The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-09

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story block in st. Johnsbury.
Archie Weir, road commissioner Of
Concord for the past three years, died
Oct q of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Ethel Mackie of Hardwick found
good sized pearl in an oyster stew re-
Gently, which has been sent away for an
estimate as to its value,
The infant daughter of Mr., and Mrs.
Thomas McCondack of Barnet swallowed
a safety pin Saturday but the pin was
located and removed by means of an
X-ray.
After two indecisive ballots for repre-
sentative, the voters of Peacham at $50
p. M Tuesday adjourned to Tuesday,
Nov IA, when the third ballot will be
taken.
Mrs. William Bigelow died Monday at
the home of her son, Samuel Bigelow, in
Vergennes of old age. AS near as can be
ascertained, she was upwards Of 100
years old.
Mrs Ida Powers broke her right shout
der in West Burke Monday when she
fell in attempting to jump from her
auto, which was running backward with
out driver.
Fire, which started from bonfire,
where children We're burning leaves, was
communicated by the wind to the barn
of William Silver in Craftsbury Friday,
burning it with all its contents.
Charles Jennison of Peacham was ar
rested last Thursday for shooting out of
season. At hearing in municipal court
Friday. he was placed under $50 bail
for further hearing on Nov IL.
Rev. A. w. Hewitt of Plainfield will
be the principal speaker and one of two
guests of honor at the Waldorf Astoria
in New York City at the closing banquet
of the Country Life conference Thurs
day night.
At corner of two St. Johnsbury
streets. an auto from the Gilman livery |
stable and team owned by the DR.. j. |
NJ. Allen farm collided, fracturing one
of the horses legs, so that the animal
had to be killed,
The little town of Stannard in Gale |
donna county distinguished itself in the |
national election by not casting sin I
gle vote for President Wilson. The p /
votes cast for president in that town /
were all for Hughes.
Carroll Bond, the Brattleboro florist,
whose left eye was badly injured last
week when a piece of wire which he was
cutting snapped back and hit it, has had
to have the eye removed so that it would
not impair the sight of the other.
A fire in the hotel at Richmond Nov,
was discovered soon enough to be ex-
tinguished with little loss. 1t was
caused by defective furnace and was
working in the partitions when first
seen. Thirty persons were staying at
the hotel
Mrs. Oscar Taylor OF Dummerston is
suffering from severe burns to her arms,
face and chest. She threw small box
into the stove Friday and several ounces
of black gunpowder which was in the 1
box exploded, setting her clothing on
fire and burning her arms and face bad
ly.
w. B. McElroy, for many years town
clerk and treasurer, died Saturday at
his home in Middlesex. He was born
in Middlesex in, 1912 and had lived there
all his life except eight years in More
town. He had held nearly all the town
offices and for 81 consecutive years was
town clerk, declining reelection for the
35th year. He was town treasurer for :
% years, a Democrat and served as rep /
resentative in the legislature of 1910. E
Miss Mary F. Watkins, formerly of q
st. Adams, has been made the gift of I
beautiful camp at Ingalls, Grove, Bridg- h
ton, Me-, by Madame Olive Fremstad, f
the famous Swedish soprano. Nine. s
Fremstad was married Saturday to v
Harry Lewis Brainerd, New York mu- a
stefan, at Bridgton. Miss Watkins had G