The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-02

Inc time lln.:t set by the laws of the !
| church beng up, the Rev. William f. |
Sitter, who for the last three years has !
been pastor of the Free Methodist church
at Burlington, will preach his farewell
sermon to his congregation on Sunday |
During Mr.. STEERS pastorate, the church
has grown in membership and finances,
| and Its members regret exceedingly that
| he must 60
The state educational department has
| decided to make the Rutland high school
one of the schools in Vermont where a |
| teacher training class will be established
the coming season and it has been an
nounced that Miss Elizabeth Hoffman is
Ito be the supervisor. Nine young wom-
en- have already applieu ror the course
The attendance always increases after the
school year commences. Miss Hoffman
was in charge of the teacher training
course at Montpelier last year and prior
to that taught in Bennington.
| Lawson c. Cummings, II died Saturday
night at Heaton hospital as result of
his automobile tipping on him i'm the
Morse woods about five miles from Mont
pelier He was riding in his automobile
alone when the car slipped off the bank
tipping onto him and breaking several
| ribs He was native OF that section and
was well known among rifle makers, hav-
ing been an inventor of telescope sights
for use on rifles, selling the patent to the
/ government He was a violin maker and
operated the first automobile that was
run in Montpelier.
Beginning this week the most advanced
| schedule of wages for apprentice granite
| cutters in the history of the granite in
dustry will become operative The new
scale is a radical increase over the seized
ule adopted by the Granite Manufactur-
| ers association little more than a
month ago, and marks the initial move in
campaign to increase materially the
number of young men now learning the
granite cutters trade. Workers will
start at So per day and get an increase
every six months The pay during the
last three months of a three year term
will be s525.
| Harry A. Black, secretary of state. has
| suspended the motorcycle operators Ii
cense of Frank j. Nault of Barton be-
cause of the accident in which Nault ran
into an automobile on the Wiloughby
road recently. Nault suffered a broken
ankle so that he probably could not oper-
ate his machine for some weeks anyway.
The operators automobile license of Har
old Grape of Lyndonville was suspended
because his automobile hit a woman,
knocking her down and breaking one hip.
He claimed that she was walking III the
road and that as he was meeting another
automobile his car hit the woman. His
report shows he was driving So miles an
| hour at the time
The Fourth Vermont Regimental associ-
| alton will hold its annual reunion at
White River junction Thursday, Sept. 4,
in the Knights of Pythias hall. Roll call
at 100 p. m, followed by business and
| social meetings and campfire in the even
ing at $50, to which the soldiers of all
| the wars, the Sons of Veterans and the
ladies' are invited The last roll was pub
lished in 1913. Since then many changes
have occurred, caused by removal to 9th
err localities or by death. The secretary
wishes every comrade to write at once,
giving any change that they may know
of necessary to revise the roll to date,
also stating whether or not you expect
to be present, and give your address.
Communications should be addressed to
| Warren E. Bliss, Plainfeld, Vt, X. f. D..
| No. g.
Harry Brow. the l6-year-old son of Hen,
ry Brow of Swanton, was accidentally
shot by playmate about his age. hoy
named Boss, Sunday morning. lie was
| attended by DR. f. L. Lape at Swanton
/ and tEen brought to the st. Adams ncspi-
tai. where his condition is considered Sc
rltus. The boys were foeling with 81
tallbre revolver out OF doors near Brow S
home. 1t is understood that the Boss
boy was standing ol.rosite Brow not IA.
| from him and just how the accident oc-
| Cured is not known. but the bullet went
IN from the right side and through the
/ ntestlnes. A-ray pictures were taken by
Or. II. ii. johnson, who. with DR.. Ar
| thur Morton, operated They found that
the intestine was punctured in many plae-
es, probably about dozen, and the bullet
was lodged in the abdominal wall on the
lett side. Although there is no doubt as
to 1T being an accident an investigation
will be carried out
! Mrs Sophie A. Knight of New York
city, 81 years old. who with her daugh-