The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-13


As Charles w. McFarren of Rutland
an employee of the Rutland railroad
was coupling cars the other day, one
foot was caught and crushed under ,he
wheels of car.
Senator Carroll S. Page has received
petitions from the Congregational and
Methodist churches of Morrisville ask
ing for legislation to prohibit the i'm
portation of liquors from outside the
state into territory where the sale Is
forbidden
The suggestion of a Vermont man that
the stars on the American flag should
be arranged in the form of map of
the country has developed the fact that
the war department has sole author
ity in the matter.
Congressman ID. j. Foster is indisposed
from the grippe and complications and
has been confined to his home for sew.
eral days.
The total money deposited by st. AL.
bans school children since the school
banking system was introduced is
$G3l.l7.
| Fifty years ago last Sunday, the
eth Vermont regiment left Rutland for
| the front. Captain Edward VI. Knox,
who belonged to Company A in the
regiment, is the only officer now resid-
ing in the Marble city.
Upwards Of so names appear on pc
tition which will be forwarded to the
postofiee department at Washington, ID.
c., asking that postoflice be established
at Hydeville four corners.
A special town meeting will be called
in Orwell April s to prove the validity
Of the title held by the Ladies' Sew
ing society to the rooms in the base
ment of the town hall.
Stanley Kimball, the l6-year-oId son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Kimball, had
his left leg broken last week by sus-
tanning fall of fifteen feet in a neigh
boris barn.
The free public library in Benning-
ton during the past year doubled its
circulation and added 700 patrons to its
list.
West Cornwall citizens have seen and
heard robins, phgbes and other song
sters in numbers thereabouts lately.
The cav of crows has also been fire.
quently heard.
Plans are being drawn. for the new
athletic field to be laid out at Middle
bury college.
Henry Murray drew birch log to
Huntley's mill in Ripton recently that
measured IL feet in length and con-
tanned 500 feet, board measure.
Charles Burpee, writing in the Hart
ford Courant Comm asserts that South
bury, Conn, was the birthplace OF Ethan
Allen, instead of Litchheld, as many
historians insist. In his contribution
to the Courant, Mr.. Burpee points out
the exact location Of the house In South
bury, where Allen was born.
Judge Ben b. Lindsay, the Denver,
Col, magistrate, who has taken so much
interest in boys, delivered lecture in
Rutland Tuesday night. Judge Lindsay
came TO Rutland at the request of the
Rutland Teachers association.
Rev Charles II, Dunton has retired
from the Troy conference academy at
Poultnev and has already been succeed
ed by DR.. Charles l., Leonard
Rev. James IT, Robinson, pastor of
tho Methodist church at Stamford, this
spring completes his AID year as an
effective member OF the Troy conference.
Mr. Robinson has also preached at Poult
ney. Brandon and Nergennes, as well
as in different New York towns.
The death of Mrs. Mary A. T. Blunt.
widow of Brig. Gen. Asa F. Blunt, Z.
s. A., occurred in st. Johnsbury March
s. Mrs. Blunt was born in Amherst,
y. H.. in 1882. With her husband.
She resided in st. Johnsbury until aft
err the Civil war.
The Clarendon & Pittsford railroad has
purchased a new engine from the Bald
win Locomotive works. The engine i
numbered 7 and bears the name Of c.
Israel Hunter, former superintendent
of the road.
Manager Larabee Of the Consolidated
Lighting Co in Montpelier, became in |
terestcd in the case of Mrs. +. H. Puff |
fer, who was seriously i'll with pneu
monia, ran a service wire to her house
and set mp IN ozoneter which resulted |
in an immediate improvement in the
sick womans condition. The function |
of the ozoneter is to increase the vi. |
tally of the air in a sick room by |
electro-chemcal action.
Henry Stevens, Fowler marble mill |
employee. was quite seriously injured |
last week while operating a machine
and was taken to the Proctor hospital |
for treatment.
Through the generosity of ex-Gov Nc.
Cullough and bis son, Hall Park McCul-
Tough, Dorman b. f. Kent of Montpelier
has secured at an auction sale of rare
books and papers in New York City,
the original copy of the Bennington
of independence. The price
Maid was 500 and thp conv was mr. |