The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-08
VERMONT NEWS.


Miss Mary Dearborne, stepping out on
Royalton, where she resides, fell through
trap door leading to the cellar, breaking
her left leg and one hip.
Miss Hattie Brown, 10, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Rufus Brown of Newport, was
badly injured when she was assisting her
father in painting the barn She was
standing on a ladder when her foot
slipped and she fell from the second story,
fracturing both wrists.
The Green Mountain Inn, in Stowe,
which has been closed to the public. is
| soon to be opened again, with Mr.. and
Mrs E. w Webster of Waterbury in
| charge A number of the business men in
Stowe, who have been instrumental in
getting the inn reopeneds contemplate
| forming stock company and building a
| summer hotel at Smuggler's Notch
w F. Scott, state treasurer, is making
| ready for the printing of the bond issue
| which the last legislature authorized the
| treasurer to make to pay the bills of the
state. The issue amounts to $l,500,000
and the treasurer proposed to offer the
whole issue for bids. If these are not
taken up, then he has the right to sell
| them in some other manner.
| Linus Leavens, fish and game commits
| sioner, is placing orders for brook trout
eggs. Thus far the work has not pro-
| crossed far. The estimates are based up
on the orders of last year, which show
| that for Canaan at least 905,000 eggs. Rox-
bury $4,000 and Bennington hatchery l..
900 eggs will be ordered for the hatch
| ing next spring
! State Auditor Benjamin Gates has re
ceived from Prof w r. Gray of Dart
mouth college his statement of the ex-
pense of auditing the books of the state
auditor and treasurer, which was complet-
| ed last week The total expense was
| S473.39 and the work was done in reas-
| onaby short time. This audit was reason
| able as compared with the audit made by
! Ioungs of New York, which costs about
$4,000
The state records of diseases for the
month of August show that Vermont re-
manned in very healthy condition and
there were no epidemics Those diseases
which are contagious are so scattered as
to show that there is no one great source
Of contagion in Vermont at present. One
| of the greatest causes of satisfaction oven
| the situation is the small number of in
fantile paralysis cases reported during the
summer There have been only four OF
these thus far
Louis LaValey, jr., who has been want
cd for some time at Bennington in eonnec
tion with breaking and entering the rooms
OF the Modern Woodmen on the 9th o
March, was located by Chief of Pole,
Hurley of that town He was brought int,
the municipal court charged with break
ing and entering and larceny of a sword
some stationery, etc He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced by Judge W. j. Meag
her to not more than three nor less thar
two years in Windsor.
Marion Clara Dole, daughter Of Mr. an,
Mrs Charles Dole of Northfield and Capt
Raymond f Knapp, L. s NJ. C., wer
/ married Saturday. Sept. g. The groom
graduate OF Norwich university, 1917
) end since leaving Mortified has been il
: the marine corps, serving in France wit
/ the Sd battalion of the 9TH regiment III
5 wears four gold service stripes, the croi
de guelre, and two silver stars (citations
{ and five battle stars on his victory ribbon
e He expects to be stationed at the marin
4 camp in Quantco, Va, for the present
e County Agent J. {. Otis, who has bee
l. with the Windsor County Farm Burea
t since May 1915, has resigned and Will 2
l. to Philadelphia to start an agriculture
course in school near that city. Sine
Mr. Otis's connection with the bureau til
a membership has twice doubled Many in
y provements have been brought about i
the methods OF growing crops, etc, an