The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-13
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

A herd of l6 deer are seen every day
in a pasture just above the Jamaica
railroad station.
G. b. Persons, who has for Is years
been town clerk and treasurer OF the
town of Fletcher, has resigned, on ac-
count of i'll health.
During the high wind of last Friday,
Earl Smith was thrown to the ground
while going from the barn to his house
in West Bolton, when door that was
blown from its fastenngs struck him on
the head. He was badly bruised, but
his skull was not fractured.
w. c. Ellsworth recently trapped an
owl in East Franklin which measured
four feet six inches from tip to tip. A
few nights before he succeeded in catch
ing the bird, the owl had taken from
the roost a turkey weighing about ten
pounds, which it had killed and partly
eaten.
Hazen Brown was trying to set fire
to some powder in dish in Stannard
recently when, thinking it was not 60
ing to burn, he went to close to it, when
suddenly it flashed, throwing burning
powder into his face. 1t is thought his
eyesight will not be impaired, but he is
suffering severely at the present time.
Great cracks in the sidewalks and in
the ice in Burlington give evidence OF
Tuesdays earthquake. Cracks 20 feet
long, an eighth Of an inch wide and from
four TO five inches deep are in the side
walk at the corner of Pine and College
streets and assures were also caused on
many other streets. The street curbing
was also cracked in some places.
The baby girl that was left on the
doorstep of Strongs avenue house in
Rutland the day after its birth, January
%, by its mother, and who has recently
been in the charge of Mrs. Peter Brous-
seau, wife of the overseer of the poor,
has found foster parents. The baby is
to be adopted by her uncle, Fred SAINT
ware, of Rutland. Mr.. and Mrs. SAINT
ware have no children of their own.
As Arthur Lyman was cutting ice on
a Hartland pond, he heard cry of dis
tftSc lIUut cotifc Dlld III tic WOouo iitdl-
by and went to investigate. He found
a pileated woodpecker in the clutches
of small gray screech owl. The claws
of the owl were about the neck Of the
other bird, which it was strangling to
death. Mr.. Lyman caught both birds
and brought them to his house. The
woodpecker protested so violently
against captivity that it was released
and was seen to fly directly back to
the pond from whence it came. The owl
is kept in wire cage on the piazza for
temporary home.
The report of the Burlington license
commissioners shows that from May !
until December 81 of the year 1918,
there were 400 names on the list of
Burlingtonians to whom liquor could not
be lawfully sold. OF these 252 were on
account of intoxication, 100 because they
had received aid from the city and Is
on request of relatives or employers
The licenses were distributed among 10
of the first class and 10 of the second
class, from whom a fee of 5000 each is
required. There were seven Of the fifth
class, which paid fee of $50 each. No
licenses were granted in Burlington of
the third or seventh class.
William M. Carlisle, who is Sc, and his
brother, Mark d., who is SO, claim to
have the best record as railroad sec
ton men in New England, if not in the
United States. For 40 years William
has been foreman Of the Bellows Falls,
Chester and Cavendish section of 22 |
miles, previous to which he was track
man for two years. Not until last fall |
had he ever had vacation. Mark has
been with his brother on the same sec
ton for nearly 40 years and during the
time they have laid two sets of rails |
the entire % miles, the first with iron
and the last with steel.