The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-30
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest From Diff
fereut Sections.

secured crop Of 1900 pounds of honey
this year, selling it for Is cents pound
The Free Baptist church of St. Johns
bury viii benefit largely by the will of
Mrs. Adeline Ward, the church being
made the residuary legatee.
Simeon Philbotte of Rutland will have
to pay $4,000 to Isaac Mayo. whom he as
saulted. In the passage OF pleasantres
he chewed off Mayo's ear Mayo is his
brotherin-la
Mr.. and Mrs. Horton w. Jones of
Shoreham and Mr. and Mrs. N. j. Fuller
! of West Rutland observed their golden
wedding anniversaries at their respect
i've homes Sept. %.
At meeting of the members of the
Bethel Congregational church a unani-
nous call to the pastorate of the church
was extended to the Rev. Oscar NJ.
Chambcrlin of Boston.
James Bruley, the veteran guide about
st. Adams, caught blue gilled muska-
longe weighing 3s pounds, while troll
ling for pickerel in about fifty feet of
water in st. Adams bay, Thursday.
A feature of the Baptist state eonven-
ton at st. Johnsbury this week was
the presence at all the sessions of Mrs
A. c, Mitchell, the only living charter
member of the organization and whose
age is 80 years.
A West Rutland woman threatens to
use bees to protect choice maple trees
from electric linemen, the local com
pany having set poles along the high
way. Unless the men accede to her re-
quest to put the lines on the opposite
side OF the street she says she will lib
crate swarms of bees which are in hives
under the trees.
The hotel Poultney at Poultney, was
destroyed by fire Thursday Only the
brick walls of the structure escaped, and
the loss IS estimated at $1,000 partially
covered by insurance. The fire was
caused by an overheated chimney. The
property is owned by George Gilfeather
and the hotel business was conducted by
Mrs, David 0. Roberts.
DIR. Fl. c. Tinkham of Burlington has
Just returned home from trip through
the British isles. He saws that there
has been even more rain in England than
here, and that as result much damage
has been done to crops. While away,
DR. Tinkham paid particular attention
to the dspensary end of hospital work
and visited the principal institutions in
Edinburgh, Glasgow and London
Joseph Charbonneau, aged A years,
a mill employee OF the village OF North
Pownal,. is in Bennington Jail, charged
with an attack on Rosa Gainor, aged l0i
years, and her sister, aged s, daughters
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Gainor. while
they were on their way to school. The
deputy sheriff upon being informed OF
the circumstances, sent out three differ.
emit parties of men, and one OF them ran
down Charbonneau in the town Of Hoo
sick, \. Y.
Augustus Weinberg. who tried to i'm
pose on the people of Burlington anu
various other places by posing as sur
vivor of the Titanic and who claimed
to have seen Captain Smith of the i'll
fated vessel in Baltimore Md. was ar
rested last week in Syracuse, y. Y, for
and being a tramp; and
when he sprung the Titanic story on the |
there, they gave him the
maximum sentence at the state peniten |
tiary for praeticing fraud.
Byron ~ Clark and Harry 5. Howard |
went Thursday from Burlington toll
North Hero, where at Blockhouse point |
they placed a bronze tablet on the |
site Of bloekhouse in the Reyolu- |
tionary war. The tablet ia erected by |
the state organization of the Sons of
he American Revolution, and exercises
we're to be held this fall, but have been
until next spring
A New England supper was held in
China, August l6, at which
TWO Vermonters were present, Robert Z.
Wilson of Bethel and A. Il. Ufford OF
Fairfax. Mr.. Wilson represents the
American church mission in Soochow
md MIR. Ufford the American Baptist
Foreign Missionary society. Twenty
line persons were present at the gath
ring, II of whom were native born New