The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-14

Two automatic gum vending machines
were seized in the place of business OF
w. G.. Stevens at Manchester last week
and he was fined $50, with costs of $5.l4
The vital statistics for 1913 show that
the death rate in st. Adams was very
high, over two per cent. of the popula-
ton of about $500 having died during
the year. There were 1913 births and
I40 deaths.
That the school banking system in
vogue in St. Adams is in favor with
those at distance was shown when a
deposit of $40 was received, Monday
from Havana, Cuba, from two former
pupils in the st. Adams schools.
Elmer Harris received serious injuries
in one eye recently while working in a
Townshend sawmill. A piece of wood
flew from the saw and struck the glasses
Mr.. Harris was wearing, breaking one
tense and driving the particles of glass
into his eye.
st. Adams had big snowstorm Mon
day, accompanied by blizzard. 1t was
piled up into drifts several feet deep and
blew back onto the sidewalks as fast as
the snowplows could clear them. There
was no session of school during the aft
ernoon because of the storm.
Prin, Il. B. Smith of the Brattleboro
high school is to take a party OF pupils
and townspeople to Washington in the
x.t,@b he 10. 40, 4 Linz,
that each is TO pay for his own trip, but
the custom of raising lump sum, from
which school expenses on the trip may
be paid, is to be discontinued.
John NJ Hubbard, the assistant post
master of Chicago, who was born in Sax
tons River, is called the Santa Claus of
that city. To his desk on the third floor
of the federal building are, by order of
the postoffice department. sent annually
the large number of letters addressed by
mail to Santa Claus. He sorts them
into grades and some are turned over
by him either to wealthy individuals
who are looking for opportunity for
worthy cases of philanthrophy or to the
different societies which work along
those lines.
The vital records of the town of Rock
ingham are being affected by the estab-
lishment of the hospital there, it materi-
ally increasing the number of deaths,
many of whom come there from other
towns for treatment. In the first five
days of this year, six deaths occurred in
that town, two of which were at the
Rockingham hospital. During the year
1913 the undertaking firm of Fenton 4
Hennessey had charge of lis funerals, a
number of which occurred in surround
ing towns The number of deaths in
the town of Rockingham in 1918 es-
tablished record larger than in any
previous year, the number being ia.
During the year 1912 there were only 81.
The sum of $500, appropriated by
Congress in accordance with the usual
custom, and according to that same
custom belonging to Mrs. Redfeld Proc
tor, widow of the senator from Vermont,
who died March 4, 1908, is still at Wash
ington and no determination has yet
been reached as to it's disposal. 1t is
customary for Congress to vote years
salary to the near kin of any member of
the House or the Senate who dies within
his term, or so much of it as may re-
main of his term, providing it is not
more than one year. Thus it came
about that when Senator Proctor died.
Congress made the usual appropriation
for the widow. Mrs Proctor is a woman
of large means and she refused to ac-
cept the money. The treasury depart
ment has held the money as an unex-
pended balance, and has tried repeatedly
to have Mrs. Proctor accept it, but she
steadily refuses. Her action is said to
be without precedent, as the families
of wealthy senator's have not refused
payment under similar circumstances.
18TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.