The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-26

Baptist society of Pownal having gone
into bankruptcy, the society is seeking
the aid OF the courts to permit it to
finish the building.
United States Deputy Marshal Frank
II Chapman of Rutland announces that
during the yessf past 2,ll3 Red Cross
| seals were sold. The sale last year
amounted to 1903. The proceeds are
to go for the benefit of poor patients at
! the Pittsford sanatorium.
| CAP HAYNES, Termonts former ssar
I pitcher, who has played with the BSl-
ington team as regular and special
| pitcher during the past three years, has
been named in the list of players whom
the Pittsburg National League club will
take on the spring training trip.
Michael T.andon, Hungarian in the
employ of the Vermont Marble company
in Middlebury, was caught by a shaft
Monday. He grasped brace which
saved him from being whirled around
with the shaft. His clothing was torn
off his right leg was badly injured and
he received several cuts about his head,
face and body.
Rev Ralph f. Lowe, superintendent
OF the st. Johnsbury district, plans to
present to the Vermont Methodist con-
ference at Newport in April a scheme
by which the Sustenation Fund society
OF the conference shall be made a pre-
ferred beneyolence. This fund aids the
weaker churches, especially in places
otherwise unchurched The society is
now in its third year.
Carl II. Brown of North Bennington
has been appointed an official photog
rapher in the department of the interior
al Washington, ID. G. Mr.. Brown has
for several years made a special study
OF Photographic work and has become
an expert in the art. He had been late
ly with the General Electric company OF
Schenectady, n. Y. He is to report for
duty in Pittsburg, Pa, next Saturday.
Letters received in Burlington bear
news Of the severe illness of Elias Ly-
man, ir., in Venice, Of ptomaine poison
ing, accompanied by nervous symptoms
Mr. Lyman, who joined his parents and
sisters in Rome about the middle OF De-
cember, to pass with them his Christ
mas holidays from oxford, became i'll
Monday, the sth inst, the day after the
party left Florence to go TO Venice, his
illness being caused, it il thought, by
eating some pate de fois gras the 18th.
The physician in charge thinks Mr.. Ly-
man will recover.
Charles Green of White River juno
ton, practical woodman, has speei-
mems Of shingles recently taken from a !
barn in Canaan that he helped to shin
gle in 1868. They are made of spruce, |
generally considered undesirable for shin /
giles. Shingles on nearby buildings, how |
ever not made OF the same wood, have /
been replaced two or three times. The |
shingles. he says, were not piled. but |
thrown from the mill window and left /
on the ground for time till used. They I
were made from small, slow growing |
trees. VF
The Vermont Marble company. at
West Rutland, through its store com
mittee, following a custom for num-
Der of years in sharing the profits of
The store with the employees, according
- they have traded at the store during
the year, paying them the remaining d.
gidend after the running expenses have
been allowed, paid dividend of five per
'ent. on their purchases Monday. The
store did business of over $4,000 dur
ny the year and over $500 was divided
lmong the employees of the company
who traded at the store during the year
Bellows Falls is TO have a playground
within the city limits. The plot chosen
5 called the Williams orchard, so-named
because owned nv James H. Williams,
md consists of so acres There will be
ground for baseball football, running
md all kinds of sport. Upon it is
pring and an outhowing brook and
art of the land is covered with tall
ines. The sum of $4,000 was appro-
,riated for it, purchase and $4,000 adj
Iitional for fitting it up. The officers
lected at the village meeting that de-
lied upon the playground project were
Tenry G. Bacon, president. and DIR. Ed
ward Kirkland and w, L. Mandigo, trus-
ees for two years.