The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-01-05

births and So deaths, with 80 marriages
from March to date
In a coasting accident in Brandon New
Years day, Beatrice Griswold mad q reg
fractured between the knee and hip.
The Sc. Adams rest room, from the
time il was opened, Feb. "a, has accom-
modated $500 visitors, exclusive OF the
number of St. Adams women. In De-
cember alone 9l2 women registered.
Two hundred and two fire alarms We're
responded to by the Burlington fire de-
nartment in 1914. go of these being gen
eral alarms. The biggest fire OF the
wear occurred on New Years day, when
the Rutland roundhouse burned
-.vPhe funeral Of Clement w. Snow was
held at his home in Marlboro Sunday.
For more than 20 years Mr. Snow had
sold butter and eggs in Brattleboro ana
had wide acquaintance. His death was
caused by the kick Of a horse Mr.. Snow
was 90 years old.
Tie first serious coasting accident OF
the season to occur in Burlington was
saturday night, when a traverse ran
fnto pole, breaking the sled in two and
throwing off the occupants. Paul Lam
bert was most seriously injured, his knee
cap being dislocated and one eye and his
nose being injured. Another boy was in
iured in the arm.
The four-h horse delivery team of the
Standard Oil Co., driven by Charles
Spear. was struck by freight train near
East Berkshire Friday, while returning
from Richford to Enosburg Falls, the
force of the impact smashing the rear OF
the outfit and throwing the horses and
driver some distance. One horse was so
badly injured it had to be shot, but the
other was not seriously hurt. The driv-
err escaped with a few bruises. He did
not see nor hear the train.
Charles Gotta of Brattleboro was
stricken with blindness while visiting
at the home Of a friend Sunday and had
to be helped to his home. Last August
Gotta had peculiar attack in Green
field, Mass, which affected him mentally
and was attributed to the heat AT that
time he was unable to remember even
his name. He has not been in the best OF
health since then. His attending physi-
clan declines to give his opinion on the
attack of blindness until later.
Governor Fletcher has paroled Frank
Cmell, the Hungarian gypsy, who was
qsentenced in June, 1913 to not more
than five years or less than four years
and ten months for alleged assault on
\ Orson Tinkham, a farmer OF Shafts
bury, on whom Cmell fired and demand
cd money. Tnkham was taken to the
Troy hospital, where it was expected he
would die, but he finally recovered. On
the way to Jail, after his conviction,
Cmell sliced a revolver and attempted
to kill himself, The gun was unloaded.
BY the governors act Cmell is placed
fnder probation until Oct. 1917. He is
now living in Springfield, Mass.
Foreeaster William A. Shaw of the
United States weather bureau at North
field reports mean temperature for De-
cember Of ls degrees, which is two dc.
grees below the normal for the month
The highest was 81 degrees, on the ID
zero, on the 26th. The greatest daily
Srange was AZ degrees, on the 9th, and
hthe least daily range was degrees, on
1.-The 10th. The precipitation train and
ymelted snow amounted to ll9 inches
which includes l47 inches Of unmelted
ksnow. There were s.3 inches of snow
on the ground at the close of the month.
The normal December precipitation is
ell inches The prevailing wind was
from the south. the total movement 1888
sniiles, the average hourly velocity Z
Smiles, and the maximum velocity %
5miles per hour, from the southwest, on
1.-THE 30th. The month was made up Of
5clear, II partly cloudy and Ia cloudy
days. Precipitation in quantity sum
cient TO measure fell on days. Solar
halos were noted on the 9th, sth, 9th.
and 23d, and lunar halos on the 9Th, 9TH.
and 2sth. Sleet fell on the goth.