The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-30
VERMONT NEWS,

VERMONT NEWS
Four wolves have been seen on the
mountain in South Starksboro by perry
pickers.
The trustees of st. Johnsbury academy
have voted to discontinue the industrial
training department at the academy ne
decision was reached after careful lhVes
.tigation of the present need of such de-
partment in the academy.
Two $1,000 damage suits arising from
a fatal accident to Percy l.. Brown at
West Berlin July ), 1918, have beeh en-
tered in Washington county court. MI
Brown was killed when his automolle
was struck by Central Vermont tram.
At an election held in the st. Johns
bury armory Tuesday evening, Ralph
Bean. overseas veteran, was elected sec
ond lieutenant of Company ID, machine
gun outfit of st. Johnsbury, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation OF Lieut.
John NJ. Gibson.
Department Adjutant Allen Fletcher of
the American Legion is bending all efforts
to obtain a representative of the war FISK
insurance department of the government
to make his headquarters in Vermont to
aid soldiers in adjusting their war RISK
insurance. According to AdJutant
FLETCHER. less than 1000 of the 5000
Vermont veterans of the World war are
! carrying their war insurance.
! Governor Hardness has appointed the
| five supreme court justices as delegates
| to the American Bar association annual
meeting which will be held at Cincinnati
| August 81 to September ,. The justices
of the court are Chief Justice John ii.
| Watson. and Associate Justices George
IN Powers. William II. Taylor, Willard
! W Miles and L. 2. Slack.
According to the figures prepared in the
| United States district court of Vermont
= for the audit of the fiscal year, which
ended June 80. S26, j03.5S was collected in
this district. which is composed of the
state of Vermont. in fines. The fines i'm
posed on offenders amounted to
( $50. O11.5O. but '$26, IO3.5S was the
amount collected. 1t was stated that this
amount far exceeds the amount collected
for the previous year. which was between
/ $4,000 and $4,000.
/ \ session of United States district
court will be held in Montpelier on Au-
gust II. at which time it Is expected that
a number of the criminal eases now pend
ing will be tried 1t is stated that there
Sare between 60 and 40 such cases on the
docket at the present time, the majority
of the cases being violations of the Vol
stead act.
In the effort to build up a disease-free
herd of dairy cows, the Lonsdale Co,
large manufacturing concern of n town
of that name in Rhode Island, came to
Barre for a part Of its Hosteins, and
Supt. Chauncey MagoOn of the company
farm has just purchased 10 purebred
Barre Town and like number from Err
nest Cutler of Orange. The cattle brought
good prices.
Thirty-eight units of the Woman's Aux
Hilary of the American Legion. represent
ing 100 Vermont women. will send dele
gates to the Legion convention at Rutland
Sept and Z. They will elect officers for
the ensuing year and choose delegates for
the national convention in Kansas City.
The auxiliary is growing rapidly and EN-
braces every section of Vermont
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II. Taft of St.
bloomsbury started Wednesday morning in
, their Ford car for Seibert, Colo. where
tthey will live on a ranch near that west
ern town. They took with them a tent
! and expect to spend about three weeks on
the road. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A Stan
ley of that town will start the first of next
! week Tor the racine coast IN their Odds
mobile roadster. They will take a bed
and a tent along with them and camp en-
| route.
4 Mary ATcSwiney, sister of the late
! lord mayor of Cork who died in an Eng
fish prison. is to come to Vermont in the
early fall visiting the princinaI cities and
towns, according to James p. Hayes, ma
! tional organizer of the American associa-
Ttion for the recognition of the Irish re-
1 public, who is travelling through the state
organizing councils of his society. Yer
mont will also have the opportunity of
hearing other Irish speakers of note
i WILLIAMSVILLE