The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-10

3 day The assistant janitors, as they
re officially termed, are paid S276 in
tead zof .S253l for the session. The in
reases apply only to the present session
bout 25 members left instructions be-
oresthey4we away to have their checks
nailed to them.
8 VERMONT NEWS.
Russell. s. Brown, 1o-year-old son of
SIr. and Mrs. Charles l.. Brown OF
sastfeton Corners, has caught % skunks,
.wo illuskrats, one mink and one@fox this1
season
& Several Barre firms engaged in quarry
ing granite have made substantial CON
tributions toward the 100000 memorial
10 he erected in Barre in memory of the
soldiers and sailors who fought in the /
present war. The new contributions
amount to sl0,0eD,
+, The Vermont public service commits
SION. held hearing Tuesday at Burling- |
ton on the application of the Public Ser |
vice Co OF st. Adams and Fairfax to
extend its line to Burlington and through
the streets OF the city and to increase
it's capital stock
About o'clock, Tuesday morning the
so-called ,Haggett bridge on the Worces-
ter branch road near Montpelier, was
partly washed out, one of the abutments
and a part of the wing going down. A.
small part of the abutment had been
washed ont during the early spring on
account OF high waters.
Fred, c. Mayo, superintendent OF the
Montnelier 4 Wells River road with Of
fees at Woodsville, was injured at the
state house at Montpelier Wednesday
morning as he was leaving the building
He Fcaeght his heel ON one of the steps
and fdii headiong causing disloeation
Of one knee.
AIiss4 Lillian \. LaVallee, who has
been serving as. an army nurse in ST
IBERIA, has sailed for home on the trans
port Thomas. Miss LaNallee expects to
be detained in San Francisco about three
weeks before receiving her discharge She
has been in Siberia with the army nurse
corps mere than SIX months, having
been q stationed at Evacuation hospital
No: laD7
About, 100 business and professional
men gathered at the New Sherwood ho-
tel at Burlington Tuesday, night at a
complimentary banquet to Attorney Jo-
sepl T., Steains, who is soon to take up
his residence in New York Mr. Stearas
has been a lifelong resident of Burling-
ton and is well known as an attorney,
He represented the city in the leglsla-
ture of 1917 and had been Judge OF the
city court and referee III bankruptcy.
| Raymond Briggs of Randolph has been
engaged by the executive board of the
Washington county farm bureau as the
county agent taking the place of Forts
| II. Abbott, who began his duties April
i as assistant manager of the farmers eS
/ change m Springfield, Mass. Mr. Brigg,
/ is about % years of age, graduating from
the University of Vermont last year, af
ter which he entered the army and was
on March 25 discharged from service.
Rev. Dr. Charles Fl Parkhurst. who i
Herald, the Methodist weekly Of New
1 England, the last of this month, after.
service of 80 years, was born III Vermont
lie united with the Vermont conference
in 1875. his first church being at Hyd
Park, After supplying two other church
es in the state he went to New Hamp
/ shire, going to Boston in 1888 as edito
Of the paper from which he now with
draws ON account of advancing age.
\ memorial Is about to be installed i
St Paufs church, Orwell. to common
orate the lives of the five boys who die
Lin the service Of the Z. S. A. during tn
/ recent war The memorial is to be in til
form of sanctuary railing of Regalic
marble effect with pillars OF onyx, to b
in keeping with the altar of the sam
material which was donated two ycaI
ago by John Carherry of Brooklyn, \
y. and the late Mrs Carberry
DR.. John Wesley Copeland. a we
known Lyndonville physician, died Nor
day night in his 10Th year. He was
veteran Of the Civil war and after til
close of the war began the practice {
his profession in Lyndon Ceater Late
ne located il Lyndonville, where he pra,
ticed with marked success for man
years. Growing i'll HEALTH Some veal
age compelled hm 70 retire from actit
, practice He served the town as healt
officer for many years.
/ Word has been received at Bennin
| tor. that Arthur Barton Of that town ha
Il escaned from the state asyIIlm at Waite
i i1Gfy. Four or five Years ago he *;
i placed under restraint after setting fin
4 to building at Salisbury. When it b
II came known that he had escaped fro
4 the institution word was sent KIN expe
/ tations that the demented man wou
/! eventually make his way to his forms