The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-14

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! ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Mrs. C. l. Harvey and Mrs. Lyman
Priest, both OF Waterford, each have {
bridal rose bush, Mrs. Harvey's contain
ing 81 buds and Mrs. Priests 70.
George w. Chaplin, employed in Stowe
for the past two years, has been en-.
gagged as manager OF the 400-acre farll
belonging to the Clark estate in Milton
An addition is to be built to the bank.
ing building of the Peoples Trust com,
pany in Morrisville to make room for a
directors Office and private office for
one of the banks officers.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ Cornell celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary at their
home in Jeffersonville Tuesday. The sum
of $72 in gold was presented them
Alexander Dunnett of st, Johnsbury Is
TO be Memorial day orator at Cabot, and
Guy W. Hill of the same place will be
the speaker on that day in Lyndon.
vile.
The horse barn on the farm in Jeffer
sonville owned by Charles Henderson
was burned last Sunday, together with
three valuable horses, a shepherd dog
and furnishings, The origin OF the fire
is unknown.
VIII Sargent fell from ladder in his
barn in St. Johnsbury recently and was
stunned and considerably cut up, cash
being cut in his upper lip, one under his
chin, and his left wrist and knee being
badly sprained.
Mrs w. D. White is slowly recovering
at her home in Ryegate from the effects
of using kerosene to hurry up a fire.
The can exploded and the blazing liquid
was thrown over Mrs White, burning her
face hands and one limb badly.
The older boys Of Bennington are be-
hind a scheme Tor hiring a competent
man to take charge OF sports in that
place this summer. They are hoping to
rent Morgan park for the season, to sink
a good-sized swimming pool and to Sc
cure other apparatus for keeping up ath
etic activities during the summer.
Harry r. Perrigo, formerly Of st,
Johnsbury but now of Kansas City, has
an invention for capturing the
Electricity of the air and using it for
ighting and heating purposes Mr.. Per
'igo has been working on his invention
or a year and it is now ready for general
Use.
A few DAYS ago Carl Remick of Water
ord shot a fox near his home and after I
GLOWING the tracks to hollow tree
ound there five young foxes not over "A
iours old, about the size of kittens. He I
ook them to the house and eat, the /
mother of three kittens, is giving them
he same attention and care as her own +
amily. Though they are red foxes, their
olor now is nearly black. Their noses
re very long, but aside from that they
)ok much like kittens.
While employees of Matthew Butler
y-l,g IN, Ea ~
for time last Saturday
vening, it is alleged that some person
ntered the place and took about % gal
ms OF new maple syrup, valued at Sl.25
gallon A small portion Of the syrup /,
as in cans but the rest was in a tank
nd the thief must have had a large re-
sptacle. He evidently used vehicle of
ome kind to transport his plumber. No
rrests have been made yet, but officers
re investigating the matter.
While employed in cutting down big
ormandy poplar in Burlington a day
two ago, the workman's axe struck
yainst a metallic substance, imbedded
the heart of the tree. The trunk was
Early four feet through and the obstruc-
on was encountered at distance of
me three feet from the ground. Cut
ng away the wood the substance was
und to be the end of an iron dumb
III, broken off short. 1t weighed six and
le-half pounds. OF course the mystery ID
how it came where it was found. The IN
ee was probably 80 years old. s
Little Girl Burned to Death.
Nora Trevarrow, five, daughter of Mr.