The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-16
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

; DIFFERENT SECTIONS
On two roads leading out of Brat
tleboro. two men destroyed on Tuesda,
AGO nests of tent caterpillars.
The Commercial club OF St. Johnsbur,
will have paid secretary the coming
year, j. b. Campbell, who will receiv,
$500 for his years services.
Two hundred and forty loads of ston,
land 20 loads OF dirt We're carted ontt
Island park in Brattleboro to fill in thu
holes washed out in the spring freshet.
The l25th anniversary of the organiza
ton of the Congregational church il
Rutland comes this fall, and it is pos
sble that there will be some formal OBJ
servance of the occasion.
Mrs. n. H. Cook of Rutland is at the
Rutland hospital suffering from bad
! fall which she received from the steps
of her home, striking against marble
slab and spralning both ankles.
!
A four-legged chicken Matched at a
Gulford farm last week, but died after
| Il few days. The two extra legs grew
from its spine and were curved. They
were normal in size and form, but prac-
tically useless.
A troop of gypsies in Sheffield, with
professional piekpockets, relieved jeff
Fuller of that place of 500. However,
Mr.. Fuller and officers overlook the band
near Barton and secured the $40 lost and
also $50 for cost.
Through the efforts of Senator Page,
by special act of Congress, two bronze
cannons and 80 cannon balls have been
presented to Lamoille county and the
same will be placed on the grounds in
front of the new court house.
The Brattleboro house is being torn
down to make a public square in front
Of the contemplated new union station,
which viii be erected the coming sum
mer. The hotel is about 4s years old
and has been landmark for long time.
Another Brattleboro dog has fallen
victim to the prisoners work. A large
dog belonging to c. Z. Booker of that
place died after terrible suffering and
post morsem examination showed a piece
% meat in its stomach saturated with an
arsenic solution.
Unsuccessful efforts have been made to
secure the body of Henry Melish, drown
ed in the Connecticut near Bellows Falls
last week. A diver is to be employed to
find the body. The currents are swift
at the point where the young man lost
his life.
johnson will attempt TO dispense with
the fly nuisance by the offer of prizes TO
those who bring in the greatest number
of pints OF dead flies before September
Is. DIR. Peaks of the state normal school
makes the offer to school children with
out restrictions. The largest prize viii
be So and the smallest, 50c.
As Jack Ward and his son, Charles,
we're leading colt in South Franklin |
one day last week, something frightened |
Il and it jumped into the wagon between !
.he two men and went down behind the |
horse which was being driven. The wag- |
IN was broken and the colt bruised. but |
neither man nor the other horse were |
lurt.
Willis Cole, who has been detained in
all at st. Johnsbury for several weeks
IN charge of contributory negligence
n connection with the suicide of his
wife, at Lyndonville, was released last
week as there was no evidence against
lin. He is again at his work in the
)winell drug store, in Lyndonville, but
las received no compensation for the
weeks of Imprisonment.
The fruit and strawberry crop in the
icnity OF Bellows Falls is thought to
ave been damaged Monday morning by
drop in temperature to % degrees
bove zero. In Morrisville, too, it is
bought the apple crop is seriously in
lred, and the butternut crop is probably ]
otally destroyed The low temperature
oes not seem to retard the tent cater
illar in the least.
The name of the cottage colony on
axe Lamoille in Morrisville has been !
hanged from Dreamwold to Samoset- on
axe Lamoille, owing to the fact that |
,rtain prominent place near Boston goes !
v the name of Dreamwold. The new
anne is particularly applicable since the r
,ttages are all named after the Pill i
rims, and the name of the Indian who e
elcomed them at Plymouth was Samo- 7
IT, Tan bark walks and drives have -
zen built to every cottage and a club !,
,,,so bas I,aau aJdaJ Thn LA .ottaro :,