The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-31
VERMONT NEWS.

v ERWOINl NEWS.
Mr.. and Mrs. A H. Beedle of Ran
dOlph reached their cd anniversary on
congratulation from their many friends
Mr.. Beedle still conducts his business
as formerly. Mrs. Beedle is SO years
old and Mr.. Beedle 81
Joseph Dehart, 60, of Rutland, sus-,
tanned a broken back and other injuries
Sunday afternoon when he fell from
the iron railroad bridge on West street
near East creek Mr.. Dehart was found
by some small boys in that locality who
heard his moans and called for assist
ance. He was taken to the Rutland
hospital. His condition is serious.
Samuel Bernie of st. Johnsbury COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself with
rifle Monday forenoon at the home of
Theron Boyce, where he has been living.
He was about 43 years old a native of
England and had been in poor health
a long time of late he had been more
Respondent than usual because of the
prospect of having to change his board
ing place. Only one shot was fired and
that proved fatal, piercing the stomach.
Hiram Drew, who lived on the John
Pooker farm in the Texas district in
urday morning while driving to the viii
lage. His horse ran away, throwing him
from the carriage. He struck on his
head and it is thought he was dragged
some distance. He was taken TO the
home of David Rivers. where he died
late in the afternoon. Mr.. Drew was
10 years of age, a former resident of
Greensboro and has lived in Concord
about two years.
The Eastern Vermont Public Utilities
corporation. which has service stations
in the village of Barnet, Groton, New
bury and West Danville and supplies
light and power TO six towns in Gale
donia county and some in Orange county,
has notified its patrons of an increase in
lighting rates of approximately 30 per
cent effective Nov. /. The company
raised its rates three years ago and the
new rate of Is cents per kilowatt hour
for the first 100 XVIII per month, with
10 cents for the next 200, eight cents for
the next 300. and six cents per XVIII
for over 600 kilowatt per month super
sedes the old rate.
The ashes of 500 in bills have been
| sent by the Island Pond bank to the
! United States treasury in Washington
| TO see if the department will reimburse
| Mrs. James Henry of Island Pond for
her recent loss. The list of the bills to-
been furnished the department and it is
| hoped that the numbers can be deci-
| phered. Mrs. Henry placed the money
| in the slide top of her parlor stove and
| forgetting the incident, later in the day
| started q fire in the stove. Several hours
! later she remembered the incident and
rushing to the stove found the bills al
most in ashes.
A contract was signed Friday between
the Barre Granite Manufacturers assoc
citation and the Metropolitan Life In
surance Go. for the insurance of all per
sons employed under the American plan
! in the Barre manufacturing district. The
insurance became effective from noon
Oct. % the employees being at once in
sured for 5000 each and the policies to
increase 500 each year until a maxi
mum of $1,000 is reached. There are
approximately 40 members of the Barre
Granite Manufacturers association and
it is estimated that more than 500 en-
ployes now working in the Barre dis
trict under the American plan exclusive
of the quarries Will participate in the
insurance arrangement and that upward
of 100000 insurance is in force al
really.
Shot from an accidentally exploded
gun, leaned against a fallen log by Carl
Martin, 21, of Mount Holly, while he
ing near Healdville Sunday afternoon,
entered Martins lower right groin tear
ing up through and horribly mangling
his abdomen. The injured man was
taken to the Rutland hospital and oper-
ated upon. His condition Sunday eve
ming was grave. Martin recovered only
short time ago from terrible burns
which he received early last summer
when. while at work on a railroad. he
climbed a telegraph pole and came in
contact with high tension wire, 10000
volts of electricity passing through his
body. Two of the men with him car
ried the wounded man mile on their
shoulders while third went for help
and an automobile, in which he met
them at a wood road.
Two prisoners confined in Caledonia
county Jail in St. JOhnsbury made a sue
cessful break for liberty Sunday after
noon while Sheriff Wilbur Worthen was
away for an hour in Lyndonville. The
escaping prisoners were George Mills, a
Worcester young man, who is awaiting
trial as a party to the daring hold-up of
New Haven parties on the West Dan
vile road two weeks ago, and Cords
Lewis Of Littleton. n. H., whose spec
tacular sprint with Il Lyndonville car
loaded with groceries which he stole and
got as far as Wells River with, was
brought to a sudden halt Saturday after
noon. Just how the Houdini act was ae-
complished remains to be cOnjectured
for everything was in the same position
in which ii was left, keys and locks and
doors, but bunch of keys and a re-
volver and a pair of ankle irons were
missing from the drawer in the Office.
Dinhed Into Us.