Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-12-22
VERMONT NEWS.

at II CLOCK as usual,
VERMONT NEWS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin f.. Fairbanks o
Springfield celebrated their golden wed
ding anniversary Il their home Tuesda!
The Barre city hospital has received
"A gift of $1,000 from William Barclay II
the form of an Insurance. policy on MI
Barclays life. The hospital is made
the beneficiary for the full amount. Thc
gift will be added to the endowment fund
when it is payable.
DIR. Walter Gilroy of the federal bovii
tuberculosis eradication force in tn
stnte has resigned to enter private prac
tice in New York. Lyman Fifed. la
inspector in the federal force. has bee
transferred to Baltimore, Md. where he
will be in meat inspection work.
Forty-two ornamental lights have bePl
placed on Church street in Burlington
each of COO cand'epower. The new
lighting project has been under construc
ton far some time and is now perm
reut fixture. The lights were turned
for the first time Saturday evening.
Statistics token from the directory. re
comfy distributed Mt Montpelier SHOW
that in Spite Of the granite situatl"i
new names appear and 754 old ones have
been taken out Barre has not Jared g
WELL with 972 new names while l.3"
old ones have be"n taken out
Miss Madeline Ducharme of Barr
suffered cut over one eye which re
ouired a doctors attention when an au
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Montpelier. with whom she was riding
colided with trolley car betwee
Barre and Montpelier Sunday evening
About 500 damage was done to the ca
william Ring, n Jericho farmer, Is l.
critical condition at the Fanny Ale
hospital, as the result Of fire whc
wcpt two barns and two silos, and kill
l"ea horses. with resultant damage totn
in,r some $4,000. when his lantern ey
p'odod Tuesday morning. while he was il
the barn, preparing to feed his anime
The explosion caused his clothing Il
ich fire. The cattle were saved.
Disabled ex-service men who are
Vermont and other hospitals, are to +,
ceive Christmas boxes from the Amerc
legion auxiliary of the department
Vermont as a result of tie activities
he departmental hospital and wclfa
| committee of the auxiliary. The legion
ding in this and other Christmas actlv
ies. The boxes will contain candy. to
hacco, cigars. cigaretts. clothing an
| ucr articles.
The building NJ Brrre recently tax"
yer by the Famous Players LnS'
| Moving Picture corpor ton. was d
| .ged somewhat Monday morning by
| Nozr which threatened FIR a time to d
| 10 thOnpbt
| 'igarettr stub in n club room at III
| bick of he building started the firc
| floors and walls were torn open to Civ
ccess to the fire inside the partitions
Tobey Churchill. the nine-year-old So
| f Mr.. and Mrs George a. Churchill o
, Burlington has rcgained, consciousness
| fter a 4S-hour lapse following coastina
c.ident which occurred in the rear =
| he Adams school. Tobey with sever
| tier children were using boards +
lcds. The board on which Tobey VIZ
liding slowed against the corner OF tn
,ildng with the result that his heaC
'ruck the wall and his skull was fra
ured.
Sheriff George +. Catlln of ST. A1bar'
WIS notified Monday morning th1t some
one h"d entered the barn of &. D. Tra'
{ berkshire Center the night before nn'
look one of his horses MD left another
II il thought by the ofhcinls ard III
owner Of the horse that the swap Nigh
have been made hv "hooch" runne
who. finding his horse tired out. eX
changed with Mr. Tracy. The police o
the county are investigating.
Rev. BENJAMIN w. pennock. GS, o
| comervilp Mass. formerly of Rutland
, died mt the former place Monday. II
| was IL graduate of Rutland high school
: irhprst college and Dover Theological
: seminary. After his graduation fror
the divinity school, he was ordained
! minister of the Congregational churcI
6 md held p1storates in different parts q
Vermont and Massachusetts. He leave
q two daughters,
Fordina Piche. 30. of Winooski. wn
struck and killed by an engine. earl
Sunday morning in the Central Vernon
I freight yards. Upon investigation,
! was found that man had been ru
I over md had been dragged about eigf
: or 10 feet before the engine stoppe,
!, His head was practically severed frol
d the body MS was the left arm. Chief-Ot
Police Barber. who looked carefully int
the matter. finally decided that Nj
I liche either fell and could not get IN q
: he had hin down on the track, with hi
q head on the north rail. lie was a men
J, her of the old Company G and was !
J.; France for some time and also was i
). the trenches, where he was gassed.
, Uncle ELS Observation.