The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-10-02
MONTPELIER
~ l. whitcomb Placed Under Probation
After Being Sentenced.

AFTER Beng sentenced
+. i. Whitcomb, the young man who
was before Judge Harvey short time
age on an information charging him with
forgery and sentenced to two years AT
Rutland, was IN city court yesterday
afternoon and placed IN the hands Of
The probation officer +. B Thomas, sub
icct to such rules and regulations as he
should prescribe The matter was tax
en- up at the request Of his wife, who
is in III health Mr. Thomas went over
the facts in the case and he made his
recommendation that the man be placed
in his care on the grounds that his inn
prisonmcnt would mean a great hardship
to his wife. States Attorney Gates did
not oppose the recommendations Of Mr..
Thomas. but urged that the respondent
be placed under a stringent set of rules
and held to them, it being evident that
he was capable Of being a man and do
ing as he ought.
A lecture was given last night in the
Walton block ON illumination BY II w,
Loomis Of Newark. Ohio. A large au-
dience listened to the lecture.
Walter Virgo left last night for West
Hartford where he viii repair the an-
tomoble Of Horace Farnham which
broke down while returning from the
state fair.
Game Warden Homer D. Camp found
dead doe in l. L. Slocums pasture in
Berlin a day or two ago. The animal
bad been killed by dogs and had been
dead several days.
The water rent bills were placed in
the hands Of the city treasurer this
morning. The total amount to be col-
lccted Il between $500 and 10000.
Fifty one days are allowed to pay
these bills.
Pearl Cleveland Of aBrre street is
having a light attack of typhoid fever.
Mr.. Cleveland IS travelling man and
thinks he got the disease from drinking
impure water on the road He is having
a rather light case,
New station signs are being placed ne
the ends Of the Central Vermont depot
The sign at the south end is the only
one put up yet. Il reads Montpelier
and the distance to Windsor 1871, and
Williamstown 1874.
There was slight fire IN the Deter
block Yesterday morning which caused
the tenants some alarm A small
child In one Of the tenements dropped a
flaming match head into d pile of straw
which blazed zap making quite a smoke
The fire was easily put ont with water
The Hunt house on Main street. which
was owned by the late Simon Levin,
has been sold BY Mrs. Levin. the all
ministrator, to Abraham Galinski.
otherwise known as Jake the haekman.
The house is three tenement one and
the consideration was in the neighbor-
hood Of $4,000, Mr.. Galinski buys for
an investment
The sophomores proved victorious in
the cane rush yesterday afternoon at
the high school grounds Five men from
the sophomore class and FIVE from the
freshmen participated In the event
which was watched BY a large number
of spectators The sophomore team won
three ont Of the four contests SO the
last one was called Of
A Young woman, who would not give
her name. tainted away on Elm street
Thursday evening She was found by
.T. r Gibbons who with the aid Of an
other man carried her into Siver's gro
cory store. DR. Templeton was called
and responded quickly, and after about
Is minutes Of work brought her to- She
said she was a stranger in the city
Another panther story is going the
rounds. told by Edward 7. couehian. He
went up on the hin back Of the State
House to get his COW which is pasturcd
there and was returning when the cow
stopped suddenly, qnivefing with fright
Mr. Conghlan looked ahead and saw a
large bob cut IN the path. The animal,
after watching the COW and man few
minutes, turned and ran up the noun
tain.