The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-11-28
ABOUT THE STATE.

ABOUT THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned from Our
Exchanges.
r. 4. Powers of Clarendon, has few
silver half-dollar pieces, the dates OF
which are 1909, 1919, 1924, 1888, 1s40,
1888, and 1854.
An analysis of the Irasburg village
water has been made at the state labor
ator of hygiene at Burlington and it
is pronounced pure.
While raking leaves in the yard of
Mrs. Rodney Shedd at Bethel, Robert
Currier turned up coin which proved to
be one Of the old fashioned large kind.
The coin is very distinct and is OF the
issue of 1903.
George H. Fuller, who is the contract
OF for building in Waits River the dam
for the Bradford Electric Light and Pow
er Co., reports that the work is practi-
cally completed. The dam is of granite
and Is A feet and s inches high from
bed rock to summit
About twelve tons of poultry were
shipped from Vergennes Friday. Price
for turkeys ranged from % to IS cents
a pound; chickens ~ to IS; fowls, IL;
geese, 10. The prices on turkeys were
disappointing to raisers, as they expect
ed to receive more.
The completion OF the village water
system in Bristol was celebrated We'd
nesday night by the discharge OF rockets,
charges of dynamite, etc, from the re-
servoir on the hill. When they are all
placed there win be fifty hydrants in
the village and every house will be less
than 800 feet from one. The appropria-
ton for the water system was $4,000
and the cost is less than the sum APP
propriated-
w. c. Parsons, a. Pullman ear CON
ductor between Montreal and Boston,
was found unconscious in his room Tues
day morning, November 81, at the New
port house, Newport. from the effects
OF partial shock. Parsons retired as
usual Monday night but not answering
to his call in the morning the door was
opened and he was found with head and
shoulders hanging ont Of bed. He was
removed to Montreal Wednesday.
Fearing that his apples, which were
stored over the wood shed, would freeze
one night recently, Ernest Hitchcock, of
Pittsford, lighted an oil stove in the
room. He was called away for a few
moments, and upon returning found the
room all afire. He quickly summoned
his family and for fifteen minutes they
fought the flames and finally conquered
them 1t is thought that the stove set
fire to some blankets near by. Twelve
barrels of apples were baked.
Michael Swiety, an Italian, met death
under the mill in the international Paper
CO., mills at Bellows Falls November rs
Swiety was down below the first floor
in subterranean passageway in which
there is about six inches Of water. Il
|it supposed that he, in some way, struck
his head against the roof and becoming
unconscious fell into the water and was
drowned. He was 32 years old and i
survived by wife and two children
one only few weeks old.
The d0ckets for the December tern
of Lamoille county court have been is
sued. There are III cases in the court
and II in the chancery docket. OF thess
eases II are petitions for divorce, il
a state case, and the remainder are civil
eases. Sixteen cases are set for JURY
and ~ are set to court. The Hon. JOIN
Ia. Watson viii be the presiding judge.
With the return of Mr. and Mrs. ]. r
Tillinghast TO their home in North En-
glewood. n. j., what is known as Thu
Swift homestead on Monument ave.
Bennington, will be closed for the winter
The house is one Of the oldest in town
having been built prior to 1772 by tn
Rev Jedediah Dewey, the first pastor o
the old church. Although it has beef
modernized in many respects it vet main
tains many of it's old characteristics.
The sight and hearing of 764 pupil
in the Bennington public schools wer'
tested recently in accordance with th'
requirement of the law passed by tn
last legislature, and only eleven wer
found with defective hearing. One hun
dred sixty-seyen pupils were reporte'
by the teachers as being defective il
vision in one or both eyes, but the con
Iditions of light were not favorable TO
accurate testing. 4 second test 0
those reported ON first test is now beinl
made.
The defendant in the jury case 0
Hobart q. Brewer Is. Ephraim A. Perle,
(now deceased) and Kiles A. Paul, il
which verdict for the plaintiff to re
cover SI2.576.15 was returned in unite'
States circuit court at Rutland Friday
has appealed and the case will be tries
apain in the United States circuit cour
Of appeals. AS announced inthe Messenge
AIessrs. Perley and Paul, Of East Berk
shire, were executors Of the will Of Calel
r. Brewer Of Enosburg, father of Il. G
Brewer, 81 Tabor, Iowa. The suit wa
an action to recover the value of note