The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-23
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

/ The ladies' association of the Centre
| Congregational church of Brattleboro
has raised over $1,000 during the last
| year.
! Peter Larson of Brattleboro, who had
| been blind long time, was operated on
for cataracts recently and can now see
| perfectly.
The congested condition of the freight
| yard at Brattleboro, due to the extern
sive improvements at the local station,
caused a good deal OF friction in getting
the Valley fair shipments in and out of
| town.
Harvey Whiting of Shelburne young
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Whiting,
was watching two boys scufile at school
few days ago, when one of the two
was pushed against him, throwing him
to the ground and breaking both bones
in one wrist.
Lucien A. Wait, native of Highgate,
founder of the Cascadilla school and
professor emeritus of Cornell university,
died the other day at Clifton Springs,
N. Y. He retired from active service
at the university in 1910. He was born
in Highgate in 1916.
Shooting is getting too promiscuous
in Brattleboro for comfort. As Mrs.
Leavitt was sitting in an upstairs bed
room, bullet whizzed through the win
dow near which she was sitting, and
another went through the kitchen win
dow. near which the maid was standing.
DIR. w. NJ Robb, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Robb of West Brattleboro, ply
stefan of Keene. n. H., escaped death
Sept. IL only because the top of his
automobile was up. The doctor was
motoring along when, in going over
rough piece of road, the front spring
broke and he lost control of the car,
going over a bank. His left leg was
broken and he was badly bruised
The Green Mountain Marble company
Of Rutland are to put force of about
20 men at work within few days to
take marble out of the Baronial quarry,
better known as the umbrella" quarry,
at West Rutland. The property has
been in the possession of the Rutland
concern about three years but has not
been worked. The marble produced at
this quarry is in various shades of green,
The Green Mountain company is also
to put ten more men at work at their
main plant on Columbian avenue imme-
diateIy. because of increased business.
James A. Smith, who has just been
nominated by President Wilson consul
general at Calcutta, promotion from
Genoa, was formerly superintendent
of the Barney Marble company at Swan
ton. Later he was superintendent of
marble interests at Brandon, Middlebury
and Beldens Falls with headquarters at
Middlebury. He was living at the latter
place when he was first appointed to the
service about Is years ago through the
efforts of the late Senator Redfeld Proc
tor, his assignment being Florence. Italy.
A call has, been extended to the Rev.
Charles w. Hidden, who holds pastor
ate in Essex Junction, by the Gentry
Street Baptist church of Jamaica Plain,
Mass Mr. Hidden was born in New
buryport and after spending a number
OF years on the Newburyport Herald he
studied medicine at the University of
Vermont where he received his NJ. D. |
degree. He practised in Newburyport |
a short time and then took to lecturing |
on temperance and atheism. In 1908 he |
entered a private theological school and |
after he was ordained he preached in |
the south and then in Kansas, going |
from there to Essex Junction.
Ernest L. Wilder of Springfield may
lose his eyesight as the result of prac
teal joke played by young man OF
that place, when he sent a spray of am
monia through an atomizer straight into
Wilder's face. Wilder was standing on |
the steps of the Dodge pharmacy when
Walter Mills, aged is, came out of the
drugstore and is alleged 10 have snraypd |