Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1919-07-11
VERMONT NEWS.

Monday, market day at Middlebury,
eggs brought 45 to 4S cents, dairy butter,
40 to as and creamery So.
Three Of the teachers of st. Johnsbury
academy, which includes all the men on
the faculty except Principal Davis, will
not return next fall ~
The State Grange has decided to hold
it's December convention in Montpelier.
The convention, which will be held in the
city hall, will occupy three days and will
bring an attendance of 600 or 700 persons.
The horses of Il. p. Townsend of East
Montpelier attached to the moving ema-
chine got frightened last week and ran
away. They brought UP in a vacant lot,
where there were mAny large rocks. When
finally caught it was found that the ma
chine was completely demolished
Charles Brough, an employee of the sta
SO Milling Co. in Castleton, was injured
while working with an iron bar near a
large magnet. The magnet drew him into
the pulley, badly jamming his left
arm, iniuring the fingers and thumb,
and bruisng his neck and side.
Mrs Ralph Richardson of Worcester,
who was accidentally shot, recently by her
son, is able to sit up at Heaton hospital
in Montpelier. 1t was at first believed
that she would not survive her wounds
1t was also feared for a time that her
right arm, riddled by shot, might have to
ho +o1 E,,@ lo 70 nt;n lis,
healed
Harold d. Larrabee, who has been man.
ager of the lighting and power companies
in Montpelier and Barre since 1911, will
complete his services with the companies
the last of this month and will about
Aug l 90 to Norwich, Conn, where he is
to be general manager of two companies,
the Eastern Connecticut Power company
and the Shore Line Electric Railway com
pany.
The annual field meeting of the Yer
mont Botanical and Bird clubs will be
held at North Hero, Aug. and 6. Head
quarters will be at the Irving House,
North Hero, where the members of the
clubs will assemble the evening of the
fourth. If the attendance is beyond the
capacity of the house, automobiles will
be in attendance to take members to adja-
cent hotels.
Elmer Partlow has an orange tree in
his store window in Salisbury that is
over 10 years old. 1t has several oranges
among its branches at the present time.
When Mr.. Partlow's father and mother
were married 60 years ago the tree fur
nished orange blossoms for the bride,
and when their son, Elmer, was married,
the same tree furnished blossoms for his
bride
The Mahr Slate Products company of
Fair Haven has filed articles of corpora
ton in the secretary of states office for
the purpose of handling slate products.
The papers are signed by George NJ,
Edward F., and Thomas ID. Mahr, the
same three who formed another company
Creamery company of st. Johnsbury has
filed papers in the same Office, as well as
it's certificate of 81 $50 of the $1,000 stock
has been paid.
Seven fans of the Rutland ball team
walked to Bellows Falls Friday night
following an auto accident in the South
Charlestown underpass They were re-
turning from an interstate league game
at Windsor and not knowing the road
they did not turn quickly enough for the
pass The car sidcswipcd the cement
wall, throwing the occupants out. Two
of the men suffered shoulder bruises but
all walked the remaining two miles to
Bellows Falls.
George White Chamberlain, a native
OF Sharon. now living i'll Berkeley, Cal,
is in his SSth year and is the oldest liv-
ing alumnus of the University of Vermont
today living in any Pacific coast state
Following his graduation from the Uni
yersty of Vermont he entered the law
school of Harvard university, later be-
coming the attorney general of the then
territory of Colorado, from whence he
went to San Francisco and there prac
ticed law until 1906.
Early Monday evening the HupmobilC
owned by j, j. Stakeholder collided with
the Willys-Knight Overland owned by
Roy NJ. Paddock of Bennington. Henry
Stickles, who was riding in the front seat
of the Hupmobile, was severely cut Oh
the hands and face. Seven stitches were
taken i'll his hand and two i'll the cut
on his head, but he is able to be up to
day although his injuries are quite pain
full. The girls in the car which Towslel
was driving were badly shaken up, bu
not seriously hurt. Both cars were dam
aged amounting to several hundred dol
lars each.
Secretary of State Harry A. Black, I'm
der the new law governing the practic
of chiropractc in Vermont, has issue
the following certificates to persons VIII
want to practice their profession in tn
state: w Farnsworth Iillian