The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-15
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Friends OF John Barleycorn will aban.
don Rock Island, near Derby, after May
is, 1918, as the town OF Stanstead, T. Y,
has abolished the open saloon after a
long fight which the editor of the paper
has waged in the interests OF temper.
ance. Rock Island has been a popular
resort for some years.
Foresters of the Catholic order in semi
annual convention ut st. Johnsbury
adopted a resolution asking the post
master general to take action in exclud-
ing from the mails, copies of THE
Menace" weekly periodical published
In Missouri.
A rumor that Walter w. Husband of
st. bloomsbury would be congressional
candidate from the second district has
ben nailed TO the wall by Mr.. Husband,
himself. For personal reason, Mr.. Hus-
band explains, he prefers not to have his
name mentioned in connection with the
Office.
A certificate Of incorporation has been
Issued the Lake View Hotel Co. of Poult-
hey which has a capital stock of $4,000.
Returning from West Burke with
load of grain, Ernest Fifield of Sutton
alighted from the wagon for moment
and left the horses in charge of the lit
tie Switzer boy. While the drivers back
was turned, the horses ran away, the
boy, losing his balance, fell under the
wheels and was run over. His condition
is serious.
DIR. c. H. Bonney of Ludlow, for 10 |
years a practising physician, has given |
up his practice to accept travelling POI
sition with a drug firm. He has been |
assigned to territory in the middle west
ern states.
The recent orders of the state board
Of health in regard to the repairs which |
have been in progress at the county Jail |
in Newfane for the past two or three
months and which now requires the in
stallation of a modern three-story cage
with an up to-date locking system at an
expense of $4,000 settles the question for
many years if not for all time of the
removal of the county seat from New
fame to Brattleboro. Total improve
ments will aggregate $4,000 and this in
vestment combined with the remainder
of the county buildings, including the
court house, make the time far distant
when it will be possible to change the
shire town of Windham county.
A full-grown Rhode Island hen be-
longing to J. Franklin Giles of Hardwick
recently laid tiny egg that has made {
poultry fanciers in his locality look up. 2
When placed in thimble box, the egg :
oeupied only about half the space. 1t il :
/ brown color, weighs 81 grains and is e
'eyen-eights of an inch long and five =
lights OF an inch in width =
Robert Putnam Of Springfield, with
nine relatives in three-seater, started g
'ff on picnic recently. In crossing $
bridge, one of the stringers broke, three .
he stream below up to their bodies.
'hc VI Lheih was Dhuly HuTb ana tne PIC" =,
tic was postponed u
John F. Mccarthy, the young man who II
8 writing series of articles entitled =
The Confessions of Bank Robber," for u
he New York Sunday World, was cap CT
ured in Vermont after the robbing of a.
he bank in Newfane. He was pardoned o.
'efore he had served his full term in the m
tate prison at Windsor and was aft e'
rwards of much assistance to the au-
horities in securing the arrest of bank u
obbers and yeggmen. III
George Cunning, one of the students A
4 the state agricultural school, has left .
lyndon Center for Montreal, en- route
0 England where his parents live. Be-
ause he is corporal in the rural mil 2
ia, young Cunning expects TO see active 81
arvice in the continental conflict. /.
Two years ago Miss Goldie Swasey of 3
est Danville counted 81 automobiles :;