The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-08
VERMONT NEWS.

VERMONT NEWS.
Herman Gaylord, 62, Viewpoints veteran
liveryman and cattle buyer, died on Tues
day of pneumonia.
More than 1000 lunches OF Christmas
trees have already been cut in Ira and
shipped TO city markets.
ST. Adams has few cases of scarlet
fever in the schools, but not enough to
make necessary the closing OF these IN
sttutions.
The secretary of state is compiling sta.
tistics relative to the number Of accidents
| by days and months. The figures thus far
compiled show that 80 accidents occurred
III July, August, and September, in which
carriages were involved and that only II
| dozen of these occurred at night time.
The members Of the New England Fat
! Mems club have received notice of the
annual gathering at Hale's Tavern on
| Friday evening, Nov IA, and as this is the
| 18th anniversary of the founding of the
organization special effort is being made
|
The secretary of state has suspended
the automobile operators license OF Cecil
II. Page, of Springfield, on the grounds
that investigation shows the man was the
cause of an accident by attempting to
pass a ceam while another car was APP
preaching on the right hand side of the
street
While Mrs c. B. Ovitt Of Danville was
asleep Friday her two-year-old son, Fred
erick went down into the cellar, fell in
to a large stone jar filed with brine.
which was used for keeping butter, and
was drowned The father was away a.
the time Mr. and Mrs Ovitt recently
moved to Danville from St. Johnsbury.
A big truck owned by the G.. S. Blod-
gett Co. of Burlington. ran into the main
office of the American Wooden Co. in Win
ooski smashing the front of the truck
and making hole in the front Of the
building The driver was bruised The
brakes of the truck refused to work and
the driver was unable to stop the ma
chine
After l04 years in the candy business
in White River Junction, Smith & Son.
Inc, widely known for generations, are
being absorbed in a newly-formed corpor
alton called the Adirondack Candy com
pany, situated at Malone, y. Y. 1t is
incorporated for 100000 Smith & Son
established branch at Norwood, n Y,
last May
!. Heavily loaded with merchandise, in
Guiding cases OF powder and loaded shells,
blaze threatened the big truck Of j. 4.
Smith of Waitsfeld as it was returning
from Mddlesex The engine and radiator
were ruined but the fire did not reach the
powder The cause of the blaze was sup
posed to be leakage in the gas pipe di-
rectly over the heater exhaust.
The secretary of state has suspended
the automobile operators license of G.. p
Waterman of Thetford because an investi-
CATION showed that the man had "cut in"
after he had gone by team. 1t was the
old story of trying to pass team when
the driver did not have the right of road
with the result that his automobile col
lided with one approaching that had the
right of road
Rev. j A. Perry, pastor OF the Metho-
dist church in Burlington, has been Of
| fered the position of Methodist university
pastor for Cornell university, where there
| are about 1000 Methodist students. The
position would pay Mr. Perry's salary
4 of $1,000. but would involve complete
| change in the type of Christian work. He
has not sent his reply, but has been at
Ithaca 10 Iont into tho ,noftar
4 George Mitchell, a senior at Spauldlng
II high school at Barre, has received an ap-
/ pointment to West Point as result OF
II his success in the recent competitive ex-
Il animation. Mr.. Mitchell received the
4 highest mark of any person taking the
II Vermont examinations for West Point or
II Annapolis, among the contestants being
: two Norwich university men. He will
: take the entrance examinations in Feb
ruary and enter West Point June s.
/, George f. Carpenter, state purchasing
!: agent, is feeling well pleased with the re
: suit of his purchase of soft coal last sum
!, mer so that the superintendents of the
state institutions viii not have to worry
about the heating of their institutions in
d case lne StTlke Is not settled Excepting
at the state house, there is a supply
/. enough to carry the institutions through
. the winter, while at Waterbury there is
l. years supply on hand, so that in case
: of shortage at the state house few
1 carloads can be borrowed from the state
hospital
e Harry Wong. Chinese laundryman IL
Il L.
It wallet containing a 500 Liberty bonl
: which had been stolen between his screer
q door and the outside door of his place o
3 business Harry had kept the wallet il
, coat hanging on the wall of his laundry
N One night last week he discovered tina
n 1t was missing He suspected a youni
N hoy Win had heen in the laundry tina