The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-12

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Mr. and Mrs. John Raveigne of Nortl
Hero. They have had seventeen chill
dren, fifteen of whom are now living.
Several Windham county farmers ar,
giving alfalfa growing a good try thi.
summer. They are acting in co-opera
tion with the agricultural department
at Washington.
A Rutland woman who had been scot
fling at neighbor for taking salt petrt
by mistake, drank a mild solution Of
carbolic acid thinking it harmless
medicine. A physician saved her life
The Textile Review for August con
tains an excellent picture of the late
Albert 4. Jones, who was for twenty.
five years overseer of mills in Ludlow
He died recently in Uxbridge, Mass.
LAUNDERING interests in Newfane are
suffering severely by reason of short
age of freight cars. Not only shippers
but those who have orders in for heavy
lumber, are greatly Inconvenience by
the situation.
The work OF the Vermont association
for the blind has been started in Bur
lington where Roy Clukia, a specialist,
now has seven pupils whom he is in
structing daily in the Braille system of
ready and various handicrafts.
Mrs. G. H. Tucker of st. Adams es-
capped serious injury the other night
when bicycle collidsd with her as she
was out walking. st. Adams police
have received several complaints of per-
SONS breaking the bicycle ordinance.
! A horse valued at $3.50 belonging to
George Crowley ran away in hay
field in Mount Holly the other day and
collided with moving machine. Ten
dons which veterinarians discovered to
be severed, made it necessary to dis
patch the animal.
Through the untiring efforts of the St
| Johnsbury Commercial club, fifteen men
have purchased the St Johnsbuy house
with view to remodeling it into first
class inn for the accommodation of trav-
elers, especially tourists.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Firemen's association will be held in
White River Junction September Is dur
ing the state fair. A tournament will
be held and if it is not finished Thurs
day, it will be continued the following
day.
After leaky water main had under.
mined Vernon street in Brattleboro. Sat
urday, pair Of heavy gray horses at
tached to Crosby q Co.'s heavy truck
disappeared from sight. They were
rescued with ropes and straps after a
hard struggle.
George Schmidt, the young Rutland
aviator, left Saturday for Dayton, o.,
where he will purchase a new motor for
his bi-plane, Red Devil, preparatory TO
flights which he contemplates making
soon. He will also close up some con-
tracts for flying in Ohio.
Charging that they had broken into
motor boats along tie lake shore in
Burlington. police officers Friday arrest
ed Humbert Mazzoni and John Allen.
Each boy claims the other was the
principal in the thefts. They viii be
arraigned in juvenile court.
Governor Allen M. Fletcher has APP
pointed DR.. w. j. Aldrieh of st. Johns
bury. Dr. H. ID. Holton of Brattleboro
and j. Sutcliffe Hill of Bellows Falls
delegates to the fourth international
congress OF school hygiene to be held in
Buffalo August $3.50.
The Rutland Business Mems associa-
ton has appointed committee of its
members to study the advisability of
esta bishing the commission form of
in the Marble city. The
committee will file its report after a
thorough investigation of the question. |
There is move on foot to add |
a humane officer 10 the list of town of |
fcers in Chester at the next March |
meeting. A correspondent to Windsor |
driven through the streets OF the viii |
lage that are disgrace to the 'commu-
nifty.
A report has been received in Ben |
nington from the state laboratory in |
to the effect that the fox
terrier belonging TO Joseph Martin of |
Old Bennington, and which was killed |
under suspicion that the dog which had
bitten a man and several dogs had gone
mad, was not afflicted with rabies.
August 6 the first marriage that was
ever celebrated in the chapel at the
state industrial school in Vergennes
took place when Miss Emma j. Beers
was married to Wentworth Payne. Both
we're students at the institution. Mrs
Payne is now nation of the sewing
room and her husband is an assistant in
charge of work around the school.
The Elliott Gresson gold medal, the
highest award in the gift of the Franklin
institute of Philadelphia, has been
awarded to Prof Albert Sauver of
Harvard university for his important
to the science of metallog-
Apply. Prof. Sauveur is son of Prof.
Lambert Sauveur, who thirty years ago,
vas widely known French teacher in
st. Adams.
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