The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-29

Martin Patterson drew % loads Of
fodder corn recently from three-fourths
Of an acre on his farm in Benson and
one stalk measured is feet In height.
A hundred bushels Of potatoes dug and
picked up ia one day Is the record
claimed for Fred Deforge of Gloucester.
He performed this stunt Saturday on the
farm OF William Severance, by whom he
is employed.
A barn filed with hay on the j. IT,
Smith estate at st. Adams point was
destroyed By fire Tuesday. The fire is
supposed to have been started by some
careless hunter or tramp in lighting q
pipe. The loss is about 81 600.
The typhoid fever epidemic in Rut-
land has practically subsidized, only an
occasional case now being reported to
health officer G. +. Ball. Although the
city water Is practically free from con
tamination, there are some samples
which show colon bacilli
Mrs, 9. A. AIetcalf Of Brattleboro has
taken out a hunters license. She was
one Of two women who took out licenses
from the town clerks Office last year,
and she is the only woman TO whom the
Office mas issued such license this sea-
son. -Four nonresident licenses have
been taken out, the first TO be granted
IN the state according 70 state fish and
game commissioner, J. W. Titcomb.
Bennington Center has case Of in.
fantile paralysis, the victim being Har,
mon, the four-year-old son of Paul
Saunders. lie was first affected Tues
day, September 20, when his whole body
was paralyzed and he was unable even
10 move his tongue. The following Sat
urday he began to improve little and
was able TO move his left arm, right
hand and take little nouFishment
Il Is thought he will recover.
Miss Jane f. Kenyon observed the
05ra anniversary Of her birth, Septem-
Der 20, at her home In Bennington.
Seven years ago, while about the house,
she fell and fractured her knee, since
which time she has been unable 70 walk,
bat she retains all her faculties to q
remarkable degree, enjoys reading the
papers and takes great interest IN the
events Of the day. She looks no older
than many persons Of 70 years.
DIR. Homer c. Brigham, who has had
charge Of the clubhouse at Lake Mans.
Geld during the past season, with his
wife, has gone to Grand Rapids, Mich,
and will sail November u for Algiers,
where they will pass the winter Or.
Brigham says that during the season
just closed Ts9 pounds OF trout were
taken from Lake Mansfield. The largest,
weighing two pounds, was caught BY
Mrs. j X. Smith OF Waterbury Center.
About 10000 tingerhngs win be put into
the lake October !.
Burlington is to enter protest
against the car service there and see
II there is any reason why the franchise
Of the Burlington Traction company
should not be revoked unless 1t can inn
prove the service. Citizens OF that city |
have been seriously Inconvenience /
many times through the summer ON nc.
count Of trouble with the plant ia one
way or another Mayor Burke proposes /
to call special meeting OF tie board I
IF aldermen soon to take up the mat
ter.
Lake. View in the Pines hotel at Lake !
st Catherine is IN the hands Of re-
eeiver, as The business was not pay.
ing proposition during the summer.
The failure OF the hotel Is attributed I
to lack OF business, al few automobile +
parties passed that way, the MOTEL not I
being located in a place to attract the +
attention Of such parties Ii was built I
niue years ago and was then conducted /
on q paying basis. Mayor II. q. i
Carpenter Of Rutland il the receiver, /
and he gives the amount Of liabilities
as $4,000, while the assets consist of /
the hotel and its fixtures.
Dr. II r. Lynch shot an albino red
squirrel recently, while hunting gray
squirrels In Brattaehoro, It was Of /
usual size and normal IN every way ex-
cept the color Of the hair, which was
snowy white, and the eyes, which were
yeilowisn- pink instead Of brown. Will I
liam q Horton shot an albino chip |
munk there two years ago and ii was
regarded as decidedly rare By natural
lists The capture of this second al
bino squirrel raises the question az to
whether there il not some climatic or
local condition in that section which In
duees albinism The aibino deer which
have been seen and the one which was
killed last year, might lend some weight
to such theory. Or. Lynch will have
the squirrel mounted for his private
collection Of animals
George II. Bronson Of Salisbury was
severely injured Monday while driving
from North Bennington to his home
It i thought that he was assaulted by
robbers, though the case Il very mys.
FERROUS Mr. Bronson had been selling
onions and had about 800 with him.
He was passing through secluded por-
lion Of the country, wnere the road
aide was bordered with bushes, wnen
TIC assault was made. He Is
slightly deaf and the first thing
HAT he remembers was when ne
,egained consciousness and found him
self lying III the road with d severe
sut On the back of bis head His first
thought was If robbery, but the money
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