The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-15
VERMONT NEWS.

VERMONT NEWS.
One OF Proctor's old bridges is to be
| removed, to be replaced by a new one.
which Redfeld Proctor has given the vii
lage.
Guy B. johnson of Old Bennington, who
was recent surgical patient of the Put
nam hospital at Bennington, has made
that institution gift of $1,000.
Mrs. Philena Miller of Castleton Cor
ners became suddenly totally blind as she
was walking across the room and the at
tending physician gives no hope that she
will ever recover her sight.
| The Nergennes Holy Name society of
St. Peters church held very successful
| rally Sunday afternoon, the Holy Name
societies of Burlington, Winooski, Middle
bury and Bristol participating. The par
ade numbered about 600.
| The Vermont forestry department is
dividing the state into 10 districts and
| has a man at work in each looking for
evidences of white pine blister rust which
is one of the greatest pests of this val
liable tree. A map will be made, showing
sections where the disease has caused dam
age and where it is just beginning to APP
pear III order that it may be combatted
the more intelligently
The Majestic theatre, Burlington, re-
Gently purchased by the Queen City Real
" company, has been leased for period
of 20 years to the Majestic Theatre Inc
a corporation formed last week and of
which William p. Gray of Portland, Me,
and n. H Gordon of Boston, both lead
ing members of the Maine-New Hamp-
shire Theatres company, are stockholders,
along with local men,
Walter Buckley of Barton, who under
went an operation in France FOR wounds
received in action there, recently under
went a second operation at tno Mary
Fletcher hospital in Burlington In the
first operation. physicians found is pieces
of exploded shrapnel in his side These
they removed and then wired the ribs
with silver wire, which had become brok-
en- since then, and the government sent
him to Burlington for a second operation
Wire four inches long was replaced in the
last operation.
Following the granting of the petition
by the Vermont public service commits
sion to consolidate the Colonial Power
Co, the Claremont Power & Light Co.
the Western Vermont Power & Light co.
and the Clarendon Power Co., under the
name of the Vermont Hydro-Electric Co.,
excavations were begun Saturday to con-
struct a power house and dam on East
creek two miles north of Rutland, at a
cost of S450,000. The product of this pow.
er house is to be something over 5000, 000
| kilowatt hours year The dam will be
one of the largest in Vermont.
Seven-year-old Lois Phelps, daughter oil
: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Phelps of Milton, was
burned in an explosion of gasoline Mon
| day evening so severely that she died
within a few hours of the accident. The
child and her brother, who is a few years
older, were alone in the house when Lois
attempted to light a fire. She found a
bottle of gasoline and was in the act o.
pouring it on the flames when the gas
2 ignited and burned her severely about
: the face and arms In an instant hel
clothing was mass of flames and while
a her brother made futile efforts to put out
$ TIE fire, the girl ran away and on. OF
the street She had gone several rod
r when she fell.
The 50th annual convention of the Yer
mont State Sunday School association
opens in Bellows Falls this afternoon. /
will continue through Friday evening
Three hundred delegates are expected
The sessions will be held in the severa
churches. Prominent men on the program
are Rev E. W. Halpenny of Chicago
Rev. G. H. Spencer of Boston, Bishol
Edwin HI. Hughes of the Methodist Eps
copal church, Rev. Milton S Littlefielc
of New York city and Marion Lawrenc'
of Chicago, general secretary
Rev. William p Acott who died a
Bedford, Mass, Sunday, had held pastor
ates at Browington and Orleans (Vt)
His first wife was Miss Jane Merrill o
Peacham. He was a member of the VII
liams college Greenland expedition in 1860
and went to Egypt southern Europe, ant
the Holy Land in 1877 with DR.. PhiliI
ScFaff Later he assisted Dr. Schaff il
editing his Bible Dictionary He wa,
/ vice president of the Bedford Library as
ISOLATION, a member of the American
Peace society, the American HumaRe so
ciety, the American Vegetarian society
and the prohibition party. He contribut
ed to various magazines and lectured 0,
scientific subjects Mr. Alcott presente,
an hcrbarium of 900 species to the Svr
ian Protestant college at Beirut. His hob
bes were botany and horticulture.