The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-11

chuTcH property.
Talmadge w. Lewis, an inmate of the
Soldiers home in Bennington, died last
week of heart failure. Mr.. Talmadgt
was a native of Orwell and served in
Company d, l4th Vermont regiment dur.
ing the Civil war.
A farmer named Gilchrist, living al
Twenty Mile Stream, near Chester, made
a quantity of maple sugar from SAP
secured from his trees February "a Mr.
Gilchrist says the sap ran all day and
through the night.
Miss Julia Sherman, whose death oc-
Cured in Benson last week, had taught
schools in and around her native town
for 70 terms. For twenty years Miss
Sherman was the superintendent OF
schools for Benson.
The members of the senior class at
Vergennes high school will leave the
| latter part of this month on a ten
days excursion to Washington, D. C..
| Other schools in Vermont will partci-
pate in the excursion.
Joseph r. Mcnamara of Fair Haven, a
! 1915 student at Holy Cross college, Wor.
cester, Mass, took an important part
in the play King Richard Ill.," re-
| Gently presented in Worcester by the
Holy Cross Dramatic club.
| Rev. Goodsil f. Arms. formerly Of
the Vermont Methodist conference, but
/ for % years a missionary and edu-
Gator in Chile has been granted six
months leave OF absence and will spend
it with his friends in New England.
The Marble Machinery Co. OF East
Dorset has filed articles of association
with the secretary of state. The com
psny is organized to manufacture and
deal in machinery and other merchan,
disc with capital stock of $1,000.
While adjusting belt upon a pulley
at his tannery in Morrisville last week,
0. +. Sweet fell distance of Is feet,
striking his head on a steam pipe and
inIicting other bruises about the body.
M. Sweet escaped without any broken
bones.
The Bellows Falls Methodist church
has added forty YsX members in the
past year, appropriated the sum Of ST.
900 for the enlargement and renovation
OF the church edifce and invited its
pastor, Rev. W, r. Davenport, TO re-
turn for the third year.
Governor Mead has designated Hazel
Y If III ha,, ggfuV
Of the state under the statute which
provides that the governor shall also
be commissioner of the blind. A place
for the girl has been found in the Per-
llins Institute for the Blind in Bos-
ton.
Mrs. James Lamond OF Kirby was Sc
riously burned one day recently when
she attempted to remove some towels
that had become ignited by too close
contact with the stove. Mrs. Lamond
probably saved her life by leaping into
snow drift conveniently located in the
backyard.
Wild birds in the vicinity of Proc.
torsvile have been fed by William Skin
rel during the winter and will now
ca out OF their providers hand. Mr..
Skinner has been able to secure sew
eral photographs of his feather friends
IN this position, using his other hand
to operate the camera.
A. H. Duismore, who succeeds Il. y.
Carter as superintendent Of the govern
ment fish propagation work in YER
mont, with headquarters in st. Johns
bury, is preparing the fish hatchery at
Swanton for the pike propagation, which
will begin as soon as the ice goes out
OF the Missisquoi river.
Wallace \. Batchelder of Bethel. the
only Vermont man so far as is known
who was with Col Roosevelt at the
battle OF san Juan told a Burlington
interviewer recently that he has found
much Roosevelt sentiment up and down
Vermont, and that he himself is an
ardent supporter of the colonel.
Orrin w Brown of Vernon, aged 20
years, was fined $50 and costs of S25.27 /
in BrattlebOro municipal court the other
dav for stealing a rifle from Eric John |
son. The respondent was too deaf to
understand the court proceedings and !
sat through the trial apparently the |
least interested of the participants.
State Commissioners of Agriculture
O l.. Martin of Plainfeld says that ow
ing to the prevalence Of the gypsy moth !
in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. |
it will be impossible to keep the pest
out of Vermont. Ten thousand webs
have been taken from trees in Guild |
hall, which means saving Of 100000
worms.
Thomas McTTattie, who recently ten
dered his resignation as superintendent |
OF motive power for the Central Yer
mont railroad, was born in Scotland !
in 1854 Mr.. McIatte retires after |
having been employed by the Grand |
Trunk railroad and its branches for ii /
years lie will make his home in Mont
real.
Mrs Lois c. Aloulton, who has charge |
of the school in Mt Hunger, district !
in Fast ST .Tohnshury is nrohab lv tha |