The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-19
ABOUT THE STATE,
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Harold +. Whitney narrowly escaped
death Friday evening in Brattleboro,
when he lost control of his automobile
while coming down a hill and plunged
over an embankment, the machine PIN
ming him beneath it for some hours,
until passing motorist noticed the
auto upside down. Three machines had
passed which Mr.. Whitney failed to at
tract the attention of. He was some
what bruised, but otherwise uninjured,
and the auto was run to a Brattleboro
garage the next day on its own power.
Ray L. Brooks OF South Newfane met
with quite loss last week when val
liable COW, which he was leading, jumped
to one side while crossing a bridge and
fell, breaking her neck.
The drouth is affecting South New
fame mills to quite an extent. At Brig
ham brothers steam mill, the water
supply is exhausted and it has to be
hauled from the brook. Randalls mill
is on the point of closing for lack of
water.
HAL Robinson OF West Wardsboro,
aged 70, was one of a party which
climbed Stratton mountain one day last
week and at the end of his journey
climbed a tree to get better view of
the surrounding country. II is a steep
climb of two and ne-half' miles to the
top of the mountain.
NJ. r. Dutton OF Dummerston has coll
lected much valuable matter relative to
! Vermont, has all the weekly Brattle-
boro papers published during the Civil
war and a scrap book in which he has
written copies of various important
deeds, etc, TO the number of 600 some
OF the original papers dating back to
1920.
Three-year. Martin Coleman of
Dandy had one shoulder badly injured
when tipped from a hammock recent
| ly, while playing with older boys,
| While Rutland is pretty well rep
resented among the professional enter
| tanners of the country, ii is seldom that
the city sends out two persons at one
! time to join high class companies Ted
Webb, stage manager at the Rutland
opera house, joined the Little Miss Fix
II" company at Barre. Mr.. Webb, who
has a lyric tenor voice, will take one
of the principal parts in the musical
comedy. He travelled several seasons
with the Manhattan Comedy -Four, a
singing quartet. John j. Murphy, who
for several years has been singing in
Rutland, will go to Montreal to join the
George Evans Honey Boy MINISTRIES. |
Mr.. Murphy, who is also a tenor, does
not yet know what his part in the COM
pany viii be.
w. A. Jennings was attacked thrown |
down and roughly treated by bull at |
his home in Orwell, but fortunately his
hired man was within hearing and came |
to his rescue. MFR. Jennings was badly |
bruised, but not seriously injured. The
animal had never shown signs of be-
ing vicious and probably attacked him
in sport.
Frank Merrill of Roxbury delivered |
100000 fish fry through southern YER
mont while on trip in the interests |
of the state fish hatchery in his native
town.
Word from Burlington, where the
heads of two dogs were sent from Bel
lows Falls to learn il they had the /
rabies, is to the effect that they did not
have the disease and many people in
that locality are breathing freer.
The announcement in Boston papers
of the filing of the inventory of the
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March @. 1911, leaving money and real
estate to the aggregate value of Sl,T37,-
472, recalls the fact that Mrs. Anna G.
Callan, formerly Miss O'Rouke, of Rut
land, was left $4,000 by Mrs. Peabody's
will, having been her nurse.
At the beginning of the next school
year two more vocational subjects will
be introduced into the Bristol high
school A special teacher in agriculture
and a special teacher in domestic science
will give instruction in those branches.
Charles Condoni OF Rutland. whose
two children are i'll of scarlet fever, was
detected in the early morning breaking
quarantine in an endeavor to see them,
and was ordered not to leave the house
until the quarantine was removed.
When it is considered safe for him to {
appear in public he will probably be
prosecuted for his action. The man had
been boarding elsewhere, and working. :
Carl S. Hopkins, -ecretary OF the
Windham County Agricultural assoea-
ton, has received check for $1,000 ,
from Bert Ball, secretary of the crop
committee of the grain ,
exchanges at Chicago. The money had =
been promised by the exchanges when
the association complied with certain
rules and regulations regarding the es-
Ia blishment of county association.
The property of the Eastman Marble
Co., of West Rutland, which was recent
w attached by Sheriff r. c. Fish
through proceedings instituted by the t
Vermont Marble Co. against Percival w. J
Clement and George p. Eastman, who 5
they claim have damaged them to the +
amount of $4,000 through trespass by 9
luarrying marble over boundary line, :
has been RELEASED by the reason of 5
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