The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-03-11
ABOUT The STATE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned from Our
Exchanges.

Items of Interest Cleaned from Our
Exchanges.
Rockingham voted $500 at the an
nual town meeting for history Of the
town.
The Report that five children of Peter
Bourgeois OF Swantcn were sick with
diphtheria is an error. There Is no
diphtheriq in that town nor has there
been.
4 At the town meeting Tuesday Grand
! Isle voted to establish and maintain a
high school This was question that
has caused a good deal Of strife in
town.
Simeon Parry, farmer living out
side Of the town OF Swanton, has filed
petition in bankruptcy His assets
are SLICES Of which 1896 are claimed to
be exempt.
i The principal feature Of the election
! in Fair Haven was the decision to ac-
cept the gift Of an $4,000 library build
ing, which was made by Andrew Car
negie provided the town would pledge
itself to raise $500 year to support it.
The state railroad commissioners, Full
Ter G. Smith of st. Adams, H. s. Bing-
ham Of Bennington, and G. T. Howard
of Craftsbury, met at Newport Tues
day for a hearing in the case of Ellery
Vance, who was killed on the Canadian
Pacific railway last fall.
i. P. Thayer came from Mddlebury
Friday and remained at home in Ran
dolph until Tuesday to give proper at
tention to severe cold The first OF
May, he viii sever his connection with
the Middlebury Register to devote his
energies to the Morrisville Messenger
and the Essex syndicate Of papers.
At the town.meeting at ST. Johns
| hurry Tuesday it was voted 70 replace
the old wooden bridge across the Pas
sumpsic river with a modern steel strue-
t,me, which experts said would cost
abont $1,000. The town also appropri-
ated $500 for vacation schools. These
were maintained last summer by the
Woman's club
Those in position to know expect
that the Casein Company 0f America
will close down its plant at Bellows
| Falls August I The company has a.
contract to make boxes and frames for
The international Paper Co. up to that
time That branch Of the business will
| he conducted after August / by Charles
Holden, living at Barber park. The
machinery not in use now is being dis
posed 81.
1t is stated Governor Bell will app
point Luther A. Cobb Of Island Pond
To be state inspector Of finance. Mr..
Cobb is 80 years old and is unmarried
He was born in Morgan and educated at
the st. Johnsbury academy. On the
death Of the cashier Of the Island Pond
National bank a few years ago, Mr.
the cashiership. He has been known
among his friends as the mayor Of
Island Pond.
At the town-meeting at Lyndon
4 the expected division over the purchase
of a site for the new library building
melted away when it was announced
4 that private citizens had contributed
! $50 toward inc purchase Of the Sis
/ BY livery stable. This was held for
81 600. All the town had to appropri-
late was S1.150, which was done without
dissenting vote. The Cobleigh LIBRA
~ viii therefore be built on the main
street Of Lyndonyille.
a. r. Wakeman Of Benson is showing
four eggs, two weighing three and one
half and three and one-Quarter ounces,
respectively. The largest one measured
six by eight inches and the smallest,
three by three and one-half inches.
Aaron Drown shows an egg that was
perfect from all appearances and when
broken another perfect egg appeared in
side the shell. This egg was small but
perfect; the shell was soft and was not
attached to any part of the larger egg.
The water situation in Hardwick vii
lage is decidedly serious. At the pres
ent time about 25 families are without
water, because of frozen mains. These
the trustees have refused 70 thaw
Complaints have been and are being
titAdE 70 Nte UEdllN BUiceI, ana he Is
asked to force the trustees to have these
mains thawed out OF to supply water
The ground for this demand Is that Of
public health. Last Friday morning
fully one-third Of the houses we're with
out a drop Of that necessary iind.
John Bean and James Billado Of
Enosblrg Falls, who We're arrested on
Wednesday, March 1, on charges OF sell
ing intoxicating liquor illegally and
taken to the Franklin county Jail at
st. Albans in default Of $500 bail, after
hearing before Justice Of the Peace
!. g. Ienne, We're arraigned in St. Al
bans for hearing Wednesday, They
pleaded guilty before Acting City Judge
Siles w Finn to an information fled
against Them by States Attorney War
rem r. Austin Bean was fined $500 and
costs with an alternative sentence Of