Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-08-18

Summer street, Boston, died yesterday
morning in Mortified, where he came
last Sunday night TO attend the we'd
ding OF enc OF -sis sons. He had been
in poor health for several weeks. Mr..
Walkers home was in Dorchester. Mass.
About 80 cattle raisers, dairymen aud
others interested in questions relating
to Vermont's bovine tuberculosis policy
gathered in the State House yesterday
morning for a conference with the state
commission of bovine st. b., at which
it is hoped to discover the viewpoint of
the men who stand to gain or lose by
the bovine tuberculosis eradication work.
BY the pulling over of a pole on the
power line from the gorge to Claremont,
n. H., three cows belonging to Hiram
Lawrence of Ascutnevville, a two-year-
old heifer belonging to II. r. Comstock
Fitch and Lewis Stevens, both of As
cutneyville, were electrocuted last week.
Miss Alice II. Woodfin. daughter of
Mrs. John n. Woodin of Rutland was
married in Paris last Saturday to Lieut..
Charles Braniere. who is in the service
Il the French government in Algiers.
Mrs. Branliere served in France during
the war with the Y. NJ. G.. A.. returning
ut the close of the war to the Unitei
States, hut for more than year ha,,
been studying music there.
The town of Craftsbury. acting
through committee of 25 of which
Hon. Horace F. Graham, ex-governor, is
chairman. has erected a memorial tablet
to the veterans of the Civil war tn"
Spanish American war and the World
war. The unwilling of this memorial
will occur today, with an extended pro-
gram. Ex-Governor Graham will pre-
side and make the presentation address.
Rounding out period of II years as
an a,ttache of the state department in
WASHINGTON. during n considerable part
Of which time he has been assistant
| chief of the consular bureau. John ID.
johnson. q native of Highoate. has been
nominated by the president to be a
| United States consul Mr. Johnson came
to Wa"hincton from st, Adams in 1905
and entered the state department as a
clerk.
Vcrno w. Mabee of Atlantic Mass
y TRAVELLING salesman parked his car in
| front of the Tomasi block in Barre yes
terdav morning and returned to find il
speeding on it's wav north with an nm
known drivcr behind the wheel. The
ear was On Overland of the 1919 mode
| fhi U''f NldSSH'nuSpltS MATES NO - /.
934. He notified the police officers an'
towns north We're ordered to stop a cal
bearing that number
Harold CARPENTER of Bristol wal
badly burned and his automobile trucl
damaged when a kerosene lamp exploded
as the gas tank of the car was beinI
filled at West Lincoln last Satlrda,
night, according to his report to the see
rotary Of state. He states that the cir
who gave him gasoline spilled some o
it on HIS face and that some of il caugh
fire. He ran for the river to eVtinguisl
the flames. Ralph Sweet Of West Lin
coin drove the truck for thu river an
Jumped out to let it 90 in. 1t stopped
however, as 1t reached the bank.
The four-vear-old daughter of Mr.. an
Mrs. Max McNaughton of Middlebur
was painfully injured Monday mornn
WHOM struck bv the touring car of Nj
and Mrs. |. G. Blair of Chester, Pa. tn
child was CROSSING the street from he
home TO the home of her grandparents
and in some meXplicable way. wa
struck by the bumper Of the car. 81
was howled over, and rolled under III
p wheels. She was immediately take
to the Office Of DIR. p. j.. Dorey for treat
rpnt. ard there it was found that a
though hedly bruised, no homes wer
broken, No blame i attached to tn