The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-03-14
ABOUT THE STATE.

ADUUl lI1E 9lAlEa
items of Interest Cleaned From Our
Exchanges.
There Is not state in the Union
which has such poor roads as Vermont,
says The Good Roads Magazine Of New
York. city.
Miss Louise Gates has just com.
pleted the forty-fifth term or fifteenth
consecutive year as teacher in the school
at Shelburne falls.
Edwin Mccall, Of Stowe, who was
injured Friday forenoon by the falling
of tree while he was chopping in
Che woods, suffered a broken hip but
his injuries are not likely to prove
serious.
There Is dispute, with possible
legal complications, over the Office Of
constable in Grand isle. Both ". L.
HuIburt and David yondel claim the
election, Mr.. Hulburt being in posses.
sion.
John Roberts, Thetford farmer,
was driving only a short distance on
the railroad track the other day, when
a train demolished the sleigh and tore
the harness from the horse, but neither
Roberts nor the horse was injured.
Joel Y. Carpenter, leading citizen
Of Starksboro, who died last week, had
held many town offices, represen ted
the town in the legislature, and was de-
putty sheriff for many years. He served
in Company G, Ninth Vermont volun-
teera, in the Civil War.
George Brynn, vino represents a st.
Louis company, was arrested in Mid
dlebury recently on the charge Of vic.
lating a village ordinance by selling
stoves without a license, but the jus.
tice Of the peace before whom he was
arraigned decided there was not suf
fcient evidence 10 hold the man.
William r. Daley. for two years
states attorney Of Bennington county.
will leave Bennington this week for
Brattleboro where he expects To reside
in the future having formed law
partnership with Charles S. Chase Mr,
Chase is now senator from Windham
county to the state legislature.
a. w Nelson, Of Albany, formerly
Of Woodbury. and one Of the best known
men ia Windham county, who recently
passed his eighty-frst birthday ami
yersary, was prominent in public affairs
Of Woodbury., having held, among other
offices, the position OF town clerk and
treasurer for twenty-six years.
Frank L. Clark, who has been elected
constable Of the city Of Rutland for the
fourteenth time, has held that office
ever since Rutland became a city, the
first year alone excepted. Mr. Clark Is
Republican and said to be a very con.
seientious tax collector, winning out in
a for-cornered fight last week by
plurality of 400,
A consignment Of about two hun.
dred quail ordered from Alabama by
Rutland hunters has arrived ia Rut.
land. The birds were taken to the
country club and win be put out in
about a month, being liberated IN small
lots at different points hi the outlying
districts about the city. The open sea
son win begin September ~.
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G. IT. Tucker, brakeman on a Bur
lington & Lainoiile train, caught o hen
pheasant one morning recently near
Cambridge station. While the train
was busted in shifting cars Mr. Tucker
saw the pheasant, evidently injured, and
after a short chase caught t. The bird
had evidently been struck by a cat as
part of one wing WAS torn away by
claws Mr.. Tucker will keep the bird
until it is able to care for itself aud
release it.
A i~rge number Of Brattleboro wo-
men would like their money back
on purchases recently made from an
agent Of the "Bing patent lamp burner
who has been canvassing the town. The
I purchasers Of the burners were rather
/ surprised and not little displeased
when the grocery clerks informed them
/ that the same burners for which they
paid the agent fifty cents were on sale
4 in all the grocery stores at twenty
cents each and had been for long time
1 The burner differs from ordinary burn
ers only in having a glass cap surround.
ing the wick.
The coal situation in 81 AIbaps which
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