The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-25
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

The 1917 state Congregational conven.
ton will be held at Brandon May Is and
10.
The first issue of the Border News, an
eight.page weekly, published by II. J.,
Cummings, at Canaan, has just appeared.
Four hundred children in costume pre-
scented the pageant Robin Hood" in
Bratteboro Monday afternoon. 1t will
net about Sls5 for the playground fund.
Corydon Parker, So years of age, has
finished saving and splitting ten cords
of four-foot wood and wheeling the same
to the woodshed of his home in Sutton.
The entire proceeds OF Memorial day
concert to be given by the Richford
Choral union will be devoted to a fund
for the purchase OF children play
ground
Mrs. Dan j. Ballard of Castleton has
pink geranium with stalks five feet tall.
The plant was in bloom all winter and
now has % large clusters of blossoms
and 10 punches of buds.
Morton Williams of Essex, laborer,
has filed petition in bankruptcy with
Clerk f. S. Platt of the United States
court, He has liabilities of $sl4.94 and
assets of 800, all claimed exempt.
Amos Plastridge, who resides in North
field and who will be 94 years old in
June, attended church last Sunday and
then took a % mile automobile ride in
the afternoon. He is very active in mind
and body.
The Vergennes board of civil authority
has placed signs on all roads leading out
of the place, announcing a speed limit
of Is miles per hour for automobiles.
Special police have been appointed to
warn and instruct all automobile drivers
not to exceed the limit.
Perley Bennett, employed by the Da-
Wis Transfer company i'll Newport, was
badly injured Saturday when he fell over
the front OF the wagon and the mule
team he was driving passed over his body, |
fracturing his collar bone and several
ribs, one of the latter penetrating his
lung.
Daniel Cubria, arrested Sunday in
Northfeld for fishing with a trap net,
pleaded guilty Monday to the charge and !
paid fine OF 800 and costs of 5000.
The ease against John Lombana, his COM
panon, was mol pressed. They were re-
leased from Jail on bail Of 500 each Sun
day afternoon, shortly after their arrest.
70 remedy a shortness of one leg, an
operation was performed recently on Har-
old Fitzgerald of Orwell, whereby it is
hoped to lengthen that member four
inches to the length of the right leg
The hip bone was broken and the foot
drawn down, a piece of bone being graft
ed in. The leg will be in "a plaster cast
for six weeks.
Elizabeth, seven-year-old daughter of Z
Dir. and Mrs. L. B. Gordon OF Williams
Vile, narrowly missed drowning May | | {
while Mayfowering. TO avoid getting 5
into wet grass, she stepped on board
placed over a spring, which tipped up, {
letting her into four feet OF water. Men
working nearby heard the cries of her
and rescued her as she was $
going down the second time. She suf \
fered no ill effects
Mrs. Fred r. Walker, formerly of Bur
ngton, is in the Good Samaritan hos
otal in Portland. Ore, suffering from in
uries received May Is when she fell
through an elevator shaft in the Norto- n
Tia hotel in that city breaking her back, .
Ilso her left shoulder, hip and elbow. She h
vas housekeeper in the hotel. She is
so well to treatment that it
S believed she will not be a cripple
Last Monday from the state fish +
iatchery at Roxbury, there were shipped g,
N 600 fingerings to Woodstock. $4,000 q
0 Warren. $4,000 were distributed from Ii
he hatchery in the Woodland brook and II
1000 by VIII Rattee in the Longer
rock in Roxbury. Tuesday $1,000 went n
0 Randolph Wednesday 10000 to "
Montpelier, Marshfeld, Plainfield and d
outh Ryegate. Thursday 100000 to 81
Barre and South Barre, and p
aturday 10000 to Randolph and South =
'oyalton. y
William Gavin, 62-year-o Brattle-
orc man, while visiting in Springfield,
lass, Sunday, was run over by an auto q
lobie driven by Frederick Schfamm of
rightwood and was taken to Spring
ED hospital for treatment. His nose G.
as broken, both bones in his left leg 2,
ere fractured his head was lacerated N
nd there were bruises on his body.
was also held for a hearing.
e stated that Mr. Gavin came from the al
srkness in front of his machine and II
as struck before he had time TO stop &C
le car. Mr.. Gavin says he was by the
de of the road and was trying TO get :
1t OF the way when hit. Schramm
,eeded away before aseertaining the
ans injuries.
Probably Gone to Enlist.
Raymond Collins. an employee of the