The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-07
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest From Diff
ferent Sections.

Eighteen persons united with the Con-
gregational church in Middlebury Sun
day morning.
Tuesday was the coolest election day
which Rutland citizens could remember
in many years.
Thomas Leonard whose death occurred
in Richmond Monday, was born in Ire
land so years ago.
Bellows Free academy at Fairfax was
closed for few days this week, owing
to a stoppage in sewer pipe.
/ Vermont's second annual automobile
/ show will be held at the armory in
Burlington from April 20 to May 4, in
/ elusive.
Because of the protracted and intense
" cold weather, Underhill farmers are
experiencing considerable difficulty in OBJ
tanning water for their stock.
A large portrait of the late exGov.
| Fletcher d. Proctor has been presented
to the Proctor high school by Mrs. Proc
| tor.
A unanimous call to the pastorate Of
the Congregational church in Lyndon has
been received by Rev. George Anthony
Hall of Boston.
South Royalton Congregationalists
have extended call to Rev. Mr.. Haige
OF Middletown Springs to become pastor
of their church.
Practitioners of the United Presbyte-
rian church in Shushan are contemplate
ing extending call to Rev. DIR. J. L.
Harvey of Cambridge to the pastorate
DR.. G. w. Field, state fish and game
commissioner of Massachusetts,, will
speak in Rutland this evening on the
propagation OF woodcock, quail and other
birds.
Two youthful Stowe lumbermen, Alex
ander Adams and Hubert Ayers, have se-
cured their winters cut of nine cords OF
l6-inch wood, which has been sawed
and split.
The spring moving fever" has struck
Dandy and as many as twenty residents
were transferring their household goods
from one place to another in the town
this week.
When the death of Mrs. b. II. Dickin.
son of East Sheldon occurred March !
the family circle Of father, mother and
several children was broken for the first
time in 43 years.
To outside purchasers spending $40 in
any of the local stores, Burlington bust |
ness men win furnish free dinners during
the Queen city's annual merchants week |
April 20 to May 4.
Work has been started on the Staso
woodworking mills to be erected at
North Poultney. The companys plant /
will be connected with the Rutland Light |
& Power Co.'S lines.
At its annual town meeting Tuesday, |
Brandon voted to exempt the Brandon |
Marble works from taxation for a period |
Of five years The sum of $500 was |
voted for the free library.
Rt. Rev. Bishop J. ]. Rice of the /
Roman Catholic diocese of Burlington, !
who strongly arraigned the liquor traffic I
at his service last Sunday, voted before I
7:3O o'clock Tuesday morning in the
city election.
Miss Helen Bushy of North Bakersfield |
was so frightened the other day when a /
team belonging to Henry Lagro ran 4
away in the vicinity of her home that I
she has been unconscious nearly all of 4
the time since.
The death of Mrs Harriet Parker oc-
CURED at her home in Chicago February
q at the age OF 90 years Mrs Parker
was the mother OF T. Hoxie Hall, the
well known Bennington county lawyer,
who died in Pownal February %.
At meeting of the Lake Champlain
& st. Lawrence junction Railroad Co.,
in Montreal, r. O., Monday afternoon, n
the shareholders elected among other d.
rectors Harry Blodgett OF st. Johnsbury A
and Harley +. Folsom of Lyndonyille.
SHERMAN IduNit WIN ultu III N1ltiA
Pownal Monday at the age of 81 years,
was at one time student at Williams
college. He taught school for fifty years,
until impaired health compelled him to
retire after he had reached the age of
eighty.
Harvey Jarvis. waiter at the Plaza
cafe in Burlington came near losing a
finger on his right hand while operating
a bread slicing machine the other morn
ing The member became caught under
the knife of the machine and one side
of it was taken off.
While preaching in the Congregational
church at North Pownal Sunday Rev
II. G.. Mohl was overcome by coal gas
and tainted. Members of the congrega
ton assisted the stricken pastor to his
home, where he was speedily revived.
On the strength Of having defeated
nearly every basketball team among the =
schools of note in the state, |
Newport high school lays claims to the
Of Vermont. The Orleans
,o,,,+,- foam, I,as also dofeatad NaNv |