The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-24

| The new hospital at Orleans is fast
nearing completion and will soon be
ready for occupancy.
/ 4 hen owned by Mrs Mary Brown of
/ Castleton Corners recently laid an egg
that measured, eight by six and one
fourth inches
G. A. Bickford cut off three fingers
from one hand while running the split
ter in the bobbin min at Coventry last
week and he had already lost three fin
gers from his other hand.
The Cary Maple Sugar Co. has pur-
chased a large sugar orchard in John
son and will also add to it the orchard
of the late David Muzzy, eduipping the
trees with a modern system of piping
at an estimated cost of $4,000.
A reunion of the senate of 1904 was
held at the Pavilion hotel Thursday ev
ening. This is practically the only leg
s!ative organization which has held its
biennial meeting regularly since it was
in session.
The civic, commercial and industrial
organizations of Barre have started a
movement to erect monument i'll hon
or of the soldiers and sailors who went
into the present war and it is now pro-
posed to expend about 100000 for a
monument TO be cut in Barre granite.
The labor demand and supply in Yer
mont is today just about an even thing,
according to +. p Hamilton, inspector
of labor bureaus He saws that that
does not mean that there are not hun
dreds of men idle hut that there are
jobs for them if they would take them.
The Burlington Office has filled positions
at the rate of 100 week.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
? State Bankers association occurred in
Montpelier Friday afternoon and even
ing with some 100 persons attending
A large number of the members went
to the state house Friday morning to
!, confer with members of the assembly
relative to the progress of legislation
wanted in different parts of the state.
The north bound mail train over the
Central Vermont road was derailed
from cause not yet determined a.
a East Granville Friday afternoon The
engineer and fireman were badly injured
and all of the ears left the track ex
1 cept the rear coach. The mail car lait
directly across the track. No passen
gers were injured, although many wer,
badly shaken up.
y Burlington people saw things Mon
: day night Persons along the water
front are positive that several airplane
few over Lake Champlain early in the
4. evening and that they saw the lar9'
q lights on the planes and heard the en-
: gines hum. The visitors are said tt
. have flown near the surface of the wat
. er until near the breakwater, when they
rose and few toward Plattshurg
The Girard e. Barclay stoneshed il
: Barre was damaged about $4,000 Thurs
!. nay night by fire which burned of
r. portion of the roof and part of on
>. side of the building. The department
y after a hard fight was able to put gu
:. the blaze The full extent of the dam
e age could not be stated because it would
81 depend upon the damage done by tn
: heat of the fire upon the stone and fin
ished monumental stock.
Homer Gardner of Milton was take
TX TO the Mary Fletcher hospital at Bur
ce lington last week having been the vic
- tim of a painful accident while using
n circular saw on the S. H. Thompso
farm at Milton The balance wheel Q
e. the saw broke, and struck Mr. GARD
ner on the left foot, sevcring all til
nd toes. His left hand also was injured
\, and one finger was amputated.
4 coasting accident occurred at New
We port Saturday in which one boy va
y killed and another badly Injured. SIEVE
:, boys on a traverse went over the side
4 sluceway, the sled striking plan
= spiked to a post which loosened Il
spikes against which the boys struc
- Dean Gilchrist, son of Mr. and Mr.
to George Gilchrist, sustained a cut artel
in the upper part of his leg and dit
ar in about - minutes after the aceiden
I'd Mrs. Howard w. Fowler of Sou
- Royalton sustained broken leg wh'
ca the Cadillac automobile in which 81
:. and her husband were riding while
w the way to Woodstock went over
,- bank into field near Sharon Thursda
Neither occupant of the car was crush'
: under the car but both were throw
tail clear when the machine went down 4
ain slight iecliyity Mrs. Fowler was ia
Ell to the sanatorium in Randolph f
Au treatment.