The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-12


ABOUT THE STATE !
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Rutland is to have a chidrens play
ground
Rutland will expend the SIS made
Chautauqua week in welfare work.
The new Camp Abnaki on Lake Cham.
plain was formally dedicated Friday.
Brandon is 10 have new 100000
schoolhouse,
Mrs Edward Leno is dead at the home
OF her daughter in East Middlebury at
the age OF SO.
The new rooms in the addition 10 the
St. Johnsbury house will probably be
ready for occupancy next month.
j. W. Sault, editor and manager Of the
Ludlow Tribune, was guest OF the Ches.
ter Board OF Trade Tuesday evening.
The Vermont boys and girls will hold
their third annual exhibition in the Bur
lington armory the week OF August 10.
George Gilman's mother who came to
his home in Sutton for visit, contract.
ed smallpox and died there July 81.
The estate OF the late Mrs. Adelaide
l.. Allen OF st. Adams has paid the state
OF Vermont S2,247.59 collateral inheri
lance tax.
T. B. Wheeler, who since 1881 has been
running a general store in West Rutland,
is closing out his stock and will retire
from active business.
There was SOL 900 worth OF money or
der business done at the Springfield post
Office the past year as compared with
$4,000 the year previous.
The Water Martin accounting case
suit will start August % in the Brattle-
boro court and will be carried on with
out interruption until finished.
". F. Cunningham OF st. Adams and |
Glen A. Doubleday of Montpelier have
formed partnership and will run a feed !
and grain business in st. Adams.
Beginning next Monday, the employees
of the Bellows Falls Saxtons River
Street Railway Co. will have their pay
increased one and one half cents an hour
Jessie Gorton of Huntington Center
lost the thumb and one finger of her
left hand Monday when she struck a
dynamite cap with a hammer.
Alexander De Larichilire of Charlotte
was arrested in Burlington Thursday
afternoon for violating the automobile
regulations and paid fines of S. and costs
of S6.5l
The old station at Brattleboro will be
demolished now that the new one is IN /,
running order, and the freight house will !
be moved some Is feet nearer the ne "
station !
The Universalist church of Brattle-
boro has bought of A. B. Clapp, the
house and land just east of their pres
ent property on Canal street, and will
hold it to prevent anyone else from gain
ing possession.
Simeon Richard, a Rutland man, who
but recently returned from the West, y
was taken into custody by the police :.
Thursday evening because he acted =
queerly on the street and was sent to +
the retreat at Brattleboro. u u
James eastman, the eight yea old son
of a Burlington contractor, was cut :
about the right eye and slightly bruised =
about the body when he was kicked by 8,
one of his fathers horses Thursday The !,
lad was unconscious for a time. =
Eta e. Knibbs, executrix Of the estate -
of the late John w. Knibbs, of Worces r
ter, Mass, has brought suit in Brattle
boro county court against the Sherman
Carbide company of Nottingham to re-
cover 5000, loaned to the concern in
1913. =,
s
A fire which broke out in the house of
Martin Walsh of West Rutland Thurs
day seemed to have been started by the l.
ignition of bag of butternuts placed
close to a chimney The house was not
destroyed, but was considerably dam
aged.
Springfield is to have triple celebra- NJ
ton the last three days in August to Y;
the l25th anniversary of 81
Vermont's admission to the union, the L,
l55th anniversary of the granting OF n
charter to the town and the 50th ami n
versary of the village corporation. P
George W. Duncan was formerly ar Sc
raigned before Judge Sw,nncrton at the
Rutland county Jail Friday and pleaded -
not guilty to killing his wife last Sat r
nrday evening. He waived examination
and was bound over to the grand jury.
Duncan was very calm on the stand.
In the same room in a Rutland hotel
where a bunch of D. & H. railroad mile r
ages, which had been stolen from the de
pot at Fair Haven, were found a few n
weeks ago, were found Thursday behind :.
riaturas tyuo honl~a Of Vt