The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-11

With capital stock of $4,000, the
| shoe business in Rutland, owned and
conducted by w. G. Smith for 80 years,
will become on February the w. G.
Smith company, composed of Mr.. Smith,
his brothers, Hubert and Edward, and
his sister, Miss Nellie j, Smith.
The steamer Alariquita, which is al
ways the last boat to be taken out of
commission in the vicinity Of Burling-
ton, was put into winter quarters Mon
day. The boat has been used until this
time to carry supplies from Shelburne
harbor, where large force of men are
engaged in building the new machine
shops.
Fire Sunday morning destroyed the
Brown barns in Beaver and il was dis
covered too late to save anything All
the fodder, five horses, one COW, one
yearlng, one calf, and hog, as well
as all harnesses and farming tools and
threshing machine were burned. How it
caught is mystery. There was only
small insurance.
filed Tuesday in the office of Clerk i. S.
bray of Swanton filed petition in which
he gave his liabilities as S5ll.75 and
assets of $40, of which $50 is claimed
exempt. w. o. Martin of Willamstown
gave his liabilities as S2,l437l and as
sets of $3.50, of which S4l5 is claimed
exempt.
F. L. Davis, state cattle commission
err, states that already so applications
have been received for the inspection of
cattle and that force of Is to 20 will
take care of the work in different sec
tiOns OF the state as long as the $40,-
900 appropriated by the state lasts. He
is in favor of testing pork as well as
beef, and says that hogs are fully as
liable to disease as cattle
Urban Tees farm house in Sudbury
was totally destroyed by fire Sunday.
The family were at a neighbours when
the fire started and the cause is not
known, but it is supposed to have been
from a defective chimney. Mr.. Tice
lost nearly all Of his furniture and the
loss is estimated between $500 and
So 600, with small insurance. The
house was new one, having been built
about year and half to take the
place OF one burned about that time.
The Federal Trust company of Boston
foreclosed a mortgage on the Backus
company of Brandon for $4,000 though
only $4,000 has been allowed on the
mortgage so far. The exact amount
covered by the mortgage has not been
decided upon, as there are several com
plieations in the document which have
not been considered as yet. The Back
US company are manufacturers of steam
radiators, freplaces and gas logs The
at one time employed about 100
men, but for the last few years only
from 10 to 25 men have been employed.
The foreclosure OF the mortgage win
probably take away one OF Brandon's
main industries.
President Benton of the university
Of Vermont, who has been for nearly
a month in the West, is expected to
reach Burlington to-day, in time to at
tend the university senate. He will
leave again Saturday for Ann Arbor, |
Mich, where he viii deliver an address |
He may possibly remain there to speak |
again on the 10th. returning to Burling-
ton for the meeting of the church fed
grafton of this state, which he is sched- |
uled to address the seventeenth He has |
been asked to act as one of the judges |
On a debate between the teams of two |
IF the western universities, and it is /
possible that he may go TO Chicago for
! brief stay the last of next week.