The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-19
VERMONT NEWS.

The compressor and boiler plants of
the Wetmore & Morse Granite Co., at
Websterville, valued at 100000, were
burned Wednesday night.
Russell Lyman Perry, the nine-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs Fred NJ Perry
of Shelburne Falls, died Wednesday
night of infantile paralysis after al
nine days illness.
p A thief broke open a garage at New
port and stole. a Buick touring car val
ued at 500, belonging to G. j. 0ben.
The thief pEied off the paddock and car
ried it away with him, as well as thel
ear.
Henry o. Carpenter, president of the
Rutland County Savings bank and
known to every commercial traveller in
the New England territory as formerly
proprietor of the Bardwell hotel in Rut-
land, has resigned as president of the
chamber of commerce.
Allen Fletcher, adjutant of the state
department of the American Legion,
has received from Lemuel Bolles, of In
dlanapolls, adlutant of the national or
ganiZation, letter stating that he will
attend the state department convention
in Rutland the first of next month.
Tuesday, Sept 6, is the date of the
annual reunion of the veterans of the
Third Vermont regiment. 1t will be
held in Grand Army hall, st. Johnsbury.
1t is expected that Col. S. Z. Pingree
of Hartford and Captain Horace French
of West Lebanon N. H., will be there.
\. J. Clapper, an employe of the We
neer factory at North Troy. had his jaw
broken IN two places and his neck and
spine injured when caught between the
frame OF a moving elevator and the
! floor at the mill one day last week.
| As soon as he could be extricated he
was taken to a hospital in Montreal.
| Three cases of infantile paralysis are
I reported in Health district No. l. two
at Fairfax and one in SwantOn, the lat
/ ter case proving fatal Wednesday. The
| wo-and-One- half year old child of Mr.
tim. The two cases in Fairfax are in
! one family. One case is mild while the
other Is more serious.
| Two gaudily dressed girls, aged Is and
| is years. who had run away from their
home, which they said was Keene, y
/ IL, were arrested in Aliddlebury
/ Wednesday in response to a telephone
complaint from their father He came
! Thursday morning, paid the cost OF
their lodging and meals in the county
jail and took them home.
The First Congregational society OF
! Weathersfeld has just concluded the
centennial celebration of the building OF
the church at Weathersfield The First
! Congregational society of WeathersfielC
was organized in l775 4 woodeT
church, the first built in town, was
4 erected in 1871 and after 80 years USE
was burned and the present brick struc
4 ture erected in 1921 on the site of the
old church, which is in the exact cen
4 ter of the town
4 citizenship conference under the au
! spices of the league of women voters
OF Vermont viii be held at the Univer
sity of Vermont Sept. IA, 10 and l6
1 Miss Carrie w Ormsbee of Brandon
chairman of the league OF women voters
has the conference in charge and ha
arranged a very interesting program
:, made up of lectures by Vermont mel
and women who have attained promi
nence in their various fields All wo
men of the state who are interested il
this subject are invited to the confer
, ence.
> George Pope of Hardwick has beer
=, fined so and costs for the larceny o
S236 from Mrs. Louisa Galcagny anC
: sentenced to the house of correction 70
not less than six months nor more thar
> = months. He was charged with oper
iating his car under the influence o.
liquor and pleaded guilty to the charge
For this offense he was fined $50 an,
costs, the whole amounting to SO. ii,
o loses his license for a year because o
this conviction.