The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-06-16

A gang Of pickpockets is said to be
working in and about Rutland
Two COWS Of B IS JefTords of Berk.
shire were struck by lightning and
killed Saturday night
Two hundred pounds of dressed
trout, caught in Lake Mansfield, was
served at the annual dinner Of the
Lake Mansfield club Wednesday.
Clothesline thieves raided lines on
| Kllington avenue in Rutland Tuesday
night, taking property which had been
sent from five houses there to be
washed
Pitching for st Miehael's ball team
against Norwich university at North.
field Wednesday, the so-called Indian,
Tarbell, shut out the home team with.
out a hit The score was 6 to 0.
Congressman D. j Foster Of the
first Vermont district has returned from
Rome, where he attended the interna-
tional agricultural conference as del
cgate from the United States. He has
resumed his duties in Washington.
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The authorities in Burlington shoo.ed
the first hurdy-gurdy man out of their
city this week, taking the ground that
public safety required the action. They
assert that children gather round the
street piano and are endangered by
teams
/ Following q hearing in st. Adams
probate court, Robert Brown, aged 20,
who has been working for w. c. Noble
of Enosburg Falls for several years
and who recently has been acting queer
| Iy, was taken to the Waterbury asylum
on Wednesday
! When Rutland's city government did
not heed their petition, citizens near
the corner Of Washington street and
Morse place there, fell to work last
| Tuesday and made a sidewalk Some
CT Rutland's well known business men
were seen handling pick hoe, shovel
and lawn mower to convert eowpath
into a respectable looking sidewalk
4
Rufus Kingsley Of Lowell died sun
day as the result of a bite on his
chest from worm growing in tree
that he was cutting when be felt the
worm gnawing he pulled il off but did
not consult doctor for two days.
Punches broke out all over his body,
and lie fingered until June s He was
SO wears old, G. A man, prom.
inent in town and church affairs
TO avert lung trouble, r. T. Har-
<ins. a Nirginian and ex-Confederate
4 soldier IN the 5th Yirgiuian cavalry, is
tramping through northern New York,
Vermont and New Hampshire. At
Richford he was the guest Of L. B
Parker and S NJ Dufer who. as
Union soldiers, fought against Mr.
IIarkins in the campaigns OF the Will
derness, Petersburg and Shenandoah
1 valley The reunion was more pleas
ant that the former encounter
The Vermont State Fair commission,
| through the secretary, Fred L Davis,
/ has closed a contract with the Hays
Advertising agency OF Burlington to
handle the advertising Of the fair, the
dates Of which are September 49, 20,
I2l and %, at White River Junction
This is the fourth year this agency has
handled the advertising This season
the fair will be advertised largely
through the newspapers and with spe-
eia hangers. designed by John Jepson
the agency's artist
Borne on a stretcher from the hotel
in Burlington TO the boat, one Of the
men injured in an automobile accident
near Middlebury early in the week
started BY steamer on the way TO his
home, which was said to be hear Pitts
field, Mass. The partial boat trip was
taken because it would be easier for the
patient Three other men who were
| in the accident have apparently re-
covered and are now only wearing
bruises They took every precaution
to conceal their identity in Burlington,
not even registering at the hotel