The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-02-21


age of 96 years.
The Gwinn Milling Co. of Columbus,
O., has presented the ST. Johnsbury
!. hospitals five barrels each of flour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore n. Vail and
Miss Katherine Vail of Lyndon Center
start this week for a cruise of two or
three months in their yacht in southern
waters.
Albany can boast of two lady cabinet
makers Mrs. Edwin Annis has this win
ter built bureau, china closet and GRO
kinole board, and Mrs. Will Stone has
built a kitchen cabinet.
Rev. L. +. Peabody has resigned as
pastor of the Advent church in Morris
Vile to become pastor of the Advent
church in st. Johnsbury, where he be-
gins work the first of April.
Rev Samuel Harvey Emery, pastor of
! the Congregational church in Chatham, n.
", died Sunday at the age of go years.
Mr.. Emery was born in Albany, VT and
was at one time pastor at Bellows Falls.
William Edward Christie, a we'll
known accountant OF st. Johnsbury, died
| there Tuesday of hemorrhages caused by
gastric ulcers. Christie was 40 years old,
graduate of McGill university and a
widely read and much travelled man.
VIII Bundy's two barns in East Burke
were burned to the ground Friday to-
gether with 81 sheep, three horses, 30
hens and all his farming tools and wag-
ons the cows were saved. The cause
of the fire is unknown, but thought to
be incendiary.
A freight train met with an acct
dent at Morrisville Feb. II, when two
cars loaded with logs, one with hard
wood lumber and a fourth with tale
were thrown over an embankment. Sew
en- other cars were derailed, but not de-
stroyed The accident was probably |
caused by a spread rail-
John Devlin, spectator at the yacht |
races at Malletts bay Tuesday, was |
struck by one of the yachts and his leg |
fractured. The accident resulted when /
sudden gust of wind filled the sails just |
before the race was ready to start, and |
the yacht sweryed and ran directly into /
the crowd of bystanders. A number Of
Others were bruised somewhat but es-
capped serious injury.
The Eureka Vending Co. has rented
building in Burlington for manufactur
ing its products. Six thousand square
feet on two floors win be occupied and
it is expected that operations will be
commenced in March with force of
a dozen operatives to be increased to
80 later. The concern will manufacture
vendors for sanitary drinking cups, toilet
paper, chocolate, chewing gum, etc.
1t being impossible to get lumber in
Rutland. on account of the lack OF snow,
the Rutland Manufacturing company has
received a carload OF lumber from Ida
no, which after the handing and the
freight was paid was bought at a cheap
err price than similar material could
have been bought within radius Of so
miles Of Rutland. The lack OF snow
viii bring the price of lumber to high
point, and what can be reached in the ,
woods on wheels brings a snug sum.
William Bliss, who is in Jail at st. {
JohnsbuTy under $1,000 bonds for the I
Tune term of court, charged with forg-
ng at least eight checks, has been iden-
ified by Miss Edwina Blodgett as the /
nan who entered her sleeping apart
nent Oct IA and robbed her of a $3.50
diamond ring and other jewelry Miss
3lodgett identified Bliss out of eight ]
prisoners as the man, and she has main
aimed since the robbery that she should
NOW him II she ever saw him again,
IS there was popularity about his v
lead and shoulders. Bliss admits that c
lie was in St Johnsbury 0et. IA. fl
Leon Ladle, employed by the Blair
'eneer company of North Troy, was =
rowned in veneer tank at the com !,
any's plant last week Thursday. Ladue ::
Tas not missed for ten minutes after he !
ell in and it wa only after continued !
earch and the use OF graphing hooks !"
hat his body was found. During ex- n
remedy cold weather, the steam rising j
rom the tanks Is SO dense as to partly !,
bscure things in their immediate vicini- :
y, and it is supposed that Ladue, in -
topping out doors from the MILL, failed "
D see the opening of one of the tanks, :"
nd in consequence, unwittingly dropped :,
Trough to his death. He had lived in :,
orth Troy about six months and leaves !.
wife and two small children. ~ ~