The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-23


AT meeting held Thursday evening
baseball association was formed at
Pittsford with about so members.
A calf with six legs and three shout
ders is in the possession OF Thomas
Burke, ir., of Rutland. The animal
which was born Saturday night, seems
to be perfectly healthy.
| Miss Marion NJ. Rice of Brattleboro
was one of party of 10 American Red
Cross nurses who sailed Saturday on the
French liner Rochambeau for Hayre.
Nine Of the party, including Miss kice'
will 90 to the Red Cross hospital at
Yvetot, town about 40 miles north
east of Havre.
The young people injured in the st.
| Albans sliding accident are all recover
ing, though some OF them very slowly.
Two more have been added to the list
! injured, Carey Thornton having received
an injury to one knee when the second
i traverse upset, and II. Barlow, who was
seriously hurt and unable to walk for
| two days.
The banquet of the Vermont alumni
of the University of Vermont, Burning
! ton, will be held Friday, Feb. 20, at
the Pavilion hotel in Montpelier. A large
number OF members is expected. This
gathering will be one of unusual inter-
est for at this time university sentiment
on the subject of appropriation will crys-
tallize
State Ornithologist C. d. Howe states
that the European startling, bird intro
duced into Long Island, and which bids
fair to become as much OF nuisance
az the English sparrow, has appeared
in Castleton Other places in Vermont
in which they have appeared are Brattle-
boro and Bennington. They are among
the eight varieties of birds unprotected
by law.
The BrattIeboro Baseball association
Of the Twin-Stat league does not owe
a cent and has balance of S232T in the
treasury This statement means that
the directors of the association with Il.
]. Fenton as the chief worker have paid
of. by means of bazar and min
strel show. a total of 81 1888. which
was the indebtedness at the close of
the last season
II Springfield to be in line for an APP
preparation for a state armory, she
must vote at March meeting in regard
for site for the same. The town will
also be asked to vote upon the accept |
ance of trust fund of $1,000, created
by the will of Amasa Woolson, which |
comes to Springfield, following the death |
of heirs, TO be used in assisting worthy |
poor people to prevent their becoming |
dependent upon public charity.
As he was about to board a train at |
Rutland Friday for New York with |
a motley collection of jewelry and SIS
in money, which he is said TO have stolen |
from Mrs. Charles Chiofli of this city, |
his aunt, and her boarders, Tomasi Tam |
creti Of New York, l7-year-old, was ar
rested. AT a trial he was found guilty |
and was septenced to county jail for not |
less than four months nor more than
six. The lad had been visiting his aunt. |
He was on probation from New York
On March 2l, at his home in Washing |
ton, d. c., if he lives until that date,
Austin Crosby Winslow, a native Of Bar
nard. win observe his Tooth birthday an
niyersary. Mr.. Winslow, who was the
son of Hezekiel Winslow, remembers
seeing Lafayette, when he visited this
country in 1925, as he was making a
stage coach journey from Boston to Al
bany, n. ", and also saw Presidents
Monroe and John Quincy Adams. At
the outbreak OF the Civil war he was too
old to enlist in the army. Mr.. Winslow
left Vermont at the age of nine years
with his parents TO reside in New York
state and in 1865. in Washington, d. c.,
married Caroline Brown, the first woman
homeopathic physician in that city. Aft
er her death she was long commemorated
by a bust in the Corconn art gallery.
While IN his 70's, Mr.. Winslow made
tour Of the world and walked on top
n the great Chinese wall a feat Of which
be Is particularly proud. He is now rath-
TIC CITY, n. ].