Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-06-11
Vermont Items

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the best in many months.
During May twice as many people
moved from Burlington as moved
into that city,
The steamer Vermont will commence
to run from Plattsburg to Montcalm
Landing June A.
The city of Montpelier recently re-
ceived fire truck that had been voted
to be purchased in 1913.
The Fonda Lime Kilns at Fonda
Junction were destroyed by fire with
great loss last Sunday morning.
Eighteen nurses of the Mary Fetch
er Hospital Training School received
their diplomas last Friday evening.
A fireless cooker started house fire
in Brattelboro recently Filings of
shavings with the asbestos had ignited.
Brattleboro expects to defray the
expenses of celebrating the Fourth of
July from the proceeds of a play staged
Wednesday evening.
Bennington High School will grad
uate a class of 81 Next year it is ex-
pected that there will be a teacher
training course in the school.
Rain put out several forest fires
Monday, the largest of which was in
Woodford and had cost $1,000 before
the elements aided the workers.
A man in Alburg had hidden two
quarts of whiskey in his bathtub while
in his attic were found some 100 emp
ties, according to raiding officers.
A fisherman in the. Winooski river
was recently dragged from his boat by
the strength of a bite. The tug on
the line was sufficient to overturn the
boat.
During a thunder shower last week,
Ernest Roberts lost bull and heifer,
and Ernest Edgerton lost five COWS,
killed by lightning, in pasture at
Dorset.
Miss Lucy Belle Pierce, teacher of
English in the high school at Bristol,
has received her appointment as teach
er in the Philippines She took the
examinations two years ago,
John Bean sawed his way out of the
White River Junction jail. He was
caught, however, and now in addition
to charges of burglary and larceny he
must tell the judge about his escape.
The total amount of money saved by
means of the sale of savings banks
stamps to village school pupils in Ben
nington in six months ending June 8
was 1920 One school room led with
$407 10 saved
Leland A. Wood has resigned as Cal
edonia county agricultural agent to be-
come treasurer of the Plymouth
Creamery association, with headquar-
tiers in Boston. His successor has not
yet been named.
Seventy-seven candidates received
the degree of the Vermont Consistory
at the opening of Masonic Week in
Burlington This was the largest class
in the history of the Scottish Rite
Masonry in Vermont.
The body of Frank Prunier, aged
caretaker of Green Mount cemetery in
Burlington was found in the river last
Saturday. Mr.. Prunier had said he
would drown himself on May 25 and
had been missing since then.
Ground for the new state armory
in Rutland was broken Tuesday. The
contract for the building which will
cost Sl25,000 has been let to a Boston
firm. Five or six months will be con-
sumed in erecting the building
While opening a bottle of soda in a
Bellows Falls store a few days ago,
John Barber Of that place was badly
cut when the neck of the bottle blew
off and inflicted a deep wound in one
arm that required hospital care.
On Sunday last the members of St.
Francis Xaviers church in Winooski
held a public procession of the Blessed
Sacrament. This was the first time
such an event had been held in the
town and special permission was OBJ
tanned from the trustees.
Springfield is to have a $4,000 play
house, Leon ] Albee of that place and
his cousin, Henry E. Hubbard of Roch-
ester, having purchased site. Motion
pictures and theatrical productions
will both be shown in the theatre.
A big sportsmens convention will
be held in Burlington June % and %.
The Vermont Fish and Game league
will participate and have charge of the
entire program of the second day. Out
of state speakers have been secured.
Warning was given to the cigarette
dealers in Brattleboro and some other
towns in Windham county by the
States Attorney that they must OBJ
serve the law regarding the sale Of
cigarettes to minors or be prosecuted.
Mrs. ]. c. Mccullough, widow of the
late ex-Gov. Mccullough, will present
to North Bennington, her native home,
building for free library. She has
contemplated this project for several
years, but owing to her activities dur
ing the war, it has been postponed
until the present time.
H. T. Johnson, adjutant general, has
returned from Camp Devens and it is
expected that the muster of the In
fantry of the Vermont National
Guards will occur this year at Camp
Devens instead of Fort Ethan Allen.