The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-25

Alvin Cummings of Montpelier has
loaned the historical society of that city
a knife used by one of his grandfathers
in ripping open a tea chest at the Bos-
ton tea party. For many years Mr.
| Cummings mother had quantity of the
tea in her possession, but it has been
lost.
A resolution presented by Manager
Gallagher of the Chrysolite Asbestos Co.
con mending the attitude of the Grand
Trunk Railroad company and looking
/ toward the construction Of a road from
Waterbury TO North Troy through the
| Missisquoi valley, was heartily adopted
by the voters of Lowell at the annual
town meeting.
Miss Mary Frizzel of Irssburg was
driving from South Newport to her home
| recently when the horse became fright.
cred and ran away. Miss Frizzell was
thrown over forty-foot embankment
and severely bruised, although no bones
were broken.
| Mrs. A. A. Bridges Of Craftsbury has
a lily which has Towering stock of
! six blossoms and another stock ready
10 blossom in the near future; the flow
ers are nearly four inches across.
From the Vaudeville Memorial and
Hathaway free libraries in Hardwick
during the past IL months, 1884 books
have been loaned, sizeable gain over
last year.
DIR. ClTrier of Newport has an old
sermon preached in Washington, Conn,
in 1905. This copy was reprinted in Mid
dlebury in 1872. The title page reads
as follows: The Fatal Effects of Ardent
Spirits, A Sermon by Ebenezer Porter"
It has been stated that no temperance
literature was printed in Vermont at
sueh an early date, but the copy owned
by DR.. Currier of Newport speaks for
itself.
Morgan is the only town in Orleans
county which had no fires in 1917 and
therefore sustained no losses from this
source. Holland, in the same county,
had one fire, which ehtailed loss of
the county in aggregate losses with S22,-
$40.
Mrs Joseph Gardner of South Hero
was taken to the Mary Fletcher hos
pital in Burlington last week suffering
with broken leg which she sustained
by falling down stairs. The broken
bone protruded through the flesh. Mrs
Gardner received other injuries and as
she is over 90 years old, her eondi-
ton is considered serious.
Mrs. Isabelle Bowman Langston, wife
Of the late Captain Frederick b. Langs-
ton, who died recently in New York,
was born in Barnard S4 years ago. She
was of Revolutionary ancestry and her
grandfather, Major Joseph Bowman, was
in the Continental army.
New maple syrup was quoted for the
first time in Burlington markets. The
article brought 40 cents a quart.
A fire in the boiler room of the pow.
er plant Of the Missisquoi Lumber Co.
at Stevens mills, near Richford. bad.
ly damaged the building March 20, but
did not destroy it as the construction
is of brick.
Mrs. Cleo c. Cox of Woodstock was
seriously burned about the face while
washing clothes the other morning A
Quantity of steam became imprisoned in
a heavy blanket which had been inn
mersed in the boiling water and when
it escaped Mira Cox was struck full in
the face by the hot vapor.
His grace, the Most Reverend Arch.
bishop Platon, one of the prominent
delegates TO the second Russian Duma.
who in 1908 saved hundreds OF Jews in
the city of kieff, preached in st. Trim |
ity's Russian Greek Catholic church in |
Springfield yesterday. A number of 9th.
or Greek Catholic clergymen were pres
ent at the services.
"The Green Mountain Flyer" march
written by Bert A. Brehmer of Rutland, |
was one of the features at musical |
given by Mr., Brehmer's students re.
certify.
The death of Congressman David j.
Foster brings to mind the fact that only
two members of Congress from Vermont
have died in office. Jonathan Hunt of
Brattleboro, who died in May, 1881, was
a lawyer Of considerable fame. His
death occurred during his third term in
Congress. II will be recalled that two
of Congressman Hunts sons attained re-
nown, William NJ. Hunt, the artist, and
Richard NJ. Hunt, the architect, whose
most notable work is the New York
state capitol at Albany. Congressman
James AIeeeham of Middlebury, ma.
tive of Rutland, and one-time Congre-
gational minister, died in August 1856,
during his fifth term.
Chester f. Pike of Windsor has been
secured TO act as starter at the Rutland
county fairs horse races next summer
Mr. Pike is a well known starter and
MS services in this capacity are always
N great demand during the racing sea
,on.
Franklin high school students realized
1Ner $50 for commencement day expenses
rom presenting "Esmeralda' recently.
John S. Stevens, a widely known mem
,er of the bar in Peoria, ILL.,. died in
hat city recently. He was an uncle
VI Fred Gates of Montpelier and was
or many wears resident of Hardwick.
where he attended school He left Yer
mont to teach school in western state.
Ex Senator Georpe Fdrnuuds for