The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-22

wears old and was married in 1888 to
Miss Della Ferguson, who survives him.
He was well known and for many years
played the snare drum in the Bristol
band.
Because OF the European war the Rich
mond Underwear Co., did not open its
plant Monday and notice was posted,
Announcing suspension of work for
week.
A new school house is being built in
Huntington on land donated by DR.. j.
NJ. Rose of Syracuse, n. ", who also
gave ground enough for ample play
grounds and baseball diamond. DR..
Ross also granted the use OF a fine
spring of water.
On charges OF petit larceny and open
and gross lewdness, Clara Benoit, aged
10, was sentenced in Winooski recently
to 81 months in the industrial school at
Nergennes.
Editor 0. r. Clayton of the London.
derry Sitter heeks to be senator from
Wndham county.
A considerable quantity of groceries,
provisions and canned goods were stolen
| from the basement of the convent at
Swanton and clothesline nearby was
stripped on the night OF August Is.
There are suspicious.
Between 1875 and 200 students are
expected to register when st. Adams |
high school opens September 8.
Miss Ella M. Foster of st. Adams
sends word she is enjoying herself in !
Switzerland despite the war.
Mary Charbonnean stepped out of an
automobile and started to 60 back of it
Mt Manchester Center One day recently.
The automobile was backed, throwing
her down, tearing her dress and bruising
her.
The hearing in the case of A. p. Cloyes
ct al VS.. the Middlebury Electric Co.
ct AL which was begun in Middlebury
Tuesday before Special Master Charles
Fl. Darling OF Burlington, was continued
through Thursday and is likely to go
on the chancery docket of Addison coun.
ty court for nearly Ia years. Sixteen
of the 40 orators who handled the case
at its institution in 1900 are known to
be dead. The counsels who have charge
of the case at present are former At
torney General John Stickney, Julius A.
Wilcox, and Homer Skeels OF Ludlow
for the orators, and NJ. C. Webber of
Rutland and James B. Donoway OF Mid
dlebury for the defendants.
Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Wilder re .
turned to Burlington late Wednesday I
night from England. They sailed from
New York on the Imperator July Is and +
reached Montreal on the return trip Aug. I
Is. They were in Paris for a period of j
20 hours but the mobilization of troops
warned them against spending more time
there and securing accommodations on
a small steamer they reached England @
after much delay in the channel, owing t
to the patrol of British cruisers. In Lon. y
don, Mr.. Wilder was fortunate enough +
10 secure accommodations on the Royal | r
Seorge of the Royal steamship line. The q
steamer took eight days to cross taking q
he most northerly route. =
Albert B. Congdon of Dandy. becoming o
Interested in an old cave in Clarendon =
through reading about it in a common a
choo geography of 1918, decided TO visit 1,
he historic cavern and in a letter to ,,
he Rutland Herald tells what he found
here. The cave lies on the east side
# west hill in Lyman Parker's pasture
The entrance is a mere hole in the side
# a hill, which turns end twists for
distance of some 80 feet before reaching Il
he first chamber. This chamber IS in :,
he shape of an arched room from 10 to :,
tx feet nigh. Evidences of stalactites :,
re still to be seen, although these GU u
ious formations have been removed by
ormer visitors. Under the first room =.
: another which is reached by descend :.
ng through well-like opening. 1t is y
+ about the same size as the one above - !.
and like it's wslls it is covered with -
left by visitors of century Z
60. There are other rooms and crevices :,
q the hillside, but Mr.. Congdon did not Z,
axe the trouble to explore any of them. - :.
he cave is little known to-day, though -
4 carly history It was one of the mar -
els of the state.
in
Thursday witnessed the arrival of "a ir,
resh air children in Rutland by special be
ar from New York. They were in ia
barge of Miss Katherine Gross of New nj
ork and Miss Befnice r. and Miss Doris ST
I. futile of Rutland. Six of the little an
mes were left off at Peru, where they W.
ill be entertained at the home of NJ j. to
Iapgood. Three hundred dollars were
olleeted in Rutland to go towards in
bod time for the children and part of an