The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-08

y
DR.. Arthur c. Mcdowell. for many
years a successful physician and a
prominent citizen of Lyndonville died
Monday. after a short illness of pneu-
m0nia.
Hartfords annual town meeting vot-
ed TO institute medical inspection in the
schools and authorized the establishing
of manual and agricultural training in
the school,
Rev. George F. Harvey, the new pas.
tor of the Baptist church in Vergennes.
who comes 20 Vermont from Harris.
Vile, X. l., will assume his new duties
next Sunday
Former Governor s. L. Pingree was
| reelected town clerk in Hartford and
with the exception of two or three years
served in the Union army, he has held
this Office since 1859.
The Brandon Marble company has pur-
| chased five acres of land west Of the
village and intends to erect a four gang
marble mill and a finishing mill at that
point early this spring,
Mrs. Jesse T. Weatherhead of Gull
! ford was quite seriously injured in a
runaway accident Saturday when the
horse which she was driving became I'M
manageable and overturned the sleigh
While after a load Of freight at the
Salisbury railroad station, John Tatro
81 years old, and a veteran Of the Civil
war, dropped dead. Mr. Tatro was
member Of a New York regiment
With the sale of the farm in West
minister belonging to Mr.. and Mrs. j. Z.
Leach the property goes out of the fam
lily for the fret time in four genera
tionS A fine old colonial house is sit
uated on the farm.
Burlington sneak thieves have taken
fancy to thermometers and several
OF the weather indicators, some of them
of considerable value. have been appre
hended from houses and business blocks
during the week.
III the graded schools nt Bennington
a Rabcoek milk tester has been installed |
for the purpose of instructing the chill |
dreI in the methods used to ascertain |
the percentage of butter fat in a given /
gus ntity OF milk,
Marvin A. Mcclure, who was sen.
fenced to serve from four to six years |
for forgery, in the state prison, was |
taken from Rutland to Windsor by I
Deputy Sheriff A. A. Leonard Of Wal /
lmgford Wednesday.
Leonard j. Timson OF WilliamsviIle, I
aged % years. celebrated his twenty |
third birthday anniversary February % +
ill. Timsou is a rock-ribbed Democrat
and is especially interested in nation.
al politics this year.
The Estey Organ Co., with manufae-
turing plants in Brattleboro is NOV
ing its New York offices to % West
42nd street. The change is in keeping
with the general uptown trend Of all
large business houses.
Ten young men students of Orleans
high school left March on ten days
tour to Washington, D. c.,
in charge Of Principal II. J. Stannard
Governor Foss gave the party a short
while in Boston
Students of the state normal school
at johnson will assist in the produc-
ton OF a three act comedy, "The Chap
eron." at the town hall in that vii !
lage, March 20. The proceeds will be
devoted to the town library.
William b. Cabot, son of Mr.. and .
Mrs. n. F. Cabot OF Brattleboro, has /
recently published an interesting book 9
entitled "In Northern Labrador" The
book relates the experiences of Mr.. a
Cabot while IN the frozen north.
John Stewart. Bennington boy, is 8
It his home for a time, having been !
discharged from the United |
states army because Of injuries sus- :
aimed to his eyes while fighting for /,
st fires on a western reservation.
The town of Irssburg has recently :
Completed a splendid new town build y
NJ costing n the vicinity of $4,000. I
The new structure is thoroughly I
.quipped and has frontage Of 40 feet
which width extends so feet backward. f
The l7-year-old son Of Bert Smith
# Hardwick started to jump from the
op beam in his fathers barn Sunday
nd caught a finger ring on a protrud-
ug nail Amputation at the second c.
oint was necessary to save the finger
While hunting eggs in the barn at b
or home in Middlesex Sunday after
Don. Mrs. WILDER Chandler fell a dis
ance of Is feet from the loft of the D
uilding to the floor and was severely
ruised. No homes We're broken in the "
all.
Miss Birdella Buck, a progressive farm "