The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-27

their home in box nicely fitted up for
their use. They are not very wild and
enjoy their new quarters
Ernest Nichols of Barre suffered hor-
libly mangled arm yesterday when it was
caught in some way in the cogs of der
rick wheel Physicians there fear ampu-
tation will be necessary as the flesh had
been practically all removed from the arm
as far as the elbow.
County Fish and Game Warden George
H. Chaffee of Middlebury, paid visit to
Starksboro Sunday and found his cousin,
Charles Alger, with 81 short trout in his !,
creel.. On Monday morning Alger was ar
raigned before Justice A. w Dickens of
Middlebury and fined $l60 and costs OF
$685..
George VI. Cassidy, L. V. NJ, 10, form
erly of Poultney, now associate professor
and head of the department of physical
education at the University of the Phil
ippines, Manila, was in Burlington the
latter part of last week on a trip in
which he is arranging a baseball schedule
for the team of the University Of the
Philippines, which will tour America next
spring.
A large increase, both in imports and
exports, is shown in the customs district
of Vermont for the month of April, over
the corresponding month last year, by the
! statement issued -by-G Collector II e. 6 om-s
| ings. The total importations for the
month were 1895 ,565 as compared with
| s., 0s3 800 in April 1919, and the exporta-
| tions amounted to S7,656 222 as compared
with si,O69,702 during the corresponding
month last year
Frank r. Stone has resigned his posi-.
/ lion at the Addison house, MiddIebury.
fafter 81 years of service as porter and will
retire Mr.. Stone claims to have been
the longest in the service OF any porter in
The country. During the latter part of the
it ivil war, and when but 10 years old,
/ Mr.. Stone was a ferryman on Lake Cham
lplain, and ran the ferryboat between
EFrost's landing in Bridport and Crown
Point, \; Y.
/ Dr. Issa Tanimura of Tokyo, commits
Esioner Of livestock for the japanese gov
,efnment, has been guest of Elmer A.
Darling at Fast Burke and while there
purchased Mr. Darling's championship
Morgan mare Hazella. sired by Bob B.,
1.-THE grand championship stallion at the
Estate fair and winner of the blue ribbon
Fat the national horse show in New York
The commissioner is planning to intro
duce the Morgan horse into the Mikado's
Iempire and will take across the Pacific
i've Morgan horses, buying all but one o.
them in Vermont
L 4 COW belonging to Arthur Ather o
Stowe, recently got out of the pasture
| and ate up the potatoes cut up for plant
ing left outside at neighbours home ant
then proceeded to eat a shirt from thu
clothes line. The shirt lodged in the an
imal's throat and the COW was discovered
in the act of choking to death by pass
ferby, who was, however, unable to reliev,
| it of the shirt A neighboring woman
' came to the rescue and rolling up he
, sleeves thrust her hand down the cow
, throat and pulled out the garment.
Somerset is in better shape, accordin,
to population, this year than it was
a year ago, according to Fred Johnson VIII,
Is tue IldyoI OF lHe tONH anu OHc u
the five regular residents of the town. III
states that he obtained AZ poll tax payer
this year One year ago, April |, Their
Twas a question as to whether there was
single legal resident in the town. Bur
s Leonard was considered such, but was on
n of town about that time. This year, MI
t johnson, who is a member of the legis
r lature, made canvass, securing AZ po
! tax payers. The most of them are gon
tnow. having left when the log drive OF
cured
i Through the initiative of the Whit
IRiver Junction board of trade that vi
n lage has .30-acreI aviation field and men
TX bers of the Vermont State Aero club, VIII
y. have inspected it, pronounce it the be:
III and most ideal area of its kind III a
ot Vermont The field is "a portion of tt
Maurice G.. Harvey estate on Highlan
Ipark, halfmile fronrathe union passel
n ger station, the business interests of WIFI
70 River Junction and the union of the Coz
r, necticut and White rivers. The name
rs the field is vermont, No. % and tn
It designation will be in white letters, ea'
three feet wide and a fiat length of
feet. The field is for the free use of q
as aviators The area was leased and allgn'
astby the following members of the board Z
CHI trade G. H. Miller Thomas ]. Adam
hg Harold Stacey, and James /. Dewey.