The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-29
VERMONT NEWS.

VERMONT NEWS. Il
Announcement is made of the pur
base by New York parties of the Eq-
inox Spring Co., of Manchester. The
lans of the new concern call for the
Employment of 80 or 40 men.
Miss Mabel II. Power of North Hero
xpects to sail from New York the first
f February number of Red Cross
urses having been called by the Amer
can and Syrian commission for relief
n the near East.
Fred w. Tavlor, who has conducted
he Taylor book store at st. ,Johnsbury
or several years has sold his business
o John F. Waite, who has been trav-
ling for IS years as drug salesman
md is well known in southern and
EASTERN Vermont.
Mrs. Edith S. Avery, GO, mother of
John M. Avery of the state library
reference bureau, died at Montpelier
Monday. She was the widow of DIR.
John Avery of Walingford. She is
by her son and three daugh-
ters
President w. C. Belknap of the Yer
mont Press association has announced
that the annual meeting will be held
at Montpelier March and s. Congress
man Frank L. Greene and w. D. Pelley
will be among the speakers of the eve |
ming. |
Alba J. Durkee, representative |
from Duxbury, who was never able to
take his seat because taken i'll the day
following his election, died Sunday of
cancer of the stomach at the Fanny
Allen hospital at Winooski. Mr.. Dur
kee was one of the most influential
men of Duxbury and was born in Fays-
ton 40 years ago.
Charged with burglarizing the store
of A. B. and c. R. Hawkins of South
SALISBURY, Sidney Young, age about
%, is in Bennington county jail. En-
trance to the store was gained by break
ing large pane of glass and moving
the catch on the window. The stolen
goods included four watches, several
fountain pens, cigarettes and candy.
| Announcement has been made at the
| University of Vermont of the medals
to be given out February 81 to those
most proficient in the manual of arms
1.-THE first prize is to be the Richold
medal This gold medal is presented
L O 6 ~,
student who is declared by competent
Judges to be the most proficient in the
manual of arms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sherburn of
st. Johnsbury received word that their
son, Lieut.. Vernon F. Sherburne, has
lbeen promoted to the position of head
Instructor in athletics III the Kelley
aviation field, Texas. Lieut.. Sherburne
has been named as successor to Lieut.
Mason Maleffki, who has been Officer
at Kelley field since the war began anG
who has Just received his discharge.
Because he attacked John Peterson
of Proctor with knife and cut one Of
his wrists badly before he was over
powered Andre Lutheran, also o.
Proctor. mill hand, was sentenced il
Rutland city court by Judge f. G
Swinnerson Monday to serve twl
months at the county Jail for assault
having pleaded guilty. Peterson
: nightwatchman for the Vermont Mar
: bic company.
Thirty automobiles, two-thirds o
them new ears recently bought for tn
coming season S business, were destroy
ed in a fire that wiped out the W. NJ
Marshall garage at North Benningto
Tuesday afternoon. The loss is $50, 90
and insurance $4,000. One second
/. hand car and n truck were saved. TIL
: building, a large wooden structure
g partly new, was heap of ashes in les
& than an hour after the fire was d.:
v covered.
:, Judge Sherman r. Moulton, who wa
u :, elected as the sixth superior judge c
II the county circuit of the state, wi
: officially assume his judicial careci
y it is expected, in his home city, by pr,
l. siding over Chittenden county's Mare
1, term, which opens for business on Tue
i day, March II. At that time also tw
/ new assistant judges, Clinton A. Barbe
Il of Burlington and Chauncey H. Ha.
: den of Jericho, will assume their henc
n career.
MI EPICURES' HOPES RISE.
Expect Soon to Have European Oily
n, Oil, Cheese, and Sausages.
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