The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-24

James z. Taylor, for 10 years secre-
| tary of the Burlington chamber of COM
merce. who resigned early in the year,
! has been unanimously elected to that po-
sitiOn again and will return to the work
| New l. He succeeds George II. Ven
mart, who resigned several weeks ago.
Adelino AIendez. private in the Head
| quarters detachment of the combat tram
of the Seventh Field artillery, at Fort
| Ethan Allen has been arrested and
| charged with felonious assault with
| dangerous weapon ON Mrs. Lila Tile
man. Friday night. Mrs. Tilleman was
! fatally injured by a shot from an auto
| matte pistol Friday evening dying later
! from the wound.
That booze smugglers may have be-
come frightened while passing through
| Brandon was indicated yesterday morn
| ING when three bottles of Scotch were
| found in the road between the upper end
of Grove street and Pine Hill cemetery
at Brandon. There were several broken
bottles scattered along the road and two
empty dress suit cases and a good-sized
wooden box We're also found. Two cars
were heard passing through Grove street
! ut a high rate of speed.
St Johnsbury got a three-inch snow
fall Thursday night. The records at the
Fairbanks museum show that this is the
coolest October on record in the 20
! years that figures have been kept and
| it also has the largest snowfall of any
October since records We're made. Only
one October has shown trace Of snow
in 10 years and that was last year, and
the majority of years for the 20-year
! period have shown no trace at all.
! John Rock of West Berlin. in an Oak
land. ran into Joseph DeForge of Win
, ooski, who was driving a Ford car on
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. road Sunday
!. evening The rear wheel and fender on
the Ford We're broken and the left rear
wheel on the Oakland was damaged, the
Oakland running 100 feet after the col
iision and down over a bank into a field.
Later somebody in the Rock ear lit a
couple of matches to take look at the
car and the car caught fire and burned
up.
Vendetta. the thoroughbred mare owned
by j. Watson Webb of Shelburne. and
ridden by Major Louis Beard of Front
ROYAL. Va, was picked by the Judges on
Saturday morning as the winner OF the
300-mile endurance contest. Gladstone,
Il registered Morgan gelding. owned by
the United States Morgan Horse farm ut
Middiebury. won second honorS ana Was
said to have been close contestant Tor
first place in the minds of the Judges.
This horse was ridden by Charles Gordon
of the Morgan farm. Grant, a grade
American saddle horse. owned by e. Il.
Brown of Berlin n H.. and ridden by
\. \. Langley of Putney, veteran
rider of these endurance contests was
given third place in the event. Crag-
more IA crossbred, thoroughbred-Stan
dard bred owned by w *. Brown OF ber-
lin. y. H.. and ridden by Major {. /.
George was awarded fourth money. while
Pathfinder Il thoroughbred, owned by the
United States Remount service and rid
den by Major c. l., Scott. repeated ms
last years performance, by taking NTH
owned bv II. J. Brown Of Portland, Me-,
and ridden by John ]. Morris was, sixth
in the money. None Of the seven horses
Of Arab strain got a share of money