The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-02-17

Eenniugtens winter carnival opened
Yesterday afternoon with skating and
ski contests for the younger school pu-
piis. The ssi-iump and tobosean slide
we're given their try-out yesterday aft
ernoou and evening. .ts.....t# .-
The dates of the Caledonia county
fair have been set a. Aug. %. 80 and 81.
Fire having destroyed some of the build
Ings last year. il has become necessary
fared to give $1,000 if ST. Johnsbury.
people viii Faisc the rest. = $50 &
during The past five, weeks Harmon
J. ODcll OF Pownal Center has caught
one cross fox, worth several hundred
dollars. 26 red foxes and number Of
rae, olaIs, in traps within. few miles of
his home The season on foxes and rae
coQns is off from Feb. II to Oct. Is.
Gov. James IIartncss has appointed
Thomas q. Dearborn as sheriff of Orange
county Ia, fill the uHeXpired term of
Sheriff George \. Tracy, who recently
resigned. Ii is understood that Mr.
Tracy began his new duties as chief-of-
police at Bellows Falls yesterday.
About so veterinaries attended the
state veterinary medical conference held
in the reception room of the state house
:
FoSsctt. state supervisor Of bovine tuber-
culosiS work. addressed the conference
on livestock conditions in the state.
Mrs. Florence Billiard of Newport
who has gone to the state prison for a
term of nine to 10 years for arson. at
tempted to take her life in the Jail at
fort. In visit TO her home, in custody
Of an officer she had succeeded in secret
ing razor in her clothing.
DR. Eliot of Barnet has sold his ia
nous banjo clock, once the property of
Mary Baker Eddy, To Mrs. Mary Long
wear of Boston. enc of the leading mem
hers of the Christian Science church, who
has purchased the property in RumneY.
y. II, that was once Mrs. Eddy's, and
is fixing il up as 4 shrine to her mem
DRY. The clock has been placed there.
Inhabitants of Lunenburg are Won
dpring if anywhere in New England
there are twins who look any more alike
than Mrs. Matte Smith Pierce and Min
ME Smith Ball, 10. They are the same
height, measuring five feet and one inch,
and weight III poA1ds. They wear the
same size shoes and gloves. have eyes of
the same color and look so much alike
that residents of the town cannot tell
them apart.
The Unique Quartet club. including
in its members Hon. Elias H. Cheney of
Lebanon. \, H., Ex-Governor Samuel +.
Pingree, Hon. Clarence +. Carr of An
dover. \. H.. and Capt Horace French,
the latter being s. years old on that day,
gathered for its annual banquet yeSter-
day at Lebanon, y. ii. The combined
ages of these men. all Of whom are vet
Grams of the Civil war total 333 years.
Captain French will review his expert
ences rs Il prisoner in i southern camp
as part OF the anniversary program.
Because she refused to sign the agree
ment necessary to have her placed on
rrobatiop. Mrs. Domenico Sandri. who
was fined in Barre city court vrsFsnily
for violation of the liquor laws after Il
disclosure and raid, was taken TO the
wo'ncn's wOrkhOuse at Rutland for a
term of one year. the sentence imposed
upon her in connection with a fine of
5000. Mrs. Sandri made no specific OBJ
lection to the terms of the probation but
said it was too much bother" 50 the
court ordered her committed TO the insti-
tuition in Rutland. Mrs Sandri paid the
fine Of $500 and costs soon after plead
ing guilty 10 the charge