The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-15
VERMONT NEWS.


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Darcy Sebean of Winooski has paid
fine of S. and costs for allowing a per
son who did not have license to operate
his car. This is the first conviction or thlS
kind.
The annual convention and basket pic
mic of the Vermont Beekeepers asSocla-
ton will be held at the home of j. A Gorge
at North Ferrisburg village on Tuesday,
Aug. %.
s. B. Bates of Derby has been in North
field for a week supervising the construc-
tiCn of an athletic field MIR. Bates IS
trustee of the university and chairman Oh
the committee in charge OF the building
of the field.
Nash 4. Belmont, known as Rex the
CIairyovant." will appear in st. Adams
court Aug. 80 to be tried for the fourth
time on a charge of selling intoxicating
liquor unlawfully. At his three previous
trials the different juries reported DIS
agreement
w. Fl. Huestis, who sued John c. Con
lin for damages to his automobile received
! i'm a collision last June 21 near the Phil
Inns farm in Cornwall got verdict OF one
cent and costs of $14.14 in Middlebury
municipal court Thursday. 1t was a jury
! trial and the case occupied the entire day.
| Mr. Huestis sued for $50.
John. Young son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
| Connor of Waitsfeld, came near being
drowned the other day when, while play
| ing with his two brothers, he fell through
! 4 hole in the floor into a tub of water
| In his fall he struck something that
Istunned him, so no water was taken into
| ~ 1 L, Il
| DR.. J. NJ. Allen of st. Johnsbury has
purchased 100 milligrams of radum for
Iuse in his practice. Aside from odlce
! treatment the radium will be used at
/ BrightlOok hospital and at DIR. Cleasby $
hospital in Orleans. The purchase price
| Is $4,000 ard in bulk the radium is about
the size of the quarter of an ordinary
match.
| Mrs. Lewis Cheeseman of West Add
son, who was attacked and brutality beaten
about the head and face by Albert Batch
/ elder, Is, inmate of the Industrial school,
| is said to have a chance of recovery from
her terrible injuries. Batchelder. mean
| ct NIiddlebury awaiting the outcome OF
/ his victims injuries.
Edwards Ciresoli of Barre, who was
arrested by the officers Thursday night
on the charge of operating a car when in
toxicGted. appeared in Montpelier city
court Friday morning. pleading not
guilty. The case is set for trial Aug. 10.
Ciresoli was arrested after his car had
been dumped against a telephone pole
about two miles outside Montpelier.
r. G. Whalley of Charlotte was at
tackled by a bull Thursday. After a
severe pummeling. the bull threw him
through the air and Whalley landed in a
hole in the corner of the fence, where he
lay perfectly still. After nOsing him over
the bull left him. No bones seem to be
broken. although there is j bad wound
in Mr. Whalley's chest made by the
bulls horn. and the bruises and lameneSs
are very painful.
\ herd of cattle disputed the road with
Governor Hartness of Springfield while
be vas on his way by automobile from his
home to the ShrinerS outing at Lake
Dunmore Thursday. After following the
cattle at snails pace for some minutes
during which they never left the wheel
track, he stopped his machine. Then the
boy in charge of the animals faced about
and drove the COWS toward the autOmo-
bile. They stampeded and some of the
animals charged the car, striking it viO-
lently. Both headlights were smashed
! Out of the 105 cases which will come W
for trial at the term of the United States
/ district court that opens at Montpelier
this week there are GA for alleged infrac
tons of the national prohibition act
Other cases are made up mostly of al
legged infractiOns of the customs regula
tiGnS. The large number of criminal
eases. taken together with the large mum
Der Of cases of "hootch'' now stored in
various parts of the state, which have
been taken from the rum runners, show
that considerable work is being done by
the prohibition enforcement officers.
Seventeen representatives of the &c
cooperative creameries in Vermont met
in Montpelier Friday to hear the report
of a committee consisting of Carl &.
j Fletcher, Earl \. Gray and NJ C.. An
tderson. relative to the plan proposed by
Julian Langner of New York city, special
lSt in cooperative organization, for the
charging under one selling head of all
creameries in Vermont or whether the
! present federation should be added to
The conference came to no decision and
it was decided to call another meeting to
/ discuss the situation more fully.
/ Caledonia county court has announced
/ its decision in the case of John w. Tit
comb against the estate of Theodore n.
! Vail heard a few days ago. Mr. Ttcomb
claimed he operated under a contract
with Mr.. Vail by which Mr.. Vail agreed
! to pay him half years salary. 81 800
| whenever his services were discontinued
and he was also promised $1,000 in case
Mr.. Vail disposed of his Vermont prop
erty while Mr.. Titcomb was still in his
! employ. The court found in Mr. Tit
combs fret