The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-29
VERMONT NEWS.

Ice in Lake Memphremagog is rapidly
| breaking up. said to be the earliest known
date of ice leaving the lake.
! 4 tame crow. two years old, which the
| Fem boys of Healdville have had for
pet, flew away with the other crows last
! fall, but March 10 appeared at the Fem
home. calling for his breakfast and being
rs tame as ever.
| Leonard Lussier, IS, came in contact
! with cutting-off saw At mill recently,
with the result that one foot was cut
nearly off through the instep. The
front part of the foot had later to be
completely amputated.
| The state motor department has regis
tered up TO date 1890 cars which is
Irecord for this season of the year, mainly
due to unusual weather conditions dur
ling the winter and spring. Motor own
ers are registering their cars earlier than
usual.
! The skies for miles around were bril-
liantly illuminated Sunday evening by
fire which broke out about II O'Clock in
the large barn across the road from the
/ West Rutland poor farm. Six cows and
Ia calf were burned. and a large quantity
of hay and many farm implements were
damaged. The cause of the blaze is un-
known.
! George Smith. who had been superin-
tendent of Dellwood cemetery at Man
chester for nearly 20 years. reSigning two
years ago because of old age. died Friday
He was born near London, 40 years ago.
= emigrated to this country when young
man and after a few years experience in
landscape gardening on Long Island and
in New Jersey located in Manchester.
4 Edward Garrow. who was indicted by
the grand jury in Franklin county court
Thursday afternoon for the murder of
his wife Nov. 30 last, has not taken his
arrest very seriously and feels confident
that he will be able to prove to a jury
that he is not the one guilty of killing
Mrs. Garrow, If she was killed as the
state contends. He is confident he has a
perfect abb.
Fifty cake packages of maple sugar
were recently sent by Rutland resident
/ to Washington, d. C. for Mrs Warren
g. Harding, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and
Mrs. VIII Hays, wives of the President,
the vice-president and the postmaster
general. Replies have been received by
the donor from all the recipients praising
the sugar for its fine quality and delicious
flavor.
! a dozen members of the club were play
ling golf on the Barre Golf club course
Saturday afternoon. 1t is believed that
this is the first year in the history of the
club when the course was in condition for
/ playing in the month of March. Tenn
pOrary holes outside the regular green's
] have been made for present playing, but
/ it is expected that the green's can be
opened up for playing by the middle of
April.
| bennington is at present afflicted with
an outbreak of smallpox in mild form.
SO mild in fact that il has been difficult
/ 10 distinguish. the malady from chicken
| pox. The local health authorities are
convinced that there have been but 20
cases. Some of the patients have been
50 little Inconvenience that they have
recovered without so much as calling a
, physician. 1t is unqueStionably true that
a number of cases supposed to have been
chicken pox have been smallpox in mild
form.
The following officers were elected at
the annual meeting of the Vermont
Electrical association at burlington
THURSDAY: Pres, j. NJ. Prouty of New i
port; first vice pres, j NJ Frost of I
Rutland; second vice pres. r. p Osgood i
OF Windsor; secretary and treasurer. G. /
r. Warsaw of this city; executive COM
mittee. Wiffred Smith of Modstock, /
+: 5. Nicholson of Rutland. d. w Jar
MONTPELIER, c. G. Wells of Middlebury
and f. +. Gage of ST. Johnsbury
In divers suit for the first time in
his life, Robert Johnston chief of the
local fire department, gave a fine eXhi-
bition of the nerve a fire fighter should
possess. by going down into the deep
waters of Sleepers river Friday after
noon in search of the body of Harold
Ievasseur, three year old son of Mr. and
Mrs Henry Levasseur who was drowned
in that stream last Monday Although
he worked consistently throughout the
afternoon and made six trips to the
bottom of the river no trace of the
body was found
Evidence of possible fire bug was mani
fest Saturday night when two fires broke ;
out within three hours of each other in
Bethel The first one was at $50 o'clock .
in the Kittridge block. while the second
was in the Martin block at IL o'clock. {
The first fire was well under way when 5
discovered and was in the third story I
but was easily put out by the fire depart :
ment There was but little loss from
the second fire. +. l.. Martin. owner of
the block having extinguished the flames
He had closed his store and gone TO his I
rooms on the second floor when he smelled [
smoke and traced it to a clothes press