The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-06
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

| DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The corner stone of the new federal
building in Richford will be laid in a
! few days.
Cassius VIM raised 400 bushels OF
potatoes this season on his farm in Jack
sonville.
The hay crop about st. Adams is
much better than the season seemed to
! indicate. Loose hay retails at about
$l3 al ton and baled hay at -sl7 ton,
wholesale.
The case against II. II. Howe, of
Brookline, Mass, charged with allowing
prisoner to escape from the Windham
county jail at Newfane, was mol pressed
by the states attorney.
A new map of Brattleboro is to be
made by Gilman g. Helyar, who plan a
survey lasting month. There is no
accurate map of the town in existence.
The cost of making the map will be
$500.
The Snowflake Canning company of
Brattleboro canned 100000 cans of corn
this season, little short of what was
expected from the acreage contracted Tor
last fall, but all that could be expected
considering the very dry .sason.
A three-inch hardwood board was
thrown from saw in the mill of F. S.
Bellows in Wilmington one day last
week, striking Mr. Bellows across the
forehead and inflcting bad cash over
his eyes, besides otherwise bruising his
face.
Two boys about l6 years old are miss.
ing from the state industrial school,
Vergennes. One has only one arm, the
other being missing from below the
shoulder, deformity with which he
was born. His companion is of much
darker complexion than he.
Mfr. and Mrs. Ira Waite of Peru OBJ
served the 63rd anniversary of their
marriage recently Mr., Waite is SO and
Mrs. Waite 81. They have lived in the
house where they now reside for At
years. They have six children, 81 grand.
children and IA great grandchildren.
Z. F. Greenwood OF Enosburg Falls
has brought suit against B. F. Me-
Feeters, village trustee, for 800 dam
age on an action for alleged trespass in
cutting down a shade tree said TO be on
Mr., Greenwood's proPoTty, The case is
returnable at the March term of the
Franklin county court.
A meeting of citizens was held at the
armory in Mortified Friday evening by
invitation of Captain Howe of Co Y,
TO inspect plans for a new state armory
building, and to take action for the
raising of funds to secure site, as re
CURED by act of the recent legislature
before state aid can be secured
Rev. i. G. Woodwork, late acting
pastor of the South Congregational
church of New Britain. Conn, has been
engaged as acting pastor of the North
Congregational church at st. Johnsbury
and will begin his duties Sunday, sue
ceeding Rev. G, w. C. He'll, who is the
new pastor of the South church in New
Britain.
There were "a commitments to the
Rutland county Jail in September, and
nine to the house of correction. OF
the nine commitments to the house Of
correction, five were for tramping. OF
the "a commitments to the county Jail
nine were in default of bail, Ia for in
toxication, eight for safe keeping, two
for petit larceny, and one for breach of
the peace.
Mrs. G. Marshall Pierce committed
suicide at her home in St. Adams. Sat
urday morning, due TO encouragement
over continued i'll health, from which
she had been suffering for three months.
Due to her IN health, Mr. and Mrs.
Pierce had been up all night and Satur-
day morning went TO their rooms. When
Mr.. Pierce went to the door to admit
caller to see ais wife, he discovered
her body hanging in her room. Besides
her husband she leaves a son. She was
born in Jericho in October. 1871. and
had lived in st. Adams since 1861.