The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-16
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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In Morrisvile Thursday, the mercury
stood at from II 10 10 degrees below
zero.
Peter Zero, arrested in Newport Dee
s for vagrancy, died in the lookup there
Dec 10.
Lyman Walter got quite badly hurt
Monday while in the woods in West
Burke. He slipped and fell, sticking a
twig into his ear, puncturing the ear
drum.
The number of patients treated at
Mary Fletcher hospital during the fiscal
year Just closed was 2,34l, of whom l.
672 were charity patients and 4O6 partly
so.
Walter Bedding, formerly with the
Rutland Railway, Light and Power com
pany, assumed his duties as superlntend-
emit of the municipal lighting plant in
Burlington Dec. Ia.
Edwin Fulford, aged II years, for ~
The home of his daughter in New Haven,
Conn, last Friday, where he had gone
to spend Thanksgiving. he was olVii
war veteran.
Mrs. John d. Robins, who died Dec.
2 Ia Mt the home of her niece in VIM
chendon, Mass. was native OF Pitts
field. being OF years old. She had spent
= most of her life in Winchendon and had
!. been a member of the First Methodist
4 church there for over 20 years.
No trace has been found of Perley
LaFogg. who escaped from the house OF
4. correction at Rutland over week ago
! LaFogg's term would have expired IN
: January, but he was also wanted in Mas
sachusetts and would have been arrested
= at the expiration of his term here
William Simonds, a resident of Brat
Z tleboro for nearly 80 years, died there re-
. GENTLY. at the age of 81 years. He was
I native of Mortified, Mass, and en-
Z listed in Co. G, Goth Massachusetts regl-
}. ment, in May, 1851, re-elect'ng IN 20:
of the same regiment, and serving
throughout the war, being discharged III
3 August, 1868.
4 For stealing lead pipe which he sold
2 for so cents. Edward Holcomb OF Middle
bury has been sentenced to not less than
fo,r months in the house of correction
Because he detached the pipe and took
II awav from real estate, there Is spe-
cial statute covering the case, which pro-
vides that he might have been sent to
states prison for at least ten years
An accident expected to end fatally oc-
Cured few days ago to the three.year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio
Scelza of White River Junction. The
child was left with an older one while the
mother left the house, and during her
absence the older child secured some
matches and set fire to the cover OF the
couch on which the younger child was
sitting. The baby was terribly burned
all over its body and is not expected 10
recover. 1t was taken to the Mary
Hitchcock hospital at Hanover, n ii.
Vermonts participation III tiie ~
tenance of troops for duty on the Mex
lean border and expenses incident there
( to. cost the state $55065.59. This money
was paid the soldiers on duty at the Dor
der. at the mobilization camp and to
soldiers dependents. For the latter pur'
pose the expenditure amounted to Si4''
$40. Co. B of st. Adams received tne
( largest amount of any company In the
Vermont regiment, $3,427.67 being pare
to the members of that organization. ne
/, Montpelier company received S2,591'oo'
inspectors in the employ OF the Can
adam Car & Foundry company at th'
1 sbop of the Vermont Farm Machine com
panv, in Bellows Falls were notified Dec
ia that they would not be needed aftel
q December 80 The men have been IN
specting high explosive shells made ol
the local company under contract iron
the Canadian Car & Foundry company
Shells have been made in Bellows FAN
for the past Is months and all the mel me,
have been receiving good wages witt