthur Paine and her five-year-
old child arrived in ST. Johnsbury
Wednesday from Quebec, expecting to
join her husband, who was connected with
the Cooper & Lent circus, which had been
exhibiting there. She was told that the