The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-16
VERMONT NEWS,

While chopping in the Barnes woods
! this week, L. H. Rich of Pittsford
found grasshoppers that were as lively
as IN summer, and to prove his story he
| brought several home which mad hoped
| into his dinner pail.
Mrs. Mary f. Landry of St Johns
| bury, recently appointed a deputy sher-
! if for Caledonia county, is the mother
| of seven children. With all the duties
of her household. she has found time for
considerable public work.
Two hundred cases of assorted liquors
| hidden in baled hay and % quarts of
gin slowed away in three barrels of fish
were seized at st. Adams yesterday,
enroute from Montreal TO Southern New
England points. The liquor was valued
at $4,000.
While fixing the lock on a gun, Charles
Abair of NeTgennes was accidentally
rib Just below his heart. The wound is,
however, not considered serious
! Abair was unaware of the fact that the
gun was loaded.
Reports have been received at the Tn
lVerSlty of Vermont extension service
! that 10000 maple trees have been tapped
| in Washington county. This is only Il
small fraction of the number tapped in
| that county during Il season but it i
an indication that the sugar season has
commenced in earnest.
George F. Lackey. deputy L. s. mar
shall. was in Burlington and st. Adams
| yesterday and spilled several gallons of
cough medicine in each place This med
| icine was seized by the federal officer
| last summer, having been condemned
[ h. Lu-s foln ..o+{f In
Mr.. Lackey received the orders TO dc
| stroy it.
George Cole of. Newoort. who caused
no little excitement the other day when
| he literally applied tar and feathers to
the house where his wife is living. and
then daubed uD the landscape, a re-
yenge, il was said, for fancied derog-
atOry remarks, was in municipal court
| Monday and was fined for intoxication.
No other charge was preferred against
him.
Judge Leonard F. Wing fined one of
! Capt Leonard T. Wings men in Rut-
/ land city court Monday when Frank II.
| Seward of this city was arralgned on a
| charge of operating his motorcycle with
out a license. The young man u a
member of Co. y, \. y. G., OF which
Judge Wing is captain. He was fined
/ $50 and costs of $4.45, but $50 OF the
| fine was RENTED.
The Central Vermont shops, which
| were closed two weeks ago. We're re-
| opened YESTERDAY morning with a very
materially reduced working force
| enough men being put to work to take
care of the absolutely necessary repairs.
! 1t is said that something like 10 per
cent OF the usual force a:e back at work
and no announcement of probable fu-
| +lyrn fa,-nlpnynap+g j. made
Sheriff F. H. Tracy Of Washinstoa
county has appointed another woman
| deputy sheriff, in Barre, Mrs. +. y. len
| nings, stenographcr in the Office Of :,
| IT Jackson. Mrs. Jennings served her
/ first papers SATURDAY. afternoon lie
| expects to support a second woman dep
uty in that city and then appoint one IN
| Mort hfield, making SIX in the county.
There are now two in Montpelier and
one in Waterbury and one in Barre.
/ There was weeping and wailing and
gnashiug of teeth at Fair Haven Sat
urday, SAYS the Rutland Herald, when
| an accident occurred as truck mansen
dcavored to deliver a barrel of apple
Juice. Coming III contact suddenly with
the ground the head of the cask popped
out and the contents filed the cutters
| There were quite few on the scene
soon to offer their sympathy and regrets
predicting that it would be ''fairer and
drier" on Sunday
That the Rutland railroad viii bc
completely tied up if the prospective
wage cuts extend to all crafts is tht
opinion expressed by several Of the mel
and by union officials, as the outcome
of mass meeting at Rutland ATTENDED
by .nearly 700 persons, last Saturday
evening when report of the recent con
IL Z.
, common laborers decrease was dis
: lcussed. While the latest notice from
, General Manager George T. Jaryis's of
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