The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-27
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
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Thirty.two Vermont libraries limit
borrower TO two books. Ninety-five d
not limit the number of books per Dor
rover.
The Townshend library has receive,
100 books from Miss Harriet Fletehert
estate. All are well bound and many
are valuable.
II. II. Walker of Barton has filed Will
Fred s. Platt OF the United States court
voluntary petition in bankruptcy, His
liabilities are Sl596.45 and his assets are
$624,47.
Earl Naylor, seyen-year-old son OF
Mrf. and Mrs. Frank Naylor of Brandon,
slid over a l5-foot embankment into
the Neshobe river Monday, narrowly es-
Gaping death, as the river bed at that
point is very rocky, although the water
was shallow. One wrist was fractured
and the boy was badly bruised.
The Kings Daughters of Swanton, by
concerted effort last Saturday after
noon raised 81 800 toward paying off the
Indebtedness on the new public library.
This leaves an indebtedness of $1,000,
which is expected to be considerably re-
duced before the building is dedicated
next month.
The cline road house" of Jack Kelley
on the state line between Fair Haven
and Poultney was destroyed Tuesday by
fire which started from defective
chimney. Some of the furniture was
saved but the large house was a total
loss. The damage is partially covered
by insurance.
Bert Mills, stage manager at the Play
house theatre in Rutland, just escaped
death few days ago when a sandbag
weighing rs pounds, used as counter
weight for heavy curtain, fell a dis
lance of 35 feet and struck him a glanc
ing blow on the side of the head, Had
it struck him squarely it would undoubt
eddy have killed him.
William II. blanchard, Joseph Ray
mond and Mederic Bruno, all of Burling-
ton were badly bruised and scratched
while remodelling the Red 40 department |
store in that city Tuesday, the staging |
breaking and letting the men fall into !
the basement, distance of only ten
feet, but they were wedged against up I
rights and cut by falling boards.
A steel freight car containing about
$5,000,00O in gold coin went through
Richford last Thursday on the Canadian
Pacific express en- route to Ottawa, Ont.
The gold was loaded at Cape Town,
South Africa, and was landed in Boston
last Wednesday afternoon. 1t was con-
signed to the Canadian treasurer at OF.
tawa. A heavily armed guard of eight /
men accompanied the gold.
Melvin A. Hail. son Of Mr. and Mrs.
William A. Hall, formerly Of Bellows
Falls, who has been with the British
forces since shortly after the war be-
gan, is now captain in the British
army. He also has been recommended
for honors for "gallantry and distin-
guished service in the field Captain
Hall is now practically at the head of J,
the military government in a territory !
embracing 10000 persons. :
John Alexander Hill, prominent in
this country and England as writer
and publisher of scientific periodicals.,
died Monday while riding. in his auto Q
mobile in East Orange, n j. Mr.. Hills t
early experience was gained in print h
ing shop and in the cab of locomotive :
In 1885 he founded the Pueblo Daily t
Press. Several years later he formed the Il
Hill Publishing company, of which he e
was the head when he died, and began Y
The publication of The Engineering and 81
Mining Journal, The Coal Age and sew a
,ral other technical magazines. He was q
BORN Feb. p, 1858, near Bennington, vt. 81
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Mrs. Almira G, Slater died Tuesday at +
Ter home in Essex junction, following Z
IN attack OF pneumonia resulting from u
fall. She was one of Is children and
vas in her 95th year. A sister Mrs II
aura Kinds of Thompson, Ill., is % &c
ears old, and another sister died two q
rears ago, aged 81 years. Mrs. Slater y
vas one Of long Lived family. many a.
# whom lived to be 80 years old, and q
me was 100 at her DEATH She was ~
istant relative of the famous Horace ~
Ireeley. Until her recent fall she was g
n excellent health and was able to read y
Without glasses. "