The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-16

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observed rhe 55th anniversary of theil
marriage Friday at their home in West
ford.
Rev w. j. Ballou of Ludlow will sal
| from Boston Saturday to pass the sum
mer abroad. He expects to reach Mont
real on the return trip September 2.
| Edward Mclaughlin, who moved last
week from one place to another in West
Rutland, had to carry setting hen I'M.
der his arm for two miles and whii1
on the journey two chickens were
Matched.
The Verd Mont Mill Co. is starting
looms in the old brick mill at Ludlow as
fast as stock and machinery can be Sc
cured. The company has a two years
lease of the premises and large num-
Der of orders.
A service took place at the Congrega
tional church at Manchester on Sunday
morning, May 5, in memory of Miss
Anna Elizabeth Isham, one OF the vic
Tins of the Titanic disaster Nearly ev-
cry summer of Miss Isham's life, previ-
Gus to the death of her father in 1890,
was passed at Ormsby hill, the Isham
summer home there.
The measles epidemic at the state
industrial school, Vergennes, is nearly
over, it is thought, only one new case
of the disease having been reported re-
Gently This is in the boys dormitory,
where there are twelve other boys CON
valescent but not yet able to leave the
room. There are no new cases in the
girls apartment and all who have been
Ill are able to be out
Francis Ketcham, the l7-year-old
SALISBURY boy, who was arrested last
Thursday on the charge of stealing a
silver watch belonging to George Vaughn
of Arlington, was arraigned in munich
pal court Mt Bennington Saturday. plead
ed guilty and was fined SIS and costs,
making the total $22.l4. Leland ketch-
am, younger brother of the eulprit,
who has been detained in jail for some
days as a witness, was released. The
older boy will be detained in jail I'M
til the fine and costs are paid.
The jury in the Windham county
court at Newfane has returned a YER
dict of $4,000 for the plaintiff in the
case of James Griffin OF Brattleboro
against the Boston & Maine railroad for
damages resulting from an accident to
Mr.. Griffin in January, 1910, when he
was struck by a locomotive and thrown
from the West river bridge in Brattle-
boro, to the ice, distance Of about 80
feet. Griffin was employed as bridge
worker. He sued to recover $4,000.
The Brattleboro pageant, to be held
on June 5, Q and Z, will be given on an
island in the Connecticut river, the water
forming an important factor both in the
setting and action. The pageant viii
embrace episodes from the history and
the traditions of the town, from the time
Of the building of Fort Drummer. About
700 people will participate. The Con-
trast," the first American play ever act
ed ON the stage, win be produced. The
author, Royal Tyler, died in Brattle-
boro August l6, 1925.
Irah d. Spaulding, who has recently
returned from the aviation school at
San Diego, Cal. and is at his home in
is less than 90 years old,
but has already made about 800 prae-
tice flights. He has made one fight
since coming east, using an s0-horse
power racing biplane. He assembled to
4 height of 500 feet, followed the course
Of the Connecticut river north for five
Or six miles and circled across the riy-
ar into New Hampshire. The route Of
fourteen miles was covered in eleven min
ltes. 1t was the first flight ever made |
in southern Vermont.