The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-04
DUDE APPOINTED
FOR THIS DISTRICT
Will Resign as Road Com
missioner for Town.
of BrattleborO
WIDE EXPERIENCE
AS ROAD BUILDER
No Action Taken as TO His Successor -
Will Visit Town Commissioners and
Selectmen Throughout County District
TO Get Work Organized.


Selectmen Throughout County District
to Get Work Organized.
In a meeting of the state highway
board in Montpelier Saturday Road Com
missioner Charles J. DUDE of Brattleboro
was appointed district highway commits
sioner fer the so-called Windham county
district. The fact that State Commits
sioner T. w Dix of Burlington asked
him by telephone Friday If he would ac-
cept an appointment was taken as an IN
dication that he would be recommended
TO the board, which consists of Gov.
James Hartness. Stoddard Bates OF
Derby and DIR. w. \. Bryant of Lud-
low.
William r. Bush of Benson was named
TOR Rutland county. lie was represent
atiye IN the recent session of the legiz-
lature. The appointment Of Mr.. Dube.
who succeeds ID. Il. Perry of West Brat
taleboro, and of Mr.. Bush are new ap-
llOintments. Besides these the follow
ing reappointments were made: George
W. Plumb of Remington, G. NJ. Law
renee OF Ludlow, NJ, Z. Noyes of sharon.
William cady OF Aliddlebury, f. l.. Dub
| ley of Randolph NJ E. Carpenter OF
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| {. Iowle Of Enosburg Falls and A. b.
| CObleigh of Newport
Mr.. Dube will so to Montpelier to re-
celye instructions and then will visit the
various towns IL this district to meet
/ the road commissioners and selectinea
and get the work in the various towns
| organized. He viii resign as road COM
missioner Of BrattleboIo as the new posi-
| ton will require all of his time, but he
wlil show his successor what he had
planned for work IN town ana will assist
| him IN getting started. Until Ge resigns
| the selectmen viii take no action relative
| 10 appointing his successor.
1 Mr. Dube came here q year a,co last
September from Burlington, where he
was general foreman of streets several
months. He has been a road builder
/ and contractor about 80 years his first
work of Importance being in Missouri
/ lie built the first tarvia road in St Jo-
seph, Mo, also several miles of macadan
/ road in that city. From there he went
/ TO Pfefer, Ark, where he was suDerin-
/ tendent of one of the largest dimension
stone quarricS in the southwest. He de-
veloped the quarry and got out the stone
tor the Arkansas state capitol at Little
| Rock, which is built of limestone: also
| got out the stone for the new Marion
| hotel ReSigning from this position bs
went into contracting work and built
three steel bridges in Independence
county, Arkansas, seven miles of concrete
sidewalk and lot of gravel roads.
] On account of having malarial fever
| he left Arkansas and went to st. Louis
and in 1911 TO Quebec City, Canada.
| where he put in all the underground
work for the Automatic Telephone Co.
of Chicago, which included S160.000
/ worth of conduitS. He built the first BIZ
/ luminous road in Montcalm, which is
now a part of the city of Quebec. He
| also did the contract work on the Earl
Gray terrace on the Plains of Abrahana
in Quebec This terrace is $50 feet
| long and has an average height of 20
| feet with rock-faced masonry He did
the contract work in building the concen-
| tration camp at Ealcartier, 16 miles out
of Quebec, during the war, having 800
men under him. After that he becams
/ superintendent of the harbor at Quebec.
| which position he resigned to 60 to Bur-
lington.