The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-26
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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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William Peters was sentenced to tire
months in county Jail at Rutland Sat
urday for trying to sell q bicycle whcl
he had borrowed from his cousin, Wal
ter Peters
The mid summer meeting of the Cal
edonia Forest and Stream club and the
Caledonia County Farmers association
will be held at the Caledonia county fail
grounds September =.
A break in the main shafting at the
Howe scale plant in Rutland threw zoe
men out of work from Friday until to-
day. The shaft which broke drove ma
chinery in all the shops.
Fred Lloyd of Fair Haven, whose au-
tomoble license was revoked because he
had been in two automobile accidents re-
Gently, has been given his license again,
after two weeks suspension.
Visitors are beginning to arrive in
Manchester for the National Amateur
golf tournament, which opens there
next Monday at the Ekwanok Country
club. A large attendance is expected.
Hattie, the fve-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Oliver H. Smith of Brat
tleboro, died Sunday of blood poisoning
caused by an liberated tooth An
abscess on back tooth broke, letting
the poison into her system.
While repairing the roof of the Inter
Ocean Shirt coInpany's building in Bel
lows Falls Wednesday morning, Fred L.
Shortsleeves, a steepleiack whose stunts
have been watched with interest by
many, lost bis foothold and plunged two
and half stories to the ground. He lies
in the Rockingham hospital seriously in
iured about the spine and internally.
Fred Leighton of Roxbury is in a crit
ical condition at Heaton hospital, Mont
pelier, where he was taken after being
hit by the swinging chain of a derrick
when he was struck lust at the base of
the skull, tearing open the scalp to the
top of his forehead, while the fall !
bruised him in several places about the
face.
As Walter C. Childs was driving home |
in his automobile from Middlesex to
Moretown Monday evening, the front |
wheel struck large stone, breaking i
the steering gcer, which caused the I
machine to run up a bank and over
turn. Mr.. Childs was uniniured, but /
was obliged to leave the car until day
light, when it was righted and driven to
Moretown on its own power.
The Carpenter company, Brattleboro,
are now running three days week. The
company has not released any men, pre-
ferring to run on short time, thereby
doing for them the best it can. To run
on full time without being able to make
any foreign shipments would be to pile Il
up the product and make shutdown
necessary later. The company looks for j
an Improvement soon, regardless of the j
war
Mrs. Martha Hastings wife of Deputy
Sheriff John F. Hastings of Middlesex,
died Monday at her home, following
shock which occurred a few weeks ago. ,,
Martha (Arbucklel Hastings was born
in Middlesex SO years ago and had al
ways lived in that town. In 1874 she
married Mr.. Hastings, who survives her
with two daughters, Mrs. Cooney and
Mrs Grace Dom, and one son, Clarence
Hastings OF Sharon. !
A new Rutland county industry which 7
shows good growth is that of the Bloom j
jon Manufacturing company at Brandon. t
This concern has started the manufac Q
ture of photo print trimmer which was 7
the invention of A. L. Bird of Brandon a
The Eastman and Ansco Photographic t
have become interested in the I
invention and the Brandon company L
have all the orders that they can fill for
some time. :
The Prettiest Boat Ride in America, to
Maquam Bay, Returning Through the
Alburg Passage, via St. Adams and
the Steamer Chateaugay, Sunday, Aug.