The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-06-18

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ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Mrs. Eta Mccormick has been i'll with
lockjaw, caused by an liberated tooth, at
her home in Danville.
Bellows Falls new state armory, the
first TO be built under a state appropria-
ton, is to be dedicated this evening.
A. J.. Adams of Rutland has been
awarded $4,000, contract for laying a
concrete road in the principal street in
Windsor.
Rev l.. w. Sanford, formerly of Pas
sumpic, has been awarded prize at
Harvard college for excellence in pub
lie speaking.
In Caledonia county at least % per
cent of the fruit buds were killed by the
heavy spring frosts and in some places
at least half of them were destroyed.
Mrs. Martha Drown of Wheelock has
q copy of the North Star" paper
printed in Danville, of the date of May
4, 1886.
George A. Burbank has been appoint
ed to fill the place as village trustee of
st. Johnsbury, made vacant by the ap-
pointment of H. G. Douglas as superin'
tendent of the state asylum farm at
Waterbury.
Rev. S. H. Myers has resigned as pas
tor of the Baptist church in Groton. Both
he and Mrs. Myer are in poor health and
feel that they cannot do what is neces-
sary for the church.
In excavating for the new railway sta
lion at Brattleboro, workmen have struck
a spring of clear, cold water, which they
are attempting to pump dry to make
room for an elevator well, but with lit |
tie success.
Mrs. Martha Heath, who lives with
her grandson, Harry Alexander, in Bar
ton, and who will be 80 years old next
month, has just completed quilt OF
720 pieces, doing the entire work without
the aid of glasses.
Alfred Goodrich, who pleaded guilty
to breaking into freight car in Burling-
ton March 10 and stealing a number of
sacks of flour, was sentenced Wednesday
to not less than Is months nor more
than "a months at states prison.
A formal opening of the Bellows Falls
playground was held Wednesday after
noon, at which time Mrs. w. G. Belk-
nap for the Woman's club. presented a
flag which was accepted by DIR. Edward
Kirkland for the village trustees.
From July to 10, valuable collec-
ton of spiders is to be on exhibition
at the Fairbanks museum in ST. Johns
bury, the property of DIR. j. Fl. Emer-
ton of Boston. Dr. Emerton has writ
ten number of books in regard to spi-
ders and is considered an authority.
John H. Welch and Henry Jellison of
Monroe, N. H.. were arrested at Hunts
pond in Ryegate recently, charged with
having short pickerel in their possession. {
Both pleaded guilty and Welch paid a
fine of 500 and costs of s7.64. Jellison's
case was continued until July Z, to al
low him a chance to raise his fine.
silver horned pout was caught in
does pand recently by Morrisville fish
erman, which is considered rare speci. },
men, and which will be sent TO State
Fish and Game Commissioner John w.
Titcomb at Lyndon. 1t is the second II
white horned pout to be taken from Joe's
pond, the other having been sent to Bos.
ton. =
7 Between clapboards OF house in Bran
don, which he was having repaired, Hor-
ace S. Arnold of that place found papers
pver 100 years old. One of the papers
was a note dated March 20, 1914, given
by Elisha White of Whiting to Paul
Field of Brandon. The other paper was
evidently a bill for sl.50 for a coffin,
made out to Mr.. Field. Mr.. Thompson
replaced the papers, writing on them
he date they were found and the name
of the finder. The house IL an old
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