The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-12
About the State

/ When newly sharpened axe, used bv
Fred Boyd Of Readsboro, glanced to one
side, while Mr.. Boyd was chopping. Il
cut to the bone of one ankle.
The Rev. John LytIe of Delhi. N. Y.
has accepte the call of the United Presby.
terrain Congregational church at South
Ryegate and expects to begin his pastor.
al work the 18th inst.
G. Fl. Sanderson, formerly an employe
Of L. L. Hildreth Co., in Brattleboro.
now employed as pressman on the An.
dover tMass.l Press, recently entered a
contest for a piano given by Lord g.
Co., piano dealers of Lawrence, Mass.
He was awarded first prize for design
made in water colors and won $500
piano Of standard make.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. G. Stickney of
Bethel have announced the marriage en-.
gagement of their daughter, Miss Mary
Stickney Of Rutland, and Robert A.
Lawrence, of the law firm of Lawrence,
Lawrence and Stafford Of Rutland. Miss
Stckney is an artist Of considerable tai
ent and Mr.. Lawrence is one Of tile best
known young lawyers in Vermont.
G. f. Hawkins of West Brattleboro
has been suffering from severe burn
on his right cheek. He was building
fire in the range and after laying the
kindling poured on some kerosene. He sup
posed the fire was entirely out, but
there was evidently a live coal, for a
vapor was caused and as he opened the
door to light the fire the draught caused
it to explode and burn his face bad
ly.
A large buck deer, in attempting to
cross the Connecticut river on the ice
short distance north of the Putney sta
tion Tuesday, broke through the ice
when few rods from the Vermont shore
and froze to death. The animals BODY
could be seen from the car windows %
passing Boston 4 Maine trains, and
at first glance one would suppose that
the deer was swimming toward the shore.
The animal evidently tried hard to Sc.
cure q foothold on the thin ice, as it
was broken for quite a distance about
him.
The unwilling in Washington Wednes
day by the daughter OF President Taft
OF a bronze statute erected to Major
General Won Steuben recalls the fact that
Quartus Morgan, one of the early citi-
Gems of Bellows Falls, was private sec
Rotary to the general during the Revo-
lutionary war. Quartus Morgan came
to Bellows Falls in the spring of 1898 |
from West Springfield, Mass, making
the journey with his wife on horse
back. Their goods came up the river on
the fiat boat which then piled between
here and Hartford, Conn Mr.. Morgan 1
was only II years old when he received
the appointment OF private secretary I
from Baron Won steuben, to whom the I
United States owed so much in later
years.
For more than a year there had been /
evidences that someone in the vicinity I
II the railroad station in Bellows Falls +.
was dispensing liquor, but all efforts to
,pprehend the guilty one proved I'M
Ivailing. Last week, however, two men
sadly intoxicated disclosed on Bernard
,, Connel, the night baggage master at
he station, He pleaded guilty to the
.harge and was sentenced to pay fine
# $500 or take the alternative sentence
# three years in the house OF correction
It Rutland He was unable 10 raise
he money and will serve the time. He
las wife and four children in Proetors-
lille, who are dependent upon him for
itunort