Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-06
VERMONT NEWS.
The News of the State Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.

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ton, Sunday.
Rt. Rev. j. 5. Michaud of Burling.
ton confirmed large class in Fair.
field, Oct 81.
Colonel Olin Scott Of Bennington
has contracted to build $50, 600 pulp
mill in New Hampshire.
The Vermont Bible society will dis
tribute 800 Testaments among the
men of the Forty-third regiment.
Corporal Benzall Of Bennington won
the company badge in the recent COM
petitive drill by members of Co. X.
Miss Anna Sargent of Chester is
dangerously ill at Georgetown, Ken
lucky, where she is teaching school.
Harry Harding, one Of the pr0prie-
tors of the Barton tub shop. was To-
Gently married to Miss Mary Hughes
at Albany.
Frank IrOville and William llubbell
of South Hero have been arrested,
charged with violating the revenue
laws, and jailed at Burlins ton.
The house, barns, and all the out
buildings of the Stratton farm at
Woodstock were recently destroyed by
lire. The loss was about IS. 900.
NJ. j. Mulcahey of llardwick is at
the hospital in Burlington, suffering
from a severe wound in the head
caused by being kicked by a horse.
Harry +. Nelson, transfer postal
clerk at Essex junction, has ex-
changed places with Fred II. Stevens
on the narrow guage line at Brattle-
bOrO.
The petitions in bankruptcy in Ner-
mont now number 1923, an, average of
about one a day since people began
taking advantage Of the bankruptcy
law.
Sylvester Miner has shipped 10, 600
bushels of cider apples from Brattle-
boro this year. He recently shipped
a carload, pa barrels, of winter ap-
pies.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
has been flied by Hiram c. Cutting of
st. Johnsbury, a harness maker. His
liabilities are 1861. "a and his assets
s., S2S.77.
John A. C0rbin and Joel THOMPSON
If Burlington were badly bruised
'bout the head and face by being
brown recently from a team at the
'ailway station.
c. e. Allen of Brattleboro has now
n bloom three houses of chrvsanthe-
NUNS. His mushroom crop now occu-
'les 1000 feet of space. He will begin
o market the crop early in December
i. A. JoSlin of Waitsield has sold
O III. o. Ward of Moretown his large
arm IN the east part of the town.
lso the timber land and pasture near
'aitstield village, which was formerly
part of the Cassius Joslin farm.
The Morningside Cemetery associa.
ion was recently organized in Brat
eboro. The association has acouired
he wood farm, adjoining Prospect
Ill cemetery, Of some POO acres.
aautiiully located for the purpose re-
lired.
Many applications have already
zen received for the Fanny Allen
)Spital school for nurses. which is to
zen Nov. 8. Several ladies have
ranged to join the classes open to
lose who do not intend to become h
"A. y. Palmer, state deputy head
unSels for Vermont of the Modern
oodmen OF America, was recently in
lrllngton for the purpose of estab-
hlng branch of the order there.
'out 20 names have already been
cured and a charter will be applied
: soon.
Thomas Aher of Brateleboro fell %
It while Stating for the S. A. Smith &
npany. He stepped upon the end
a board which protruded beyond the
glng, and the board tipped up let
g him down. He struck on his feet
4 was not hurt beyond receiving a
liking up.
\ year ago James Bowen of Pitts
q planted four rows of "coffee
ms, each row about "a feet long. tn,
the crop he reaped when brewed. to- to.
part, made as palatable coffee as
ld DE desired. The crop, he says,
dS no more care than the common
tie bean. He planted the seeds in
dy soil.
he New England Telephone and u
egraph company Says that the past
son in Vermont has been one of the
it prosperous ever known by the
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