Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-11-24
Vermont News
Brief Items of Interest From
around the State

Many Christmas trees are being cut
in Randolph. The total number will
probably exceed $4,000, mostly spruce,
with a few balsam. Some of these
trees will be shipped as far as Mis-
sissippi
The Ascutney Shoe Co., which is now
located inside the state prison and en-
ploys prison labor, has decided to build
a factory in Windsor, which would en-
ploy between 300 and 400 men. 1t is
expected the factory will be ready to
make shipments of shoes in February.
The value of Rutland real estate &C
cOrdhg to the quadrennial appraisal is
So, 748, 925 or $469, las greater than last
year. The appraisal made will stand for
three years. The increase is approx
mately five and onehalf per cent.
Raymond Downs, an empoye of the
Rutland railroad shops, lost his lett eye
Tuesday when two pieces of brass flew
from where he was choppng on the
driving blocks of a locomotive and
struck him in one eye, The eye was
later removed at the Rutland hospital.
l.. Bovine of Glover has had So of his
herd of Is cows condemned, following
tuberculin test, Mr.. Bovine has been
selling between $4,000 and $11 900
worth of milk year. The best looking
cows in the herd were the ones most
affected.
The plant of the United Opinion,
weekly newspaper published by Harry
E. Parker, in Bradford was destroyed
by fire Saturday. The building was
two-story structure, valuedwith equip
ment at $50, 900. The owner is in Florida
for the winter.
Chester Blow of Grand Isle nearly
lost his life in the cave-in of a gravel
pit, the slide undermining large pear
tree also, which struck Mr.. Blow.
Wien dug out of the debris he was
thought dead, but regained conscious
ness. He is still in a critical condition.
Hardy A. Sylvester, a Grand Isle
farmer, had a shock of paralysis while
feeding the stock at the barn and fell
through the hay chute into manger in
front of one of the horses. The
frightened horses broke loose and rushed
from the barn and in investigating the
CAUSE d sui VI MI DJlNCobCl 1Oulh IihI
unconscious. His condition is serious.
Alfred Bachand, the employee of the
Lawrence Excavting company who was
injured in October while at work on the
federal road project in Concord, died
Saturday at Brightlook hospital in st.
Johnsbury. Mr.. Bachand was literally
buried in a gravel pit sustaining a
fractured skull as his head struck rock
in falling. He was rescued by fellow
workmen with considerable difficulty.
Returns so far received at the sec
rotary of states Office at Montpelier
show the election of three women to the
Vermont house, Mrs. Leslie Mech, of
Monk ton, in Addison county; Mrs. Flora
Z. Cooper, of Wells, in Rutland
county, and Mrs. Jessie Dow of ToL1
sham, in Orange. Miss Edna Beard,
of Orange, will be the first woman to
sit in the upper house.
The total number of deer killed re-
ported to the Fish and game depart
ment at Montpelier are as follows;
Addison county, Z; Bennington, H.;
Caledonia, 4; Chittendtn, 5; essex, 81
Franklin, 2; Lamoie, 9; Orange, 3;
Orleans, IL; Rutland, 81; Washington,
s. Windham, 20; Windsor, l3. The
largest buck reported killed was one
estimated to weigh 300 pounds and
having II points 1t was shot by Benny
Moffitt of Peru in that town November
II.
Chester Devarney. 1G year-old sor of
MIR. and Mrs. NJ. Z. Dcvarney of st.
Adams, was seriously injurC d Monday
afternoon near Branch's corner on the
Swanton road when his motorcycle was
struck by an automobile. Young De-
varney was knocked from the cycle and
two wheels of the car passed over his
back. The driver of the automobile,
whose indemnity the boy did not know,
stopped and took the injured lad into
his home nearby. The extent of the
boys injuries is not yet known.
Fred West, Sc. of Manchester Depot,
was instantly killed Saturday afternoon |
when he was pinned beneath a falling |
tree while choppng in the woods on
Winhall mountain with his son, Myron. |
Mr.. West, who was employed by the
West River Lumber company, was
knocked down by limb in the morning |
but was uninjured and, with his son,
continued to work At about a O'Clock |
in the afternoon when the tree which he
was chopping was ready to fall, he
turned in the wrong direction and the
falling stub hit his shoulder. He is
survived by his wife, daughter, and
son, Myron.
The third largest earth dam in Yer
mont is being constructed in North /
Goshen by the Hortonia Power Co.
The dam is to be $50 feet long, 300
feet thick at the base, and rs feet high
and is expected to set Sucker brook
back over 400 acres. George F. Badger
is the engineer in charge. There are
working on the dam 20 tractors varying
in size from Fordson to a ten-ton
caterpillar drawing from three to five
scrapers, pulling up trees, and 20 teams
teams are employed hauling dirt and
stone. There are lao men on the job
who are lodged and fed in the temporary
buildings. A tank load of gas or kero-
sene is received three times a week.
A gang of eight men are employed to
keep the machinery in running order,
four working in the daytime and four
at night. MANY DeOplp visit the scene