The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-25
VERMONT NEWS.

VERMONI NEWS.
The u. K II. railroad station at West
Rutland was robbed the other night. the
entire supply of tickets and a small
amount OF money being taken
Thomas Rickaby. one of st. Johns
bury's oldest business men, died n few
days ago mt the age of 81 years. As the
head of Rickaby & Gauthier. real estate
dealers. and later alone in the concern.
Mr. Rickaby was in that business over 30
years.
Miss Lillian Lavallec Of Rutland has
resigned as district health nurse for the
Vermont Tuberculosis ASSOCIATION to ac-
ccpt position with the Veterans Bureau
Of the United States Public Health ser
vice, stationed at New Haven, Conn.
The second hand store of Barney Rosen
in Rutland was broken into Tuesday
night and about - rings, a fur coat. sew
eral razorS. cuff links. leather handbags
and other articles were stolen. Several
weeks ago Mr. RoSen lost about 500
worth of goods in the same way.
Mrs. Dan Brummitt of Chicago. H.. is
to be the speaker fer the Womcn's Home
Missionary society at the annual Vermont
conference to be held i'm White River
April -. Mrs. Brummitt is one
OF the two women to speak officially at
the Ecumenical conference which was
held in London. Eng, last summer.
Josephine Bressrttc the 10-year-old
proctorSville girl who ran away from her
home and went To Rutland a few days
ago because. as she declared, she was
abused and was compelled to live III a
howell. has been taken in charge by the
Il s To-.
will enter the Rutland public schools. iuI
addition to receiving muclrneeded mcdi-
cal attention.
Goddard seminary at Barre has received
an offer from George {. Morrison Of Cam
bridge. Mass. to aid in wiping out tue
deficit which the school incurred during
the war period. y telegram from Mr.
Morrison. a trustee of the school. read at
the annual rally day exercises Tuesday.
stated that Mr.. Morrison would be one
of 10 to give $1,000 each O" enc of 20 10
give 5000 each before May l.
John O'Connor of Montpelier. who l. |
IS years old. is still in the employ of the
city and drives a suowplow. He has been
employed in that city for ~ years and is |
its oldest employe. lie gets up at mid |
night every night to see if il is necessary
To call out the SnOWpowS 80 that early |
rising PEDESTRIANS VIII nave open SHE |
walks to their shops, Offices or stores.
The old theatre building at Barre. which |
was formerly the Pavilion and later the |
Biiou theatre. has undergone another
\. Il. Garter. manager Of |
the Park theatre. has had men buSily en- |
gagged for the past two weeks tearing out I
the cid theatre equipment and replacing |
il with the necessary attractions Of q
modern dance hall and it will he formally |
opened to the public Tuesday evening.
The voters Of Montpelier will be asked |
Mt the March meeting whether they desire |
to authorize the issue Of bonds or notes |
for the construction of permanent streets |
as provided by the city charter. according
to the warming. The voting of tax Sutfi- |
cient to raise the sum of $4,000. est |
mated bv the board of school commission
ers as the amount necessary to run the
schools. d sum in excess Of ~ cents on the
dollar of the grand list. will also be placed
before the city.
One child was almost instantly crushed
to death and another very badly injured
at Derby Center Thursday when a heavy
sled leaning against Il wall around which
they were PLAYING fell over onto them
Two other children playing with them mt
the time escaped injury. The dead child
* Freddie Carter. the iive-year-Old son of
DIR and Mrs f. H. Carter. Freddie Tay
lnr. about the same age, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Taylor. received injuries
which are as yet hardly determined. but
are not expected to prove fatal.
Arthur Hamilton. 81. SON of Mr.. and
Mrs. ROYAL Hamilton of New Haven. has
been missing since Thursday afternoon.
Young Hamilton. who is short and not
strong. is a sufferer from epilepsy. and ut
times it is said that his mind is seriously
affected. Thursday afternoon he drove to
Aliddlebury with his father to get his hair
cut After he had finished he told his
father that he would start along toward
home on foot. not waiting fer his father
to finish his business. As he had often
started ont on foot before, his father al
lowed him to go. thinking that he would
overtake him with the team. He did not.
however. nor did the boy go home. When
the father reached home and found that
Arthur had not returned he Immediately
started in search. but failed TO locate him.