The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-14

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Beginning July |, the price of the Bel
lows Falls Times is to be raised from 81 |
a 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 I
Angeles at Sycamore Grove June 9, at |
tended by about 700 enthusiastic eX-
Nermonters.
The village of Manchester, which caters |
largely to the summer trade, viii 60 !
onto the daylight saving system June
l3. believing that it will accommodate |
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 II years
of school work without an absent mark.
Because of the resignation of B. Nj.
Hayward, superintendent OF, the Mont
peher water works, the workmen who
had been under him also resigned. Alder
man Yeti accepted their designations and
viii put other men in their places.
Mrs. Albert McCallum of North Alburg
met with a very serious accident recent
| ly She was opening a can of chloride
of lime when it exploded and went into
her face and eyes. Her sight is badly
affected.
| At the commencement exercises of the
! Worcester Polytechnic institute in
/ Worcester, Mass, Thursday, Albert
Gerry Blodgett of Lyndonville was
awarded the principal prize for having
attained the highest scholastic average
during the course.
| The first delegate in the convention 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.
DR. Perley Spaulding of the federal
department in the campaign against the
white pine blister rust, has been looking
over the conditions in Vermont. J. f..
| Riley, jr., who has charge OF that work
in Vermont, is working with two crews
of five men each in eastern Vermont
against the spreading of the rust.
4 site has been chosen on the Gale
donna county fair grounds for landing
field for airplahes. Capt. Ii. f. Stickney
of Bellows Falls has decided to use this
place, in preference to all other sites, as
it is a plateau, and the aviator could
approach the landing field by a glide.
The grading is being accomplished and
the field viii be ready in very few days
A eat belonging to Fred Martin of
Swanton recently gave birth to litter
OF 10, five of which are bona fide kittens
and five of them skunks, somewhat
smaller than the kittens One of the
! kittens and one of the skunks died, but
the other eight are alive and eating
, heartily. The little animals do not seem
, to be cross bred in any way, each retain
ing every Characteristic OF its Owl
. species.
Prentss Cheney Hoyt, professor OF
ter, died suddenly at his home Their,
Friday night Professor Hoyt was {
q native of Addison a graduate of the Mid
r dlebury high school and Middlebury
n college, and had been principal of Middle
g bury high school. He is survived by hi
9 wife, who was Miss Hortense Drake Of
g Middlebury and one son, Edward Murray
Hoyt.
o Chief p J. Connolly of Montpelier ar
e rested Beatrice Shonio, Friday night
7. whose home was formerly in Morrisvill
L on the charge of larceny, for the Fitch
It burg police. TIE woman came to Mont
le pelier with a man in an automobile an
officers from Fitchburg arrived durin
3 the afternoon. They went to Morrisvill
q looking for the woman, but while the
n were away Chief Connolly made the al
If rest. She viii fight eXtradition.
y William G. McGrath, class of 1923 {
n Westfield, Mass, has severed his cOnne
r ton with Middlebury college on the az
% vice of the student council, Mct'rat
Y has been under suspicion for variou
y small thefts that has been noticed
+ late in the dormtory. The thefts o
'e Cured, it is said, during chapel hou
"a also when some of the students we
o undergoing physical examinations
- - the Mccullough gymnasium
!. Walter Farr of Dewey's Mills, Gu
chez, attempted to commit suicide
Friday evening He tried to go out
(. the towel method. lie tied wet tow
. around his neck and then pulled bot
! ends and nearly choked himself bla'
!. in the face. The ncighbors ran into Il
house and made him desist and called d
y chief of police of White River Juncti,
WHO came up and arrested him. 1t