The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-25
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Antonio Mazzells, the -year.old
son of Paulo Mazzela, who is employed
on the dam at Essex Junction, died
Thursday night from injuries caused by
one of the heavy gravel teams running
over him while he was playing in the
road the day before
The bell boy who borrowed bicycle
from John Farr, another bell boy at the
Hotel Vermont, Burlington, has re-
turned the wheel He said that he
kept the wheel longer than he had in
tended on account of the bad condition
OF the roads.
Fred Dunn, Middlesex farmer, re-
Gently exhibited oat stalks feet in
ches tall He has four acres with an
average height of five feet. The kernels
of grain on one top counted exactly 100
A small folk festival has been written
by local talent for the children on the
Bennington playground for Labor day,
September Z.
The annual two days convention of
the Vermont Electrical association will
be held at Brattleboro September IL and
IS. There will be banquet at the
Brooks house, trip to the Vernon plant |
for the purpose of inspecting it, and the
second day a clambake at Silverdale, |
Spofford lake, will be feature
News has been received that Robert |
Holden, the l7-year-old son of the Rev.
and Mrs Frank A. Holden, of New
Haven, who disappeared from his home
in that town August ID, has been found
in Cuttingsville in good health and in
the employ of farmer named Frank
Cole.
Miss Olive Devoll, the Putney girl,
who ran away from her home last Tues.
day and was located by officers in
Petersham, Mass, is back home and
says she is glad to be there and thinks
she will stay hereafter.
Herbert j. Richmond, well.known
farmer of Guilford, died Saturday in the
Memorial hospital in Brattleboro, fol-
lowing two shocks. He was born in
Brattleboro in 1914 and was best known .
as manager of the Guilford Springs
farm in Guilford, which position he held
for 20 years, retiring II years ago. The
farm is one of the show places of that
section.
The barn of Archie Mellen in Gull
ford was destroyed by lightning Friday
night with loss of at least 81 800. II
was the second barn to be struck by :
lightning on that site A bucket brigade
and the valiant efforts of 40 men served
TO keep the other farm buildings from
burning and a heavy rain, which was
falling, aided materially. A horse, two
carriages and the poultry was all that
was saved from the barn.
A Maxwell six-cylinder, driven and
owned, it is understood, by Mr. Belts,
resident of Franklin county, Mass,
which was the nearest his identity could
be learned, went down an embankment
in Putney Saturday and was destroyed
BY fire. There was trouble with one of
The tires and after the chauffeur had set
he brake and was ready to make re-
,airs the car began to run backward
Town the hill, in spite of the efforts of
,he man to hold it, The fall down the =
was IS feet and there were !.
u gallons of gasolene in the tank, so it
vas consumed by the flames before any
me could reach the spot with an ex-
;inguisher. One or two tires were saved.
The Lyndon home garden class is to
lold a fair on the afternoon of Labor
lay, Sept I, when prizes are to be
.warded for vegetable and flower gar
ening, improvement of dooryards, farm
special crops, pets carpentry,
aiming, sewing, cooking, maple sugar
PRODUCTS and butter. Prominent Yer