The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-12-19

ne Daumun company mas brought sun
against Thomas Boyle of Rutland for
5000. The suit grows out of the taking
and showing OF pictures Of Rutland and
the Rutland fair.
Joseph V. Newman's six,cylinder Cad
lilac auto caught fire recently as he was
on his way from Dorset to his home in
Manchester, and was totally destroyed
before he could extinguish the flames
with sand. II was insured.
Gordon j. Patt OF Swanton was
awarded the second prize OF $40 in tile
annual Rollins prize speaking contest ut
Dartmouth college Saturday evening Mr..
Plat was the first of four speakers and
delivered "a Plea for Peace"
Water is so low in White River june
ton that all the reservoirs are in near
" empty condition and in some places
the flow has stopped entirely. One man
has arranged to supply spring water for
drinking purposes to those who need it.
Go-to-school day was successfully OBJ
served in Morrisville Tuesday, SO people
visiting the village school. In the even
ing reception was given the parents
and visitors at Academy hall. There
were 81 visitors and 100 high school pu
pills present.
Mrs. Winnifred Foss Humphrey of
Mortified, who recently took the state
examination in optometry at Rutland,
has the honor of being the first and only
woman in the state who has successfully
passed this board and has been granted
license to practice optometry.
Finding something had killed duck
belonging to her, Mrs. Lucius Lund set
trap at her Barton home to catch modest
ing animals, and the next morning found
in it a large horned owl, which had
smaller trap on its other foot, which it |
had apparently been carrying for some
time.
The returns at the Burlington city |
clerks office show that during the month |
OF November the number of births in the |
city was 81, an unusually large num-
Der, and the deaths were 80, which makes |
an excess of Is births over deaths. OF |
the births, 80 were boys and Is were /
girls. OF the deaths, II were males and |
Is females.
There was another small blaze at the
American Wooden Co. mills in Winooski |
Wednesday afternoon, when one of the
dryers in mill No. caught fire. 1t was
soon extinguished without damage, al
though the fire department was called
out and the chemical fire truck from
Miss Elizabeth Rogers, who has been
librarian of the Swanton free library for
the past Is years, has resigned the posi-
tion to accept more lucrative one in
the Fletcher library of Burlington Mrs.
D. A. Gates succeeds Miss Rogers at the
of the New Year.
Scarlet fever is having run in Pitts
ield, but has only recently been dag
losed as such, so the disease is thought
% have firm hold there. In the family |
Il David Rorson the oldest son, Alstine,
5 very low with typhoid fever and there
IRE also five cases Of scarlet fever in the |
louse, three Rorison children, Glenn Cook, 4,
who is working there, and Mrs. Lena {
Mason the nurse, who came from Bethel \
o help care for the sick. Four houses
whose occupants are thought to have had (
earlet fever cases in them recently, hate |
'een fumigated, and also the schoolhouse
'ittsield has no local physician and the :
arge number Of sick is taxing outside |
physicians considerably in connection 5
With their other patients.