The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-21
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest From Diff
ferent Sections.

Rev. Harry l.. Garfield of Woodstoc
has been appointed TO represent the Uni
! versalist denomination upon the boar
Q OF trustees OF the Vermont Anti-Salool
league.
Francis j. Houghton observed the OILS
anniversary of his birth at his home il
st, Adams last Friday. His health i
excellent he reads without the use o
glasses and still writes an excellent hant
Edward Bartlett, jr., had one eye pain
fully injured Friday at the Clarendon
} Marble company quarry in Clarendon
Springs. when il was burned by hot OF
from an oil cup on u cutting machine.
Suit has been filed with the Caledo.
mia county clerk by Henry J. Beck
against the +. & I. Fairbanks company
In which Mr.. Beck seeks to recover $780,.
600 damages for the injury received to
his eyes in the defendants shops five
years ago.
! Paul and Harold, young sons Of Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver Avery of West Rutland,
while playing in the road Friday, were
run over by wagon loaded with corn
stalks. Both were severely injured and
one of the lads had leg broken.
James Aver killed bear in Victory
last week which weighed 302 pounds.
The bear came every day to the orchard
for apples and on one visit made way
with a calf A. G. Robinson also shot
one in West Wardsboro that weighed
2ll pounds.
William Watkins of West Rutland
was run into and knocked down recent
ly by large hog, the property of John
Pixie, which had broken from its pen,
and was running in the street Mr..
Watkins received number of bruises
in the fall but no bones We're broken.
Jed p. Ladd clerk of the Burlington
city court, has received from State Audi
tor Horace f. Graham an order for ST.
2l0.60 to be disbursed in fees in cases
representing city court prosecutions for
the quarter ending September 30. This
is about an average audit There were
1876 cases.
Up to date 344 hunters licenses have
been granted by City Clerk NJ. G. Grandy
OF Burlington, six OF them being non
resident licenses. The number is fully
up to the mark of last year, which was
the largest on record. The greater part
of the licenses are usually granted the
week before and during the open season |
for hunting deer. the season being from |
November Is o rs.
John Breen, former resident and ma I
tive of West Rutland. who was reported 7
last winter as having been found frozen
to death in Kentucky, IL very much alive,
according to news received from another
former resident of West Rutland, who
has seen the man often and not long
since helped him in securing business
position. Breen states that the man
who was found frozen was pal OF
his, who had stolen his coat, and that
in the pockets we're letters addressed
10 Breen, from which IL was assumed
hat he was the man.
Pearl Garron of Mendon was so bad
Y burned while playing with matches
IN her third birthday, Oct. O. that she
lied the next day. The accident hap
'ened at Shrewsbury Center, where Mr..
md Mrs. Garron had stopped off to
Tisit Mrs. Garron's parents, on their ,
way TO Lake George, n. Y. The girl
ighted part of box full of matches
nd was discovered only accidentally, as
he made no cutlery and was badly
urned when found. 1t is thought she
gas so badly suffocated by the smoke
hat she was unable to cry out.
Charles Rogers of Enosburg Falls was :
ably injured at the Federal Packing 7
plant in that place Sunday, .
let. 10, when steam turbine separator c
yploded. A piece of the flying iron t
truck him in the face, inficting an ugly n
ash in his lip and nose which required n
sveral stitches to be taken by the doc :
or to close the wound In turning !
round he was struck just below the hip e
a his left leg with another flying mis- u
lie, infiieting severe cut in the flesh. U
r. Rogers is getting along as well as a
'uld be expected. What caused the sep, a
'ator to explode is unknown.