The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-12-16
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS


Harlow A. Sheldon of st. Adams, a
carpenter, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy with Clerk +. S. Platt of the
United States court. He has liabilities
OF S375.25 and assets of $l62 with Sl5O
claimed exempt.
While coastiig in Burlington Friday,
Helen Cobleigh was thrown and broke
the right radius about two inches from
the wrist, and severely sprained her lett
arm. She has suffered considerable pain.
and can not use either hand.
Little Audrey Pettingill a Newport
Center girl, nearly died as the result OF
drinking from a cup which had con-
tanned washing fluid The accident hap
pened Monday, Dec. s, and it was due to
the fact that only few drops remained
in, the cup that the child's life was saved.
She has suffered exceedingly but is
slowly recovering.
A. NJ Glasgow and William McCor-
mick, who live beyond the Canadian line,
were hunting fox with couple of
hounds, Nov. 20, and crossed the inter
national boundary into Alburg, where
they were arrested, pleaded guilty and
fine with costs was imposed upon them,
which amounted to about S2S each
Hoyt Quimby of Windsor was one of
the seven boys from Massachusetts and
Vermont, who ranked as corn champions
and who were presented diplomas by
Secretary Houston of the department
of agriculture. There were 70 boys in
the delegation. President Wilson's hard
cold prevented him from receiving the
boys.
Work on the "fill" through the islands
on the Rutland railroad has ceased and
the road is now in good shape for rough
weather. The work train crew has been
dismissed and there will be no more
work done until spring. Thousands of
carloads of great marble blocks have
been dumped on both sides of the fill and
it seems impossible that there can be
another washout such as occurred last
spring
General Manager /. M. Frost of the
Rutland Railway Light & Power COM
pany has offered reward of $25
for the arrest and conviction of any per-
son tampering with the transmission
lines, lamps or equipment of the COM
pany. Big arc lights have been lowered
during the night and interference with
transmission lines has been going on for
some time,
Because he talked too much, deputy
sheriff from Port Henry. n. Y, said to
have warrant for William Crossman,
formerly of Shrewsbury, wanted on a
larceny charge, missed his man and re-
turned to New York state empty hand |
ed after midnight trip to Shrewsbury
Wednesday. The officer spent some
time in Rutland and talked freely of his |
quest, thus giving Crossman plenty of
opportunity to get away.
Alden L. Afford died Wednesday at |
his home in Castleton at the age of 90 |
years. He was the oldest resident of |
the town and was born in Graniteville, |
N. Y, August so, 1920. Mr.. Afford was
in good health during the last years of |
his life and walked to the village week |
before he was confined to his bed by his |
last illness. During the past year he
split up his wood pile, took care of a |
good sized garden, husked so bushels of |
earn and lived alone the greater part OF |
the time. He was an ardent Republican |
in politics, having cast his vote at every |
election since he became of age.
Mrs. Almira Slater who lives with her |
daughter, Mrs. +. II. Stanley, in Essex |
junction, was 90 years old Saturday. |
Mrs. Slater is in very good health, but is |
quite deaf. She is able to read some |
without glasses and takes much interest |
in the newspapers She is able to go up |
and downstairs several times day and |
does most of the work in her room. |
Mrs. Slater was one of Ii children of |
Joel Greeley, Revolutionary soldier. /
Mrs. Slater has two sisters, Mrs. Almeda |
Britell of Thompson, H., who will be 81 |
in January, and Mrs. Laura Hind of /
Jewell, Iowa, who will be 90 next April. |
Her husband died IA years ago.
An unknown man. about 20 years old, |
and known to be Civil war veteran by
the button which he wore on the lapel of |
his coat, was found dead behind the
kitchen stove in the house of Watson
Hicks in Nottingham, where he spent
Thursday night. Since about Thanks
giving time he had been in that vicinity |
and had worked at various places. At
MIR. Hicks he complained of not feeling
in the best of health and refused to
leave the kitchen that night He could
talk English and German, but upon his
death not scrap of paper or cent of
money could be found upon his person.
Ralph Newton, a Georgia farmer,
was tried in st. Adams city court Dec.
IL, on the charge of selling short weight
butter, but the jury disagreed and the
case will be tried again later 1t is al
legged he delivered what was supposed to
be AZ pounds of butter at a st. Adams
store, in pound prints, the whole weigh
ing actually only 80 pounds, ~ ounces.
A second short weight butter case is that
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