The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-06

of ducks. about 100 in number, for more
| than a week.
| The wornan's organization of Trinity
church. Rutland, will clear something
over 81 300 from the two-day fair con-
Quoted last week.
! Principal J.. III, Burns. now principal
of Peoples academy at Morrisyile. has
been secured as principal of Bellows
Free academy at Fairfax for next year.
! The Central Vermont railway has ar
ranged meetings during the present week
! with its employees in an cndeavor to ar
range a reduction in the rates of pay. The
! first meeting was held Monday afternoon.
p, Barton has organized a golf club with
! 81 members. The site of the course is on
| the Earl Metcalf farm just north of the
| village and a nine-hOle course will be
laid out. II. Z. Webster is president of
the club.
| 4 small engine house in upper Gran
| iteville at Barre owned by the f. J..
Smith & Co. quarry firm was completely
destroyed by fire yesterday morning
about , o'clock, the origin of which is
as yet undetermined.
The Nnddlebury college musical clubs
I
morning and will give concerts each
night throughout the week. The itin-
erary has been shifted this year and will
take in towns in the northern part of
the state instead of the southern towns,
as has been done in former years.
In remodeling the old Capital hall at
Montpelier into a garage a front porticO
10 years old was removed and in it
were found native pine boards Is inches
wide. material of that width being prac-
tically extinct in the state today. The
timber was just as sound as when it was
put in and was used again for facing.
The Peerless Knitting mills of Barre
have sent out a circular to stockholders
asking the waiver Of dividends on pre-
| ferred stock for two years and also per
mission to place mortgage on real eS-
| tate and equipment to take care of LA
bilities. The company has been affected
along with others with the cancellation
| Of large orders due to market conditions.
Frank Annis of AIonkton yesterday
went on trial for burglary before Judge
Fred NJ. Butler of Rutland at an eX-
court. Annis and his brother. James,
who will also be tried, are charged with
stealing IL bushels of oats land a ham
from Rex Meader. n Monkton farmer
last December. since which time the re-
! SpomdentS have been in Jail
u. r. Locke. superintendent Of schools
, in Rutland for the past - years. failed
OF rec ecuOn last evening in an executive
session of the school board. 1t is under
stood that the vote was seven against
| his reelection and four for his election.
This was one OF the most important
events in Rutland school history that has
occurred in many years.
/ The town of Barton will celebrate its
12Ith anniversary the first four days of
July. The main feature of the celebra-
. ton will be a pageant. depicting the early
4 history of the town and vicinity. staged
! on a great outdoor amphitheatre sur
rounded by forest, river, mountain and
lake. There will be afternoon and eve
! ming presentations. Miss Imogen Phipps
| II0gle of Boston will have charge of
writing and staging the pageant.
/ Vernon w Field, victim of the East
Arlington tarring and feathcring. has
been released from Bennington county
Jail where he has been confined since
Feb. ) because of failure to secure bail
i'm a $4,000 alienation suit brought bv
Harold Blair. an East Arlington neigh
Dor. Field, soon after the tar-and-
feather episode, brought n $4,000 dam
age suit against six East Arlington
young men who he claimed were the
perpetrators. Monday counsel in the two
suits agreed on a proposal to withdraw
the suits.
Howard Crossman. was seriously. al
thoilub not fat liz iDir1raJ SattIr,ia,- a