The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-12
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

ii DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The grand list of the town of Ben
nington has increased over 81 900 sine,
d last year through the abolishing of Off
r sets.
The 9lst marriage license to be ia,
sued in Burlington during 1913 was
l. granted Thursday at the city clerks
office
Mr.. and Mrs. Barna Il. Phelps oh.
J served the 45th anniversary Of their
: wedding Tuesday at their home in West
Brattleboro.
The Tooth anniversary OF the Wash
ington county grammar school will be
held Thursday, June 10. with recep-
tion and dance at Montpelier.
Pupils OF the ninth grade OF st. Johns
bury have gone on a trip to Boston and
vicinity, having through their own eff
forts raised Sl73 for the trip.
When completed, st. Johnsbury will
probably have grand list in excess of
$4,000. There is large increase in the
amount OF personal property taxed
| An active campaign of repression and
punishment is being waged in Rutland
against peddlers who refuse to comply
with the state law in procuring licenses.
Mrs. Lydia Puffer Clark OF st. Johns
bury, wife Of John c. Clark general SUI
perintendent of the 4. & T. Fairbanks
company, died Friday after a long i'll.
ress.
A Ife-szed portrait OF Gen. Phil Sher-
idan has been presented to Cha mberlain
post, G. A. R., of st Johnsbury, by S.
o. Todd of st. Johnsbury Center, who
painted it.
The taxable property in Bratteboro
/ for 1918 is Sl,00s, 500 more than in 1912,
due largely to the abolishing of offsets.
! The total list is $7-376,074, and the mum
Der II polls 2,l26, an increase OF 1855.
Representative Herbert A. Staten of
Vernon, who was shot by Hugh Collins
tNuuuuN hHu 10 AT tHt aitiilp- |
rial hospital, will probably recover. |
Part OF one Of the bullets fred at him |
was found, where it had evidently |
dropped out Of the gaping wound in his
forearm.
The two largest taxpayers at Win
ooski this year are the American Wool
en- company which property appraised at
$Gi1 800 and the Porter Screen Manu-
featuring company with a tax list OF
$l92,500. The Burlington Light and
Power company is third with $4,000.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
state board of pharmacy to examine can
didates desiring registration in pharma
cy, and to transact any other business
which may regularly come before said
meeting, will be held at the State House
at Montpelier on Thursday, July s. at
10 a. m. Mason G. Beebe, secretary.
A shower of plaster and other debris
came down upon Carl Lilliqist, who Is
recovering from an operation for appen
dicitis at the Memorial hospital in Brat /
tlchoro, f. r.. Vanderpool at work in /.
THE storeroom above, had stepped on :
thinly covered portion of the floor and
was hanging partially through the open
ing.
A large amount of hay is being
thought into Burlington at the present :
lime as the farmers are evidently anx-
ons to get room in their barns and rid
themselves of last years crop. Ten
cads OF hay of good quality were of G
'ered and taken on the city market q
grounds Thursday and sold for from n
Sl2 to S14 per ton. l.
Forty five hens, belonging TO Mrs. Il
lane T.. Gale of Guilford have been 81
titled SO far this season by automobiles -
md many of the birds have been so
rushed and ground into the dirt as to
,e hardly recognizable. OF the As auto
only one. DIR. Il. r. Lynch of n
has stopped his car or "
hown any regret over the accident. DIR, e,
.ynch left a sum of money to pay for 4.
he bird he accidentally killed. di
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A four ton automobile truck. loaded ~
18th about four tons of furniture, bound in
rom Massachusetts, for Chester, broke ga
trough a bridge in Saxtons River, June ca
, but fortunately did not drop into the tn
'ater. Men worked from o'clock that IN
vening until the next morning before ali
was back on the solid planking The
iauffeur was somewhat in doubt as 10 oil
re condition of the $1,000 worth of
It glass packed among the goods.
Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer. wife of the editor -
the New York World and daughter
DIR. Seward Webb of Shelburne is
aging the part of fairy godmother to 81
lie newsboys of the metropolis She is tri
lie originator of a scheme for their So
al betterment and chairman of com yol
ittee to raise funds for the erection
a clubhouse for the little waits who wit
IN their living by selling papers in the o.
reefs. Mrs. Pulitzer proposes to give Nc
ese youngsters a common home where dis
ey can get the right kind of enjoyment arc
il of life, and she hopes similar move sott
ents will be taken up in other cities. in
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