The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-16

Ford garage in Rutland, has broken
ground for a new $4,000 garage, which
he hopes to complete this summer.
The hail storm at Bethel Monday
broke over 80 lights of glass in one
farm house and ~ small lights of glass
IN the Cniversalist church.
The board OF aldermen at Burlington
| have voted a tax of $40 OH the dollar
of the grand list, which is the highest
tax rate ever assessed in the city of
Burlington. This exceeds last years
rate, which held the previous record, by
) cents.
st. Adams high school has entered
formal claim to the baseball champion
ship OF Vermont amsng preparatory and
high schools playing under schoolmas-
ters rules. With nine victories, two,
defeats and one tie, St Adams high
sideration for prep" school honors.
Gov. James Hardness, while at
tending a meeting of the board of CON
troll signed the transfers of some %
women prisoners from Windsor to Rut
land. There are II who are transferred
from the state prison to Rutland and
/ II from the house OF correction at Wind
Sor TO the same institution at Rutland.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Orzelle of Castle
ton pleaded guilty in Fair Haven NUM-
cpal court Monday to impeding an Off
Ger who was searching the premises for
furs said to have been trapped before
the season opened and they were fined
S2j each, which they paid Mr. OrZelle
Is said to have threatened the officers
with a shotgun and his wife with a
pitchfork.
Gov Hart Jau .v,,,;,. Il
as a member OF the state board of I'M
dertakeTs and embaImers DIR. f. W.
Hartman of Montpelier in place of DR..
George II. Gorham of Bellows Falls.
who recently resigned. The statutes
provide for one practicing physician on
the board and this is the position which
DR.. Hartman, who is a World war vet
eran, will have.
One of the boldest robberies ever per
petrated in Barre occurred in the Bal
timore lunch room Tuesday evening in
Just 10 minutes, between $50 and 81
o'clock, and, though discovered immed
lately by Mr.. Lander, the proprietor,
upon his return to the restaurant, there
was no clue to the person who relieved
the cash register Of S24.S7. Mr.. lander
found that the wire in the screen door
had been cut with knife and per
sons hand thrust inside to unlock the
door.
Thurman w. Dix, highway commits
sioner, has received from the federal
American Highway State Officials asso-
citation a copy of the Dowell bill now be-
fore congress. giving the plan of the
road construction using federal money
and~ showing that the state must main
tain the roads that are built or a pen
atty will be imposed for lack of the
same and also how the public lands in
states will be protected and legislation
fixing the policy for continuous extern
sion of the projects.
Mrs. David Bushee of Pawlet is keep
ing alive by artificial feeding a tiny
fawn, which she found beside the road
near her home recently. The little anil
NAL, Is an orphan either through acct
dent 10 its mother or desertion by the
doe. When discovered it was so weak
from starvation that it could not stand,
but il has taken diluted cows milk
from a nursing bottle and is on the
road to recovery. Commissioner IL. 7. !
Sheldon has been asked for instructions
as to what shall be done with the deer
Mrs. Mary Avery of Rutland. a widow
and mother of five children all living at /
home, is confined TO her bed with a /
bullet in her chest as result of pc /!
culiar accident. Mrs. Avery had put
some coal into her kitchen stove and
was standing over it, cooking, when
there was a loud report and she felt
sharp sting in her breast Investigation
showed that a cartridge had gotten in j
to the fuel and was put into the stove
unintentionally. No one in the house |
had any firearms so the cartridge was
probably in the coal when it was bought
The bullet has been located BY an x-ray
apparatus but it has not yet been re-
moved. The wound is serious but it is
expected that Mrs. Avery viii recover