The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-27

Twenty patients were admitted to the
Rutland hospital last week and Is We're
discharged. There are now % patients
in the institution.
Rev. A. E. Martin, pastor of the Con-
gregational church in Wilmington, has
accepted call to the pastorate of the
Congregational church in Turner'S
Falls, Mass.
So many logs have been delivered at
Brattleboro mills that it has been nee
essary to refuse to accept more in some
cases. The S. A. Smith Manufacturing
company has over 100000 feet in its
yard.
Homer G. Bristol, who died in Brook
lyn, N. Y, Thursday evening at the age
OF SO, was principal of Vermont academy
at Saxtons River for three years prior
to 1897, when he left Vermont to engage
in educational work in Brooklyn. At the
time of his death, he was president of
the principals association of New York
City.
Nathan d. Mann of Wilmington for
40 years a director of the Wilmington
bank, is So years of age and during his
long service % of his fellow directors
have died. The annual bank meeting
was last Tuesday, and for the first time
in the 40 years Mr., Mann was unable to
attend, being confined to his home by
rheumatism.
Miss Maude Sparks and Miss Helen
Ellis came near perishing with the
cold on January ID, while walking to the
formers home in Middlebury. In order
to shorten the distance the young ladies
started to cross the fields, but the deep
snow retarded their progress and in con
sequence Miss Eells received several
frozen toes, while Miss Sparks is threat
ened with pneumonia.
The loss by fire in Burlington in 1918
was $4,000, the largest for some years.
1t was also a record for alarms, the de-
partment responding to 1874. Most of
the loss was confined to four fires, that
at the Shepard & Morse Lumber COM
pany, the g. s. Blodgett company, the
Horatio Hickock company and the Per-
lection Overgaiter company and grist-
mill property. The loss was practically
covered by insurance.
J. w. Hovey of East Hardwiok will be
81 years old on the morning of May 8
next. During the present winter he went
into the woods on the Hovey home place,
cut down several trees and hauled them
to the house. There, with handsaw,
he cut the logs into stove length and
then split the blocks into stove wood.
Friends of Mr.. Hovey believe that he has
few equals as o wood cutter in the 81
year-old class in Vermont. Mr.. Hovey
is still rugged and will cut more wood.
Alexander Tuscany and L. j. Peter |
son of St. Adams have been granted |
patent on stanchion retainer The OBJ |
jeets of the invention are to provide that |
when the keeper of the stanchion is in !
an open position the device will latch |
the pivoted stanchion against horizontal |
swinging movement, the construction be- |
ing such that when the keep is swung
inwardly to locked position the stan
chion will be released automatically for |
such movement; and also to hold the |
keep firmly in its latched position. |
About 400 of the devices are already in !
use in Franklin county. Mr., Tuscany |
is foreman in the Central Vermont |
foundry and Mr.. Peterson is black
smith.
Burlington police commissioners have
not signed the commission of Sophia |
Tabouret, who has been made a special |
policewoman by Mayor Burke. Certain
objections ~ the appointment have come
to the attention of the commissioners
and although they may not prevail
against the appointment, they viii be
given due consideration by the board.
A meeting was held on the subject Sat
urday night and another will be held
early this week before the commissioners
decide on whether they will attach their
signatures to the qualifying document.