The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-07-19

the name OF II. . ttkti fVh OF ,ttiA +
tor Carroll s. Page, Is favorably men
toned for representative from the town
Of Hyde Park
Several manufacturing plants in Swan
/ ton have been obliged to resort to steam
power during The hast week because Of
The rapid falling Of the water in tbs
MissisQuo river
The scientific outfit for the McTar.
land Labrador expedition has arrived In
Mddlebury from Washington, d. q. The
intruments have been SET up IN tho OBJ
seryation tent, on the college campus
and are being tested
Because Ne attacked fellow work.
man In the bayfield, with a pitohfork
Friday morning. Patrick Casey Of Rut.
land was placed in the house Of corree
ton for safe keeping. II Is thought that
he l. suffering from a temporary attack
Of insanity.
There win be at least eleven race
at the Goth annual Addison county fair
70 Be held III Middlebu-y, August 81 e
September 2, and fully 100 horses vii
he entered as against 40 LAST year The
premiums VIII aggregate not less thar
1920.
Two Sc. Johnsbury academy grad
yates are candidates for governor this
fail Charles E. Russell Of the class
al 1881 IL the Socialist candidate IT,
New York and +. W. Plaisted Of Au-
eisfa Of the class Of 1885 Is on tbs
Democrats ticket IN the state Of Maine
Henry G. Iie, United states ministei
70 Madrid, Spain, expects to visit ST
Johnsbury this fan. BIS daughter, Mar
iofie, has just left Spain for paris
whore She win meet her sister. Mrs
w. Bounse Cochran. Mr.. Idc win Join
the party for a motor "trip through Eng.
land or Germany.
Nicholas Ahrens. five. year old hoy,
living la Weathersdeld Center, recently
picked up what he supposed was ar
ED piece Of iron, suitable rs play.
thing. I. proved to be a woodchuck trap
sd to catch skunk, which had beer
stealing chickens NJ bone were t7el,
en- in the boys hand, but It was badly
bruised.
A compound fracture Of the large bone
between the ankle and knee was sus
tanned Friday BY Joseph Barrett, Rut
land teamsteE Fle had just finished I'm
leading q consignment u goods and Was
picking rp the rsins when the horse be
gan to kick The animal cauglt one
of the feins under hts tail. and, being
of nervous disposition, kicked owe
the dash board, striking Mr. Barrett II
The shin.
The G. p. VGnVhet property III Shel
buFne 4 70 be purchased for town III
brary building. at cost OF 1880 and
decided 20 the town. with the under
standing that It Is to be used 40 a H.
brary building fer seyenty-ive years Of
revert 10 the original owners or their
heirs. The house IS landmark Of
Colonial architecture. 10 a desimhle 10
cation and win Be remodelled Through
the efforts Of tie building fund com.
mit,ee. $500 has been raised. which
Hil he sneat q purchasing and alter
ms the property
AZ Fred Hunt was returning from
Derby Line 10 BIS home IN DeTav Cen.
ter last week, without a moments warn
inc. his automobile burst into fames
to such an extent that the rlOEhes Of
Mr. Hunt and another occupant Of the
car were on fire before they could es
cape from the car The cause Of the
accident Is supposed to have been from
a leakage of gasoleue ignitin- either an
electric spark OK IN some way from one
Of the lamps The oil about the ma
chinery added to the flames. The gaso-
lene tank, strange as il may seem, ala
not explode, although the car was pac-
ticaliy DESTROYED.
The Woodbury. Gmnite company Of
Bethel II at present employing the larg-
est force Of men in It's history, the week
ly payroll being $4,000 for forty-dve
hours work per week, or over Sl00 an
hour. There are 24l men employed at
the cutting sheds and AZ at the quarry.
This Is the largest cutting crew EN-
ployed in any New England woess with
the exception Of the Mt Waldo worries
OF John Pierce, who has the contract
for furnishing the stone for the new
New York city hall Most Of these men
are frugal and either have their money
deposited III savings institutions or send
them to relatives IN foreign countries.
An examination If the foreign money
order books at the Bethel post Office