The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-14

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ford, has assumed his new duties as su
perintendent of the school union in Bran
don.
At maple sugar party given by Mrs
III. r.. Jenney of Stowe to rs OF mel
friends Thursday afternoon, sugar or
snow was served
Returning to Springfield from Wells
River to resume his teaching duties
Henry Munsell made the trip by canoe
down the Connecticut river.
! John O'Donnell of Bellows Falls, q
| 1914 graduate of Norwich university,
Mortified, will teach sciences at st. Mi
chael's college, Winooski, the coming
school year.
A crowd of 1000 watched the sports
at the field day of the employees of the
American Wooden Co. in Winooski last
Saturday. 1t is likely that the event
will be an annual affair.
When the shoe string that held the
window blinds broke, Bernard, the 2-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest GLADDEN.
of Swanton, fell from the second story
of the house Is feet to the sidewalk and
escaped injury. The boy climbed upon
the window seat and leaned against the
blinds. He landed upon his feet.
Running up fight of cement steps,
Mrs. Hugh Kingsley of Rutland struck
violently against corner of the steps
and burst vein in her right leg Thurs
day. She suffered the loss of large
amount of blood before the flow could be
stopped.
An automobile party from Hanover, N.
H., bound for the Rutland carnival struck
a load of logs in a covered bridge near
Stock bridge Thursday afternoon sharp
curve in the road obscuring the view OF
the wagon. The windshield, front seat
and steering gear were smashed, but
the occupants of the car escaped injury.
Prof. William Greenleaf of Hinesburg
has been elected professor of biology in
Defiance college at Defiance, 0. Prof.
Greenleaf is a graduate of Middlebury
college and has recently received the de-
gree of Master of Arts from Yale univer-
sity, where he has been an instructor
for the past two years.
At the Rutland high school, the enter
ing class of l50 with the pupils of the
other classes, has made so crowded a
condition that last week 35 freshmen
had to sit in the assembly hall In the
first grade the new age law has barred
$50 small children from attendance.
A fire which caused $1,000 loss in the
Brown general store at Wilmington FRI
day morning, drove 80 summer guests
from Childs tavern, 80 feet from the
store. Although the guests got their be-
longings together ready for fight, the
flames were extihguished before they COM
inundated with the tavern.
The report Of the census of children OF
school age in the town of Pittsford,
which has recently been completed, shows
that between the ages of six and eight |
years there are 1850; between eight and
is years there are 342; and between 10
md is years there are only 80, making |
, total number of 500 children. (
Hornets. horse and driver were impli-
,ated in Brattleboro runaway when
he former, in big swarm, attacked
,orse owned by the w. +. Richardson
70. The hornets drove the horse mad
md some time elapsed before it could be
Iuieted
Robert Frost, whose book Of poems,
North OF Boston" has attracted wide
Ittention, was a recent speaker before
he woman's club of St. Johnsbury.
Davis a Davis, Washington patent at
orneys, report the grant to citizens OF
his state OF the following PATENTS
lanes L. Burke Of Bennington, union
arnent; Harold n. Carpenter Of Ben
lington, fountain pen fller' Henry r.
,outhworth Of Burlington, window
Green; Frederick II. Troville Of South
Hero, cradle bit.
Cant. Ira L. Reeves, 4. s. A., (retiredl
Ias been relieved by tho United States
var department from duty a. military
Instructor at the University Of Vermont
nd detailed for special work in connec.
ion with the state militia.
Charles A. Boynton. for 40 years in the ,
ervice Of the Associated Press. and one /
I the most prominent newspaper men in I
,merica. whose death occurred In Wash. \
nrton. ID. G.. recently, spent his sum !
,ers In Randolph 1