Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-12-29
Vermont News
Brief Items of Interest From
around the State


pelier, was raided Saturday night by
United States Deputy Marshal H. c
Lawson and other officers. One quar-
of Canadian gin was seized.
The total registration of automobile.
for 1922 is approximately $4,000, &C
cording to figures given out by Score.
tary of State Black. Total chauffeur's
and operators licenses issued $1,000.
The Goth exhibition of the Vermont
State Poultry association will be held
at the city hall Jan. to II, inclusive
There will be held in connection with
the show, meetings of the Vermont
branch of the Rhode Island Red club
the Buff Wyandotte club and the
4 White Wyandotte club.
The II field deputies and two office
deputies of the internal revenue de-
partment for the district of Vermont
shave been directed by the commits
Z sioner of internal revenue to attend a
school of instruction on the new in
come tax forms. The school will be
held at Troy, N, Y, commencing Jan
uary 3,
NGDOIlS lIOll Inc OlllCG VI llS WI
mont tuberculosis Association an
nounce that Jericho is one of the towns
which has gone over the top in the
sale of Christmas seals for the benefit
of the association. Having sold more
than five seals per capita, Jericho is
now numbered among the banner
towns.
Eighty-two Burlington families had
Christmas cheer and plenty brought
into their lives Saturday through the
efforts of the Salvation Army. Each
wear the army seeks out the most
needy families of the community and,
through the many generous contrlbu-
tions of the public, is enabled to play
Santa Claus to an ever-growing num-
Der.
Although the rear vestibule of a
trolley car, operating between Mont
peHer and Barre, was torn off Sunday
afternoon as a result of collision be-
tween the car, some trees and tele-
phone pole the occupants of the We
hicle escaped injury. A journal on the
forward set of trucks broke, throwing
the car on the iron and causing 1t TO
run into the trees and telephone pole.
Traffic was blocked for several hours.
The petition of President Guy W.
Bailey of the University OF Vermont
and others for a national archives
building has been referred to the House
committee on public buildings and
grounds. The petition was presented
Ito the House by Congressman Greene.
The committee will probably take up
the petition in the course of human
events, and the committee calendar
which means not for some time.
The Christmas kettles hung by the
Salvation Army at the corners of Cen
ter and Merchants Row and West
street and Merchants Row, Rutland,
collected 1925. This is the largest
Christmas contribution ever received
by the local Salvation Army corps in
Rutland. A good portion of the fund
was used for the 30 Christmas baskets
sent out The balance will be spent
for charitable work during the winter
Charges Irregularities
Charges of Serious irregularities in
the management of the affairs of the
board of charities and probation are
made in a report presented to the bud
get committee by a subcommittee
composed of Roland f. Stevens of
White River Junction and William H
Dyer of Salisbury. The board of char
tiles and probation was maintained at
a net expense to the taxpayers during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, of
very nearly $4,000.
Blaze in Car Shops
The Central Vermont Railway paint
shop, building 200 feet long and 50
feet wide, and three smaller buildings,
a store room, a building where iron
castings were kept and the old bridge
shop were entirely destroyed by a fire
which was discovered at about 100
o'clock Tuesday morning, in the paint
shop, at St. Adams. Total damage
was officially placed at between $4,000
and $4,000. 1t was said the loss on
the buildings will be in the vicinity of
$4,000 while it is believed the value of
the contents will amount to between
$1,000 and $4,000
Injured in Accident
On recent evening an Orleans
coasting party was in an accident that
resulted in serious injuries to some of
them. The steering rope broke, max
ing them lose control of the sled and
they collided with a hydrant There
were u persons on the sled Only four
were seriously injured Fred Brown
has broken leg, Roy Dawson had one
leg badly bruised and lacerated, Thel-
ma Collette had one knee badly hurt
and it was feared at first that it might
be permanently stiff, but it seems to
be getting along all right. Alma Bick-
ford was badly shaken up and famed
Vermont's Potato Crop
Vermont raised 100000 bushels of
potatoes during 1922, according to the
figure compiled in the bureau of agri-
cultural economics and in doing this
excelled New Hampshire, Massachu-
sets and Rhode Island of the New
England states The crop in Vermont
was not so great as a year ago, how
ever, when the yield was 3,7500OO
bushels Potatoes over the country
are in greater supply than a year ago
for the estimated yield is placed at
451, $4,000 as compared with a year
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