The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-21
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Deer are doing much damage 10 gar
den crops in the mountain district OF
Middlebury.
Dog owners in Bellows Falls are push.
ing proposition TO hold dog show
there during the poultry show next
October.
Rev. n. A. Gushing has resigned the
pastorate Of the Baptist church at Hines
burg and will 90 to New Hampshire.
The Ascutney Mountain association
has made arrangements so that three
burros will be stabbed at the farm OF
c. r. Lamphere in Windsor to be rented
to parties desiring to climb the noun
tain. They may be used for pack or
saddle purposes.
Miss Ida Bowles, adopted daughter Of
Mrs. William Bowles of Bennington, is
visiting her sister in Binghampton, n.
Y. Miss Bowles, who il % years old,
only recently learned that she had a
sister. She was adopted from the or
phans' home in Albany, n. y, when
ohiy thIee years oId'
Monday nights rain and electric
storm did considerable damage in Hard
wick and vicinity. Trees were blown
down and in Hardwick w. II. Carr had
six cows killed by lightning. In VOL
colt, lightning struck the barn of Fay
cite Warren, setting it on fire in three
places and killing one COW. The dam
age to the building was small.
Resident of Saxtons River will not
have their slumbers mnch broken the
of July 4, If the orders of the
village trustees are carried out, for their
edict is that there shall be no firing
of crackers or any other unseemly con
duct except between the hours of A
a. m. and l. AS p, m, and even then no
crackers over three inches long and one
half inch in diameter will be allowed.
Although it was admitted that it viii |
be "close figurin' TO make both ends |
meet, even with a larger grand list, |
because OF the debt OF ~ 900 hanging !
over from last year and new state tax |
Of $4,000 to pay, the board of aldermen |
voted Tuesday evening to make the tax |
rate in Rutland for 1918 the same as |
asst year, $40 ON the dollar of the |
grand list Alderman Burditt was the /
lnly one of the six members present |
who urged higher rate. He thought /
hat the immediate need Of new bridges,
lmong other things, demanded it,
Residents OF Putney are righteously
indignant over the acts Of someone in
shooting cattle, pastured in that vi
Unity. Only recently an OK belong
ng to Mrs. Augusta Bennett was found
from wounds caused by two
,olleys Of shot which had been fred at
t. II is doubtful if the animal will
urvive. Horses and sheep have also
erved as targets and Mrs. Bennett
ear or more age lost a steer from bull
at wounds. Two years ago nine young
ows disappeared and are still missing.
When the Young Buffalo Wild West
how was in North Walpole, \. H., and
ne Of the men, as previously mentioned, 10
'as injured in an accident to one OF s
he wagons Friday, June 8, he was found
ext morning living on the steps of a II
tore in that place, with a fractured hip :.
one. He was taken to the Claremont /
ospital for care and the humane So
ETY. of that place took action and made :
be circus management settle for their 3
LEGGED cruel treatment of the man. In
he same town one of the circus EN- J
loyes is said to have employed a law a
n rnftnaf xpapaG duo him