The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-14

800 acres of timber land i'm East Middle
bury Wednesday. Hundreds of men and
I the AIiddlebury fire department fought
the flames. The fire burned over property
owned by Arthur Douglass. Arthur Brad
/ ley. Mrs. Policy Hunt. Albert. Boardman
and Nyron Reed.
| Lorenzo Boccia of Hartford has
! brought suit in Windsor county court
against the Boston & Maine railroad for
/ $4,000 for injuries alleged to have been
received at West Lebanon in taking down
a signal pole November 10 last. Ray
mOnd TrainOr is counsel for the plaintiff.
] the papers in the suit having been filed
with the secretary of state at Montpelier.
t Tie regular session of the L. S. court
at Windsor next week will be adjourned
j to June Is and will then be held in Mont
pe|ier. Only the session of the grand jury
will be held next Tuesday i'm Windsor
for which six additional jurors were
drawn Thursday at Burlington. The
length of the term will depend on the
number of indictments to be returned By
the grand jury. and may last two weeks
with both criminal and civil cases being
tried
| Howard d. Wakefield of Warren caught
a German brown trout weighing four
pounds and five ounces. in Mad river near
/ ~ dFFeH W euheSua%- deputy tame VI ar
den Long of Warren put the fish in Mad
river eight years ago and the size to which
they have grown surprised not only him
and most everybody who saw the speci-
men. Mr. Long Says Will Sargent Of
Warren has caught quite Il number of
them in years past but this is the biggest.
1t measured 1874 inches.
At the closing session Of the Congrega-
tional conference in Vergennes the newly
elected directors chose the following exec
utiye committee: Chairman. ii. @.
Woodruff of Montpelier. Mrs. II. ID. Bur
ditt of Rutland. Frank Z. Mcintosh of
Burlington, Rev. Stanley Cummings of
st. Adams, Rev, w. A. McIntire of
Dandy; executive committee for the Yer
mont Domestic Missionary society, Rev.
DIR. c. NJ. Merrill of st. .Johnsbury, Rev.
&c. e. Merrill of Burlington; treasurer,
&c. III. Newell of st. Johnsbury.
The ground floor of the old tannery at
Bethel is a hive of industry once more.
after the quietness of the last few weeks
American hides of all sizes from small
calf skins to immense OK skins, the latter
for sole leather manufacture, are being
put through the early stages of the ex-
tremely complicated process of leather
manufacture. Many of the hides are from
Vermont meat producers. III whose pos
session they had accumulated, due to their
low price. until the fact that in Bethel
the hides could be tanned dawned upon
the owners. The Bethel Tannery Inc.
not only makes leather for these men, but
sells it for them.
The board of control has taken steps to
lput into force the legislation passed by
the recent session to make additions and
repairs i'm the various state institutions.
| The beard has directed Director John II.
Weeks to secure plans and specifications
and submit them to the board for service
Building at the Brandon school for the
feehfe-minded and to connect up the GEN.
trail hearing unit. At Sergennes lie was
authorized to secure plans and specifica-
Etiens for the new dormtory, and at
Waterbury plans for = laundry. carnenter
shon and an industrial building. lie was
authorized to complete the addition al the
State-priSon at Windsor and to make the
alterations and remodeling of the house
Of correction at Windsor which win be
turned into womens refoFmatory.
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