The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-03
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Charles Leonard, West Clarendon
former, raised over 1000 bushels of POI
tatoes this season.
Rev. J. G. Harrison OF North Troy
began his pastorate at the Baptist
church at Sutton yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wales Cheney of ia
maica celebrated their golden wedding
last week Monday. Mr. Cheney is rs
and his wife is 10 years of age OF
their 10 children eight are living.
A mail collection box in Chester,
which was placed on a pole, has been the
cause of a number of shocks to resi-
dents of that place, as during every rain
the pole conducted electricity to the
box, being itself connected with electric
light wires. 1t was necessary to move
the box.
Farrar & Hayes, Enosburg cattle buy
ers, made recent shipment from that
place Oct a. in fact one of the largest
to leave the cattle yards there for several
years The shipment included 1876 cows,
six bulls, 81 hogs, 81 calves, and IL
lambs 1t required seven cars to ac-
comodate the stock.
Judge Henry G. Ide, former minister
to Spain, who has been at his home in
st. Johnsbury during the summer,
sailed October rs from New York on
the White Star line, Olympic, and will
pass the winter in London. Judge lde's
youngest daughter, Mrs. Shane Leslie,
lives in London and his other daughter,
Mrs. Bourke Cochran, of New York, is
with her to remain until after the hoI-
idays.
A collie dog, which had been missing
from the home Of Earl Cassidy in Enos.
burg Falls for eight days, was found by
two boys in well, where it had evident
ly fallen. There was about four inches
OF water. which proba bly,. saved the dogs
life, for it was taken out apparently
but little worse for the experience. How
ever. in its half starved condition, it
was given too hearty a meal and died
the next day.
A candle i'm Jack o. lantern in win
dow OF the Clauson Shoe eompany's
store in Rutland burned down to the
base of the lantern Friday evening and
set fire TO the covering OF the floor in
the window The heat was 50 near the
front of the window that it cracked the
glass. People across the street discov-
cred the fire and it was extingushed be-
fore any serious damage was done to
the window display or the building.
Walter Granger. associate curator of
fossils at the American Museum of Nat
ural History in New York, and son of
Mr., and Mrs. G. II Granger of Rutland,
has just returned from a four months
expedition in northwestern New Mexico,
where he obtained more than 900 speci-
mems for the American museum. He
has made a find of importance to sci
entists, that OF fiye-toed animal called
the ectoconus, estimated to be about
100000 years old.
The last of the drive of short logs
which was started from the Connecticut
lakes the first day of May reached the
booms at Bellows Falls Wednesday
morning and Foreman Nichols paid off
and discharged his 90 men who had been
with him continually since they started,
and they left town the same day. The
drive contains 800 cords of spruce wood.
bought by the international Paper Co,
OF the Connecticut Valley Lumber Co,
the latter company driving them in to
Bellows Falls. Supt. Nichols reports it
as the hardest season for driving he ever
had on the river. At one point they
only advanced one mile i'm l6 days, and
yet the company claim the expense OF
getting them to Bellows Falls was less
than the freight would have been.
F.. w. Post of Essex Junction has in
his possession a record book Of interest
which contains the constitution of the
first infantry company of the first regi.
ment, second brigade and third division
of the Vermont militia and dates back
to 1885. The constitution tells of the
change of uniform to the blue coat with
yellow buttons, white vest and panta-
looms, boots or bootees, black stock for
the neck, hat trimmed with white feath-
er or plume and cockade. The commits
stoned officers at that time were Sam
uel L. Mead, captain; George 3arrows,
first lieutenant; 0rlo p. Baldwin, second
lieutenant. The book also gives the
names of the privates. The dates of
enlistment range from 1922 to 1880.