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Thursday heard testimony ii 

 Testigatlon of an automobil(^mash 

 with a trolley car of the Jsafre and 

 Montpeller street railwaV Airil 2 3, 

 when Mrs. George H. llmfn was 

 Berlously injured. The ca\wls own- 

 ed by John Cross of Nofthfleld. 

 Mrs. Almon is still in the hfispital. 



A team drawing a big loaB of i 

 shavings became frightened pt an 

 automobile near Athletic parkl Bur- 

 lington, Thursday afternoon 1 and . 

 ran away. The pole of the -fogan ! 

 strucli a telephone pole, sna|ping \ 

 the latter. The driver was pilched ' 

 over a high fence into a fiela but 

 was not injured. I 



The annual regatta of tbe iake 

 Champlain Yacht club, Burlington, 

 will be held August 2. when there 

 will be races for all classes of mo- 

 tor and sail boats. There will "be 

 valuable first and second prizes for 

 all events, aggregating a cost of 

 $2000. The first prize for the grand 

 motor boat free-for-all race will be 

 a $750 cup. The entries close Aug- 

 ust 1. 



i Articles of association have been 

 [ filed in the office of the secretary 

 I of State by the Poultney Toy Co., 

 I of Poultney, organized to manufae- 

 ' ture and sell toys. The capital is 

 j §5000, with shares of $100 each. 

 The Somerville Lumber Co., of Som- 

 erville, Mass., has been granted per- 

 mission to deal in all kinds of lum- 

 ber in this state, also the CEam- 

 plain Slate Co., of Framingham, 

 Mass., which will deal in slate in 

 "Vermont. 



Thursday morning Sergt. C. A. 

 Sandridge of the 10th Cavalry, who 

 lives just west of Fort Ethan Allen 

 reservation, beard someone prowl- 

 ing about the bouse. Unable to 

 discover the intruder ie went back 

 to bed only to again be awakened 

 by his wife, wio also heard a sus- 

 picious noise. " The sergeant saw a 

 man about to enter his shed and 

 fired at him with a service revolver 

 througli the kitchen window. He 

 missed the mark hut was not troub- 

 led further. He discovered at day- 

 light that the hurglar was after 

 coal and had already carried away 

 a small quantity. 



The Masons of Brattleboro are 

 elated over the fact that tiie entire 

 $25,000 issue of preferred stock in 

 the Masonic Building "association 

 has been disposed of among the 

 memhers of the vario'us branches 

 Masonic order in Brattleho- 

 ro. The last of the issue of stock 

 was disposed of Thursday after- 

 noon. This makes $25,000 available 

 I for immediate use in the remodell- 

 I ing of the O'Connor house on Main 

 I street into a Masonic club house as 

 I contemplated and the work will be 

 1 started as soon as the plans are re- 

 [ ceived from the architect, which 

 1 w'll be within a fortnight at the 

 I latest. 



liig Boulder Attracts Attention. 

 A large boulder that has recent- 

 ly come down the mountain side at 

 Mount Mansfield attracts much at- 

 tention from visitors to Smugglers' 

 notch. The rock stands about 2 5 

 feet above the ground, in which it 

 is partly burled, and is about 10 by 

 15 feet in Its other dimensions. 



Xot more than two of the bould- 

 ers that are strewn over the valley 

 of the notch surpass it in size. The 

 place where it left its hed may be 

 =een some 2 00 0 feet above on the 

 .Mansfield side. Irs path, about a 

 rod in width, is swept clean of 

 vegetation, and when it crossed the 

 road near the height of land was 

 about 12 feet deep. Seven or eight 

 smaller boulders were dislodged in 

 its fall. Two of them crossed the 

 road, one of them making a clean 

 jump over it. The road has been 

 repaired by ihe town of Cambridge. 



ie\y .issistant Physician at Wake- 

 field Hospital. 



Dr. Eichard C. Eaton of "Wake- 

 I field has been appointed by the 

 I trustees of the Brattleboro retreat, 

 1 second assistant physician of the in- 



I stitution, to succeed Dr." Park P.. 

 , Hoyt, who recently resigned to take 



up general practice in Lakeport, N. 

 H. 



Dr. Eaton is 40 years old and a 



II nat've of Wakefield, Mass. He grad- 



! uated from Yale in 1892 and from 

 the Harvard Medical school in 1S96. 

 After leaving college he served in 

 , the Massachusetts General and Bos- 

 I ton City hospital? and was house 

 physician for a year in the Worces- 

 J ter City hospital. After a year in 

 I private practice in Holyoke, Mass., 

 I he became resident physician and 

 I superintendent of the Holyoke C'"ty 

 Iljospital for a year. Lately he has 



BotalUsts B-om Four States at 

 Thi-ee Days' Session at Wood- 

 stock — yianf Bare Plants Found 

 — aiemilKM-ship of Both Vei-mont 

 Botanical and Bird Clubs In- 

 creased — Winter Meeting at Bur- 

 lington. 



About 40 people. Including seve- 

 ral botanists of note, attended the 

 three days' annual meeting of the 

 Vermont Botanical club and the 

 Vermont Bird club at Woodstock 

 this week. The Botanical club has 

 seldom had a gathering when more 

 rare plants were seen and the fact 

 that there were more especial feat- 

 ures than usual to the program made 

 the meeting an esptcially enjoyable 

 one. 



The party gatherd at Quechee 

 Gulf on Monday afternoon and ex- 

 plored the almost perpendicular 

 clifle, which tower nearly 200 feet 

 above the river, as well as the river 

 bed Itself. Among the plants of 

 especial Interest seen here were 

 the northern woodsia and the smooth 

 woodsia, ferns usually growing in 

 semialpine regions and found only 

 in three or four other places in Vei- 

 mont. A number of rare messes and 

 plants of the lower orders were also 

 collected. In the evening the natur- 

 alists gathered at the rooms of the 

 Woadstock Arts and Crafts club and 

 inspected exhibits of dried and live 

 plants, birds and drawinss from 

 nature, prepared by t 

 Nature club. There vr:. 

 iness session, Presicij - 

 erd of Middleoury pr; - : 



Eicmbers vrere adfiecl . 

 C3,i and nearly as many ■._<:, 

 club. 



Clubs Entertained at liUnch. 



On Tuesday morning the mem- 

 bers of the two Vermont clubs in- 

 spected the beautiful grounds con- 

 nected with the Billings estate. 

 Here peaches, grapes, figs and other 

 fruits of warmer climates are 

 grown to perfection under glass, 

 rare lilies and roses and many 

 flowers are in profusion and practi- 

 cally all the interesting Vermont 

 ferns and wild flowers are to be 

 found in spots made as much as 

 possible like their natural .environ- 

 ment. The Billings carry-all took 

 the party to the top of Mount Tom, 

 where an excellent view of the sur- 

 rounding country was had. An elab- 

 orate lunch, served on the piazza at 

 the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 

 Lee, was next in order. The alter 

 noon was passed at Esohqua bog 

 in Hartland, where the party went 

 in automobiles. The principal plants 

 of interest at this point were of the 

 club moss, Lycopodium, type. Some 

 species of hepatics never before re- 

 ported for the state were discover- 

 ed. The nests of &. number of species 

 of birds were observed in the 

 swamp. After two hours in the bog 

 the party went to the home of Mr. 

 and Mrs. A. B. Morgan, nearby, 

 and enjoyed a picnic lunch. 



In the evening a free lecture was 

 given at the opera house for both 

 the naturalists and village people 

 and the theater was crowded. The 

 speaker was N. L. Britton of the 

 Xew York Botanical gardens, o^ne of 

 the highest authorities on North 

 American plants and an author of 

 note. He showed about 100 colored 

 views of plants taken from nature 

 and spoke briefly concerning them. 

 The photographs from which the 

 slides were made were taken by 

 "Van Brunt, who spent years seek- 

 ing a lense and developer which 

 would satisfactorily bring out the 

 natural colors of flowers. 



On Wednesday morning, the last 

 day of the meeting, the party drove 

 to North Bridgewater, where there 

 is a station for the male fern (Aspid- 

 ium filix mas). This fern is extreme- 

 ly rare in the United State_s, not be- 

 ing found east of the Mississippi 

 river except in this one little corner 

 of Vermont. The botanists discov- 

 ered a hybrid between the male fern 

 and the common marginal shield 

 I fern (Aspidium marginale) never 

 j before found in this or any other 

 1 country. 



I Among the visiting botanists pres- 

 I ent besides Dr. Britton, were Mrs. 

 I Britton, who is an authority on 

 mosses. Prof. Tracy Hazen of Col- 

 ; umbia college, Prof. fc. J. Winslow 

 j of Lasalle seminary, Auburndale, 

 1 Ma^s., Miss Annie Lorenz of Hart- 

 I ford. Conn., an authority on New 

 England hepatics, and other mem- 

 bers of the Connecticut Botanical 

 I society. Dr. G. G. Kennedy of Bos- 

 I ton and Mis CSsraah etaoin etao eta 

 I ton, and Miss Sarah Sanborn of 

 i Concord, N. ?I. 



The Vermont Botanical and Bird 

 clubs will meet jointly at Burling- 

 ton in January when there will be 

 addresses and papers. 



