The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-12-15
ABOUT THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From Our
Exchanges.

AttAn1 "a AhtcAcol Dicahc0 AkOm Jul Z
Exchanges.
Mrs. Lucinda B. Simmons died at
East Orange, y. j., Friday. Mis-. Sim
mons father, Wheat Beals, Of Vermont,
built the first railroad known in the
United States-t the wooden track affair
fow miles long at the Quincy granite
qunlies in Massachusetts,. Her grand
father was member OF the Boston tea
party.
Ruby Seayer, little daughter OF E. X.
Seayer, of Worthwhile, burned one arm
in peculiar manner recently. Suffering
( from 4 pain IN the arm, she placed an
electric bulb against the member under
the bed clothing. So much heat gen
Grated from the lamp that her clothing
caught fire and her arm was scorcned
considerably.
J The trustees Of the Vermont Soldiers
Home at Bennington have promulgated
an order prohibiting any member from
working about the village. 1t has been
customary for some Of the veterans to
sell berries, fish. and other articles, but
the privilege, It is said, has been 50
abused BY certain class that the or
der became necessary.
DR.. Il. r. Campbell, Rocllinghan's rep
resentative in the legislature, and Mrs.
Campbell, have invited the members Of
the Woman's club, with men, and the
members Of the Rockingham Medical
club to be present at reception this
evening at their home and meet Gov.
and Mrs G. J. Bell, who viii be in
Bellows Falls at the annual meeting Of
the Vermont State Grange, Patrons Of
Husbandry.
The ordination Of William Crosby Of
/ Ludlow and John J. Cnllion of Benning
ton to the priesthood Of the Roman
catholic church will take place at Mon
itreal within the next two weeks. 1t
lis expected that they viii be assigned
Ito parishes in this state. They were
ordained deacons few months ago.
Both Young men have made their theo
logical courses at the grand seminary at
Montreal.
| II has been figured out that the cost
Of the coal for Burlington's departments,
outside the school and water depart
ments, which was ordered directly from
outside dealers by the city, viii cost
$500 per net ton, which is considerably
under tile price uoted by local dealers
This Includes all the labor in connection
with unloading and delivering The
amount Of coal bought for these depart
lments was about 3i7 gross tons OF 1855
met tons.
The condition Of Asa IT. Hubbard Of
Whiting, ex-judge OF probate Of Addison
county, whose left arm was cut off by
the cars Saturday morning, IL favorable.
The analysis of sample of water
from AIinard's pond, Bellows Falls, says
that the odor of the sample was ode
cidedly aromatic and continues: This
| specimen shows low water condition OF
the supply. Evidence OF much decayed
vegetable matter but no dangerous con-
tamination is present"
w. s. Buckham Of Hartlsnd hill, has
III his possession an old piece of crock
cry that once belonged to his great
great grandmother II is q teacup and
saucer of small size and perfect CON
dition, not nick or scratch to be seen
upon them, though they must be at
. least two hundred years old The color
lis 81 4 softly shaded blue and white
Ion the inside OF the saucer a hunting
scene is pictured, with two hounds in
chase Of game
Harold Holbrook, who IS in Newfane
ljail where he is awaiting trial on the
lcharge Of burglarizing the Newfane Saw
sings Bank last August, attempted to
ESCAPE from jail recently He secured
Ian iron hook and attempted to pry Off
the grating at the window opening of
1.-THE corridor A woman saw his arm
Through the grating and notified the jail
officials, who induced Holbrook to pro-
lduee the hook by threatening to contine
him in a cell. How he obtained the
implement il not known.
o. ". Davis of Morrisville, who is
something OF q specialist in apple raising
has recently been exhibiting freak
! apple growth The curiosity is nothing
more nor less than two Vermont Green
ling apples which in the course of de-
yelopment grew So closely that one skin
Ienyelopes both, one being several times
larger than the other. Two blow ends
are plainly visible, but only one stem,
and the whole bears d most striking re-
semblance to a plump, downy chicken,
Just stepped from the shell.
A Grange was organized at Putney
Z Monday night BY Deputy II. y. Sargent.
D of Brattleboro. There we've ri charter
members. Gov q ] Bell was present.
Brown s. Webster. dealers in mems
Furnishing goods at SWanton have been
obliged to close their stof owing to !
Z petition in Lan's; lptcy having been tiled
, by Elmer Z. brown. The liabilities as
given III the petition are SA,12A3s; as.
sets, 81 ,7S9.45; Of which $3.50 are claim,
ed exempt. A meeting OF their credit
ors will be held as soon as possible and
y trustee appointed.
New St. Adams Pastor.