The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-03-01
About the State

i About the State
J q Colgate 81 Bennington and hls
farm superintendent q. G. Jones sailed
Saturday for England 70 purchase 4
consignment Of horned Dorset sheep for
the farm.
a large oak tree marks corner II
the towns Of Baltimore. Weathersheld,
+ Chester and Springfield Baltimore has
the distinction Of being the smallest
town Ia the United States
The annual fair Of the Hrattleboro
high school which was heidi Monday
evening. February 2 Melted the senior
class Of that school $500 which win
be applied on the fund for the trip
to Washington The entire proceeds
were 5000.
/ A suit has been entered IN Windham
county court BY L. NJ. Carpenter 81
Bratlleh0ro against the Central Yer.
mont railway for $4,000 on account Of
an accident at South Londonderry Jam
uary s. 1909 when BE suffered the loss
Of one Deg and other injuries.
Guy r. Franklin, an employee in the
4. and J. A. Steward tin can factory
( IN Rutland, bad sis left hand drawn 81.
70 a machine Saturday aud badly crush
ed. Besides crushing the middle finger
IL was deeply cut the entire length IT.
Is thought the hand can be saved.
Up TO last Saturday, Rutland had en-
joyed IS consecutive DAYS of sleighing
and the prospects are good for eontin
nance Of It for some time TO come Old
residents state there has been more
this year than Tor % years past
sleigha were out for the FIRST time No.
vember a.
The Rutland Knights or Columbus
have decided 10 do nothing about the
building Of a house for the order Ia
that place until the society Is IA better
condition 10 undertake the work The
plans for The building recently suggest
"a are more elaborate than 40 first
planned and the knights propose TO
wait a year az least. untH the organ.
izatiou IS in better financial eond
ton.
A Boston d Maine locomotive was
frozen 80 soiidly TO the rails just south
of Brattleboro Friday morning that il
took the combined efforts Of two other
engines TO move ~ The machine was
taking water when the trouble began /
The valve ia the ponstoek became froz I
en- and il was impossible 10 shut OF |
the flow when the tank was full It'll
ran over onto the truck and the low 4
temperature soon did the trick
The census Of children Of school age
has been coming into State superin- /
tendant Stone soilice at the state House in 4
Montpelier quite rapidly the last few
days The report from Somerset was
n curiosity, even among those from the
sparsely settled towns Of the state
Somerset reports not a single person III
town between the ages Of and ls and
iuasmueh as there are no children Of
school age IN that town, no schools are
supported therein
Miss Mary f. slason. formerly Of
Rutland, Is highly spoken 81 IN an Is.
terview recently published Ia the Wash
ineton ID. Cl Herald An expert Is
art and science Of hasketry, S. Por-
ter Of San Francisco, cfaracterizes neg
a. a master craftsman and positively
one Of - not the best IL this country
She teaches the practical as well a. the
artistic side Of this ancient craft and
specimens Of her work may Be seen ali
over this country and some have found
their way across the sea-
Wallingford suffered a small Gre Sat.
urday, which caused loss Of about
$3.50. This was the first time the new
FIRE department had been called out
The fire was IN the Batchelder block,
: twostory wooden structure, contain.
ing a meat market, drug store and ste
tionery store on the lower floor and in
The basement and Offices on the second
floor The fire is thought TO have
saught from 4 cigar butt IA wooden