The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-07

mas been In serious condition from
ptomalne poisoning, caused by eating
canned tomatoes,
Requisition upon Massachusetts has
been made by the executive depart
ment of Vermont for the return OF Isl
dor Grapcr, indicted in Windham eoun-
ty for obtaining goods under false pre-
fences
Clarence W. Carpenter, assistant
bacterologist at the Vermont expert
ment station, has resigned his posi-
ton and left Thursday for Washington,
having accepted position in the bureau
of plant industry.
The net cost of the state prison at
Windsor for the two years ending July
i, 1919, was $S3,543.3i. The prisoners
earnings for the two years aggregated
$3SjO54.Sl.
Dayton L. Nichols of Roxbury, aged
63 years, native of Warren, merchant
In Roxbury for rs years and postmaster
for IL years, died suddenly OF heart
disease at his home Thursday morning.
His health had been rather poor for the
past two years, but not such as to cause
immediate anxiety. Mr.. Nichols had
held various town officers. He is sur.
vived by wife, one son, Stanley, grad
uate of Norwich university, and sis
ter, Mrs. Francis Brown Of Montpelier
The funeral will be held Sunday after
noon.
The Central Vermont railway has
derrick from the Industrial Works, Bay
City, Mich. The former wrccking der
rick was OF only 50-tons capacity.
John Parsons, who represented the |
town of Fletcher in 1888, died Nov. 20,
at the age of rs years. He had always
lived in Fletcher
Henry Shortsleeves of Rutland will
be confined TO the house for some time
with injuries received Thursday, when
he fell downstairs, dislocating and
fracturing his knee. He lay at the
foot of the stairs an hour before any
one heard his calls for help.
Rev G. +. Echterbecker Of Windsor
has accepted the call to the Quechee
congregational church and win begin his
passionate In the near future.
Prof. w. T. Jackman Of the univer-
sity OF Vermont has accepted an in
Ritation from the Konigliches Stat
institute Of the uni
fersity of Kiel, Germany, to become |
me of the collaborators associated with
he department of political economy of
hat institution, for the publication of
new series of studies, dealing with
he field of ocean transportation and
International commercial economy.
The yearold son of Mr. and i
irs. Kenneth Lane of North Clarendon 0
led Thursday of infantile paralysis.
physicians said that II the boy had lived o
e would have been cripple for life, II
rom the form the disease took. In
Chester Dumas Hufrmire, adopted son j
I I. II. Huffmire Of Rutland, pleaded :,
nilty in city court Thursday to steal
" two gold watches, S3s in cash,
icycle and two whips He will proba- 4 4
ly be sent to the industrial school !.
L |:
North Hero is having big fight over
ne cemetery line, several blows being O.
ought in the course of spirited dis d,
lssion. 1t seems that after the Gem
.ery was decided the owner of an ad
lining farm gave strip of land on
iree sides of the cemetery which the n
ustees later were at some pains TO I'll
Y repairing il generally and desired to = =,
ain by laying pipe and lately they
I've been greatly improving the place !.
I repairing il generally and desire to =. ~
lid fence about the plot At this is
ncture the present owner of the place, a
Judge Warren Clark, denied that the ~ -
ira strip OF land belonged to the GENE 10
~ and claimed it for himself, refus- or
z the trustees the right to biuld a ma
nee at the boundary, where it had hi
God for 43 years. As the strip OF =
nd was given, no deed was transferred Di
d this is the cause of the trouble. CO.
myers were consulted and on their So
vice, twelve men with fence material Z
peared on the spot and soon after be-
me Mr.. Clark, armed with a loaded no
yolver and gold-headed cane He
IS disarmed, some blood was shed and
, fence grew apace, Mr.. Clark finally :
wing More lawyers have been CON nj.
tied and the end is not yet. the