The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-12
ABOUT THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Cleaned from Our
Exchanges.

Items Of Interest Cleaned from Our
Exchanges.
The stockholdefs 81 the Green Noun
tain Manufacturing company OF island
Pond have voted % close the factory
Tor short season.
Fair Haven athletes have organized q
basket ball team 10 b. known % The
cavaliers. Fort Edward, y. T., viii play
game there Thanksgiving night, and
dancing viii follow.
A horse worth $3.50 was sullocaicd Ia
barn lire az Rutland. lie Was owned
BY Charles MeAlurFay, who ALEC lost
furniture amounting 90 4auo, partially
covered BY insurance.
Postmaster }. A. sheldon 81 Rutland
has been advised by a pubic admins
traitor in Dawson. Alaska. that q man
named Albert T. Clark, reported 10 b.
from Rutland, died there last summer,
leaving an estate.
The Hooker, Corser & Mitchell com.
pany, manufacturers 81 oFerails Ia Brat,
ilcboro, who employ about 900 hands,
have begun running on the eight, hour
schedule. continuing the custom III Civ.
ing employees a halt.hollday Saturdays
Little Eleanor Hurley u Bennington
was the victim Of a peculiar accident BY
d fall while AZ play the other day, the
bones Of one arm being bent instead Of
broken. Il viii be necessary for tho
child TO wear splints for several months.
r. r. ID. Carrier Frank Pcrrier Of
Morrisville iost his wallet Friday con.
tanning SIS and bis stock Of postage
stamps Saturday while covering his
route he stopped 70 pick some apples
beside the road and there found his wal.
lrt.
The Dccrhcld Lumber eompany y
working 100 men on a contract 10 get
out l0O,000o0O feet Of logs IN Somerset.
The coming seasons stint l. set az IS.
100000. The logs have 70 be hauled 10
the railroad, whence they will be tmns.
ported 10 Mountain mills near Whining
ton.
South SALISBURY il slow In repairing
the damage done TO its own hall by
lightning and il Is a question whether
the officials intend to let the property
revert back 10 the heirs or repair and
protect II from Destruction The VII
lagc Improvement society "A doing al II
can 10 keep the inside ii shape. but that
amounts 10 little when the roof leaks
The result Of the examination Of The
eyes and ears Of pupils attending the
Essex Junction schools j. as follows;
Second primary, Is per cent. defective;
third primary, % per cent. dcfectivei
intermediate. - per cent. defectivei
grammar O. per cont. Do ective; high
school IS per cent. defective. Thirtysix
per cent. Of all pupils examined were
found 20 have some defect Of sight or
hearing. 20 per cent al. the boys de-
fectiyc, 93 per cent. u the girls.
The annual meetinrof the Vermont Life
Underwriters will BE- held at the Berwick
IN Rutland November %. at five o'clock
in the afternoon. In addition TO the
reading Of reports, the business will In.
cmde The discussion Of several PROPOSE
tons for the future welfare OF the or
ganization. AT seven o'clock dinner will
DO served and there viii be addresses
by Charles Jerome Edwards OF Brook.
Ign, \, u, president Of the National As.
ISOLATION Of Underwriters. Lester v. Bal.
ley Of Worcester. Mass, president OF the I
Central Massachusetts, Life Underwfit !
crs' association, and others.
Travellers between Burlington and Rut.
land view odd appearing landscapes from
he car windows these days. For miles /
below MiddiebuTy the meadows on both |
sides Of the Rutland railroad are covered |
with water and in many places corn
stacks can be seen protruding their tops
above the flood. Farmers fortunate |
enough 20 own row boats can be seen
rowing about the meadows and small |
boys on RATS poke their way along with |
poles from place to place after the fash
ion Of the gondoliers Of Venice. II Is
thought that the flood viii do consid
cradle damage TO the stacked corn.