The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-18

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one arm injured Tuesday while alight-
ing from a street car by coming in con
tact with a live trolley wire which had
broken.
A ''brood" of l7-year locusts has hatched
out in southern Addison county, close to
the line, a considerable number having
been noted in adjoining parts of Shore
ham and Orwell.
Charles Best, 90, who had been in the
employ of the National Life Insurance
company in Montpelier for over so years.
died at his home there Monday night
after an illness of over three months.
The jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty Tuesday in the case of Edwin
Thompson of Bennington who was in
dicted for pointing a loaded revolver at
Paul Corey of that town with fatal re-
suits
About 300 of the parishioners Of st
Mary's Catholic church at st. Adams
met Monday evening and adopted a reso-
luton of protest against the passing bv
congress of the so-called Smith-Towner
educational bill The resolution will be
forwarded to the Vermont delegation in
congress.
Charles Hoernle, formerly teacher and
athletic instructor at Goddard seminary
at Barre, has been secured by Norwich
university to act as general coach for
all the athletic teams of that institution
having already had charge of the base
ball nine during the past spring. He will
begin his years work with the re-openino
of college next fall.
Hormdas Marin of Barre drove large
Cole car off the road into the ditch on
the road between Montpelier and Barre
Monday night and was arrested for in
toXlcatlon The car crossed the road and
plowed through mud and water two car
lengths and was left imbedded in the
mud partly overturned Marin was alone
IN the car and was uninjured
The community canning kitchen
IN HInesburg was put up ready
tor use on June u. lust MS
had been planned Sixteen men
got to work early in the morning the
women furnishing dinner at noon and by
night the building was ready for use OK
cept for the shelves, watts and other es.
sentials for the canning work. Canning
VIII be begun there about July /.
The longest submarine telephone cable
across Lake Champlain. over two miles
IN length, or, in exact dimensions, y 900
feet long, from Cumberland Head ON the
New York side to Gordon's Landing on
the Vermont side, was laid Monday az
ternoon under the direct supervision of
Wilbur i. Durfee Of Rutland division
Superintendent Of the New England Tel
ephone Telegraph Co. IN Vermont The
cable, which weighs 67,l00 pounds and
when coiled up occupies about 10 square
feet OF space, was laid in one hour.
4 Metz car driven by A NJ Persons Of
Berlin went off the bank into the Win
ooski river in a narrow part of the high.
way not far from the underpass at Mud
dy brook above the CORY Deayitt &
| Frost second dam Monday evening AZ it
was passing car. Mr. Persons got too
Tar over the edge and as the bank was
slippery 1t gave away as he skidded and
ct his ear into the river, some eight or
10 feet below, down a very sharp bank
AIR Parsons received bruises and minor
injuries but was not seriously hurt.
A Ford touring car belonging to George
kenney, who lives at Sodom. was com
pletely wrecked while running over West
| Main street in the village Of North Ben
fnngton late Monday. According to re-
ports from North Bennington the car
was being driven at rapid rate when it
| iest the highway and ran straight into a
large tree. Mr. Kenney and his brother,