The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-12
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

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Not a deer was reported TO the Roy
alton game warden as having been shot
this season.
The cost of oilng streets in Rutland
last summer was 81 los, or about one
cent square yard.
The National Acme company opened
its new hospital, in connection with its
manufacturing plant in Windsor, Dec. d.
Soy beans to the value of $4,000 were
raised in Chittenden county last year,
700 acres OF them having been planted.
Because Mrs. George Russ and four
children are sick with mild cases OF scar
let fever, the Royalton school has been
closed for two weeks, The disease is
confined to the Russ family,
There is talk of erecting "street"
clock in Windsor, money for the same to
be raised by subscription. The old town
clock in the tower of the Old South
church has been inactive for some time.
The Marble Savings bank of Rutland
will pay out about $4,000 to Christ
mas club depositors this year. There
are $50 members, which is gain of
over 80 per cent in depositors as well
as deposits over a year ago when the
movement started.
Mrs. l.. X. Heath of Orleans is dead of
trichinosis, caused by eating bear meat,
succumbing Just week after her ia
Their. Her mother is seriously i'll with
the same disease and has not been told
of Mrs. Heath's death. She was p years
old and leaves two young children, one
only six months of age.
The condition of Frank Miller, who
was badly injured at the tale mines IN
Johnson Friday, is better and his chances
for recovery are favorable. Mr. Miller,
who has run the oil engine at the tale
MILL was caught on a pulley and both
legs we're broken and his head cut.
Asahel II. Hubbard who died Friday at
his home in Whiting. was a prominent
Addison county man. His age was 50
years. Mr. Hubbard, who died in the
house in which he was born, had held all
the town Offices He represented Whit
ing for three sessions of the Legislature
and for two years was an assistant
Judge of the Addison county court For
a long period he was deacon of Whiting
Congregational church.
When |. F. Hatch of Burlington fin
ished work for the T.. {. futile Printing
company in Rutland last Friday. after
80 years service, he was presented
travelling bag and silk umbrella by the
employees of the Tuttle company and a
solid gold ring, engraved with Masonic
emblems, and eight S. gold pieces by Mr..
futile and his sons. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hatch are leaving Vermont to reside
with their son, DR.. f. L. Hatch, in Sails
bury, Md
DR. Edward D. Collins, head OF the
pedagogy department at Mddlebury col
lege, has been granted sabbatical year.
This last month has been devoted by him
in making special educational studies in
southern New England. He has recent
lv returned to Middlebury and is or
ganizing the material collected. His Ell
forts especially were along the lines OF
direct vocational educat ton and the or
ganization of work in printing; machine
shops, pattern making, carpentry and
ca binet making was studied. After the
holidays DIR. Collins expects to pursue
his studies along similar lines in the
South.
At meeting of those interested in
the Winter club at Middlebury college,
which was recently organized along the
lines of the Dartmouth Winter club, cleo
ton of officers was held. During the
Christmas vacation a number of stu
dents who remain in town are to take
aseveral days hike in the Green noun
tains. Arrangements have been made
for the men to make their headquarters
in lumber camp near Ripton. 1t IS
hoped that there will be plenty of snow
as the club prefers snow hike. The
officers of the organization are: Presi-
dent, d. H. Boehm, of New Britain,
Conn; vice-president, Stanley Wright,
Middlebury secretary, Leslie Shedd,
New Braintree, Mass; treasurer, Clar-
ence L. Hamilton, Knowlesville, n. Y;
membership committee, H. f. Hollister,
Corinth, n. Y, Irving Eastman, st.
Johnsbury; committee on hikes: Free
man Walker, Barre; w F. Furber, Dor
chester, Mass; Canning Green, North
Brookfield, Mass.