The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-29

brought to recover a loan. The defend
ant appealed to county court.
John Daley of Brandon is ill in the
Proctor hospital with serious case of
lockjaw. He dropped a piece of marble
on his foot week ago, but felt no bad
effects from it until the lockjaw devel-
oped.
The amount expended for buildings,
completed or begun, in 1918 in Rutland,
will total 100000. Applications were
made to build so dwelling houses during
the year. The new theatre and play
house cost $4,000, and Wright & Young
are building 100000 block.
A peculiar hens egg was on exhibit
ton in Manchester recently, it being
double. 1t was made up of two soft
shelled eggs connected with ligament,
one of the eggs contained the yolk while
the other contained the white portion.
1t was laid by a Rhode Island Red hen
belonging to A. N. Towsley.
William johnson of Sunderland was
arraigned in court Wednesday on the
charge of killing doe contrary to law.
He pleaded guilty and was fined the
statutory amount of 800 and costs.
Because of the circumstances the fine
was RENTED and Johnson was placed
in the charge of the probation officer.
At the Christmas morning service at
st. Andrews church, st. Johnsbury, the
choir sang as an offertory, compost
ton OF the organist, Hugh Mackinnon,
"Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair The
words and music are both by Mr.. Mack
innon and the composition is dedicated
to his father and mother.
A valuable pair of horses belonging to
James Baich, Springfield truckman,
fell down l50-foot embankment re-
Gently, one of the animals breaking its
leg so it had to be killed. The driver
escaped with bruises. The team was
being backed up to dump, when
noise frightened the horses and they
went down the embankment.
There were only 81 prisoners to pass
Christmas day in Chittenden jail, less
than one-third of the number of year
ago, when there We're IS inmates. Dep
uty Sheriff Todd furnished an extra din
ner in honor of the day. The jail now
contains only one man with very Sc
rious charge hanging over him. That
is the negro Benson, who is charged with
murder. There are two women in the
Jail. Usually at this season there are
many dodgers, but the number has been
very small this year.
News has been received of the death
of Harry Robinson, the postoffice inspec-
tor who. with the Wood Morgan detec-
tive agency, was instrumental in cap
turing the gang of yeggmen who for sew
eral months were engaged in breaking
into numerous postofiices throughout the
state. He has also figured prominently
in the capture of many other criminals.
Mr. Robinson suffered an acute attack
of appendicitis and died after an i'll
ness OF only few days in hospital
outside of Lynn, Mass.
William Spinney and Miss Mabel Fos-
ter, daughter of Mrs. d. J. Foster of
Burlington, We're married in New York
Wednesday, Dec. "a, The groom is a
recent graduate of Brown university and
is in the employ of Henry Holt s Co.
the New York publishers. The bride is
a graduate of Bryn Mawr. She has for
several years been interested in settle
ment work and has for some time been
on the staff of Greenwich house, which
will now be the home of the couple,
A man from Readsboro, named Tain
tor, patient in the North Adams,
Mass, hospital, where he underwent an
operation for appendicitis, while under
the influence of an opiate, got out OF
the hospital through an open window,
wandered down across the snow covered
fields and was found standing on rock
in the middle of brook in Brooklyn
street shortly before midnight one night
last week. Despite his adventure, Mr..
Taintor is reported as resting well in
the hospital and shows decided signs of
improvement. The nurse was absent
from his room hut a moment, but when
she returned he was missing A search
was made and the police notified, with
the result that Mr.. Taintor was soon
back in his bed