The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-26
VERMONT NEWS.

VERMONT NEWS.
A travelling show troupe drew such a
CROWD IN Morrlsvllle one night last week
at the town hall that a sleeper gave way
letting the floor down several inches.
Mrs. Frank B. Sheltus of St. Adams
was seriously burned by hot coffee at
her home Monday morning when the cot
lee percoiator fell an her lep. She was
burned about the arms, legs and body.
I1er condition was SO serious that she
was taken to the St. Adams hospital
A news despatch yesterday stated that
Mrs. hurnal Rufus Babbitt of New York
announces the engagement Of her young
gr daughter, Miss Genevieve Cullyford
Rabbit to J. Gregory Smith of st. Al
pans. Mr. Smith IS a son Of Elk Gov and
Mrs. T.. Curtis Smith of st. Adams. He
Is graduate of Yale, 1912. No date has
yet been set for the wedding.
Brigadier General Rush c. Hawkins.
a native of Pomfret and who won fame
during during the Civil war as commander of
cent hospital in New York yesterday
from fractured skull sustained Sunday
night, when he was struck bv an ANTONIO
BILE IN Fifth avenue. He was 80 years
James w. Gavin, the seventrear.-old
SON OF Mr.. and Mrs Walter Gavin or
Bennington was severely burned from
gasoline yesterday morning at the homa
OF his parents. While the mother was,
talking on the doorsteps with a neighbour
the youngster took a can of gasoline from
the window sill and PROBABLY tried To
pour some of its contents into the
kitchen stove. The quick action of the
mother saved the boy from a horrible
death
An automobile occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs, w, f, Chaffee and Mr. and Mrs
Walter Slayt0n and the latter's two chill
bile Of Frank Decell two miles north of
Stowe village with the result that the
Shattee car was overturned and Mrs.
Slayton suffered cuts. None of the oe-
cupants were seriously injured. The De
eel, car was said to be going fast and
struck the Chaffee machine at a sharp
curve.
Lonis TrouviHe of South Hero was
killed sunday when he was struck by an
automohile driven by Emery Lucia Of
bristol. IrOUville was returning from
church, and It is thought. that he became
excited IN trying to avoid being hit and
stepped before the car. He was dragged
along for some distance before Mr.. Lu-l
cla was able to stop the car. 1t was
found. that his leg and arm We're broken
md that his skull was fractured He died
shortly after being taken to his home.
The suit which Edwin Bruce brought!
recently against Banks & Smith, the own
ers Of the airplane which flew from the /
field near Websterville for some weeks, /.
is attracting considerable attention and
IN bn ahoh IL
cision that will be given. At present /,
there IS no law in Vermont governing /
damages from airplane flying. The plain
tiff claims his horse was damaged to the |
extent of 5000 by running into barbeI !
wire fence, having been frightened by
the airplane flying over the field.
There are to be two important changes
soon in the personnel of the attaches of {
Rutland county national banks. Carl S
Cole of Castleton, the present cashier OF
the Rutland County National bank in
Rutland is going in the near future to Fair
Haven to become cashier of the Allen
National bank and i. NJ. Drew. cashier
of the First National bank of Fair Haven
IS to become treasurer of the Lamoile
County Trust company and Savings bank
at Hyde Park. The present cashier oil
the Allen bank, Arthur c. Hughes, is to
succeed George X. Montgomery as cash
Ter of the Killington National bank in
Rutland.
Mrs William Uttin in a fit of despOn
dency, due to i'll health, committed sui
eide Saturday evening at her home in
Newport. Mrs iU9tin, who had been
at times during the summer
and has been closely watched by her fam
lily, locked herself i'll the bathroom and
cut her throat with her husbands razorl
and died in a few moments before med
lcal aid could be summoned. She was
10 years of age and leaves beside her hus-
band one daughter and two small sons
A curious coincidence is the fact that
Mrs Uttin's mother also took her own
lie several years ago.
Earl Douglass, SO, of Stowe. was in
5tantly killed, and Alton Wheeler. "a, of
the same place so badly injured that he
will probably die, when the motorcycle
hey were riding on Sunday evening at Z
} clock collided with an automobile occu-
1ied by Mr.. and Mrs Harold Mcmahon.
No blame is attached to Mr.. Mcmahon
or the accident, as it is said that the
Rutland is going in the near future to Fair
wrong side of the road. Douglass, who
bought the cycle two weeks ago, was
lead when picked up. Wheeler was bad,
y cut over the head and one eye, his
light leg was terribly cut and one foot,
llso. If he survives, he will probably
ose part Of the foot,