The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-16

| ABOUT THE STATE
| Happenings of Interest From Diff
ferent Sections.
The Spring Grove Campmeeting asso
citation will hold its meetings August Il
to 20 this summer, according to actor
taken at the annual meeting in Ferris
burg few lays ago. The association
is out Of debt and small balance re
lnains in the treasury.
Rev. Harry c. Plum, former rector
of Trinity church in Granville, but who
is now located in Mechanicsyille, N
u. has accepted the principalship Of
st. Faiths school in Saratoga, n Y
He will assume his new duties July /
Burt Hyland of Shrewsbury was ar
rested Tuesday morning for beating his
Horse, by Deputy Sheriff Henry Adams
While assisting her mother in a house
hold task in her home in Stanford last
week, Miss Caroline Bagley received a
bad burn from scalding water.
Roy Smith, while chopping wood on
the Hutchinson farm in Randolph last
week, cut cash in his leg next to the
knee pan and physician whom be visit
cd was obliged to take several stitches
to close the wound. The awkward
wound confined Mr.. Smith to his bed
and within few days he was visited
successfully by attacks of the grippe
and iaundice
II. G. Blanchard has received notice
from Washington. d. G.. Of his reap
pointment to the postmastership at
Newport. During Mr.. Banchard's in
eumbeney, dating from February Is,
1900, rural free delivery and city de-
livery systems have been established and
the Newport office has been made a pos
tai savings bank.
AT the morning services in the Meth
odist Episcopal church in Swanton last
Sunday. the pastor, Rev G. d. Pierce,
that he would not be a cam
didate for the church after the Meth
odist conference in April, Mr.. Pierce
has been located in Swanton three years.
Fred NJ Crofts, who is employed in
the Central Vermont machine shops at
St Adams. nearly lost his little finger
recently when a piece Of steel dropped
ontb his hand. Mr.. Crofts went to FL
lcnsburg, n. Y, to recuperate from the
effects of the accident.
Harold Harrington, formerly resi-
dent of Manchester Depot, who was re-
ported dead some time ago writes
friend in Vermont that he Is still alive
and well. Mr.. Harrington is living in
Louisiana.
NJ i. Hapgood of Peru, who has been
spending some time in Boulder, Cols
writes South Dorset friend that he
likes the Colorado town. but adds that
Peru still holds attractions for him. Mr.
Hapgood concludes that he will be back
IN Vermont before the swallows ar.
rive.
Clarence aud Charles Kinney of Man
,hester, who re in the poultry business
,n small scale. got thirteen dozen
gigs from ten mougrel pullets during
lie month of February.
The Passumpsie Telephone Co.. an
Orleans county business concern. in
stalled ISIS new instruments during the
months OF January and February.
Walter II. Reed. secretary Of the Sche-
iectady, n y. Board Of Trade. win
peak at the annual banquet Of the
y Waterbury Board Of Trade ON the even
ng Of March 20.
The members of the Nedncttich club.
Rutland organization composed OF
roung women, have devised novel
cheme for providing free bed in the
Rutland hospital In conducting mick
i" census, the canvassers ask every
to contribute nickel to-
ward the cause and thus far the sum
II S400 has been subscribed
The Vermont Society of Colonial |
DANES is to dedicate marble shaft on
he site Of the Cephas Kent tavern in |
Dorset, where the first council safety |
{ the New Hampshire Grants was held /
il l775. The date Of the dedicatory ex-
rcises has not been decided up. The
haft is from the Norcross- West quar-
les in Dorset
Cy Warman, the prominent press
gent employed by the Grand Trunk
abroad, and well known to Vermont
ewspapers men and others, is seriously
] in Boston.
While visiting at her home in Grand
Sic last Saturday, Miss Etfie Tobias,
student at the Burlington high school,
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