The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-21
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

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Thirty.six applications for liquor Ii.
censes were received in Winooski.
Clarence Simpson, an eight year old
Waterford boy, caught "a trout April Is
in few hours.
Seven prospective optometrists took
the examination before the state board
of optometry in Rutland Wednesday.
No definite move has yet been made
to secure site for st. Johnsbury's new
armory. Several sites are under con-
sideration.
May IL to 20 are the dates of the
made in st. Johnsbury" exposition,
which that town is to feature with
parade and carnival.
Otis r. Ross of Brattleboro and Sarah
Lizzie Crafts Ross, aged respectively
ga and go years, who were divorced a
few years ago, were remarked April 10
in Brattleboro.
A setting hen on the farm of Richard
SON and Simpson in Waterford has
adopted some small rabbits, driving the
mother rabbit away and smuggling them
in her feathers.
If business conditions next year war
rant it, the Howe Scale company will
erect in Rutland 200x60 foot addition
to the sealing room to handle railroad
scales and other heavy work.
As Mary, the seven -year.old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Phillips of Poult- |
ney, was riding on load of slate with |
a neighbor, she fell off and one wheel
passed over her body. She is recovering |
at the Rutland hospital
A large amount of milk is being sent |
from East Concord, from $500 to 1900 |
quarts being shipped each morning for
Boston markets, which is considerable |
for farmers in that section to produce.
G. Fl. Haselton celebrated his 73d |
birthday anniversary April at his home
in North Walden. Friends sent cards and
cake, Mr.. Haselton receiving nine of the
latter, each donor being ignorant of the
purpose of the others.
Ray Blaisdell of Underhill fell from
load of hay, striking on an upturned
pitchfork, the tines of which entered his
body through the lower rib. 1t is thought
that no vital organs We're pierced and
no serious results are anticipated.
The descendants of Martin Smith, IT.,
who came from Hadley, Mass. to Ru-
pert in 1859, have lived on the same farm
in that town for l47 years. In Mount
Holly, the Dawley farm has been occu-
pied by the family of that name 1885
years. 1t was settled by Perry Green
Dawley in 1871 and only Dawleys have
ever owned it.
Two st. Johnsbury motorists, Walter ;
]. Lewis and Maurice Kelley, were ar
rested last week in their home town for !
speeding, each paying a fine of S. and ;
costs of $795 Floyd Cheever also paid !
a fine of So and costs of $795 for speed !,
ing his motorcycle.
Frank V. Smith of Stowe has pow ),
der horn 20 inches long and three inches !
in diameter at the base, decorated with !.
numerous carvings of human figures, >
trees and other objects, and bearing the =
initials of the name Samuel H. Pember =
The horn was formerly the property OF !,
Mr.. Pember, who was taken prisoner by :,
the Indians at the raid of Royalton, Oct. =
l6, 1850. He was taken to Canada where :
he remained two years when he was ran 7
somed by his father, Elijah Pember. Mr..
Smith is about to send the horn TO Jay :;
Read Pember of Woodstock, Ia
The contract for building the $4,000 =,
addition to the st. Johnsbury house at =
St Johnsbury has been let to the Cum =,
mings Construction company of Woods d
vile, N. H, the contract calling for the ~
completion of the building ready for oc- -
cupancy Sept. l. With the erection of a,
the new armory, costing $4,000 and q A.
parish house for Notre Dame church. a,
which will cost $4,000, also several new =;
residences and much remodeling, the ~
building trade in st. Johnsbury starts =, a,
off with a boom. -