The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-19
VERMONT NEWS.

VERMONT NEWS. /,
Miss Alice T. Woodfn of Rutland, who
has been in war service Tor year in
France and who has earned her four
bars, has landed in New York and will
come to her Rutland home sometime this
week.
Rev. w n Lonergan, pastor of the
Church OF the Holy Innocents at Rut.
land, is seriously i'll at the Rutland hos
pital. Father Lonergan is one of the
most prominent clergymen in the Burling
ton diocese.
Mrs Abigail NJ Smith, 90, wife of Col.
Fred E. Smith of Montpelier, died at her !,
home Sunday Her husband was "a colonel
in the Civil war and was for many years
president of the Vermont Mutual Life :,
Insurance company.
Francis Ash, who was born at Swan
ton and who served in Company G Of |
the 9th regiment of Vermont volunteers
during the Civil war, died at the Yer
mont soldiers home at Bennington Mon
day morning lie was in his 10Th year.
The summer school of the University |
of Vermont at Burlington closed Friday
with examinations and final details of the
work. Most of the pupils left Immediate
~ for their homes Final figures showed
that the registration figured up to 80, |
which is much better than last year
though not equal to pre-war figures
There is no change in the strike stu |
alton at the Black Cat underwear fac.
| tory where the knitters, cutters, washers
| and shipping clerks are out on a strike
| for increased wages. There has been one
| conference between the company officials
and committees representing the employees
but little progress was made III the
direction of settlement.
| Mother st. Martin, for IA years teach
err of the graduating course at the Villa
Barlow convent at St Adams. has been
transferred to st. Demands college,
which is affiliated with the Francis Xavier
university at Antagonist, \. S. She will
| be the mother superior at the head OF
that institution Mother St Martin is
replaced at the Villa Barlow convent by
Mother St Eulalia, who has been head
teacher OF the normal school, Montreal,
many years.
At the checker club tourney held at
Randolph Center David Stephen of Barre
present champion, and W. c. Hoag OF
Burlington, ex-champion, tied with SO
points each. L. J. Eggleston of Rutland
has 81 points and still has William Gill
of Burlington to play. If Mr.. Eggleston
wins one game and draws the other, he
viii take first place and the champion
ship, and if he either wins one and loses
one or draws both, he will be tied with
Stephens and Hoag for first honors.
Middlebury college brought to an end
last week the most successful session OF
summer work that it has ever known,
about 500 students being there to attend
the French, English and Spanish schools
Already the registration for next year
is large and they have deemed it ad
visable to limit the numbers to come
well within the capacity Of the school.
that is. about 100 Spanish students and
l25 in French There is also to be a new
department under the French school, an
eight weeks travel class through France
with headquarters at SoIsy sous Efoilles
Admiral Henry T. Mayo has presented
to the city of Burlington German ma
chine gun which was captured in the
Champagne district in France during the
war. The gun is mounted on a polished
wood plank bearing the following inscrip
ton i'll brass: Brought from Blanc
Mont in the Champagne, France, by Ad
miral Henry Thomas Mayo, e. S. Navy
iqmmahder-in-Ch Chief of the United State,
fleet Picked no on this battlefield
week after the United States Marine bri
gade of the Second division. A. f. f., hac
captured the heights Presented to tn,
city of Burlington, Vermont, by Admira
Mayo
? At the most successful and most large
lly attended meeting of trapshooters ,hel,
Il in the New England states in years
, Frank Adams of Barre on Saturday wol
the first prize, with score of l4l bird
a, out of possible 80. The shoot was bel,
a under the auspices OF. the Burlington Gu
club at their grounds in South Burlington
j., Mr.. Adamss score equalled that of tn
k pro eessionals present, did the scor
of Dr. H NJ Loudon Of Burlington Som
=. exceptionally high runs were made, Nh
= Adams having record of 81 without
miss; DR.. H. NJ Loudon, 81; and j.
Tanning, a professional, e.
ne Three Vermont cars came to grief i
We Cheshire county, \. H., late Saturda
night A Ford car from Vermont Will
I'D on brown band road above NARROW
lie near Langdon, crashed into a stone wa
It and three of the occupants We're throw
out. Lester Fairbanks of Bellows Fall
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When your liver is sluggish, poisons stead
lily accumulate in your system. Nothing
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