The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-11
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

An unknown person broke into Rut,
land cigar store Tuesday night and stole
$40 In money.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. Il. Laird observed the
5sth anniversary OF their marriage at
West Barnet, Friday.
The work Of packing and boxing of
young trees for shipment has begun at
the Charles Downer state forest in
Sharon.
A. L. st. Peter, st. Johnsbury black.
smith, has a blind hen which lays two
eggs a day, one shortly after a. m. and
another little before p. m.
When ]. G. Michel of St. Johnsbury
killed hen for dinner the other day, he
found mbedded in her crop gentle
mans stick pin, two and three-fourths
inches in length, set with a small moon.
stone.
An insane patient. who had escaped
from the retreat at Brattleboro. was
located at White River Junction, where
the man had been working for a few
days, until his peculiar actions made
him noticeable and he was arrested.
Frank Heath, employed by the st.
Johnsbury street department, went to
work as usual Monday noon, had an at
tack OF dizziness and died almost in
stantly. He was 50 years OF age and
is survived by a wife and six children.
A new Young Mems Christian asso-
citation has been organized at Bristol, and
a meeting place has been secured in the
Board OF Trade rooms. There is a wom-
ans auxiliary being formed to assist. B.
W. Estey is president of the Y. NJ. c. A.
The Consolidated Ice Delivery Co., Of
Burlington announce an increase OF five
cents hundred pounds in the retail OF
ice for the coming season. The stock OF
ice is about 1000 tons less than a year
ago and the shortage in large cities
makes demand for all surplus at fancy
prices.
Ralph d. Tompkins, the one.legged
globe trotter who was in Barre and
other places in the state less than year |
ago, on his journey, is completely out
Of the walking business at North Adams,
Mass, for time. He fell down stairs |
1T his boarding house there Monday |
night and sprained his one remaining
mike.
Alonzo Wood, a native of Burlington,
md for the past 90 years an Adirondack.
guide, is dead in a Utica hospital. He t
was born in 1884 and after reaching the
lge of Is gave his entire time to plotting
PARTIES through the Adirondack wilds.
During his long career he took care OF 4
many important personages, and was
me of the most popular guides in the
egion.
John A. Scheuerle of Hartford has re-
igned his position as secretary of the
bennington Co. Vermont Improvement
ssociation to accept similar position
n Hampden county Mass, the move
nent there being backed by the Mass
ehusetts agricultural college and the
Board of Trade He has also
cen asked to deliver series of five lee
ures on rural betterment before the
tudents of Yale divinity school
A dispensary for the free treatment OF
DOR people is being established at the
larry Fletcher hospital, Burlington, and
I'LL be equipped and ready to care for
atients in a short time. The appropria !
ion made by the recent state legislature G
, the University of Vermont college Of
ledicine for the purpose OF establishing
free dispensary and increasing the ia @
lities for clinical teaching in other :
avs, has made it possible to equip the Z
ispensary and meet the incidental ex- 4
enses of maintaining it.
DIR. j. NJ Allen and George w. Cald- =
eek of ST. Johnsbury have purchased L
ne R. VI. Lawrence farm in Waterford, =
hch is termed by State Fish and Game h
Titcomb as one of the e
,st trout ponds in Vermont, and are =
forming trout club, with 81
lares at reasonable rate, to purchase 81
lie ponds and buildings and establish 3
trout preserve. There is a fine spring -