The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-06-06

but it is not thought he is seriously
injured
Wallace Houghton of East Lyndon
haa sold his herd of IL Ayrshire cattle
to an East Ashburnham, Mass. party
for $1,000. He has been raising this
breed Of cattle for several years and
now has large herd of young stock
The concrete work on the Burlinp-
ton sidewalks has been awarded to
Peter Sheeran, whose bid was to Law
and set concrete walks without cinder
base at 1914 cents per square foot ;
with cinder base Is cents; concrete curb
without drainage AZ cents, and So cents
with drainage, per linear foot
Sometime Thursday night the store
belonging TO the W B Fonda com.
pany, situated at the company's lime
klns between St. Adams and Swsnton,
was broken into and robbed A small
amount Of money was obtained and
some cigars and other articles taken
from the stock There is no clue to
the robbers
Mrs NJ f. Francis died Nav Ia at
her home in Woodstock as the result
OF burns received while destroying cat
erpillars in the pasture. She left the
house the middle OF the forenoon and
had been gone but short time when
her cries for help were heard and her
clothing was found on fire She died
the same night Her age was so years.
The children's playground in Benning-
ton is to be opened July i, with Otis
&c Skeele of the department of educa-
ton in New York City in charge In
addition to games and athletics, there
will be classes in dancing, sewing and
basketry The playground movement
in Bennington has met with marked
success Beginning last July with
sand box and teeter il closed the
season with a good outfit and 500 in
cash on hand
Eight of the % milk samples taken
recently by DR.. c. r. Ball Rutland
health officer, and exanined at the
state laboratory of hygiene, fell below
standard The samples sent to the
lahoraory were collected from carts and
creameries, all being in bottles ready
for sale April | the new state rules
ard regulations requiring that all milk
retailed in Rutland must be put up in
bottles, thus doing away with the bulk
distribution, went into effect
Hermon Robinson teamster EN-.
ployed by Silas Il. Holaway in Greens
boro, is laid up with an injured leg
and fractured rib as the result OF the
breaking of a bridge near Greensboro
Bend, Monday afternoon. May 20. Rob
inson's team, hauling heavy load Of
lumber was following another heavy
team and the horses were about to step
OIL the bridge when the 43-foot stringer
broke in the middle. The team went
into the Lamoille river and help was
quickly summoned to extrieate them
The horses escaped injury
Those who attended the production Of
the Roman drama at Middlebury Last
year are awaiting with interest the
production this year Of Peele's "Old
Wives Tale" The date is June 20.
There will be two productions. one at
10 a m, and the other at p. m
These are identical. except for the fact
that the lighting effects may possibly
be better at the evening performance,
though the management has not
thought this would make sufficient diff
fe-ence in the production to warrant
different range of prices in the seats
strangs coincidence was the an.
of the deaths of Mrs Du- |
eharme of Hudson Falls, Y. Y, and |
Peter Cover Of st Adams Joseph |
and Frank Ducharme OF East Fairfield /
received telephone message from Hud. /
son Falls May 20, stating that their |
mother was dead, and before the mes /
senger had started for the delivery Of |
the message, another call was received |
for the same persons from st lbans, /
stating that Mr. Cover, father of the
the two mems wives, was dead The I
bodies were brought TO East Fairfield |
The same day and a double funeral was
held
Walter s. Fenton, g Rutland attor-
ley, has not engaged in the liquor bust.
ness as may be gathered from news
tenn emanating from Burlington and
published by Vermont newspapers gen
rally to the effect that the Columbia
Oistilling Go. of Albany. N ", had
opened an office in Rutland "in charge
II Mr.. Fenton,' All foreign corpora.
ions doing business in Vermont must
lnder the law designate some person
lpon whom legal service may be made.
lir Fenton has acted as attorney for
he Columbia Distilling company and
OF this reason the company designated
lin as their legal representative in
Vermont.
Mrs Susan Bacon, widow of Jerome
! Bacon, aged 81, threw herself into
he Passumpsic river at St Johnsbury
)rnter Friday and died soon after be-
ng rescued The Bacon home Il near
he river and the woman's. only child
aw her mothers attempt at suicide.
a rake she ran to the river
nd made a desperate attempt to save
ef Attracted by the daughters cries,
e:ghbors came and rescued the woman.
he was revived but died a half hour
lter. Mrs Bacon has been mentally
since the sudden death OF
er only sister. Miss Laura Frye Of
4 Johnsbury, two years ago and grew
apidly worse after the death Of her
usband a year ago.
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