The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-24
About the State

Hedgehog bounties were paid on liz
heads in Stratton in one week recent
".
Passengers on trains January II noted
that farmers below Putney station were
blowing the fields.
As a result Of the icy roads in Proc
tor last week. Charles Mead lost ~ bot.
ties of cream and some milk by the up.
setting Of his sleigh. He was thrown
from the sleigh but was uninjured
Rev. G. A. Reney, pastor of the PEN
tecostal church of Putnam, Conn, has
rendered his resignation, TO take effect
February |, having accepted the call to
the church of johnson and Morrisville.
Superintendent Wilfred Smith of the
/ Woodstock Electric company received
shock from switch carrying 1900 volts,
while at work at the station last week
As he was standing on an insulated box.
he escaped with badly burned hand.
! George Wilson, an employe OF the S.
A. Smith company, of Newfane. is in
! the Brattleboro Memorial hospital. i'll
with blood poisoning. Mr.. Wilson got
silver into his knee about seven weeks
ago which was taken out with a knife
that had been used to remove covers
from cans. Blood poisoning set in and
his condition since then has been Sc
rious.
Three trunks full Of smuggled articles
of wearing apparel, about 500 in all,
seized some time ago by the government
authorities in Vermont, have been or
dered condemned by Marshal Horace w.
Bailey and will be sold at Burlington
about March /. One hundred and sew.
enty-five cases of bad catsup seized be-
cause it did not comply with the pure
food laws has been ordered destroyed
Il. p. Osgood caught a peculiar bird
in Newfane Tuesday. As he was driving
along he espied the bird hopping about
the meadow, and after about fifteen
minutes succeeded in catching it. 1t /
has long neck and bill The plumage
is white on head, throat and the under /
part Of the body The back is spotted, |
white and BLUSH The bird has web |
feet and apparently belongs to the wa
ter
Elijah J. Davenport, for many years /
an employee of the American Fork and /
Hoe company OF Walliugford, died Fri
day Of blood poisoning. Mr., Davenport
got a small piece Of steel in his thumb I
about week ago, but was not taken
seriously Ill until the day before his
death. Physicians were to have ampu-
tated the arm the day his death oc.
CURED, hut when they arrived at his
home found that the poison had in
fected his body.
The Windsor County Agricultural So
eiety held its annual meeting last Thurs
day in Woodstock and found that the
fair had left sl37 80 in the treasury #
The sum Of 81 1922 was received from
tickets Of admission to the fair S48s
from the grandstand S433.s5 from the
hucksters The total receipts were S.
2S3.l8 and the expenditures IS, 1850.
There was only one change in the board
Of managers. J. S. Eaton succeeding G.
H. English, who retired as treasurer,
after many years Of service, Ii
A peculiar accident in Grafton caused
the death Of John Hakey, aged rs years, J
last Tuesday He was working with
others on pulp Job and chute had
been built for sliding the pulp wood I
down steep bank to a point where it I
could be taken By teams The pulp was t
lodged in the chute and Hakey was some
distance down the line, clearing the
Jam. when q stick was started from !
.he top. A fellow employee shouted to !
.he man below, and when Hakey jumped I
aside he went over the edge Of the bank. :
He was found about ten feet down in
In unconscious condition, from which he
never rallied, dying that evening. The
singular feature OF the ease was that,
While the symptoms indicated an injury
% the brain, there was not the slightest
External injury.
Six Washington, D. G., high school
Joys have been suspended from school
IS a result OF a 10Y ride taken by =
hem one day last week in an electric
owned by Representative
David j. Foster. The boys, after drink
ng some wine which two of them got
t a saloon, took the automobile, which
vas standing in front of a school build ;,
ng, and after running it around for !
ome time, left it at the Washington Y
lonument grounds, considerably dam =
ged. Mr. Foster was disposed to be Z,
snent in the matter Of prosecution, ac- y
ording to the Washington Star, if the
oys or their parents would pay the ex
ense of repairs to the automobile.
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