The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-09
VERMONT NEWS.

Governor Hardness has appointed Mau-
rice L. Blanchard of Hartford, Conn, to
audit the accounts of the state treasurer
and the auditor of accounts. He will be
gin his duties next week.
Judge Stanley c. Wilson has granted
the 1,400 petitioners who asked addi-
tional time in which to present their
claims against the Barre Savings Bank
& Trust Co, three months more. dating
from July 1.
Mrs. Sophronia Girard, %. the oldest
person in Montpelier, died Friday. She is
survived by four children, 30 grandchil-
dren, II great grandchildren, and one
great great-grandchild Her golden wed
ding was celebrated 26 years ago. She
was born il Canada.
Guy Parker, the 17-year-old son of
William Parker of Eden, was drowned
ia Lake Eden Monday afternoon. 1t
is thought the boy went in swimming
too soon after eating his dinner A few
other children were present at the time
of the accident and tried to save him
but were not successful. When help
arrived it was too late. He leaves his
father, three brothers and two sisters
to mourn his loss.
The Springfield Local Telephone com
pany of that village has been given a
hearing before the public service COM
mission relative to an increase IN Its
stock and has been granted the same.
Officials of the company have filed with
the secretary of state the certificate
from the public service commission and
state that the officers propose to issue
| so shares of stock at 500 share.
NJ. G. Morse state tax commissioner,
| has sent to state officials and others who
need to know the list of the 81 pedders
| in the state. together with information
concerning the operation of the laws
governing licensing of peddlers. lie
| says he is convinced there are many ped
| ding in the state who do not have Ii
cense to do so and has published a list
of the same that the officials may know
who are licensed.
Commissioner c. H. Dempsey Of the
state board of education has announced
| that Bennett Douglas, graduate this
year of the Teachers college of Columbia
university, is to be the head of the peda-
gogy department at the University of Yer
mont and will therefore be the head Of
| the teacher training course of that col
| lege. Miss Eliza G. Allen of Lnydon will
| be in charge of the teacher training class
and Lyndon institute in that town.
4 certificate permitting possession of
venisOn has been issued by the county
| fish and game authorities of Rutland to
| Norris Buxton, an assistant in the man
agement of the AlcRae orchards at Cas-
Teton Corners. the first such to be is
sued for a deer killed in any of the five
open zones in the county since the sea-
son of 1920. The animal was a doe
weighing 100 pounds and was shot IN
the orchard a short distance from the
farm barns because of damage it had
done to apple trees.
As the result of a collision of the side
swipe variety between two Ford automo-
biles in front of the Center Rutland post
office about go o'clock Thursday morn
ing one car was practically demolished,
/ the other machine badly damaged, and
the driver of one automobile, Ray Demo
of Brandon, received eatment at the
| Rutland hospital for cuts upon the head.
J The driver of the other car evidently eS-
capped serious injury. Demos car, bear
ing the Vermont license number 1850,
was a runabout and the car which it
came in contact with was a touring type
Of fiivver bearing Vermont number 15,4S1.
Leon L. Martel, 81. painter and wood
worker of st. Johnsbury,e visited Woods
vile, \. H, Friday, endeavoring to find
a trace of his wife and sister, who have
been missing from home since June 80.
} The husband and brother says he knows
of no reason why the pair should leave
home but that he heard the women
speaking, as he supposed in jest, of join
ing a minstrel show that is touring Yer
mont and New Hampshire. Acting upon
this possibility, he made a trip the day
after their disappearance to North STRAIT
ford. where the show gave a performance
the night before. Martel learned that the
women had attended the performance and
took a train the next morning, supposedly
for home. He has since been searching.
without success. in Newport and Orleans,
and Woodsville, \. H., and he goes from
here to barre.