The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-11

"A ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Several people in the Peppin Household
at Stowe were stunned during a recen
electrical storm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Burke of Rich
mond celebrated their 50th wedding an
niversary yesterday.
Wind lifted the roof of the st. Johns
bury & Lake Champlain railroad station
at Cambridge junction this week.
One hundred electricians gathered il
Rutland this week for the annual meet
ing of the state electrical society.
Josnson normal school has regis
tration of 100 this year and the villag1
high school is not far behind in en-
rollment.
Benson farmers are gathering the thirC
CIOD VI MANY IncbduttH dHt
not a few are getting in lot Of rover
this year.
Wilbur Holcomb of vergennes states
that he recently pulled one stalk Of
beans that had on it l0s pods containing
527 beans.
L. NJ Hayes, a well known Essex
junction man, is to have charge of the
publicity bureau at the state fair in
White River Junction.
Braddin Hamilton of New York, the
well known author and student in socol-
ogy, is tarrying in the town of Hart
ford for few weeks
Robert Frost, whose book of poems,
North of Boston," has attracted wide
attention, was a recent speaker before
the Women's club of st. Johnsbury.
Rev. Leonard Fuller has resigned the
pastorate of the Methodist church in
East Concord to enter Wesleyan uni
versity. Rev. Alfred Bishop of Mont
pelier is to take his place.
The current number of the Popular
Magazine contains a short story, "The
Spirit of the West" written by VIII
liam Dudley Policy, a member of the
force of the Bennington Banner.
C. M. Waldo of East Randolph has
raised $50 bushels of oats from four
acres of land and on M. n. Wilson's
farm in the same region 40 bushels of
wheat were raised on an acre plot.
Rev. Andrew ellison, chaplain of the
18th Australian battalion who was killed
in a British assault in the Dardanelles
recently, was pastor of the Congrega-
tionai church in st. Adams in 1895.
Capt Ira l.. Reeves, u. S. A. ire
tired) has been relieved by the United
States war department from duty as
military instructor at the University
of Vermont and detailed for special work
in connection with the state militia.
Charles A. Boynton, for 40 years in
the service of the Associated Press and
one of the most prominent newspaper
men in America, whose death occurred
In Washington, ID. G., recently, spent
his summers in Randolph.
The Hartford Gazette, edited and pub
lished by Robert Stevens, eleven.yesr-
/ old son of Attorney Roland +. Stevens,
of White River Junction, has entered
on its second year. The youngster has
shown remarkable aptitude as news
gatherer and compositor.
Rev. J. Hall Long of Vergennes, who
has been attending the New York con-
stitutional convention in Albany, n. Y,
returned TO his home and was summoned
/ Immediately 10 Blackstone, N. ", by the
serious illness of his aged mother.
During his second fight at the Rut-
/ land fair, Aviator Baxter Adams killed
swallow which dsrted into the path
Of his machine. Had the bird struck
tho aviator in the face, the incident
might have resulted disastrously for
him. 10 was the fifth time that Adams
has struck bird while in the air.
Twenty patients were cared for AZ
ths emergency hospital on the Rutland
county fair grounds one afternoon this |
week The intense heat was responsible |