Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-10-29
State Items

A stroller with a cigar was believed
to have caused a forest fire in Stowe
that required 80 men to eXtinguish.
Miss Linda Crane, telephone opera
Sbr at the State House, Montpelier
was married to Harold Bigelow Of
that city Tuesday afternoon.
G.. H. Senior, owner of the hotel in
Warren, was arrested in Montpelier
Saturday night on a charge of intoxi-
cation while driving an automobile
The Vermont Broom Factory OF
Swanton has fled articles Of associa
ton for he purpose of conducting bus
iness IN that town The capital stock
is $200)O.
Barre granite manufacturers are
somewhat relieved by the contents of
a letter received from the treasury de-
partment at Washir stating that
the excise tax of 10 per cent would not
be collected on granite or marble me-
MORALS.
Edwin Bruce of Montpelier has
brought suit against the owners of an
airplane which he claims so frightened
his horse when it flew over the field
FIN which he was working that the ami
NAL was damaged to the extent of
| 5000 by running into a barbed wire
fence
Y On a charge of having stolen a Hol-
letein calf and then after killing it Of
having sold it to his neighbors, Jerome
Benton of Bennington was fined 500
and costs and sentenced for petty lar
ceny to not less than five nor more
than five and one-han months in the
House of Correction at Windsor
An abandoned Franklin sedan, near
" new, was found Monday morning
smashed against a tree Nv the road
side on what is called Mile Hill in
West Chesterfield, n H., four n les
from Brattleboro and was ident 3ed
late Tuesday afternoon as the property
of ]. o. Watt a prosperous chair
manufacturer in Baldwinsville, Mass,
F. D. Horton of Essex Junction shot
his wife as she slept in bed Saturday
morning, then himself as he knelt by
her side. The recent loss of three
children was said to have affected the
mind of Mrs Horton The couple had
been known to quarrel very frequently
for several weeks previous to the trag
edy.
Fred Wheeler of Stratton reported
to States ATTORNEY E. w. Gibson late
Monday that a robbery was commit
Ned at his house while he and Mrs
Wheeler were in the kitchen, some
body opening a front window and tan
ing from the front room by means APP
parently of long stick, a handbag
cont tanning two pocketbooks and few
dollars in bills.
Mrs Wheeler was assaulted two
weeks ago by two strangers who enter
ed her home and bound and gagged
her and then made an unsuccessful at
tempt to find $500 which had been
sent Mr. Wheeler as agent for a lead
er in ferns. At the same house a year
ago Mrs. Wheeler was struck in the
back of the head by someone evident
ly bent on robbery but who was fright
ened away.
Mrs William Uttin in a fit of des-
pondency, due to i'll health, committed
suicide Saturday evening at her home
on Point ST. Newport Mrs. Uttin,
who had been despondennt at times
during the summer and has been close
" watched by her family, locked her
self in thee bathroom and cut her
throat with her husbands razor and
died in a few moments before medical
aid could be summoned
The Vermont State Fair Price Com
mission will 90 out of business Novem-
Der | along with the other similar
commissions in the United States. o
E. Luce, chairman of the Vermont
commission said Tuesday that he
thought the law OF supply and demand
was now taking care of the business
and he very much doubted if ;he
clothing, fuel or other merchants Of
the state were now making the rer-
centages allowed them by the COM
mission The people, he said, were
simply refusing to buy high priced
goods and the merchants were forced