The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-25
VERMONT NEWS.

VERMONT NEWS. |
Mark Alger of Huntington has |
squash that weighs 81 pounds.
The Vermont Association of Credit |
Men will hold their annual meeting at
the Sherwood Hotel in Burlington on
September 30th
The Central Oil Stove company of
Gardner, Mass, has closed deal for a
large lot of timber land in Weston,
scme 1000 acres, $4,000 deal It will
cut about 100000 feet this season.
The teachers of the Barre public
schools have asked for raise in wag-
es. They asked for a minimum salary
Of 5000 and maximum of $3.50 year,
as compared with $500 and $G75 at the
present time.
On Friday morning as Mrs f, E.
Hire of Ripton was coming up the eel
lar stairs they gave way, carrying her
to the floor of the cellar, with such
force as to break one leg above the an
kle and otherwise seriously injure her
State Fish and Game Warden Her
bert A. Booth reports that in attending
to his duties through the state that the
violators of the fish and game laws are
for most part outsiders and that in gen
eral the men of the state respect the
laws.
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and Mrs Mitchell Hamlin of Burling-
ton, was injured while at play Sept. Is,
cerebral conclusion resulting His left
leg and arm are rigid and badly para
lived He has been in stupcr most of
the time since then and the paralysis is
not abating.
| 1t has been reported to Secretary
Black that an investigation is needed
relative to the driver of a Ford truck
number Al, crowding f. l.. Stoddard of
| Bellows Falls off the bank recently and
that there are smart Alecs" who are
driving trucks im that section that are
" hogging' the road.
The Vermont Silver Fox corporation
with capital stock of $4,000, has
fled articles of association with the
/ secretary of state to conduct n fox
| growing industry in Charlotte. The sub
scrhers arc B. d. Barstow and Joe Hug
of ChittcnGcn and NJ Grace Murphy Of
Rutland.
L. Barton Camp Of Randolph, who
when he was Is years Old drove Ford
ear twice across the continent and has
driven cars since for more than $4,000
miles without an accident, has met
with his first accident, having collided
with a motorcycle which was running
at terrific speed. Both car and motor
cycle were somewhat damaged but nc
one was seriously hurt.
Springfield millincrs have held &
meeting and drawn u3 an agreement
signed by five of them, which is de
signed to stop the practice of taking
out hats on trial. 4 deposit of 10 pei
cent of the price of the hat must -,
laid aside and two days shall be tn,
limit for keeping out hats. The milIia
, ers also voted to have a uniform prsc,
for trimming and other incidcntals.
: Vermont Press association has received
through its chairman, Howard L. Hind
, ley of Rutland, package of origina
, Horace Greeley manuscripts. They wert
sent by Thomas H. Ford, foreman O
| the composing room of The Brooklyn
Standard Union Some of them are OF
, the backs of New York Tribune lette
2 heads, some on odd pieces Of paper, an,
! Ia, .t.1I~ III u
r bed handwriting of the great editor.
Rev r. W. Magoun. pastor of I'm
manuel Episcopal church at BELOW
Falls since last November, has re
= signed and will accept the posi-
" ton of superintendent Of the a
man S Church Institute at Newport
r. l. lie came to the parish fror
Fair Haven and expects to remain IN
!. til November, completing the pastor
: ate of one year Mr. Magoun was re
Gently appointed deputy probation oil
| Ger for Vermont.
Il The wedding of Miss Dorothy Greene
;. daughter of Congressman and Mr.
| Frank L. Greene to Harris WOodar
: Alexander, son of Mrs. Z. J. Alexande
took place Wednesday afternoon at
o clock at the First Congregation;
church of ST. Adams. Immediatel
after the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Ale2
ander left on short wedding trip an
will later reside in st. Adams whel
Mr. Alexander has assumed the MAJ
agemcnt of Alexander s pharmacy.
w. A. McLennan, a local undertake
of St. Adams, and w d. Heald, a IL
eryman of that town, were lnJure
Tuesday afternoon as they were return
ing from Holy Cross cemetery on NJ
McLennan S ambulance. The wheel {
the ambulance caught in a street raj
way track of South Main street al
the ambulance was hit in the rear by
street ear. Both men were thrown o.
and Mr.. Head suffered two cracl1t
| ribs in iilripS To the hack and one lie