Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-09-01

using barium carbonate to rid the state
OF these pests.
C. M. Brooks, deputy state highway
commissioner, has completed the band
ing of poles on highway route four
from Bennington through Rutland and
Burlington to Highgate This route is
the New York city to Montreal route
agreed on by the New England state
highway commissioners. Work he's also
been done on route two on the east side
of the state through Guilford, Brattle-
boro and St. Johnsbury to Derby Line,
This route is the New HaYen-Quebec
route.
Clarence Morgan, of Shelburne. re-
Gently appointed by Gov. James Hart
ness to represent Vermont at the Bra
lillian Exposition, is now on his way to
South America. He carries with him
a good supply of new booklets entitled,
milk, from Pasture to Table" pre-
pared by the Hays Advertising
Agency, Burlington, for the Vermont
Cooperative Creameries, Inc, which
includes the creameries in the towns of
ST. Adams, Grand Isle and Sheburne.
So far as known, this is the only piece
of Vermont publicity which will be
carried to the Brazilian Exposition.
The leveling of the Chautauqua tent
at Hardwick by the storm of Aug. 10
was more serious in its results than the
early newspaper reports indicated. AS
many as Is or 80 people were injured
and it was an hour before all in the tent
had been accounted for and the injured
had received care. Only six of the
more than five dozen stakes driven into
the ground from Is to 20 inches re-
NAMED in the ground after the storm.
Over 700 were in the tent when it
collapsed.
Owing to the acute fuel situation
which faces the state for the coming
fall and winter, the department of
weights and measures is taking steps
to see that purchasers of fuel obtain
full weight and measure. The depart
ment has investigated one complaint
recently where short measure of wood
was found and the party who sold the
wood made up the shortage when re-
quested to do so. Wood can be sold
only by the cord or fraction thereof,
and not by the load. Coal must be sold
by the ton or fraction thereof and not
by the basket. The department will
render any service possible in the way
of checking up loads of coal or wood
purchased by citizens in the state and
as far as possible eliminate this branch
of Trofiteering
The village of SheIburne was thrown
into excitement about 10 0 clock Satur-
day night by one the boldest and most
daring hold-ups in its history when Ell
mer Smith. butcher was robbed of
about $500 in money and checks, while
returning to his home. The bandits
took some towels and an apron which
Smith was taking home to be Numbered
and placed them over his head while
holding him to the ground. Mr.. Smith
fought in vain to obtain his pocketbook
to throw it into some nearby shrubbery.
So great was the haste of the men to
complete their task that when thew
reached into one of Smiths pockets to
get his purse they tore the leg open its
entire length. They secured the pocket
book containing about $500, partly in
money and largely in checks, which
Smith had cashed during the day for his
customers. They also secured valu-
able watch.
H. W. Slocum, secretary of the Yer
mont tuberculosis Association, has an
nounced that plans are now ready to
begin the building of two-room school
house at the Caverly preventorium at
Pittsford on Monday next. The build
ing will be about quarter of mile
from the other buildings at the pre-
ventorium, and will be located ju st at