The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-14

w tAS SicP.
Rutland is to have the main cutting de- |
partment of all of the Tauber, Upton & |
Co. factories This means big increase |
in the business which this concern is to |
bring to that city, and the ultimate en-
poyment of 800 to 500 hands.
Henry Whitman Brewster, 81, OF Mid |
dlebury died at his home Friday Mr.. |
Brewster had lived in Middlebury all his
life and since 1857 had carried ON a Jew
elry business in that village, until a few
years ago, when he retired.
Charles w Melcher, for about 80 years
granite manufacturer in Barre, ex-mayor
of that city and president of the Peoples
National bank since its founding in 1904,
died Saturday night His funeral will
take place Wednesday afternoon He
was one of the first men to engage in the
granite industry i'll Barre.
| The business men OF Poultney Lave reg
istered a complaint of the electric car scr
vice between that place and Ear Haven.
a one-man car has recently been put on
that run, which runs less frequ ,ntly than
before. The trolley company alleges that
| it is now operated at a loss oi $4,000 a
year, the general use of au,omC9 lies being
| one reason for this.
Rutland has new organ zatlon. the
Community Married WomeHs club. which
bids fair to rival the Rutland Community
| club. formed last year ior the benefit of
business women, married u single Special
branches of work, such as dtessmaking
millinery, home nursing, etc, are taken
up followed by a social nouG. The Rut
land Community club has a membership
of $50
Missing since Saturday afternoon about
5 o'clock the -year-old daughter of
David Robitaelle was found asleep part
way up one of the mountains outside the
town of Bolton Monday morning by ID.
L. Clark, superintendent of the Richmond
branch of the Standard Oh company.
There had been searching party of more
than 100 securing the woods and fields in
Jonesville for the little girl, but without
avail.
Adolphus Greenwood OF st. Johnsbury
Is years old. was badly injured late Fri
dav when his Cadillac car skidded on the
tbaQ over DdIHtl IuohiAldltI, just btioN
tie water trough. and turning over twice
landed about 10 feet down the mountain
side. Mr. Greenwood was able 70 claw
clear of the car and was tayms to make
r his way to the roadway when he vas
!. found by passing automobllists. He wa
taken to the hospital in st. Joim,hlry
, One leg was broken and he had other in
4 iuries
:, The reunion OF the Eighth Vermont In
:, fantry association has been called TO b
: held at Randolph Oct III. DIR. G, NJ
Ferrin of Burlington secretary of this as
ISOLATION, who served in the capacity Q
= encouragement during the war, has bee
" secretary OF the association since it wa
" formed Randolph has a peculiar nteres
y in the Eighth Vermont, as Company I
" went from that town. General Thoma'
~ who commanded the Eighth, was born I
~ Bethel Gilead three miles from there.
W handsome marker has been erected by tn
~ G. A. r. comrades and friends to mar
~ the spot Company G. will. hold its al
10 nual reunion the same day
10 The fern picking season has commence
- in Chittenden and a large number OF pcl
~ ers are earning about maximum of
30 and IS day at the business. Only t
30 hardy woodsmen are able to make tn
= much. as the woods must be traverse
90 through brush and up the hills to fl
1e certain kinds of evergreen ferns that Il
ir city trade will purchase during the wnte
is During the past month 100000 of Il
o. ferns have been gathered The pickle
n tie them in bundles of 100 each and thu
be are then packed in boxes, taken to Z
o. railroad station at Rutland and shipp'
to Springfield. Mass, where they a
kept in cold storage until Jan !, at whi'
- time they are looked over, any who
ri stems have nodded thrown out and I
II rest shipped to Chicago, the distribute
II center