The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-08-21
VERMONT NEWS.

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The Springfield chamber of commerce
has filed articles of association with the
secretary of state. 1t has no capital |
The papers are signed by S.W. Wheeler,
T. E. NOR, C. Bowman, c. S. eros
venor and Ii. ID. Casey
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The state probation officer has received
notice from Springfield, Mass, of the ar
rest of George Fields, probationer who
left Windsor He was sentenced from
Burlington City court and will be taken
back there for hearing.
benjamin A. Sumner, of Montpelier
has sold to Charles III, Thompson all his
stock holdings in the Vermont & Que
bee Pewer corporation and the Ithel
Falls Power company at par. Mr. Sum
ner has resigned as clerk and director
of both these corporations and Royden
E. Reed of Hyde Park has been elected
clerk and director of both corporations
in his place.
The four candidates for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination, Frank w.
Agan, James A. HARNESS, Frederick H.
Rabbit and Curtis S. Emery, are ex-
pected to deliver addresses at the Frank
lin county fair in Sheldon on Wednes-
day, Sept. /, according to a statement
made public Friday by Ex-Gov. Charles
W. Gates, president of the Franklin
County Fair association.
News has been received that Miss Billie
G. Lempie the young sportswoman,
who left St Adams on June 30 for a
3,000-mile horseback tour to the Pacific
coast, arrived in Chicago August To- She
is attracting considerable attention all
along the route, and has averaged 80
miles per day. She win leave for Du-
buque, Iowa, and later go directly west.
Her horse is blooded Morgan and is
standing the trip well.
| Bert L. Grace, aged 50 years, of Pitts
| ford, died Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock at the Proctor hospital of injur
! les received short while earlier while
| operating stone crusher in connection
with the resurfaeing work on the Proc
tor road Mr.. Grace was alone at the
time of the accident, so that it is not
I known Just how it occurred, but it i,
| thought that the transmission belt brok,
and struck him He was badly injured
about the head and one leg was broker
in several places
i The r. V. NJ. football camp will be
gin the Sth of September and last un
/ til the 22d, with at least 80 men en-
| rolled. The preseason training vii
be given this year in Burlington. Tn,
4 men will live in Converse hall and viii
i have their meals at Commons hall This
daily routine will probably include TIVE
hours practice in the forenoon and two
1 in the afternoon with daily swims II
i the lake twice day if possible OF
the men who viii attend the eamI
about 90 will be veterans IL.
A suit in which the ad damnum j,
4 placed at $4,000 has been brought by ,
i B. Preston of New York city, against
the Mahar Slate Products Co, Inc, o.
Fair Haven and the Vermont Milling
Products corporation, a Massachusetts,
organization with the plant at Poultney
according to papers filed with the secre
tary of state Thursday, the suit bein.
brought in Rutland county. The suit il
for alleged breach of contract in tn,
marketing and sale of entire products o
the defendants for a period of one year
i Edward Carr, son of Harry H. Car
, of st. Johnsbury. the Caledonia count,
member of the Republican state com
Il fhittee, died Thursday at St. Johnsbur,
! hospital. The young man was operated
Il upon last week for appendicitis an,
/, was thought to be recovering when per
) itonitis developed. Mr.. and Mrs. Carr
: the parents of the young man, los
| their only daughter two years ago il
the - flu epidemic They have on
: son, Lieutenant Harold Carr, who i
, on his way from Clastram aviation
!, field in Florida
: The 18th annual state convention O
, the Vermont Letter Carriers associa
!, ton ended at Saxton g RIVER Thursday
| The opening exercises were held Tues
day at the i. o. 0. f. hall. Postmaste
, d. II. Cray of Bellows Falls made tn
3 address of welcome In the evening ;
!, banquet was held at the inn with Pres
ident f. L. Whitney of East Dorset a
{ postmaster. The speakers were: Cap
> tain e. w. Gibson of Brattleboro, can
didate for congress; Frederick II. Bah
bitt of Bellows Falls, candidate 70
i governor, and w. c.. Belknap of Below
| Falls, candidate for state senator. TIL
officers of the association for the pas
j.. year were reelected as follows Presi
dent, E. L. Whitney of East Dorset
vice president, E. NJ. Farr of Chester
: secretary, Z. II. Sargent of East Tibet
i ford; treasurer j. II. Beckwith o.