The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-02-05

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Wesley Turner Of Queehee had several
ribs broken Tuesday BY the kick Of 4
horse.
Merlin Clarke Of Middlebury bad one
hand mangled in the derrick at the
marble min Tuesday.
The name OF the North Hartland post
office becomes Eyarts April ], 1910. ac-
cordine TO general order from lhe
department al Washington
"A deer with three legs was seen Nv
Bennington people the other day and
seemed to take a fence with che agility
of the normal animal The wound by
which the other leg was lost seemed en-
tirely healed.
Since the shortest day Of the year IN
December there IS now q gain in The
length Of the day Of 30 minutes, which,
beginning yesterday increasing az the
rate Of three minutes each day.
The Oldest living alumms Of the mi
versity Of Vermont IS Hon John Adam
Kas.on Of the class Of 1912 who passed
biz ssth birthday anniversary Janny
Ian. at his home n Washington, p q.
His general health Is GOOD.
d. II. Eastman had bis knee badly
injured recently BY getting thrown on
70 tue spikes on a rheapehol' 10 g drag
saw carriage. while saving wood III Tops
ham. The wound was painful, but no
scrions injury Is expected to result
i r. G. Blodgeti, a brakeman on the Cen
trial Vermont railway. had one arm
leaneht while coupling passenger ears AZ
Burlington Wednesday aud several bones
we're broken III the arm and hand The
aceident will not result in the loss Of
the arm.
Between april and December !. 1909
there were 50 new houses built 10 Rut
land city, This does not include al that
were built there during the year. as some
were commenced before April and not
ail the new buildings were reported, ae
eording TO law. Six garages were built.
i A petition Is being circulated IN Essex
Junction for THE calling q a special village
meeting for The purpose Of instrueting
the officials to withdraw the suit against 4
che Roscoe Printing company for the
recovery Of taxes. which Mr. Roscoe I
refuses to pay on the ground that he 4
/ is entitled 70 exemption.
I Considerable damage was done e The
house 81 g. T. Barr IN Highmte Gore
a few days ago by FIRE and water. Tie
/ fire was discovered - midnight b. a /
passerby and Mr. Barr was aroused
1.-THE lire started from the burning out of
r. chimney and hard work on the part
4of dozen men was necessary IN order
to extinguish il.
The team az George Nelson Of Ryegate
4 went through the ICE GA Symas' pond
Wednesday morning, and one horse, val
ned az s258 was drowned, the other
horse being saved The team was cross
/ ing the pond after load 81 sawdnsti
when the lee broke through The water
was not very deep but The bottom was
muddy and Il was impossible 70 get The
horse ont
While driving home from Island Pond
last week sunday. George Hunt came
within All ace 81 losing pair of sat
uahle horses Taking the swamp road
from West Charleston lie found the
water So high that it had loosened
bridge. which was apparently passable.
Upon driving on IL both horses went
through and only ~ almost superhuman
effort was Ar Hunt able 70 get them out.
No damage was done and after some de-
laY the team returned g Orleans need
less to say. hy some other road
During SIS years Of work as agent for
the keene Humane society, Mrs. Jennie
B. Powers, formerly Of Brattleborol has
Investigated 20I3 complaints shot 1873
horses, COWS, 2 hogs ! sheep Is dogs
choroformed Do cats and killed hens
and a few birds She has also laid oa 81
horses made 81 arrests. cared for "a chit
dren and many old people. had numerous
barns and hog pens cleaned horses blank
eted, binders repaired, overloaded teams
attended e, and dogs and cattle cared
for in cold weather.
]. G. Rockwell, a blacksmith, em-
ployed IN the r0nndh0use Of the G. N.
road in White River Junction had an
exceedingly narrow escape from q fatal
accident JANUARY 27 AZ It was. he
received an injury that has Kept him at /
home ana under the doctors care for the I
time since Mr. Rockwell with a fellow
workman, was engaged ii ome repair
work on an engine. While Mr. Rockwell
was holding q drill for the other man % z
strike the hammer slipped from the
drill and struck Nh. Rockwell slanting
blow back Of the car and he fell un-
conscious Z
Work WIS commenced upon the string \
ing Of the wire for the power line be- J
tween Al0rrisyille and Stowe last week !
Thursday Il Il expected that this work
win De completed soon. This Will finish
the work Of construction Of the line, the
only work remaining to be done before
the Juice can be turned Ga being at each
end 81 tile route The work Of instalis
ino The apparatus. which Includes the
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