The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-22

! Vermont branch of the Red Cross from
! sslc of Christmas seals. OF this amount
S4T332 is retained for prevention OF tu-
bereuloss in Vermont and 1854 is sent
to the national society.
! AT a meeting of the voters of the in
| porated school district Of Brattleboro
| Tuesday night bond issue of $4,000
was authorized to pay for schoolhouse
! site in the Oak Grove extension and to
erect a building.
A Grecian lily which has been in the
possession of the family of L. A. Booth
OF Bennington for As years, is now in.
| full bloom with clusters of wax white
blossoms. The lily bulb was brought
/ from Greece to Mr.. Booths mother.
Mrs. Hiram Holt, who is living with
her granddaughter, Mrs O. II. Wait,
Of Woodstock, passed her Doth birth
day anniversary April IL. Mrs. Holt is
in remarkably good health. She is able
to knit and to work about the house
easily without the aid of a cane.
The wife of Calbraith p. Rodgers, the
aviator who was recently killed during
a fight, Is the daughter of +. o. Graves
OF Bennington. In recent letter to Mr..
Graves, Mrs. Rodgers stated that sea-
gull entered the aeroplane and caused
the death OF her husband,
meeting of the farmers of Caledonia
and Orleans counties viii be held at
LyndonyiIle Saturday, April 20, for the
purpose of considering the struggle be-
tween the milk producers and the Hood
company over the price 20 be paid Vic
tory means an advance of four cents
per can for FIVE months over the price
the Hood company had intended to pay.
This being the l33-eent zone, SO called,
the price would be p cents per can.
Tony Plizyio. a seven-year-old Rut
land lad, was struck by trolley car at
Center Rutland Thursday and received
a fracture of the hip. The boy was going
home from school and stepped from the
sidewalk, near which the cars run, onto
the track, and SO near the car that the !
motorman did not have time TO stop |
it. He was taken TO the Rutland hos
pital.
Mrs, james Robinson Of Dorset came /
near losing her life last Saturday while |
a pile of brush was being burned at |
tie rear of her home, and only her pres |
ence OF mind in throwing herself into !
a nearby brook saved her from fatal in |
iuries. The fire was spreading to the
grass and Mrs. Robinson attempted to 1
put it out, but her clothing caught I
fire and she was badly burned before /
she reached the water. She will recover.
The covered bridge in the east part
of the town of Enosburg, near the
home of Joseph Gilbar, is condemned
and impossible for teams One of the
ahutments was washed out by the high
water II will probably be necessary
t. build a new bridge. The people in
that vicinity win be put to much in
convenience by the shutting up of the
road. They are trying to brace up the
bridge.
Charles +. Hill Of Bennington. vet
eIan Of the Civil war, who served in a
Massachusetts regiment but who was
to the Vermont soldiers home
from Dummerston. has been taken to
the retreat at Brattleboro. He has been
mentally i'll for some time but recent
" he went violently insane, 1t be-
came necessary to confine him in
room and place an iron grating over the
window to prevent his escape. Ii
AT hearing held before the state
public service commission at West Paw
let, on petition asking that the tele
phone users be allowed free communica-
ton with Granville, n. ", as are the
of East Pawlet, the commits
sion decided that it had no jurisdiction
ia the matter because telephone COM
munication between West Pawlet and
Granville is an interstate, and not an ,
,stra-state, activity. The citizens of
West Pawlet intend to take the matter
up before the interstate commerce com
mission.
Corporation papers have been filed ut
the Office of the secretary of state by
the Lake View Farm Co. of Swanton,
with capital stock Of $24,-
200 to raise fruit and deal in farm stock.
The papers are signed by Eusibe f.
Prairie, of Marieville, Que, Frank N.
Half, and P. j. Audette, of Swanton, I
Papers have also been filed by the Can 8