The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-04-27

states in the percentage number gained
| in membership.
An Ideal power lawnmower has been
purchased by Sergeant-at-Arms d. j.
| Dwinell for use on the state house lawn.
One man hereafter will be all that is
needed TO cut the grass for which several
men were required before under the push
and pull method.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin of Bethel,
| aged 81 years, fell heavily on the floor of
a room unstairs, where she was working
| Monday forenoon and broke her left leg
| midway between the knee and the hip.
When a child Mrs. Chamberlin broke the
| leg at about the same place.
| Paul A. Kelley, a native of Bellows
| Falls, has recently received an appoint
ment as Junior civil engineer under the
! Interstate commerce commission at
Washington. Mr. Kelly is a graduate of
| the Bellows Falls high school and of
| Catholic university, Washington. He Is
| an ex-service man and has been at the
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen,
| Maryland, until assuming his new duties.
| The state highway board has awarded
| the contract of the East Montpelier fed
| eral aid project to the Hoyt COnstruc-
ton Co. of Holyoke, Mass. and the
| Bridgewater and the Sand Bar bridge
1 projects To the same GOHeeFi. latNlOH ~
| Van Writ of Glens Falls, y. Y, these
| being the lowest bidders. The board dis
| cussed plans for 1923 and some were or
dered which will be taken up later.
| George c. Slayton of Stowe. who has
shipped maple syrup this spring to par
| ties in the states of Washington, Cali
| fornia, Michigan. New Hampshire. Con-
necticut, Massachusetts, New York and
| Florida and to the governor of the island
! of San Domingo would like to know If
any other small sugar-maker has dis
| tributed his product 10 a wider market.
Mr. Slayton tapped about 900 trees this
year and made the equivalent of 1.S00
| pounds of sugar, small crop but of eX-
| cellent quality.
Two men chased out of the camps at
Groton Pond Tuesday were later cap
tured by Caledonia county deputy sher
ifs and taken back to Groton on the aft
ernoon train. This was after a hot chase
in which Caledonia and Washington
county officers co-operated. The amount
of damage done and the goods taken viii
not be known until the owners of the
camps take account of stock. The two
men are supposed to have been there
since Saturday at least. How much long
err before that no one knows
With the close of the school year in
June Mrs. Lydia Beck of st. JOhnsbury
will complete 30 years service in the
teaching profession and will retire from
school work. Her resignation sent to the |
St Johnsbury school board was accepted
with reluctance. Thirty-seven of Mrs. |
Beck's 90 years in the profession have
been spent in the st. JOhnsbury schools. |
30 of them in the primary department at
the Summer street schools She has /
taught two generations, and taught them
we'll
The appointment of Clarence r. Carl /
ton of Poulrney as county agent for
Washington county to succeed Raymond I
A. Briggs, who recently resigned, is an
nounced by the extension service of the 4
University of Vermont and state agricul-
tural college. Mr.. Carlton will assume
his new duties, in which he viii repre-
sent the ITnitad STATES danartmnnt of l