The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-03

earlier if the council can relieve him of
his duties He has purchased an interest
IN the ID. NJ. Miles coal company.
Lieut. Paul Hurlbdrt, aged about 80,
commander of III. troop of the third cav
airy at Fort Ethan Allen, shot and killed
himself with 80 calibre revolver in his
quarters Thursday. The reason for his
act is unknown. No one was with him
at the time Lieutenant Hurlburt,
whose home was in Boston, served over
seas as a captain with the third cavalry
He leaves a wife.
Late Wednesday afternoon four men
in an automobile carrying a Rhode Is
land license number plate, narrowly es-
capped serious injury when the car struck
a pole, turning bottom side-up and PIN
ming three of the occupants underneath
the ear The accident occurred IN the
town of Georgia. It is understood the
machine was going at a high rate of
speed, and the accident happened at a
sharp curve in the road.
III. f. Bohannon and Billy Doane cut
down tree Wednesday at Colchester
ave, on the Mary Fletcher hospital
property, Burlington, and took from it
$50 pounds of honey The tree is ON the
highway and the men discovered the
bees a few days ago and went to the hos
pital authorities who gave the tree 10
them. Some of the honey was clover,
some flower, and some buckwheat, and
the clover was especially good About
one-half of it will have to be melted and
used as strained honey. The tree, which
was an old elm, measured five feet across
its base.
At the sd annual convention of the
grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the
annual meeting of the grand temple, Ply
THAN Sisters. in Lyndonville, the Past
Chiefs association elected these officers:
President, Mrs. Bertha Moody, White
River Junction; first vice president, Mrs.
Nina Coppin. Montpelier: second vice
president, Mrs. Mary Aldrieh, Burling-I
ton; marshal, Miss Lima Wheeler, Hard
wick; secretary, Mrs Hattie Bates, Or
leans: treasurer, Mrs. Ella McKees, I'm
derhill; sentinel. Mrs Inez Wheeler, Bel
lows Falls; chaplain Mrs GenevieveI
Farr, ST. Adams.
Mrs. Carroll A. Moore, wife of a prom
inent retired manufacturer of Bellows
Falls died Wednesday night at her home
following an illness of a year with heart
trouble. Fanny C. Moore was born in
Bellows Falls. July |, 1865. only daugh-
ter of the late Frederick NJ and Mary
j. Wilson. She was educated in the pub
lie schools there, St. Agnes Hall. and
Prospect Hill School for Girls at Green
field On June II, 1890 she was married
to Carroll A. Moore. The deceased was
member of Emmanuel church and was
active in its affairs. She was a charter
member of William French Chapter of
Daughters of the American Revolution.
member of the Daughters of 1872 and
the Vermont society of Colonial Danes.
John Doe warrants were sworn out
last Thursday for the individuals who
made break at the Barber Park store
in Bellows Falls Wednesday night Carl
Dean, camper, heard noise during
the night and went to investigate He
carried his revolver and when the par
ties he saw attempting break refused
to stop, he is said to have fired shot
in the air as warning The marauders
replied with a shot which narrowly
missed hitting Dean who was standing
in the doorway of the store States At
torney Gibson of Brattleboro was in
town Thursday and looked into the af-
fair with the result that warrants were
sworn out.
A very serious accident happened in
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