The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-11-28

heV. stephen fooks OF RUTLAND, ior
perly oil England, has accepted a call :
the pastorate of the Congregations
church at Pawlet.
North Bennington may also have
community Christmas tree this year, a
Burlington and some other places in tn
state are planning.
w. II. Taft of Vergennes secured I
buck in Ripton few day
ago, which had seven points. 1t was ont
Of the largest deer ever killed in Ripton
Hilda Ketchum, Brandon school girl
ran into telephone pole while sliding
down hill there Tuesday. She was in
jured about the head, as well as inter
naIly.
The churches and other institutions OF
Burlington sent out $50 baskets of pro-
visions for Thanksgiving, each contain
ing a chicken and other necessaries for
the holiday feast. The high school alone
sent out l5.
While saving wood in Broad Brook
(Sharonl Monday, John Gibson of that
place was badly hurt when the saw
few and struck him on both arms, cut
ting one so that 10 stitches had to be
taken and eight on the other.
Agricultural work at the Castleton
normal school proved very successful this
year, there being potato yield of 400
bushels to the acre. One-quarter OF an
acre planted with one piece of potato,
with single eye to each hill, yielded
Ts bushels, while another quarter of an
lcre, with two eyes to a hill, produced
100 bushels. One of the potatoes weighed
hree pounds and half,
Harry E. Rice of Rutland, brake
nan on the Delaware & Hudson road,
viii probably lose one foot as the re-
ult of an accident Wednesday. He was
landing on fiat car on which was
lock of marble weighing one ton, which,
yhen the car was bumped" slid in such
way as to catch Rice's foot beneath it,
nd he was held by it until the car could
e run some little distance to a derrick,
o lift the block. He is % years of age
nd unmarried.
George Smitch, member of the band
n the British ship Monmouth, which
yas sunk by. the German fleet off the
cast of Chile, was a nephew of Mrs.
red Fox of Burlington. 1t is certain
he boy, who was but 10 years old, per-
he'd, and his name was among the lost |
s published. Mrs. Fox also has an |
ncle and four cousins in service on diff |
rent ships, one stepbrother in the ar
llery at the front in France, another |
ationed on the Arctic, monitor doing |
Give service along the coast, and a
ephew, who has recently enlisted at
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Rumsey cele-
'ated their 50th wedding anniversary
their home in Burlington Nov. "a.
hey were given a purse of gold by the
'inooski Methodist church, more gold
: the Champlain Trust Co., of which
=. Rumsey is vice-president, and $50
gold by the family, besides many
her gifts. Mr.. and Mrs. Rumsey were
Arried in Manchester, N. H., Nov. "a,
CA, and have lived in Burlington since
SO. Mr.. Rumsey is rs and Mrs. Rum
Y II. Mr.. Rumsey served in the Civil i
lr one year. Since living in Burling-
n he has filed several city offices.
The Buick Motor Co.. by way of the
igtnp hrasa mob haa - ILL., .
'bbins OF Burlington the sum of $500 !
d the manager added his personal !
EEK of S25, towards assisting her finan-
lily in recovering from an accident she
'eived in Burlington last August, when
2 was struck by an automobile driv.
by one of the company's agents. Wit
sses declared that the chauffeur was
{ to blame for the accident, but Mrs.
'bbins suffered broken leg and a
used chest and was confined to the ,
spital with the injuries until about j
rec weeks ago, and the company did
at il could towards making amends.
Because someone who attended dance
the Dunn block in Rutland Tuesday !
Int threw a cigarette onto mat on b
floor, fire smouldered in il and a
med through three thicknesses Of .
Irds in the floor, being just ready TO E
ze up when a clubman who had for >
ten his coat stopped for il on his way "
catch an early train and found the 2
pient fire. The fremen were called II
loss which might have resulted in =
q figures was reduced 10 a minimum. ',
{ Dunn block was badly damaged by u
last spring. "
larence III. Carpenter, recently Of II
ndon, was badly injured "Wednesday =
Detroit, Mich. lie was found uncon- :.
nus 10 the street by two policemen n
taken 10 the hospital Two ribs :,
70 broken and his chest and head Sc
ely injured. On reRaining conscious.
:, Mr.. Carpenter could not tell Wheth- I
he was struck BY a street car or an "a
omobile. lie 10 general manager Of -
Bowser corporation in Detroit and
family moved there from brandon ~
; few weeks ago.
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