The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-04-30
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

The officials of the Rutland fair assoc
citation were present at the fair grounds
Friday and in observance OF Arbor day
overlooked the planting of LOG young
! trees.
f. S PAYNE had hard time at first
| in getting a grass fire started at ms
nome in Woodstock, but when it did get
started it burned over 20 acres before IT
could be stopped
H. S. Marshall, the champion sheep
shearer of East Panton, recently sheared
with hand shears, As sheep for Frank
! Warner of West Fcrrisburg, caught
them and did up the wool in 0 hours and
| 80 minutes
| Mrs. T.. Z. Fenton met with an acci-
dent at her home in Westminster that
confined her TO the bed for some days.
She dropped a can OF washing powder on
the floor causing it to explode, burn
ing her face badly
Dominic Merlin, young Italian Of
! West Rutland, was seriously and pos
sibly fatally injured Saturday after
noon when small scale fell from the
side Of the Mulin quarry, driving rib
through his lungs. He is about "A years
! old and has no relatives in this country
| Undoubtedly the largest single ship.
| ment Of maple sugar that ever left Will
mngton, was shipped April 10 by w. >.
Brown, there being nearly 90 tons, max
ing four carloads, a part of it going to
! New York to be used in candy and a
part to North Carolina to be used in
tobacco.
Gust Kupfer, ir., the four year-old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Kupfer, OF
Rutland, while at play Sunday alter
noon near where a house was torn down.
fell into the cellar, which was full OF
water, and was nearly drowned The
Grossman house was torn down some
months ago and as the cellar was not
filed. the overflow from the standpipe
keeps it full OF water.
The property of the oxford Linen Co
in North Brookfield, Mass, win be sold
May ID, to satisfy mortgage OF $4,000
held by w. b. Plnnkett. The plant cost
S250,000 to build and equip. This is
the company that attempted to locate
in Bellows Falls few years ago and
which even went so far as to place a
few machines in the buildings of the
Casein Manufacturing Co.
On March l6. George Sylvester, en-
ploved by the international Paper Co,
Of Bellows Falls, placed his name on a
piece of paper, placed the paper IN a
half pint bottle, pressed in the cork and
threw the bottle into the Connecticut
river Later he received a letter con-
tanning the piece OF paper having his
name and stating that the bottle had
been picked up on Long Island on
March 81.
F. Chauncey Perry, for nearly Al years
stage driver between Woodstock and
South Pomfret, died April IA at his
home in the latter place. Only once IN
the "a years, during the blizzard OF 1898,
did Mr. Perry have an interrupted sched-
ile. That night he had to leave his
team and 90 forward on foot, and then
could get no further than Pomfret Cen
ter, where he spent the night. His one
passenger on the trip, Winslow White,
died soon after the exposure
Charles Goodreault of Concord, this
state. nineteen years old, has been miss
ing from his home since last Wednes-
day and no clue can be obtained OF his
whereabouts. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Goodreault, are anxious about his
safety. The young man worked about
the farm as usual on Tuesday and when
the family retired was in his room read
ing. The young man took only his b.
cycle and some family photographs. He
was dressed in blue serge suit.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Sheldon of the
Sheldon hotel in st. Johnsbury went
over bank in their new touring car
Sunday night and in some miraculous
way escaped injury. Mr. Sheldon was
driving the car. The wind shield was
broken and the wheel and lights twisted.
The accident happened five miles from
st. Johnsbury when the car struck
board placed over a bad place in the
road.
A few days ago Dank cnecK book
and mileage were found on the kitchen
shelf of the house where Henry Ward
of New Haven Junction lived at the
time OF his murder, December last.
The house has been thoroughly searched
bv officers and relatives since the crime
was committed and all unite in their
positiveness that the books We're not
there until recently. An entry in the
check book shows that Ward had de-
post of 81 900 in a Middlebury bank.
Inquiry at the bank showed the money
was still there and had been since the
date named in the book. Whether the
murderer obtained access to the house
and left the books as partial restitution
to the legal heirs is not known, but the
searchers are positive they have not
overlooked it all these months.
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