The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-25
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest From Diff
ferent Sections.

ferent Sections.
n l.. A. Wiley grew a sunflower stall
& at his home in Barnet which has Al
d heads on il.
Charles Chesley of Glover has a tur
nip, grown in his garden, which weighed
) IL pounds with the top off and 20 with
il on.
Fire partially destroyed the residence
of G. A. Gaskell of st. Johnsbury Mon
day morning. The loss amounts to sew
eral thousand dollars.
DIR. j. b. Mahana, who is constructing
farm machine automobile in Rutland,
had his jaw broken in two places Tues
day, while starting the engine.
The state board of health has not
yet appointed successor to DIR. c. f..
Ball, health officer of Rutland, who re-
Gently resigned, and according to the law
he remains in Office until his successor
is appointed
! A. |, Blake, Lowell K. T.. d. mail
carrier, met with peculiar accident
Friday while making his trip on BIZ
cycle. AS he was riding down steep
hill hen ran in front of his wheel,
throwing him with force sufficient to
cause serious internal injuries,
Martin Murphy, prominent and high
| To- .A.I 90. r. d. ~.
ter, committed suicide Wednesday,. by
hanging. He was 81 years old. Why
he should have taken his own life is
u mystery, unless from temporary aber-
ration OF the mind as he had no bust
ness troubles of any kind and was in his
usual good health.
Mrs. Jane McVicar. who died in Lyn.
donville Oct. 10, at the age of 95 years, |
was the oldest and the only known liv- |
ing mother of a soldier of the Civil |
war in Vermont. She WAS also the old |
est member of the Woman's Relief corps |
in the state. She married Robert Me- |
Vicar when she was IL years old and !
IL children were born to them.
Mike Bascuk died at the st. Johns
bury hospital Tuesday evening from
burns received when he fell into vat
of boiling water at the veneer mill in
Orleans earlier that day. He was seri-
ously burned before he could be rescued.
Mr.. Bascuk was only 20 years of age,
had worked at Orleans only three weeks
and spoke very little English. Nothing
is known of his relatives.
S. w. Flack of ludlow does not take
much stock in the claim that oats can
not be easily raised in Vermont. He
planted IL bushels of the Great Dane
therefrom 1868 bushels satisfactory
eleven years he has never harvested less !
than so bushels to the acre. J
The anti-suffragettes are active in
Burlington and many of that city's So !
ciety people are canvassing the city !
with petitions which will be presented ]
ut the legislature as an argument
against the passage of a bill favoring
suffrage. One canvasser alone
mas more than 800 names of women who
express the hope that the progress of
.he equal suffrage movement VII! be J
stopped.
Adm c. Austin, a native of Milton, !,
lied Sunday at his home in Interlaehen,
AXE Minnetonke, Minneapolis, in his "
10Th year. He went from Vermont to O
in 1856 and was always &C. ?
i've in civic and educational work He
vas a member of the first board of n,
and served on il in various !,
apaeities for fifteen years Upon his re. q
irement from the board in 1898, he e
fas given a testimonial in which many
+ his fellow citizens bore witness that a,
D to that time. at least. no other man
ad given as much time gratutously h;
0 the cause Of education in the city of 70
For two years he was r
lember of the library board and from Il
sS2 TO 1888 was a member of the
GARD of county commissioners. In 1888 &,
e was elected a member of the first
oard of park commissioners and as such In
elped to lay the foundations of the "a
resent extensive park system. While "a
al IN his teens, ne lett hcme aa'f-se, liz
ired passage on a sailing vessel and
lus worked his way nearly around the he
orld. n,
Al
About six weeks ago Mrs, Peter Ty- L,
r of Vergennes, returning from a visit wi
Lincoln, brought back a mother 70
t and two kittens and gave them 10
r daughter, Mrs. Fordyce Bristol The T.
xt day the cat was missing and Mrs. We
-istol supposed that she had wandered tw
way and died, but last Saturday she TIL
ceived word from Lincoln that pussy of
d appeared at her home that morning. gri
he cat was brought in tight box thi
tn only two small air holes and the
lrney was made from Bristol by rail- Sa
nd. The distance the cat had to travel ste
regain her old home was about 20 car
les hut she nrnhahly travelled mariana | NJ