The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-25
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest From Diff
ferent Sections.

The best catch of pickerel in lake
Bomoseen in several years was made by
w. ID. Bull and Henry Jones. They
caught three, weighing IS pounds, in an
hour.
cornstalk grown on the Richardson
farm in Brattleboro is on exhibition and
stands Is feet, two inches tall. Most
OF the entire field of corn is about that
same height.
Rev. William f.. Baker of Cavendish
has accepted call to the pastorate of
the Baptist churches at East Enosburg
and Enosburg Falls. He will commence
his pastorate October 20.
The state firemen's tournament may
be held again in Rutland. The Business
Mems Protective association is cores
ponding with members of the firemens
organization to that end. About $500
is still necessary for prizes.
] The directors of the valley fair at
! Brattleboro will not allow any speak
ing on political topics at the fair this
week. They feel that it would interfere
with the racing and get the horsemen at
odds with the association.
Williston Samuel Hough, native of
| Willston, noted educator and teacher
and dean of the Teachers college of
George Washington UNIVERSITY, died
Thursday at his home in Washington
| following a brief illness with stomach
| trouble.
Louis Guetti, former resident of
| Readsboro, was killed recently while on
| his way to work in Athol. He was
struck by an engine at crossing ami
his body cut into three pieces. The
burial took place in Readsboro.
! j. d. Whittier, who has been superin.
tendent OF the schools OF Putney, Dunn
merston, West Brattleboro and Vernon,
has accepted the SUPPLEMENTARY of the
schools of Salisbury, Arlington and
Sandgate, and viii assume his new du-
ties Oct. /.
W. L. Sylvester of West Brattleboro
lost the ends of the two middle fingers
on his right hand last week while cut
ting ensilage. He was reaching down
to get the stick which he had dropped, |
which he used for pushing the corn away |
as he cut it, and his right hand was |
caught in the gear.
Edgar d. Sanders of Brattleboro met |
with painful and peculiar injuries re-
Gently while on his way to Springfield |
Mass Mr.. Sanders was sitting in the |
smoking car and as freight train on |
the northbound track passed the pas
senger train hasp, used to fasten
freight car door, crashed into the car
in which he was sitting, striking him in /
the face. The flesh was cut badly with
pieces of the glass and by the iron and
fragments Of glass lodged in his left
eye. The glass was removed by a ply
stefan and he will not lose the sight of
the eye
A Westminster woman, who, with her
husband, was working at the canning
factory and boarding in Walpole, was
so overcome by the gas in the soldering
room one day last week that she be-
came crazed and rushed down the track
to the underpass near Westminster sta
tion, throwing herself on the rails in
such position that instant death would
have been the result had she not bee.l
rescued from the oncoming train. She
was mentally in such condition from the
poison inhaled that il was difficult to
calm her. She was taken to her board
ing place in Walpole and is now re.
ported as better.
According to a letter received from
him by President Benton OF the L.. V
NJ, A. l.. Gutterson, who came so near
breaking the worlds record for the
broad jump at the Olympic games at ,
Stockholm. snapped tendon in one leg /.
while jumping at amateur contests in /
Boston. which will make it impossible
for him TO ever enter such contests
again. Gutterson took first place in the {
broad jump at Stockholm and made
new Olympic record and came within
quarter of an inch Of making a new c
worlds record. He was intending to
in the meet at Pittsburg and to
attempt to make new worlds record {
after which he intended TO give up track q
work.
Practically all the buildings on the
farm in Gniford owned and occupied by ),
Worthy G. Worden were burned Sept. 10, a
including the main house, ell, two sheds, d
roodshed, main barn and corn house, 4
llso five grade cows, a registered BULL
young bull one hog, so TO 80 chickens,
Ill OF this years crop of hay, 40 bushels
VI potatoes, 100 bushels of oats. threshed