The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-17

The Washington County Fish and
Game club has filed articles of associa
ton in the secretary of states office for
he purpose Of conducting club at
Groton pond, which includes a camp
-ome OF the members own
At o'clock Wednesday morning 200
# the IS lines of the Franklin County
Telephone company, which were put out
f commission Sunday morning when
FIRE in the Robert Seymour building on
Ningman street burned the frame hold
ING the ground wires were cut in, cover
ng the southern ana southwestern sec
ion CT the city.
The house on the farm owned by Am
brose Larow in Worcester, was burned to
the ground about midnight Tuesday
night. The place was occupied by Mr..
Jones, step-son and his wife, who
barely had time to get out Of the house.
Mrs. Jones did not have time to dress
and left the house wrapped in a bed
auilt They lost everything they had in
the house
The secretary of state received in the
year 1910 the sum of $4,000 from Ii
censes issued to the merchants who sell
oleomargerine. There were 504 licenses
issued last year This licensing is the
matter which several of the merchants
who were in the house of representatives
last wear tried to have eliminated, claim
ing that with the high price of butter. it
was a marked saving to the people.
Because the opening Of the Bennington
hospital made the work of the district
nurse in that place less necessary, that
branch Of welfare wor,. IS TO be given up,
after being carried on Tor 10 years. The
work i'll Bennington was carried on under
he supervision OF the Kings Daughters
md through the generosity Of Mrs. J. G..
Mccullough and Mrs T. p. Jennings. One
year total Of 900 calls was made by
he nurse.
Earl Rollins, after purchasing some
ysters in an Essex Junction grocery
tore. decided to eat one raw before leav-
;ng the store, and Immediately discov-
red something about it that was ont Of
he ordinary. On investigation he found
"a pearls in il ranging in size from that
a small pea to that of a small marble.
\ lapidarv is examining them and Mr..
Rollins is assured they are OF some
money value.
4 group OF Dartmouth students, in
oluding the president Of the Dartmouth
Outing club, attempted TO do 40 mile
! trip on snowshoes over the long t-alI
! starting in near the Ntiddlebury gap
hence in . northerly direction to Camel'>
| Hump The first night out they spent
near Bread Loaf lodge and the following
evening found them at the Emily Proctor
| 'adgc about 10 miles north OF their orlgi
nal starting place The grade was to-
much and the journey called off.
Citizens of Bellows Falls have inter
estcd themselves in the purchase o
Hotel Windham. now owned one-thirt
by H. b. Howard of Reading, Mass, for
merlv at the head OF the Peter Bent Brig
ham hospital in Boston,; onc-third b,
the l.. g. Howard estate Of Reading, am
one third by the G. T. Howard estate 0
Bellows Falls. If purchase the dinin,
room will be moved to the second foo
and the first floor converted into stores
From $4,000 to 100000 will be require
to purchase the property, make tn
changes and equip the hotel
About 800 acres Of land which include
the peak OF Mount killingtpn has bee
bought Of NJ. f. Wheeler Of Rutland b
Mortimer Il. Proctor. This tract cor
: tains two huts Of the Green Mountai
} club, situated on the Long Trail NJ
) Proctor viii perpctuatc the forest trao
in its wild condition. although the lum
2 Der on the lower slopes will be cut q
5 -Gicnt ifically by the Vermont Marbl
0 company. Mr.. Proctor owns the a(
0 Joining peak Of Pico, which was given I
, him on his 2lst birthday by his CRANE
Q father, the late United States Senate
= Ecdfield Proctor.
Stanley Fairbanks. WHO makes Il
Z home at the Central House in BELOW
: Falls. was surprised to find his new sui
) shoes and raincoat all missing from h
8 closet when dressing TO 90 to dan,
Q last Friday night The police were II,
Q titled OF the loss and other rooms Of Il
Q house were searched and the vest Of IL
? missing suit was found in the room Of
2 man that had left town that day ait,
p enlisting in the army and being sent
] Manchester, \. II. The police Of Ma
% chester were notified to detan the su
$ pected party, hut he failed to show |
b at the address where he had been Sc
3 by the recruiting officers.
y In connection with the annual meptil
y oil the Green Mountain club, held at Ru
~ land yesterday, at which announceme
y was made that Elihu d. Taft of Burlin
= ton proposed to build and present to I
= Green Mountain club lodge on 1fou
= Mansfield This lodge, which Mr.. TIA
- proposes to build at q cost not to exec
y 1900, will be known as the Elihu r. Ia
&c and will be located up under t
- chin Of Mount Mansfield, near the {
~ foresters' trail, in such position as
Do make a suitable stopping place for ira
elers in this most scenic section of t
Sc Green Mountain range. Present pla
go are to build so that the lodge will pl
60 vide camp accommodations for about
90 people.
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IA 1t is strange fact that the eggs