The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-08
VERMONT NEWS.

ERN1ONI NEWS.
Seven deer were killed within two
miles of the city of Rutland within four
hours after daylight Monday morning.
Martin S. Villas of Burlington is a can
didate for the position of United States
district attorney, to succeed Vernon A.
Billiard.
The, civil service commission has, ap-
plnted Francis Cooper Craighead of Enos-
burg Falls to a position as entomolo-
glst for the department of agriculture,
Leon Shontelle, who broke jail in
Mortified last Thursday, has been cap
brught back to Mortified. He will be
taken to the house of correction to fin
ish out an old sentence for larceny.
Another case of smallpox was discov-
cred Monday, resulting from the case
which appeared at the Van Ness hotel
during Thanksgiving week. John Bour-
deau who has been employed at the Van
Ness, is the victim. He has been put I'M
der quarantine at his home in Burling
ton.
Favorable reports come from Harold
Hayden, the Bolton young man who was
shot in the leg Monday by Fred Guyette
while the men were deer hunting. The
injured man was taken to a hospital in
Burlington. He is still in serious CON
dition but is expected to come along
I well.
Poultney had recently an epidemic of
streptococcic sore throat, So cases hav-
ing been reported. This epidemic was
supply, and when the health authorities
located the trouble, the epidemic was
soon stopped. 1t lasted for about three
days.
! Business shows signs of being very
poor in Ludlow this winter. There are
three wooden mills in the place, but the
/ Verd Mont mills have been closed since
September, the Jewel Brook company
went onto a three-day schedule Monday
and the Black River mill is TO shut down
/ as soon as the present stock is used up.
Major Lee s. Tillotson, who recently
enlisted in the regular army, and who
| has been at Camp Deyens, has been as
signed to service at Camp jackson. Ma
/ jor Charles Wheatley, another former
Montpelier soldier. has been transferred
from Fort Monroe to ain officers train
ing school, to which he will go the first
of the year.
| The village of Orleans recently pre-
scented A. II. Billiard a fine gold watch,
suitably engraved. and a bank book,
which contained S125, as an expression
of their appreciation of his work with
the Orleans band, this being Mr.. Bull
lard's 50th anniversary as band leader.
He began leading a band of youngsters
ut II years of age
Rev. William Cashmere, pastor of the
Congregational church in Jericho for
eight years has rendered his resignation
nd fn no
will continue to supply the Jericho
church the remainder of the year. Mr..
Cashmere has been offered and has ac-
cepted q lucrative government position
in connection with his work as veter-
mary surgeon.
John Benjamin of Berlin has sold to
the management of the Home for Feeble
Minded in Massachusetts 3S head of
grade Holstein cattle. The purchasers
came to that section of Vermont be-
cause the farmers have been doing more
there towards elimination of tuberculo-
sis from their herds than in other parts
of the state, according to the statement
of the purchasers to Mr.. Benjamin.
According to a paper devoted to hotel
news, a syndicate of Boston men have
bought about 100 acres of land situated
on the NarrOvs of Lake Champlain in
Shoreham, 10 miles from the ruins of
Fort Ticonderoga, and on one of the
most picturesque spots in the Champlain
valley. Their intention is to build 100
room summer hotel on the site. The To-
cation is at Watch Point. 1t is said that
the same interests have other hostelries
in mind in other points in Vermont, pre-
sumably along the lake.
The general merchandise store of j
A. Kennedy at Milton, known as the De-
pot store, was broken into Sunday eve
ming about 7 o'clock by two young sol
diers from Fort Ethan Allen. They were
found hiding at the railroad station and
returned to the store and gave UP the
wearing apparel they had stolen and put
on. Sheriff Grow took the two men back
to the post They gave their ages as II
and 81 years, and said they were tired
and hungry and intended getting away to
Mntreal
About four weeks ago ten head of
young cattle belonging to Charles Mer
rill and Williams Birkett of Vergennes
We're chased by tirree young boys so per
sistently that they became so frightened
they escaped from the pasture and have
been running wild in the woods in Monk
ton. They became so wild that they fed
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