Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-06-18
Vermont Items

The Equinox House at Manchester
opened its doors Saturday for its 6Sth
season.
For the third time within a year,
Porter Green of Morrisville has broken
his right arm, this time while cranking
a car.
Beginning July l. the price of the
Bellows Falls Times is to be raised
from 50 year to $3.50 on account of
the rising cost of paper
The annual sugar off picnic of former
residents of Vermont was held in Los
Angeles at Sycamore Grove June 9,
attended by about 700 enthusiastic ex-
Vermonters.
The census bureau at Washington
has announced the following popula
ton for st. Johnsbury, SOL an increase
of COZ over the 1910 census of seven
and four-tenths per cent.
Mrs Albert McCallum of North AL
burg met with a very serious acct
dent recently. She was opening a can
of chloride of lime when it exploded
and went into her face and eyes Her
sight is badly affected.
The village of Manchester, which
caters largely to the summer trade,
adopted the daylight saving system
June 49, believing that it will accom-
modate the tourists, most of whom
come from states in which that system
prevails.
Miss Harriet Vernon the valedicto-
rian of the graduating class of St. |
Johnsbury academy, not only captured |
the first honor of the class, but has the |
distinction of having completed u |
years of school work without an absent !
mark
The first delegate in the Republican
convention at Chicago to collapse from
prostration was Alexander Dunnett of |
St, Johnsbury, the chairman of the |
Vermont delegation. He was taken to
a hospital Mr.. Dunnett was i'll before
he started from his home for Chicago |
The night school sessions at the Rut-
land Business college have been dis
continued until September Goth The |
, day sessions will continue until June
%. The summer session will open
Monday, July and continue for six
weeks the sessions being held from
$3.50 to u daily.
DR.. Perley Spaulding of the federal
department in the campaign against |
the white pine blister rust, has been
looking over the conditions in Yer
mont. ]. E. Riley, jr, who has charge |
of that work in Vermont, is working
with two crews of five men each in
eastern Vermont against the spread
ing of the rust
A site has been chosen on the Gale
donia county fair grounds for land
ing field for airplanes. Capt H. E. |
Stickney of Bellows Falls has decided |
to use this place, in preference to all
other sites, as it is plateau, and the
aviator could approach the landing
field by a glide. The grading is being
accomplished and the field will be
ready in very few days.
Henry T. Amey son of Senator
Harry B. Amey, has brought suit
against the director general of rail
roads to recover $4,000 for loss of
eye sight elleged to have taken place 1
when he was employed repairing an
electric headlight on an engine on the /
Grand Trunk railway. The case will |
be tried in United States District |
court at Newport
A cat belonging to Fred Martin of |
Swanton recently gave birth to litter
of 10, five of which are bona fde kit
tens and five of them skunks some
what smaller than the kittens. One of |
the kittens and one of the skunks died,
but the other eight are alive and eat
ing heartily. The little animals do not
seem to be crOss-bred in any way, each |
retaining every characteristic of its
own species
Walter Farr of Dewey's Mills, Que
Chez attempted to commit suicide on
Friday evening He tried to go out
by the towel method He tied a wet !
towel around his neck and then pulled |
both ends and nearly choked himself /
black in the face. The neighbors ran !
into the house and made him desst.
The chief of police of White River
Junction was called and arrested him
1t is thought that family trouble
caused him to make this attempt
Rose Vermette, the 17-year-old
daughter of Fred Vermette of steeple
jack fame, climbed to the top of the
l9S-foot steeple of the Notre Dame
dies VICTORIES church at St Johnsbury.
She started for the staging where her
father was laying the foundation for
the cross recently blown down Before
reaching the spot outdoors where she
started up the steeple she had to climb
four ladders inside the church. One
of these is a 4O-foot iron ladder. Above
the bell tower the young lady climbed
outside the building and seating her
self in the rope chair, she pulled the
rope hand-over- hand till it raised her
to the top