The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-27

/
ON Thursday there will also be three
races They are a 2.1S trot, for 500, |
with IA entries; a 2.l2 trot, for $1,000, /
with nine entries, and a 2.25 pace, toI
500, with ID entries.
Friday shows the biggest purses of theI
four DAYS of the fair. There will be al
free-for-all, with a purse OF Sl,2O0 and IL
entries: PA pace, purse Sl,OOO, with
IL entries, and 2.20 pace for STU, Wlthl
20 entries. -
VERMONT NEWS.
The total number of accidents in the
state in which automobiles have been IN
voIyed. has nearly reached the ,9ou
mark, 1.477 having been passed Friday
afternoon.
hudson HiliKer, 1S-months'-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Bocash of Shell
don. died Wednesday of burns received
when he fell into pail of hot water.
Lyndonville has practically accepted
the plans for a granite monument TO
cost about SD. 900 as a permanent me-
mortal shaft in honor of her World war
veterans.
Homer II. Marcy, of Montgomery,
Republican nominee for town represent
alive died at his home late Friday att
crnoon of a shock which he sustained
last Monday morning.
Vermont Breeders Holstein sale
which will be held at the Rutland fair
grounds on Oct. / and ,, is expected to
be attended by many of the leading cat
tie breeders in the East.
Joseph DALI of West Rutland, pro-
prietor of candy and fruit store; was
arrested FRIDAY by Deputy United
states Marshal Frank III. Chapman OF
Rutland. charged with selling, whiskey
aud distilled spirits in violation OF the
Volstead act. et ..-#.
The Salvation Army. which has had
a branch in Rutland for 81 years. has
Just purchased the building at - Grove
street, a two-Story brick structure. The
price paid was 500. Local people
contributed $1,000. The balance will
be furnished by the Salvation Army of
New York.
Harry A. Black, secretary Of state,
expects within the next few days to be
able to publish the figures of the mum
Der of women who voted in the state IN
the recent primaries in addition to the
usual figures of the number of male
voters Fhese figures. coming as they
do so closely after suffrage was granted
to women, will be of more than usual
+ interest,
/ Two automobiles heavily loaded with
+ booze successfully eluded the customs
/ and prohibition agents at the border
and got into Newport the other day
and sped away south. Police officials
along the route to Massachusetts were
notified to be on the lookout. An en-
Move of a garage discovered that the
machines were heavily loaded while he
was filling the tanks with gasoline.
An exceptionally large seizure of
, liquors was made Friday evening on the
| road north of Swanton between that
village and Highgate Springs when Gus,
Il toms deputies of Swanton stopped and
searched a car belonging to an Amster-
\ dam, y. Y. man, in which they dis
| covered 21 cases of booze. There
were from l. to II quart bottles in
/ each case. it is said. The offenders
were taken into custody and We're given
i a hearing.
i Miss Margaret NJ AIinard, 26, Of
1 Waterbury, died Saturday night while
i attending a dance at the armory al
Montpelier Miss Minard, with Jesse
! Billings as her companion, started t.
dance. They danced part way dowr
the hall when Miss Minard tainted il
her escorts arms. She was carried t,
the open air and died in about 10 min
utes Death probably was due to SOM
heart ailment. She was the daughter
of the late DIR. ATinard and is survived
nv her mother She was the owner O
store in Waterbury.
II a
n hotel owners in Montpelier and one o
! the oldest in the state, died Saturda.
+ afternoon at his apartments III th
: Montpelier House. For fully a half cen
ii tury Mr.. Sparrow has been identifies
T with Montpelier hotel life. The Mont
: pelier House. of which he has been Pre-
\ prictor nearly all that time. had a wild
nj reputation for the character of its cui
81 sine and home-like accommodations fun
+ nished. 1t was especially popular wit
/ members of the legislature who filled
a to capacity during every session an
II judges, governors and United state
senator's have stopped there. and "A
bert Sparrow was known to them all
Thomas Magner of Burlington, pres
ident of the Vermont tuberculosis as
ISOLATION. received Friday from Mis-
Emily Dutton Proctor and Redfiel
proctor Of Proctor, a check for $50
i UNb ana the utft 10 ~ acres Ol ldHd ~
{ an excellent site in the town of Pitts
. ford. Upon this land viii be built tn
! new tuberculosis preventorium fo
ri which the plans have just been con
= pleted This $4,000 and the land
: that promised by the Proctors to tn
: Vermont Tuberculosis association.
. that association would raise anothe
: SIC 600 to carry on the fight agains
tuberculosis in Vermont The assoeia
\ ton raised about $4,000 in the receh
/ drive. so that there is now more thai
! 500 600 available with which to con
j tend against the great white plague il
G this state.