The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-24

Over 20 carloads of lumber and pota-
toes were loaded at the station in VOL
colt during October
Rev Mr.. Paddock of Athens, Pa. has
been engaged as the pastor of the Uni
yersalist church at Richmond.
Several voters in Plymouth have
signed paper petitioning Lieut.. Gov
L. p. Slack of st. Johnsbury 10 enter
the race for the goyernorship.
Rev. Archibald A. Lancaster of st.
Louis, Mo-, who recently accepted call
to the Congregational church at Middle
bury, will arrive there about Decem-
Der 20.
Henry L. Doty of Rutland is exhibit
| ing freak deer that he shot near
Shrewsbury pond Its horns are some
what palmated, looking much like those
OF young moose.
Mrs Albert Laraway of Stowe was
taken to the hospital in Burlington on
Wednesday TO have removed from her
right leg the bullet which she received
from some hunters gun last Saturday.
-Four men have been bound over in Yer
gennes court 10 answer for alleged kill.
ing OF does. They are Wallace Fleming
of Hancock. Thomas and Michael Com
nors and Erford Fleming of Addison.
Harvey Smith, the Swear old son of
Mr.. and Mrs Sheldon Smith ofMiddle-
bury, had three fingers of his left hand
cut off while collecting shavings near
circular saw at the Dickinson saw
mill Saturday.
The six months receivership Of Bottom
& Torrance, Bennington manufacturers,
will be dissolved following reorgsniza.
ton. The receivership was necessitated
because the former stockholders failed
to work in harmony.
The reins becoming entangled around
his neck when pair Of horses ran away
at Proctor the other day, Andrew Al
lard, it,, was dragged 300 feet, with the
result that one shoulder was wrenched
and bruises we're received.
The Roman Catholic diocese of Bur
lington has bought the L. II. Warren and
Mrs. Lydia Chubb houses on Main street,
Hardwick, paying $1,000 for one and
81, 600 for the latter Both are located
near the Hardwick Catholic church.
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John Lowell. who with Arthur Sweeny
escaped when Charmed OUT by the
Franklin county jail authorities TO work
on the electric light plant in st. Adams,
is still at large and is believed to be in
Canada. Sweeny was caught after q
few days liberty.
Pursuing wounded deer on his farm
in Enosburg, h. W. Spicer discovered il
was a doe with broken leg. He 'phoned
TO the game warden and was ordered to
shoot the animal, which, when dressed,
weighed all OF 80 pounds. The hunter
who crippled the doe is not known.
Besides being rendered unconscious by
flying sticks from log which came
tearing down Readsboro precipice,
Miss Mary A. Clark, principal OF the
Readsboro high school, was bruised and
cut in the face by the splnters the other
day. John B. Hilliard of Rutland, who
was walking with her, was also made
unconscious.
William Hopkins, whose parents live
in Shelburne, although one Of the young
est horse jockeys in the United States,
stands at the head, having won the larg-
eat number of races in America this year.
He has been in 400 races, has won lis
first money and 200 second and third
money He goes soon to South Car
olina for the winter circuit of races.
II Is reported that OF all the farmers
in Middlebury and vicinity in whose
cans watered milk was found during the
past month by the representative of the
Boston Dairy Co. have made arrange
ments to settle the amount which the
company claim that they have lost
by inadvertently accepting the milk. |
The settlements are 10 be made under
condition that no further action will be
taken by the company
For the third time in the past few
years, Fred G. Gibson of Dummerston |
stood at the telephone in the Van Ness |
house in Burlington Tuesday night and |
heard of the death of member of his |
immediate family. He left at once for
his home, following the reception Of |
the message, which told of the suicide |
of his sister. Upon the former occa-
sions. Mr.. ellison was called to the
phone to learn that first his father
and then his mother had died.
George Washington, aged 90 years and |
born in slavery in Virginia, died Sat
urday at his home in Swanton. The de- !
ceased came to Swanton in the summer |
Of 1864, when a young man, with the
late Capt. Hiram Plat, when the latter |
resigned his commission as captain Of |
Company F, 10th Vermont regiment, in
the Civil war, and returned home. For
wears he was employed by Captain Platt
in his wooden mill, and in other capac
tiles, and later by the late Col. E. w.
,Jewett in connection with his hay and |
lime business. For the past 20 years,
OF more. the deceased had followed the
occupation of truckman. For 49 years
he vyaS a notable figure on the Swanton