Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-03-31
Vermont News
Brief Items Of Interest From
around the State

Booze worth $500 was seized in
Newport Friday night by customs Of
ticials on a mixed train coming from
Canada into the United States.
The profits of last summers Valley
fair at Brattleboro were about $500,
but most of it has been expended i'll
needed improvements at the fair
grounds, including a new surface for
the race track.
Harry Allen of Rutland, unmarried,
was arrested Friday night by the po-
lice on a charge of arson, being ac-
cused of setting fire on two occasions
to The house of Mrs A. ?. Foley,
where he rOOmed.
II the practice of law for 40 years,
is the record of Elihu B. Taft, we'll
known lawyer and one of the oldest
members of the Chittenden County
Bar who celebrated his 18th birthday
in Burlington Monday
There is as yet no sign of a build
ing revival in Burlington this year and
it begins to look as though the history
of he last few years would be re-
peated. That means that there will be
no building until late in the summer
or all
Buys Famous Trotter
Will Utton, the Barton trainer, has
bought from Walter Cox for one of
his patrons the 4-year- old trotter Dor
othv Guy Axworthy, which with little
work last year showed 2:l7. She
should be used in the Maine and New
Brunswick circuit where UttOn plans
10 race.
Arrested In White River
IAN Burns aged IS years, of lO3 In
elewood street, Leominster, Mass, and
Leo Porter. aged 10 years of IS Ha-
zen street, Leominster, Mass were ar
rested in White River Junction Satur-
dav by Chief of Police Patrick O'keefe
for the Fitchburg authorities, it being
ALLEGED that they stole an automobile,
the property of Thomas Flynn of "A
s. Bernard street, Fitchburg, Mass.
Falls or Jumps From Train
With both arms fractured, one of
them in three places, and his face and
forehead cut and bruised Louis Young,
aged 20 years, press feeder for the
Vermont Printing company, OF Brat
tlenoro was brought from Dummers-
ton to the Memorial hospital Monday,
having jumped or fallen from south
bound passenger train on the Boston
& Maine railroad,
St. Adams Short of Cash
Declaring that until "the city de-
cides upon its policy of providing for
the deficit in the operation of the
CITY there is no safe or sane course
for the council to adopt but to Sus-
pend the expenditure of every penny
and to conserve the resources of the
CITY to the limit the members of the
CITY government gave out i'll a state
ment on the financial condition of the
municipality.
Fire Destroys Farm House
Fire recently DESTROYED the farm
house of Mr.. and Mrs. Stebbins in
Nottingham, nothing of the contents
being saved but one bureau Mrs.
Stebbins was with her mother in New
York state, who was i'll, and Mr.. Steb-
bins and a hired man were alone i'll
the house, the fire starting during the
night and the smoke waking the two
men, but too late for them to do more
than escape with their own lives.
Still Seized In St. JohnSbury
4 raid made on the premises of Sus-
pected "hootch" dealers in St. Johns
bury Saturday afternoon by Chief of
Police John Finley, Officers Colburn
and Wallace, and County Sheriff Viii
bur Worthem resulted in the seizure of
a still fully equipped, seven full quarts
of moonshine, which were admitted to
have been distilled Saturday, and a
pint of what appears to be pure alco-
hol at the place of Oscar Lavigne
Postmasters Appointed
Congressman Greene has recon-
mended to the post Office department
the appointment of the following can
didates for postmaster appointments:
Frank S. Stewart, an eX-ServiCe man,