The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-06

Florence E. Burgess was granted
divorce on the grounds of desertion
from E. p. Jewett Burgess in Washing
ton county court Immediately after the
hearing in which three witnesses were
examined. The defendant, who is son
of Prof. John w. Burgess of Columbus
university, lives in New York. No ali
mony was asked.
Mrs. Harry Flint, daughter of Col
and Mrs. Curtis S. Emery of Newport.
leaves soon for Coblenz, Germany, with
her daughter. to join her husband,
Lieut.. Col Harry Flint, who is sta
toned there. This is Mrs. Flint's sec
ond long trip to join her husband, as
four years ago, accompanied only by
her two-year old daughter she went to
Honolulu.
| The house and barn of l.. H. Shaw in
| West Rutland were destroyed by fire
| Tuesday, while Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw were
| in Tinmouth, and they did not know
| of their loss until they reached home
that night, Neighbors removed the
| tools and live stock from the barn but
| furniture and everything. else in the
building were burned How the fire
started is unknown, but there had been
no fire in the house that day.
| The sale of the Monteith homestead
in the village of McIndoes Falls and a
farm of several hundred acres for $40
600 has given rise to the rumor that it
was bought for Henry Ford as a site
for new factory. The property is just
below a big dam on the Connecticut
river. Harley E. Pike, "a Waterford
farmer, bought the property of H. j.
johnson of McIndoes Falls. johnson
recently paid $4,000 for it.
Damage estimated at between $50
600 and $4,000 was the result of fire
in the Foundry Motor Car and Manu-
featuring company block Sunday morn
ing. The greatest loss came from wa
ter damage to the tobacco stock of
Hubert A. Bowling, manufacturing and
wholesale and retail tobacconist, and
the papers in the claims department of
the Central Vermont railroad, which
occupied offices on the ground floor of
the structure.
Harry A. Black, secretary of state
+ has suspended the automobile oper-
{ ator s license of E. B. Camp of Bethel
/ for alleged reckless driving His auto
mobile collided with a motorcycle re
. Gently near Randolph. The license which
, William Steele of Brandon had held, to
operate an automobile, has been taken
away from him because he is under Is
years of age and because he made tho
statement when he applied for his Ii
cense that he was of the required age
:, Gov. p w Clement has received TIL,
: report from Prof w. r. Gray of Dart
= mouth college, who made the audit OF
;, the treasurer and auditors books in
| August, and it is expected within 6
! | few days a statement will be made. a:
: per advice given some weeks ago, whe1
: the examination was contemplated
= However, Prof. Gray reports that h,
: found the accounts correct and tn,
J funds well cared for He made som,
: suggestion for improvement in tn,
" systems, the most of which have nov
been put in operation.
Mt. Sinai temple, Mobiles of the Mvs
tic Shrine, held a ceremonial in cit,
l. hall in Montpelier Friday evening tina
10 was attended by about 500 members
d and there was a class of about 35 can
didates who crossed the hot sands TIL
degree team gave drill before tn
% ceremonial which won a great deal o
% applause and Capt. H. B. Moulton re
d ceived personal compliments after tn
work from the members of the Shrine
The Shriners voted to send the Ara
a. patrol and Shrine band to Sherbrook
n Oct. is, when Mt. Sinai temple will b
v the guest of Karnak temple.
Two masked men, dressed in arm
uniforms, held up and robbed Willar
b. Kmetz of Burlington while he was re
" turning from Winooski Saturda
night, taking a watch and about Sc i
: money from him. Mr. Kmetz was alon
in his car when Ford machine stoppe
across the road, barring his progress
Two men then stepped up to the ca
pulled a gun and demanded any valuf
bles. Their car had no number plate
on it, and later the same night the ca
and men were seen on another stree
with a third man, whom they fnall
left and disappeared toward the mort
end of the city.