The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-04
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS


About 400 acres of land in Windsor
are 10 be planted to sweet corn this
year for use in the Baxter canning fac
tory.
Saturday was hospital day in Rutland
and over $500 was collected for that
purpose. No people on the streets were
asked for money, but every house in the
city was visited
Engineers are in Vergennes determin-
ing the advisability and probable cost
OF dredging a deeper channel to the lake.
The board OF trade feel that the deep
ening of the Otter creek would do much
to restore the prosperity of Vergennes.
Over 10000 tent caterpillar nests have
been turned over to Principal Fl B. Dick
inson of the st. Adams committee under
whose direction the work was undertake
en- in that city. The boys were paid 10
cents per 100 for them.
Harold, six year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. R. Murch of Hardwiek, fell into
the river at that place, where the water
ID i've letb ueGp, WHlIt usHiuS a ic"
days ago. The accident happened be-
hind Mr.. .Murch's stoneshed and the fa
Their had time to rescue the youth before
he was drowned.
Rev. G. Glenn Atkins, pastor of the
Central Congregational church, Provit
dence, r. T., formerly pastor of one of
the Burlington Congregational churches,
won the prize of 81 900, offered by the
Carnegie Peace union, which closed Jan.
/, 1915, for the best peace essay writ
ten by any pastor OF any church in the
United States. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Corcoran observed
their Goth wedding anniversary yester. |
day at, their home in Rutland, which |
place has always been their home. For
more than so years they have lived in
the house where they now reside. Mr..
Corcoran is SIS years old and his wife
is 10. Both are in good health They
have nine children. 30 grandchildren and
one great-grandehild.
Although in most sections of the state
sugaring this spring was the least sue
Cessiul many YtdiH, thc VI WIG
seasons labors on the poor farm at
Hardwick was an exception. There, Mr.
and Mrs. Wesley Gould, who have charge
OF the farm, tapped about 900 trees and
made between LOO and |, 200 pounds of
iirst-class sugar. sugarng off for the last
time Saturday, April "a. {
DR.. Gardner Caleb Hill, who died FRI
day at his home in Keene, \. H., re-
ceived his early education at Vermont
academy, Saxtons River, and after teach ,
ing several years he studied medicine
and received his degree from the Castle
ton medical college in 1856. taking a
postgraduate course at Harvard medical
school. He went to Keene in 1867 and :
had ever since been a physician there.
He served on the board of education
in that city 80 years, was president of :
the Keene Savings bank, a member of :
the New Hampshire and County medi- :
cal socitics and the American Medical q
association. He was So years old
old. =
Forecaster w A. Shaw OF the North,
field weather bureau reports mean :
temperature for April of 40 degrees.
which is six degrees above the normal
for the month, and the highest for anv y
April in 90 years. The highest tenn o
perature was So degrees, on the 26th, ,
and the lowest was 10 degrees, on the !,
9Th. The greatest daily range was 80 c
degrees. on the 25th, and the least daily 8
range was seven degrees, on the Gtn. 3
The precipitation amounted to 100 b
inches, the normal for the month being r.
200 inches The prevailing wind was q
from the south. the total movement 6,246 n
miles, the average hourly velocity 81
miles and the maximum velocity "a
miles per hour. from the southwest, on
the 18th. The month was made mp Of -
nine clear. seven partly cloudy and II
cloudy days. Precipitation in quantity 4
TO measure occurred on IL
DAYS. Auroras were noted on the 7th
and 18th, solar halos on the 4th. 5th and
10th. fog on the 9th and thunderstorms
on the 26th and Goth.