The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-02-06
About the State

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On January 3 Charles Carpenter OF
Bridgewater Corners tapped maple trees
from which enough sap was secured to
make a quantity of sugar cakes
Theodore n. Vail of Lyndon has given
to the Presbyterian church OF Whippany,
N. D., between thirty and forty acres
of land as an addition TO the church
cemetery, He has bought farm adj
joining in order to carry out his plan.
His parents, his wife and son are
buried in the cemetery there
Gov. ], A, Mead is one Of five gov
errors who have accepted invitations to
attend the annual banquet Of the Mas
sachusetts Real Estate exchange, which
will be held at the hotel Somerset IN
Boston Tuesday evening. Gov. Mead will
be one of the speakers of the evening.
The Massachusetts Real Estate exchange
is very large and influential body Of
business men whose interests extend into
all the New England states.
There was a narrow escape from II
serious accident at the John T. Slack
mill in Springfield Monday afternoon,
when an overloaded second-story floor
fell and imprisoned three men under
the debris. Fortunately the floor was
held up by the machinery on the first
floor and all got out without serious in
jury. The east end of the building
spread and let the floor down. It was
overloaded with 25 barrels of oil and
heavy machinery.
George Moves Of Rutland, an employee
in the foundry of the Fred r. Patch
Manufacturing company, was quite bad
ly injured Thursday. He was tighten
which is used for cleansing casting when
he became wedged between the build
ing and the machine, bruising himself
about the head and shoulders to quite
an extent. A fellow workman, who was
nearby at the time, shut the motor of
Immediately Mr.. Noyes was removed
to his home in an ambulance,
Seventeen head of cattle on the Wood
stock town farm at South Woodstock
were tested by DR. r. W. Boyce re-
Gently. Sixteen OF them responded to
the test and were condemned as tuber
culous. The only animal to escape was
a six-month-old calf, Two young calves
on the farm were not tested, but the
animals include all the ma
ture cattle on the place; yoke Of oxen
that won the first and second premiums
at the last two Windsor county fairs,
a good bull, two heifers and eleven
mich cows. The dairy stock was good,
Of grade Jersey and grade Holstein
strains.
Arthur J. Dewey of Woodford says
that the present winter has been a Sc
we're one for the lumbermen in southern
Vermont. Many Of the smaller mills
will not receive anywhere near the
usual number of logs. The coat of ice
that has covered the mountains for
weeks makes it almost impossible to
haul the logs out II the woods. Mr..
Dewey stated that he would probably
haul in the vicinity Of 100000 feet this
year, which is little better than the
average. A considerable portion Of this
amount viii be in logs which were cut
last year and which he could not then
draw to the mill because of the deep
snow.
The new parish house, recently erect /
ID by the Union church, Proctor was
dedicated to the various uses to which (
t is to be put, by appropriate services
January "a and 25. The building has
been erected chiefly for the two-fold (
of adequately housing the sun
lay school and Of providing a center for
al the social life Of the parish. Rev !
J. w. Bixler Of New London, Conn. the |
preacher on the occasion of the dedica-
ton of the Union church, September 81 I
1891, Rev. William A. Mcintyre of Dan
Dy, present at the time Of the laying I
If the corner stone of the church, May Z
II, 1890, and Rev. DR.. w. c. Hill Of /
st. Johnsbury, former pastor, took \
part In the dedieatory exercises.
Joseph, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will I
lam Gunnison of South SALISBURY, had
i strange experience recently. During
he noon hour the boy who is about 1
line years Of age and an attendant Of
he village school, was walking across
.he campus toward the school building,
when suddenly he was impressed with
he belief that he saw a large
White apparition of a strange form APP
,ear in the sky and descend to the roof
# the school building. The little fell
ow Immediately fell to the ground
trembling in fear and crying that some.
hing terrible was soon to happen. His