Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1921-06-17

The board of aldermen at Burlington
have voted Il tax of $50 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
5 cents.
Within the last few weeks Harold
Wing of Bridport has been fined for
speeding in friends car, damaged his
own machine in an accident which
ditched the machine and one day last
week fell from Il farm roller and broke
his colarbone.
Marvin Moore, 10 was found by his
wife yesterday afternoon with n rope at
tached TO his neck, hanging from a beam
III the shed at his home in AliddleScx, in
dicating that he had attempted suicide
by hanging An investigation will be
conducted today as to the mans sanity
storm of great severity passed over
Bethel Monday afternoon. 1t was a
combination of lightning, rain. hail and
wind and was the worst in recent years.
The extraordinarily large size of the
hailstones caused a great deal of COM
ment Many windows were broken and
the crops were badly damaged.
Gov. James Hartness, while at
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
IL from the house of correction at Wind
sor to the same institution at Rutland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Orzelc of Castle
ton pleaded guilty in Fair Haven mum
cipal court Monday to impeding an off
Ger who was searching the premises for
furs said to have been trapped before
t he season opened and they were fined
S25 each. which they paid. Mr.. Orzelle
| il said to have threatened the officers
with a shotgun and his wife with a
| pitchfork.
Gov. James lIartness has appointed
az member of the state board of UNI
dertakers and embalmers DR.. +. w
| Hartman of Montpelier in place of DIR.
who recently resigned. The statutes
provide for one practicing physician on
! the board and this is the position which
/ DR.. Hartman, who is World war vet
eran, will have.
a Cadillac touring car, owned. and
driven by Arthur c. Carroll of Barre,
leader of CAROLS orchestra, plunged off
the Barre Montpelier road near Dewey
park, crashed down a 25-foot bank skid.
died over a short Hat and then dropped
three feet into the Winooski river, re-
manning right side up and permitting
Mr.. Carroll to crawl out unframed al
though somewhat wet
For the second time within four
months the railroad station in Middle.
sex has been broken into by burglars
the second time being Monday night when
the station Office was ransacked. but
nothing of value was taken. This is the
third break in a railroad station of the
Central Vermont railroad within n week
the other two being at Sharon and Ran
dolph.
John, eight-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Bushee of Dandy, was
drowned in Otter Creek within n few
| at this point, but while fishing alone
. near a deep hole, the lad fell in. Mei
!, working on the highway nearby heart
his cries and rushed to his assistance
bue he had sunk and when taken from
the water he was dead. He was in thu
water so short q time that it was thought
that he may have died of shock from
fright.
One Of the boldest robberies ever per
petrated in Barre occurred in the Bal
tmore lunch room Tuesday evening il
Just 10 minutes, between $50 and
o'clock, and. though discovered immed
lately by Mr.. Lander, the proprietor
, upon his return to the restaurant, Their
was no clue to the person who relieve,
he cash register of $24.S7. Mr.. Lande
! found that the wire in the screen doc
had been cut with knife and per
, sons hand thrust inside to unlock tn
door.
: Thurman w. Dix, highway commits
+ sioner, has received from the fedora
American Highway State Officials asso
citation copy of the Dowell bill now be
g fore, congress, giving the plan of tn
road construction using federal none
and showing that the state must main
: atty will be imposed for lack of tn
q same and also how the public lands il
states will be protected and legislat iol
- fixing the policy for continuous exten
sion of the projects.
Mrs. David Bushee of Pawlet is keep
ing alive by artificial feeding n tim
: fawn, which she found beside the roa,
: near her home recently. The little ami
NAL, is an orphan either through acci
!, dent to its mother or desertion by TN
= doe When discovered it was so veal
Y from starvation that It could not stand
but it has taken diluted COW : mill
1 from nursing bottle and is on tn
: road to recovery. Commissioner III. i
= sheldon has been asked for instruction
= as to what shall be done with the deer
a Mrs. Mary avery of Rutland, widow
@ and mother of five children all living II
!. home, is confined to her bed with
d bullet in her chest as n result of n pc
culiar accident. Mrs. Avery had pm
e some coal into her Kitchen stove am
t was standing over it, cooking, whe
: there was loud report and she felt
e sharp sting in her breast. estigatiol
showed that cartridge had gotten in
: to the fuel and was put into the stov
n unintentionally No one in the hous
had any firearms so the cartridge wa
:, probably in the coal when twas bought
: The bullet has been located by an X-ra
apparatus but il has not yet been re
moved. The wound is serious but it
expected that Mrs. Avery will recover
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