The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-01

Daniel j. Callahan OF Rutland Su1ere0
serious injury Monday afternoon
when knife with which he was cutting
side Of frozen beef slipped and buried
itself in his wrist, severing an artery.
Mrs. Herbert Mayo has shipped is
dozens of eggs from Stowe in the past
two weeks from flock of go hens. She
attributes her success to the use of
milk, which she keeps before the hens
every day.
Dan Fish, who works in p. f. Hinchey
& Co.'s slate mill in Hydeville, was
badly burned Monday morning The
rubbing bed froze Sunday and could not
be started without thawing. He used
gasoline and with bad results.
Alex. Lovely was recently badly
burned in the Mcclure mill at Chester,
when, in working about the boiler, he
accidentally hit the exhaust hose, the
coupling coming apart and the full force
of the steam striking him in the back
of the head. The burns are very large
and painful, but it is expectd he will
recover.
The four rural free delivery carriers
who start from st. Adams handled TO-
900 pieces of mail for the $500 persons
on these routes during the six days of
the holiday season. OF this. $4,000 were
letters and postal cards, 5000 papers and
magazines and 5000 were parcels. Sew
enty-f per cent. was delivered and
rs per cent. collected.
While e. N. Miller was driving toward
Leicester from Brandon, Sunday, his
sleigh was overturned and the horse
was thrown in a snow drift. Mr.. Mil
Ter was obliged to unharness and while
doing this the horse got away. Mr..
Miller could not catch it and was forced
to walk overall miles to the nearest
house. The horse has not been located
yet.
Mrs. Louisa Converse, aged 81 years,
nearly lost her life at her home in Pan
ton Dec 81, from gas escaping from a
coal stove. She was unconscious for "a
hours, and it was only by hard work on
the part OF a physician that her life
was saved. A peculiar fact in connec-
ton with the instance was that it was
the first time in her life Mrs. Converse
had required the services OF physician.
Fire in Bartonsville Monday night de-
stroyed three large buildings, used for
many years as a hotel, and the barns
adjoining. A defective chimney is sup
posed to have been the cause of the
fire. The buildings were used as coun-
try store, postoffice and dwelling by A.
i. Day. The family were asleep when
the fire broke out and saved absolutely
nothing All the postofice fixtures and
mail were destroyed. The loss is be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 and is insured.
Miss Molie Chatiield, resident of
Brattleboro for, many years, who was
found dead by her own hand in her
studio in New York City Monday night,
was one of the 10 women who, because
of their handsome face and figure, were
painted as the muses. on the inside of
the cover of the Steinway piano, which
is in the East room of the White House
at Washington. This piano was built
at cost of $4,000, and the expense
of making the paintings was $500.
1t is thought mental trouble, brought
on by the death of her sister, last July,
was responsible for Miss Chatfield's act.
John M. Wolfe of the clothing firm of
Abbott & Wolfe of Bellows Falls, res
ident OF North Walpole, n. H., has
been appointed deputy stamp collector
of internal revenue, beginning to-day.
Mr.. Wolfe is a young man and we'll
known Democrat. The present holder
of the Office is w. c. Belknap, editor of
the Bellows Falls Times, who has been
deputy collector since 1904. The in
ternal revenue stamps for this district
are sent to many points in Vermont and
New Hampshire. The remuneration is
$500 year.