The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-08

II ABOUT THE STATE
/ Happenings of Interest From Diff
/ ferent Sections.
Davis & Davis, Washington patent at
torneys. report the grant of paten
on a bell to ID. G. Horner Of st. Johns
bury.
Jubie Daniels of Vergennes, mer
chant, has filed petition in bankruptcy
His liabilities are given as 2,54094 an,
he has assets of $3.50, with $40 claimed
exempt.
The drouth is making itself felt il
Springfield Lawns are drying up AM
| the strawberry crop will be pinched Sc
verely for lack of rain. The hay crol
also will be affected, especially on oil
! land.
| John B. Brown Of Rutland caught hi
right hand in power saw Friday Al
the H. r. Noyes saw mill, where h
is employed, and four of the fingers
were 50 badly torn that it was necessary
to amputate them.
Miss Elizabeth Williams, daughter o.
Professor +. Fl. Williams, IT,, and Sey
mour Ballard OF Wnnetka, ILL.,, Were
married at noon june 20. The father
of the bride is trustee and manager Of
the Norman Williams public library at
Woodstock.
Charles S. Schmitt, brother of George
A. Schmitt of Rutland, who is now a
well known aviator, has decided to enter
the business professionally with his
brother. Charles Schmitt is now at
Rocky Hill, n. X and is building a
biplane of Farman type, He expects
to fly with this machine in the fall.
Louis Patch of Wallingford was Sc
yerely burned by powder at Elfn lake
during the pageant Thursday. Sparks
from cigar that he was smoking in
some way ignited gunpowder in a can
nearby and in the flash which followed
he received burns about the head, one
arm and one leg. 1t is not anticipated
that he will suffer permanent injury.
The last Of the rights of way which
the New England Telephone company
has been securing for its new trunk line
from North Adams Mass, to Arlington
has been secured and work has been
begun. About 800 wires will be strung
at the start and the line will cost about
$4,000. This line il the starting of u
through line from Boston to Montreal
Bernard Leonard and William Dodge
OF Burlington, university of Vermont
students, narrowly escaped drowning at
Elfn pond in Wallingford, when Dodge
became exhausted while swimming.
distance from shore was unable to save
him and both youths would have drowned
but for the appearance Of Miss Ruth
Carey with rowboat.
4 man on an electric car from Fair
Haven to Rutland, upon finding he was
going in the opposite direction from Lake
Bomosene, his destination, tried to leave
the car and rolled down an embankment
80 feet deep, at the bottom Of which
runs a small brook. The car was stopped
and the passengers spent over half an
hour trying to find him. but it is sup
posed he regained his feet and made
off before would-be reseuers reached him.
He was about 50 years old and not in.
toXicated.
The growing OF alfalfa is being made
a success in the Champlain valley For
several years Ward Spaulding Of Pan
ton has grown it on clay slope, cut.
ting at least two good crops. and some.
times getting three, per season. This
spring he disc narrowed the crop and last
week harvested the first cutting This
stand was about four times as heavy
As last seasons. The stalks measured
from "a TO 80 inches in length From
the two acres of alfalfa there were gath
cred nine large two-horse loads. Per
haps the large increase crop this year
was augmented by the wet spring to
l certain degree, bu. the disc narrowing
increased the lumber of i'm
iiyidual plants, making larger null
tiple of plants than would otherwise
nave been seeded for the seasons rains
As large crop will again be gathered
The first of August.