The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-06-05
About the State


result Of having cancer removed from
his tongue.
Fifty public school teachers of Rut.
| land held n banquet at the Hotel Ber-
wick Wednesday evening Principal
Isaac Thomas was elected president Of
the association, During the past wear
the association has given a series Of
six lectures
During the month of May Health
! Officer @. f. Ball of Rutland regis
tered % cases Of contagious diseases. of
which there were nine cases of chicken
poX, eight of humps, three of measles.
and three cases Of whooping cough.
The deaths reported numbered Is.
One commitment to the house of cor
reGtion in Rutland was made during
the month Of May, when George vii.
son of New York was sentenced to
SERGE three years for horse stealing
During the past month 35 persons have
been sentenced to the Rutland county
Jail
The Masonic temple, which has Just
been completed by the Masonic frater,
nit of Brattleboro at an expense OF
about 10000, was dedicated May 81
and the exercises extended over Thurs
day and Friday Beside the grand
lodge officers present there were 100
Representatives from the lodges of the
district
A number Of persons in Bennington
narrowly escaped serious injury when
a pane Of glass in the opera house
block fell out, preciptsting shower
Of glass to the pavement The window
was a double one, one of which was
raised The attempt to raise the other
sash Jared the raised window, and
large portion Of the pane broke.
The nineteen-months.ol child Of
Merle Putnam of Stratton was drowned
May Is. While it is not known exact
~ how the accident occurred, K is
supposed that while the mother was
preparing supper the child went in
search of his father and fell into the
brook, az he was found in the water
by his fve-year-old brother soon after
he was missed
Bellows Falls has had two peculiar
accidents recently, each of which re-
suited in the breaking OF large plate
glass window The first time il was
thought bullet has been shot at the
window, as the hole was round, but
when a second similar occurrence hap.
pened Friday it was decided that both
were caused by pebble hurled through
the window by a swiftly passing auto
mobile.
Prof William Stuart, formerly Of
the university Of Vermont, Burlington, |
and now employed by the United
States department Of agriculture, Is in
Burlington for several months making
experiments with potatoes aud water !
melons He found the climate and |
soil of Vermont best suited for the !
experiments in hand and has planted |
two plots Of the two seeds and will |
watch the growth The work is being |
done at the state farm
j H Gilmore Of Colchester recently /
found a piece Of petrifed wood while
sinking a stone in a field he was pillow
ing The markings and grain of the /
wood are shown perfectly II is a
beautiful piece of petrifcation The I
stone under which he found the curios
ity ia something OF freak itself 1t I
IS handsome granite about four feet
square and two feet thick and lies /
bedded in a sandy field long distance
from rocks Of any kind
Last Wednesday evening three barns
and quantity Of hay belonging to Mrs.
Ralph Satterly of Ferrisburg and
stack of straw belonging to r. P
Birkett were destroyed by fire The
stock and contents in the barn were
;aeed The origin of the fire is I'M
Known. The fire caught in some woods
nearby and at one time il was feared
hat the residence of f. p Birkett
would suffer and a call for help was
sent to ergennes. The danger was
inally ayerted by timely rain
Jonathan P Lewis was seriously in
/
emily in runaway accident While
irving with another man, his horse be-
anne frightened ait the antics of
quirrel beside the road and began to
un Mr.. Lewis was thrown out, strik-
ne on his head and shoulders For
wo days he remained unconscious and
or three days more laid in stupor
most of the time He is 10 years of
re and almost totally deaf II is
imposed that he is suffering from con |
ussion Of the brain, from which he
viii probably recover.
The Rutland Railway Light & Power ;
%. has two men overseeing the plant |
ny OF trees in East Pittsford Philip {
Of the forestry department :
as charge of the setting out Of 5000
yorway spruces and 1000 eedars which !
fe being planted in the open Ray
Hen, also of the forestry department, ]
looking after the nursery. where he
setting out 10000 white pines, which
ill be left there until next year. when
hey will be transplanted to different
arts of the company's land. The white
inc are only two years old and are |
OF strong enough yet to be exposed
D the weather. :
Moody & Almon have completed
ydraulic electric plant on Mad river :
Moretown and have contracts for 4
IMPLYING most of the consumers in
,aterbury with power They will e
agin the construction of four and I
alf mile pole line within a few weeks =