The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-01
VERMONT NEWS.

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William Jennings Bryan gave a lecture
at Niddlebury college last evening.
a house was destroyed by fire the other
day in White River Junction, the origin
being a short cifcuit caused by a nail
being driven through a board into the
electric wiring.
Fred Hutchinson and jefferson Flint
of the hamlet in Braintree called Peth
recently found a bee tree with about 125
pounds. of honey. and d. l.. Bass of the
same place, while ~ploughlng recently,
found n box containing a diamond ring.
The army recruiting for service in
Fort Ethan Allen Vermont Is now 5Open,
and for the month of November, 1921
there are 40 vacancies. These vacancies
will be held opea until the 40 men are
enlisted when recruiting viii again close
until there are more vacancies,
John FTedette may have received in
ternal injuries as well as injuries to his
left ankle when he fell through a haymow
chute in the barn of the Gorham
Brothers at the Ferland farm in Middle-l
bury. He fell % feet. The chute from
the haymow TO the cattle stalls below was
partly covered with hay and Mr.. Ere
dette stepped unknowingly into the chute.
A youth giving the name of James
Young and claiming South Hero, Vt. as
his home was arrested on a train at Man
chester. y. H., yesterday charged with
evading his car fare after he rendered a
worthless check in payment. lie seemed
to be q defective. Young was brought
into court at a special session later IN
the day and was committed as he could
not pay a fine of 50.
Recent fires at Newport are being in
veStigated. Inspector .Preble found that
sparks blown from q low chimney into
the open door of a barn caused that struc-
lures destruction Careless smoking
caused another ire, and spontaneous
which partly destroyed the Boston x
Maine boiler and pump house.
Mrs. Janet Fairfield Fisher, wife of
Benjamin +. Fisher of st. Adams and a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Charles L.
Fairfield. formerly of Rutland, was run
over by a taxicab in Chicago recently and
is now IN a hospital there. Mrs. Fisher
has resided in Nergennes for several
years. the family moving to st. Adams
the past Summer. She was on her way
West to see her parents and had stopped
over in Chicago between trains when she
met with the accident.
Stanley Fleury of Burlington visited
his mother in Isle La Motto recently
and on his return home took bags of veg
etables and apples. After passing Sand
bar bridge the steering gear broke and he
had to leave the car long enough to go
to a house and telephone for an auto to
tow him into Burlington. In his absence
the car was rited of the apples II gar
den produce. also two clocks. which Mr..
FIeury was taking to Burlington for his
mother to have them repaired.
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Vernon Pitts. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Pitts of Mendon suffered a
bruised and torn shoulder Saturday morn
ing when. while employed at the Perry
lumber mill on the road to Mount Plco,
his clothes were drawn into a circular
saw and he was thrown over it. That the
young man was not terribly injured or
killed was somewhat in the nature of a
miracle and due only to the fact that
his garments happened to catch in a way
to throw him over the saw instead of
drawing him onto It.
Robert Barker. Herman Sweeney,
Fred Martin. and Frank Vincent. all of
st. Adams. will start on a unique trip to-
dav when they leave that city in a Ford
truck for Miami, Fla. The truck has
been arranged SO the boys will have "all
the comforts of home. They will make
il their habitation all the way to Florida,
even sleeping in the car. Each man will
leave with $50 in his pockets and each
expects to have that much when they re-
turn to this city in the spring. If they
have good luck they will go from Florida
across the continent to California. up
that state. and then move eastward direct
to this city.
Victor Young of Bennington who last
week paid a fine of $50. imposed by Judge
Harland Il. Howe at Burlington in the
United States district court, is charged
with a second offense of manufacturing
.'home brew and United States Com
missioner Charles Maurier will give him
a hearing next Friday. When the mar
shall appeared at the home of Young there
were many evidences of home brew other
than the odor. there being two 10-gallon
kegs of the concoctiOn. it Is alleged, ready
10 undergo aging. On the table in the
Kitchen were many glasses and a pitcher.
indicating tina some sort of a beverage
had been served.
Barre's fire department saved the south
end from q disastrous fire early Sunday
morning when the rear of the building
floor of which is occupied by the general
store of Joseph Shadroui. burst into
flames. The quick run and work of the
iremen confined the flames to the rear
piazza and stairways although the stock
i'm the store suffered heavily from smoke
and water and the Office was burned
slightly. Most of Mr.. Shadroui's records
were destroyed. No estimate of the loss
could be made but it was believed it
would run into several thousands of dol
lars.
Enormous socks OF oatmeal have ac-
cumulated i'm Scotland. because the work