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

AT special school meeting in Esse,
Junction Saturday night, $4,000 wa
appropriated for the purpose of remodel
} ing and completing the school house.
Carnival committees in Rutland has,
the sum OF $1,000 already in hand ant
with 5000 appropriated by the city thu
celebration planned for late this montl
is said to be assured.
st. Adams police have issued warn
ing to the public against panhandlcrs
II is asserted that people along tht
streets are continually approached fol
contributions of Toe and l5e.
Joseph Leclerc. Canada Pacific
conductor, received a painful injury al
Richford last Sunday when he struck
a switch while running to board his
train and fractured two ribs.
A large number Of people gathered at
Isle LaMotte last Sunday for the an.
nual pilgramage to the shrine of St
| Ann Pilgrims from many Vermont and
northern New York towns attended.
Harry Kimbau, Bratleboro railroad
man, fell from the top of moving train
last Saturday afternoon and suffered
many bruises and internal injuries. The
accident was caused BY the parting Of a
train.
An old photograph of the city Of Bur
ltuu+nt. baS raaautl<y nnt,aa 20 Erht
was taken from the belfry of the Uni
tartan church same fifty years ago and
only the oldest buildings in the city are
shown.
Fred Blanchette, Winoosk resident.
was arrested Monday on charge of
stealing set Of false teth The loser
said that he was showing them to a
friend when Blanchette grabbed them
and made off.
Theodore Hopkins. Burlington man,
caught his foot in the top OF the cell
lar stairs at his home Sunday, and fell
to the bottom breaking two bones in
one leg and an ankle, He was removed
TO a hospital
Mrs. Samuel A. Bigwood, who died in
Winooski Sunday evening at The age of
IS, left six children, twenty-four grand
children and ttwenty.sevep great-grand.
children. She was born in West Nil
ton, July 30, 1872.
The Vermont society. Burlington. Sons
of the American Revolution. have sec1Ir-
II, AZ II Ill q
ell, architects, of New York for
bronze memorial tablet to be erected
at Block House Point.
C.. H. Pierce, formerly a professor of
mechanics and railroad engineering at
the university OF Vermont is now with
the United States geological survey and
acts as chief engineer OF the hydrograph-
ic Office at Honolulu, Hawaii.
One of the largest pickerel ever taken
from Lake Eden was caught last week
by Miss Rena Parker The fish meas
ured twenty inches and but for the pres
ence of the little girls mother it would
have drawn her into the water.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pember r. Sargent OF
stowe celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary Sunday afternoon in quiet
manner. They were married in Mont
pelier August 4, 1862, by Rev. Eli Bal
lou. prominent Methodist minister of
that day.
Joseph Bashaw, a Western Union line
man, fell from telegraph pole in Dur
lington to the street Mounday and SUI
fered only a broken wrist. His escape
from serious injury was remarkable as
he took a straight drop Of thirteen feet |
to the pavement.
b. A. Carr and Miss Lulu Miller of |
Brandon have sold their interest in the |
Carr Marble deposits in that town to the |
Vermont Marble Co.. OF Proctor. The |
purchase Includes 80 acres OF valuable |
quarry land adjoining the Brandon It.
allan Marble quarries.
John Spsrgo of Old Bennington, one
Of the moving spirits in the Socialist
movement in Vermont and chairman Of
The state Socialist committee, has gone
10 Silver Bay, Lake George. \. Y.
where he will give a series of addresses
before conference of Y. NJ. C. A. secre-
aries.
Grounds were broken in Burlington |
for new lambda Iota fra
ernity house. The society. which is
he oldest at the university, will erect
/ house in pure colonial style at an cx-
,ense of $4,000. Newhall & Bevins
If Boston, the well-known specialist in
olonial architecture, are the architects.
Among the recent offenders against
he weight and measures statutes are
henry Pratt, an Essex dealer, p. Fe-
opulos of Bennington, fruit merchant,
md Robert Farr. Westminster farm
r. who sells butter around Bellows
falls on Wednesday of each week. Con.
lotions followed in each case
Ri. Rev. A. C. A. Hall. bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of Vermont, has writ
en- from his sisters home near Lon
on. Eng. that he doubts whether he
viii be able TO take up the full work of
he diocese on his return and advises
ither the acceptance of his resignation. !
rhich he Offered some months ago or 5
he appointment of coadjutor bishop. {
he matter will come before the diocesan I
invention to be held in Bennington
september %.
he sixth annual pilgrimage to the old