The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-15

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The largest load of logs ever drawn
to the electric saw mill in Fairfax wa;
drawn recently by Arthur Hopkins. II
contained 1925 feet of hemlock.
The business of the Brattleboro post.
office continues to show material in.
creases in all departments, its gross
receipts during 1913 being $56,037.02.
Jamaica is to have rake factory
Albert L. Feltham having rented the old
cheese factory for that purpose. The
rakes, instead of having straight wood.
en- teeth, will have curved steel ones
The Windham County Agricultural as
ISOLATION has started prize contest for
school boys and girls of the county, the
winners 20 be those who bring in the
largest number of tent caterpillars' eggs
masses before April Is.
Freddie, the ten-year-old son of Mrs
George Greenwood of Lyndon, is in a
serious condition, caused by pin, which
he ran into one knee on Christmas day
Blood poisoning resulted and two opera.
lions have been performed.
Adolphus Robinson met with quite an
accident Saturday while working at a
Springfield icehousc. He slipped and fell
in front of . cake of ice which was com
ing down a slide and it struck him on
the head, cutting a deep cash on his
forehead.
The Hotel Vermont company directors
are seriously considering building an ad-
dition to the hotel at Burlington that
will furnish 80 more rooms with bath.
Manager Collamer reports that over 500
automobile parties were turned away
last summer and next summer bids fair
to be a record breaker.
incorporation papers have been filed
with the secretary of state, Montpelier
by the Hatch & Shepardson Co. of Bel
lows Falls. The business to be carried
on is that of buying and selling real es-
tate and personal property, operating
saw mills, and carrying on a general
lumber business in all its branches. The
capital stock is 100000,
The ladies' aid society of ST. Paul's
Universalist church, Rutland, during the
past year has paid pledge of $500 to
the trustees and has given $50 additional
for repairs in the church, besides enter
tanning and serving suppers during sew
eral conventions to the city A com
mittee of five has been chosen to COM
municate with other ladies' aid societies
throughout the state, with view OF
forming a state organization.
Mrs. Sarah Austin, at one time res.
ident in Springfield, this state, but now
a resident of Petersburg, Va, was 81
years old the 10Th of December. During
the past year she has made and sold SO
worth of fancy work, in addition to hav-
ing given much away. She sent piece
of fancy work to Miss Jessie Woodrow
Wilson as a wedding present, when she
became the wife of Francis Bowes Sayre,
and the gift has been acknowledged.
Mrs. Austin has made it a rule to read
the Bible through once a year. For 20
years after the Civil war she taught
negroes in Virginia.
Fire destroyed the house of Leon Pat
neaude in WinoosLi Monday night, with
a loss of $4,000, which is partly covered
by insurance. Mr.. Patneaude, who is
in poor health and unable to walk, was
carried from the house in a chair. The
fire started in the garrett, probably from
a chimney, and all the household goods
of Mr.. Patncaude, who lived on the sec
ond floor, were destroyed. Henry Pa
quette's family, who lived on the ground
floor, saved al their furnishings. The
Burlington fire department came to the
assistance Of the Winooski flremen in
staying the spread of the flames. 1t
was terrible night to fight fire, the
mems coats, caps and gloves being froz-
en- to them.
Harry Battese and Dana Davenport of
Mount Holly were arraigned before
Judge f. G.. Swinnerton in Rutland,
charged with malicious mischief Dav-
EXPORT being under l6 years old, his
case was transferred into Juvenile court.
Young Battese, who is about 20 years
old, was sentenced to the house of cor
rection for four months, and he was
placed in the hands of the probation Off
Ger. He will have to pay to the court
S25 and costs and he will also have to
stand his share of the damage done at
the mill of Judson Fletcher in Mount
Holly. Although no final order was
made in the case of Davenport, it will
probably follow along this line. The
boys entered a saw-mill owned by Mr..
Fletcher and cut some of the betting.
They also entered ohuse near by and
defaced the walls.
Dedication exercises were held in the
Baptist church at Rutland Sunday for
the new window recently given to the
church by the Knights of King Arthur,
about 40 of the knights taking part in
the exercises. To the sound of a bugle
call the members of the order filed into
the church two abreast, arrayed in the
red, blue, and white sashes and badges
of the order, the eolors arranged to show
the different degrees of knighthood
passed by each member. Rev. f. w.
Irwin, the pastor, gave a brief address,
dwelling upon the history of the organ
ization, after which the window was I'M
Il