The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-19
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Three little pigs and a young gosling
live tooether in a pen at the home OF
HUGH 0,Neil in White River Junction.
They eat together from the same trough,
and when the gosling lies down lor
nap the pigs encircle her and also TAKE
snooze.
Octave Belanger, who was Killed by
locomotive in North Adams, Mass, last
Saturday, was former resident oil VII
njngton. where his daughter now re-
sides. Mr.. Belanger, being very deaf,
did not hear the locomotive approaching
as he walked along the track.
Saloon keepers in several Vermont
cities are quoted as saying that the
"movies" affect the liquor trade. Deal
ers who have been passing out fermented
beverages. wines and spirituous liquors
for wears say that their receipts have
shown a perceptible falling-off since the
moving pictures have been shown at
popular prices.
Miss Edith NJ. Barrett, a Rutland
Young woman, was taken seriously Ill
recently while camping at Lake Bono
seen. Doctors diagnosed her case as
ptomaine poisoning.
Frederick Mason of st. Adams, a fire.
man on the night switching train in the
freight ward at New London, Conn, was
decapitated and his body horribly multi
ated Saturday night when he was
caught in sideswipe collision Just north
of the union passenger station Mason
evidently attempted TO jump but he was
literally damned to death and his body
crushed and scalded. His wife was with
him in New London at the time.
In Bennington municipal court recent
". Edward Hall of that town and Clar-
ence Daley of Schenectady, y. Y. We're
convicted of having short trout in their
possession. Each paid SIS.
Rutland marble workers held a mass
meeting last Saturday night and were
addressed in several tongues by various
speakers. The proceedings were not
given out.
The alumni association of the kurn
Hattin homes will hold its first annual
reunion at Westminster, Aug 20.
A. c. Houghton, a former major and
prominent resident at Northampton,
Mass. who was in an auto accident
Aug. which resulted in the death of his
daughter and another woman, died Aug.
IL. While Mr.. Houghton. himself, sus-
tanned comparatively minor injuries in
the accident, the shock undoubtedly has
tened his death.
Vermont musicians and persons OF
musical festivals in the days when such
affairs were more popular than to-day,
will remember Mrs. Martha Dana Shep-
ard, the pianist, and Henri G. Blaidell,
the conductor. The death OF both has
been announced Mrs, Shepard having
passed away at her home in Dorchester,
Mass, few days ago, after long i'll
ness. Mr.. BIaisdel died suddenly while
playing at Lakeport, n. H., sometime
earlier in the month.
The bureau of crop estimates in
Washington has just issued its August
urop report. Figures for Vermont are
as follows: Corn, 100000 bushels oats,
3,l5o,0o0 bushels; barley, $4,000
bushels; barley, 367 900 bushels; buck
Wheat, 10000 bushels; potatoes, 3,l40,-
900 bushels hay, l,240,000 tons; pas
turs 50; cabbage, Sc; onions, so, and
apples. 10.
F. L. Girard of st. Rocks, settle
ment in the town of Fairfield, is not APP
prehensive of race suicide in his family.
MIR. Girard is 81 years old and has IA
living grandchildren.
One night recently Carl D. Griggs of
Sutton. P O., collector of provincial rev.
enue and Bailif James Stowell Joined
States attorney G. F. Ladd and Deputy
Sheriff Phaneuf of Richford in raid |
on 1.-THE line house" so called, on the
northern border of Vermont. About 100
bottles and two jugs of assorted liquors
were seized. The same place has been
raided three times since January.
Newspaper men OF vermont VIII soon
be leaving for Rutland to attend the an
nual meeting of the Press association.
An effort is being made TO secure Sec
rotary of the Navy Josephus Daniels of
Raleigh, n c.. as the speaker. Secre !
tary Daniels is the editor of the Raleigh |
News and Observer. A trip 10 Mount |
Killington is one OF the features in
prospect.
DR.. Elmore T. Arnold. aged IS, a
prominent Ludlow physician, passed
away Aug. IL.
En- route from Hampton, Conn, where
they have been in camp with Massschus-
etts regulars, the LIST squadron, I'd bat |
terry, stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, !
will go into camp at Manchester.
The old Italian marble quarry, located |
on the Mott d. Warner place north OF
Brandon, has been reopened. The prop |
erty is owned by the Shuttleworth cor /
poration of New York and has been idle i
some years A superintendent has ar
rived and 25 men are now employed. The !,
reason for opening the quarry is said to