The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-11
VERMONT NEWS

The Woman's club of Middlebury will
send Eliza Barnard, the nine year old
blind girl of Goshen, to Watertown,
Mass. where q specialist will attempt
to restore her sight.
w c. Hastings. state forester has been
in Hartford advising with \. L. Wheeler
of the Junction House relative to his
planting 100000 piiie trees on the land
he owns, which is in VIEW of the state
fair grounds
John Calderwood of Rutland, years
of age, has arrived safely at bakersfield,
Calf. lie was tagged and put in care
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany and marked for delivery to his par
ents, who hive near bakersfield
John Engrem Dempsey. Is. son of Com
missioner of Education and Mrs. John J..
Dempsey of st. Adams, died Sunday aft
ernOon. He had just returned from st.
Petersburg. Fla, where he spent the Win
ter on account of his health, He is sur
vived by his parents and brother, VIII
liam S. Dempsey.
| Rachel Brewer. who was born in 1885
| i'll Eden, died in Barre Saturday morning.
| She is said to be the first woman i'm Yer
mont to learn typesetting, having learned
| it with her brother, Joseph Wheelock, in
| Bradford in the last of the 40's. She was
| employed for a time on the Green Noun
tain Freeman and later on the Argus and
| Patriot.
Charles J. Hoffman. 80. who gives bis
residence as Montreal ahd is thought by
the police to have criminal record i'll sew
eral of the larger cities, is under arrest III
Rutland charged with committing the
1 burglaries at the New York clothing store
| and Austin J. Hubbard jeWelry store
i Wednesday night.
/ Oliver H. Kent. who has been elected
l treasurer OF the Boston Penny Savings
Bank was a native of Calais and was
from 1897 to 1901 town clerk and post
master III Calais aud is well known in
| Montpelier. He was a brother of Muir
Eay \. Kent. late of Montpelier, and an
uncle OF d. b. +. Kent of the National
| Life Insurance company.
/ W. p. Russell of Kirby. has been ap-
pointed a district highway commissioner
i'll Caledonia county in place of Mr..
Stocker of Danville. He has accepted
the apo ntment, being present at the
conference of commissioners Thursday
Mr. Russell is a member of the present
senate and had a large endorsement ia
his county.
The Hon. John W. Redmond of New
port is being prominently mentioned
as one of the circuit judges Of the
United States court of appeals for the
second judicial district, which includes
the states of Connect icut. New York
and Vermont. Mr. Redmc~1 began
the practice of law at North Troy in
1891 and in 1893 removed to Newport.
: whore he has since continued in his
profession.
The spring meeting of the New Eng
land Fairs association. will be held at
Greenfield. Mass, next Wednesday, the
= morning session opening at IL O'Clock.
| The aims of the organization are to inn
Drove the various fairs Which are mem
bers of it through the method OF con
) certed action along various lines. Many
Vermont fairs are identified with the
association.
, Harold w. Sl0cum. secretary of the
> Vermont tuberculosis association, has re
Iceived the pennants to be given the towns
having the largest sale of Christmas seals
lper capita. The pennants in the class \
division, composed of towns having pop
ulatiGn of over 5000. was won by Ben
nington. with a per capita sale of 81. In
the class b division, composed of towns
having a population of less than 5000
the pennant was won by Nergennes. with
per capita sale of 81.
The burning of the station at the di-
/ vision headquarters of the Boston &
t Maine railroad at Woodsyille Wednesday
may prove more disastrous to
WoodsvilIe and Wells River. Vt,
than it first appeared. for the
railroad has been considering in
recent months changing the division
headquarters either to Lyndonville, Vt,
. or Concord and should this be done it
} would take away from NoOdsyille and
Wells River many residents, as well az
: the repair shop of the division.
d, H. ,-,-., E,-1e 800, 80 /
: son of Mr.. and Mrs. InniS Scamon of
Essex Junction, died Friday morning
after eating Strychnine tablets which he
evidently took off a table where they had
been placed by his grandmother, who was
cleaning a cupboard. No one noticed the
: child eating the pills and consequently be
was violently i'll before anyone SuTmIsed
what he had done. 4 doctor was sum
: moncd upon the first sign of illness. but
! it was too late and the child died within
an hour.
: The New Hampshire conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church in Nashua,
y. II, Friday voted to retain its three
district organization and referred to a
special committee a proposal to unite
with the Vermont conference. Ii had
been proposed to divide the state into
two districts instead of three but the vote
was against the change, 80 to % The
suggestion of merger with Vermont was
brought by Superintendent W. \. Daven-
port of the st. Adams district OF the lat
ter conference. The special committee to
which it was referred probably will not
report until next year.
Jack Deforge, who was arrested in
connection with the moonshine raid near
. bennington Thursday night. pleaded
guilty in Bennington municipal court to
a charge of selling intoxicating liquor
and was sentenced by Judge William ].