The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-02

Frank T. Diggins. formerly of Bellows
Falls and recently of Norwich, Conn.
has opened a clothing store in Springfield.
Joseph Cling, So. a blacksmith of Shell
burne, committed suicide at his home
there yesterday morning by shooting him
self with a 3S-calibre revolver. No reason
for his act is known,
! Perley g. Adams of Stowe has gath
cred a stalk of yellow bantam sweet corn
that bore five good ears, the whole weigh
ng FIVE pounds. Mr.. Adams says that four
ears on a stalk are very unusual. and this
/ is the first time he has ever known of five.
| J. b. Harmon of Remington has been
appointed fish and game warden in that
county in place of Edwin ID. Moore of
Bennington, who recently resigned and
who only remained in Office until certain
plans could be carried out and the right
successor found.
Eva D. Dickinson of Richmond was
thrown from a wagon at Springfield,
Mass, in a runaway accident yesterday
afternoon and seriously injured The
horse became frightened when a tire
came off one of the wagon wheels. Miss
Dickinson was visiting her grandfather,
George Cook.
1t is reported that the fish and game
commission of Vermont is to bring beaver
from New York state here with which to
stock swamp lands, Rutland county being
considered the natural place for the lib
Grafton of the animals. Several pair will
probably be brought to Vermont.
Two Morrisyille boys returning from a
dance Wednesday morning discovered
smoke issuing from the basement of the
To-, Il hill =
found that the fire was in the winter
supply of soft coal recently put in and
was thought to have been a spontaneous
combustion. The blaze was confined to
the basement, but the building was badly
=. smoked.
Philip Shonio. first selectman for the
town Of Duxbury, had his right leg 5;
badly crushed by a large piece of rock
during blasting operations on the prop
erty of the Duxbury Lumber Co Wednes
day afternoon that it was found necessary
Ito amputate the leg about half way be
tween the ankle and the knee. He wa
removed to the Heaton hospital at Mont
ipelier as soon as possible after the acct
dent occurred. and the operation was per
formed there.
After a vacancy Of nearly six months
the rectorship of the Church of the Good
Shepherd IN Barre and St John the Bap-
= fist church in WebSterville has been filled
by the action of the two church vestries
in extending a call TO Rev. \. Cyril
Drumm, until recently curate of st. Paul's
church in Burlington. With the approva'
of Rt. Rev. g. y. Bliss. bishop coadjutol
of the Vermont Episcopal diocese, Rev
Mr.. Drumm has excepted the call to the
local field.
/, \ daring attempt to smuggle two China
men into this country by water was broken
up by a Rouses Point customs man named
Hockmeister and a camper on Isle La
: Motto named Ray Streeter last Sunday
, morning at about ! O'Clock. The China
men We're landed from a motor boat just
south of the ferry on Isle La Motto. where
"a Chalmers passenger ear with a
Massachusetts license was waiting fOI
them. One man was in the car and one
with the Cinnamon in the boat. The
customs man and his companion dashed
for the car and seized it with the China
men in it The driver of the car escaped
into the woods, later stealing a rowboat
from a camper and rowing to the New
York shore The driver of the motor
boat opened fire with a 4J-calibre revoI-
yer, then turned on his engine and escaped
by water to Canada Search is being
made for both men. The car and the
Cinnamon were taken to ROuSeS Point
where the two Cinnamon were lodged in
the immigration jail to await deportation.