The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-30

we'll and Ernest Hall, II and 10 years
old. They confessed to the local breaks.
William n. Theriault of the law firm
of Theriault & Hunt, Montpelier, is seek
ing support in his candidacy for appoint
ment to the Office of United States dis
trict attorney for Vermont when the Re-
publican administration takes the rud-
der, the present incumbent, V. A. Bull
lard of Burlington, being a Democrat.
DIR. Ray Z. Smith of Rutland received
notification yesterday that he had been
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
for valor In action during the World war.
DIR. Smith served as a captain in the
Medical corps, attached to the 101St In
fantry, 26th Division. DIR. Smith left
this state with the First Vermont regi-
ment. 5t. 80
Gov. p. w. Clement has appointed as
q member of the, state fair commission
from Addison county, Willis n. Cady of
Middlebury. who takes the place of Ro-
maine l.. Hemenwav. who was a member
of the house in 1917. Mr.. Cady is a
past master of the State Grange and is q
district highway superintendent.
John G. Shady and wife of Barre
were dEEeSLpu yesterday HDEnliR III luClE
home by James Sullivan on warrants
charging them with furnishing and sell
ing Intoxicating liquor. Both pleaded
not guilty in Barre city court before
Judge E.. l.. Scott and were subsequently
placed on bail of $500 each, which Mon
sor Deep of Barre furnished.
Miss Nancy. Roscoe, 81; of New Haven
committed suicide Saturday morning by
drinking carbolic acid. She had been
in poor health and subject to despond-
ent attacks. She was seen to go to the
barn, but by the time her brother, Fred
erick. and sister, Mrs. Ruth Brooks, had
reached there she had swallowed the
poison and died shortly afterward.
Three huge barrels of homemade
whiskey, fifty pounds of ~raisins, a box
of grapes, one perfectly good still, guar
anteed to be all copper, and several bot
ties of the finished product were the
results of a raid conducted Sunday even
ing by the police of Burlington on Louis
, Buccolier of that city. B~uccOlier, the
alleged d~istiller, was lodged in the county
Jail.
The antics of a calf were response
bic for the breaking of a leg for Robert
Monroe for over 80 years an emplOye
at the Shelburne farms in Shelburne. He
"a EttAAAlS III dAA AhAV NAF "
the night. the animal being tied with a
rope to n heavy plank. The calf started
to run and threw the plank against Mr..
Munroe's leg. A compound fracture of
the bone resulted.
A liquor seizure was made Sunday
evening on the Central Vermont Mon
treal-Boston sleeper by Deputy Collector
of Customs, w. II. II. Davidson, who
found about 40 bottles of Canadian rye
whiskey under q mattress in q sleeping
car berth. George Boyle of Metheun.
Mass, and James Boyle of Lawrence.
Mass. were taken into custody charged
with importing intoxicating liquors.
Yesterday John Stewart of Barre and
| Allen Mackenzie of Williamstown were
discharged from the Barre hospital
apparently none the worse for their
experience Of what the physician
believes to have been drinking wood al
cohol. They drove into a livery stable
in Barre Sunday afternoon and collapsed.
sinking into Inconsistencies. The two
men were taken to the hospital, where
they remained in the same condition for
some hours.
In Barnet is what is known as the
Covenanter church, the only one of that
denomination in Vermont, and here on
Nov. Is was installed a new pastor.
Rev. David Price Elsey of Winnipeg
The real name of the church is the Wal
ter Harvey Reformed Presbyterian
church and the minister was installed
by the New York presbytery. No musical
instrument is allowed in church worship.
but for the social event a piano was
brought in and used.
The marriage of Mrs. Anna Clement
Knowles, daughter of Gov. Pereiyals w.
Clement, and WHY'S f. Dowd, jr., of
New York city, took place at noon yes
terday in the Church of the Heavenly
Rest In that city. Mrs. Horace Brown
of Springfield, VT, sister of the bride,
attended her as matron of honor. Mr..
DOwd was graduated from Yale, class of
1900, and belongs to the Union ~uniyer-
sity, Racquet and Tennis, New York
Yacht and Engineers clubs. During the