The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-30

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walk on his way to church and suffered
fracture of both bones of one leg be-
low the knee.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Cobb OF Burling-
tin have a cannon ball which was found
six feet below the surface of the ground
when pipes We're being laid in the yard.
The ball weighs six pounds and must be
relic of the War of 1872.
There were 1896 Red Cross Christmas
seals sold in Rutland during the last
holiday period. Frank II. Chapman, who
has the distribution OF the stamps for
Rutland In charge, says this is 7o7 more
than year ago and the best record ever
made in the city.
Mrs. Bert Shattuck of Rutland mar
rowly escaped serious injury Tuesday
afternoon, while melting wax on her
Kitchen stove. The wax caught fire,
burning both of her arms, one of them
quite badly and setting her clothing on
fire.. Neighbors extinguished the flames.
The power house of the Clarendon
Marble company, located at Clarendon
Springs, was totally destroyed by fire
early Tuesday morning. The loss, about
81. 900, is particularly covered by insur-
ance. 1t is expected that it will be re-
built at once and in the meantime
temporary structure will be erected to
furnish power for removing the blocks
of marble from the quarry.
Lewis NJ. Begor suffered painful &C.
cident Monday, while dressing hogs for
Hosea L. Langeway in Monkton. They
had four dressed and hung on the limb
of an apple tree, and as Mr.. Begor was
about to finish them, the limb broke and
fell, striking the knife in such way
that it cut his left wrist, severing the
cord, artery and cutting into the bone.
Miss Ellen NJ. Pierce, native OF Wealth
ersfeld, where she was born March Is,
1882, died last Saturday in Hanover, n. |
II. After completing her education and
teaching in the public schools OF Salem, |
Mass, for some years, she entered the
service of the American Missionary as
ISOLATION in 1859 and was principal of |
schools in South Carolina and Alabama |
for four years. In 1874, she received an
under the American Board |
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
and began teaching in the girls school at
Aintab, Asiatic Turkey, Later she be-
came principal of that school, which po-
sition she held until 1898, and then con
tinued as matron of the seminary until
1904, when failing health and impend-
ing blindness made it necessary for her
to relinquisl her duties abroad. Miss
Pierce resided for time in Barton.
Joseph Garreau. who conducts hotel
in Troy. n Y, but who until recently
was resident of Bennington, pleaded
guilty in municipal court Wednesday to
the charge OF taking deer out of the
state in violation of one of the provis-
ions of the fish and game laws. He was
fined 500. In view of the fact that he
claimed he was not aware of the par
tieular provision of the law, the fine was
Garreau purchased the deer
N Bennington during the open season in
November and took it to Troy for the I
purpose of opening his hotel with a I
yenison dinner. Before leaving the vii
age with the deer he sought counsel of
local attorney, who informed the
lotel man that he would be violating no
Vermont law in taking the deer out of
he state. This fact was laid before the
,ourt