The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-15

broke all records for attendance for IS
years.
On account of the low water in La
noble river, the electric light plant of
the Public Electric Light Co. at Fair
fax Falls Is now able to supply only a
very small percentage of the current
consumed by the various towns which
| It serves. The water in the LamOllle
river is the lowest on record.
James f. O'Donnen, of st. Adams,
assistant engineer of the Central Yer
mont railway, has accepted a temporary
appointment as city manager TO till the
vacancy caused by the recent resigna-
ton of Athole B. Edwards. Mr.. o Don
nell has taken UP his new duties.
The Fairbanks Museum at st. Johns
bury has received from the United
states Radium corporation of New
York city a high grade specimen of car
hottie ore running a high content of ra-
lium, the most valuable substance in
the world. 1t comes from the Undark
mines in the Paradox valley of Colo
RADIO.
In the village of Middlebury the pub
lie water supply has become very low,
Is the reservoir is pretty near emptied.
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what they can to remedy the trouble by
forbiddin- the use of water on lawns
and in gardens and by shutting off the
water from the mains at certain hours
If the day.
George Churchill of Wolcott started
for CraftsbuTy on a recent morning
with COW in his wagon. but when only
I few rods from home, the COW pushed
him over the wagon box. also following
him. Mr. Churchill 5 leg was badly
broken and he was taken to the Hard
wick hospital, where for several days
he remained unconscious.
The manufacturing plants at Yer
rennes which use water in operating
have been asked to close down for a
ew hours each day by the city council
n order to conserve the supply for
lorsehOld purposes. Otter Creek is
about as low as it has ever been in its
history and it is seldom that any trou
bic is experienced with the water sup
ply.
Three hundred pupils in the Middle
bury college summer school Middlebury,
who have had to converse in French or
Spanish at play as well as in classroom
Under penalty of dismissal, have re-
sumed their native English. The faculty
vas N'ilpOStu tHJlItiN Oh pTOIeSSOIS
from France and Spain, while the stu
Tents were largely high school teachers
who came from all parts of the country.
Winifred, five-yearold daughter of
Lesime Tanguay of Barre is at City hos
0ital suffering from a compound frac- !
ure of the skull, which she sustained |
when she was struck by quot Monday
night. The child ran in front of the |
stake Just as one of the men in the |
anne pitched the quot. 1t was said
Hrl was serious she was not considered /
o be in danger.
John Carlson, 80. a stone cutter. of |
Barre, was yesterday recovering from
what is believed to be an attempt at |
suicide in his bedroom. Carlson, who .
1as been suffering from pleurisy. shot |
himself through one lung, with a heavy
oaiiber rifle. After the shooting it was
noticed that Carlson had destroyed ev-
cry picture of himself in his home He
5 said to have told neighbor after
The shooting that he did not know the
gun was loaded. He has been married /
seven years and has two children.
County Judge Edwin Horton of Chit |
enden, at the age of so years Tuesday |
began his 22d semi-annual session off
RUTLAND county court, probably being
the oldest man in Vermont to take the
bench. Since he took the oath of Office /
on Dec. 1, 1910, he has been reelected |
i've times and he has set on many i'm
nortant cases, iucluding a number
where man s life was at stake and
others where thousands of dollars were
involved. Judge Horton is still in
good physical condition and travels the