The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-01
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Rutland had ten deaths in July. nin'
OF them being males,
A party OF 20 Canadians, touring Yer
mont, took dinner at the Hyde Park iuu
one day last week.
Nathan p, Beale, formerly OF ST. Al
bans, is dead at Victory at the age OF
So years and ten days
Bennington will observe the l3eth ali
niversary of the Battle of Bennington ON
August l6. The corner stone of the new
hospital will be laid.
The Bennington police are TO attempt
to rid Bennington of the speed maniac
and warning that they will strictly
enforce the statutes has been posted.
NJ. Driscoll of st. Adams, who was a
Central Vermont railroad man from
1867 to 1908, when he retired, died Mon
day morning at his home. He was 90
years old.
Nearly 100000 worth OF real estate
belonging to the late Sarah A. W. Brad
ley of Brattleboro has been sold by the
trustees. The deeds required Sl2s in
revenue stamps.
William Quaide of New York, a camp
n. IL L. - IL
caught trout there that weighed three
pounds and measured l71a inches with
its head cut off.
Sixty-f four marriage licenses have been
issued in Rutland since Jan. l, and most
OF them since June |. This is a larger
number than was ever issued there before
in the same length OF time.
Thus far Bennington has made the
best showing of the three army recruit
ing stations recently established and
Monday sent her first detachment, II
men, to Fort Ethan Allen.
Frank Burtell of North Adams, Mass,
in Middlebury court paid S42.34, fine and
costs, for having in his possession two
teel-headed trout and two land locked T
salmon under the legal length.
The Ford car stolen from S. H. Thomp I
son OF West Milton when he left it /
standing on a curb in Burlington Sat. /
urday evening, was found ditched on the
road between Williston and Richmond
Friends of Philip NJ. Phelps of Fair Ha
ven have started a paper to place his
name on the primary ballots as candi-
date for town representative. He is a 4
member of the law firm of Phelps 4
Pratt.
After working four years to raise a
5000 Indebtedness, four classes of the
Methodist Sunday school at Fair Haven
last Sunday were able to declare the in
debtedness paid and the note was burned
at a special service.
DR.. S. w Bayle, for nine months
practicing physician in Aiddlebury, will
give up his practice there and go to Par ]
is, France, where he intends to become /
an army surgeon with the French forces
at the front. :
A. L. Howard is i'll at his home in
Putney with blood poisoning. While
haying his hand was pierced with pitch y
fork, and he was already suffering from
wound which had not healed since he
was kicked on the leg by horse last =
winter.
The trial of Harry Boyd, who ia
charged with disturbing the peace by 8
driving an automobile in such a manner n
as to brighten several people and to III.
jure others, is before the jury in Brat
tleboro municipal court, the case open
ing Monday.
Frank Russell was taken in hand by e
the New London, Conn, police last e
Thursday night when he alighted from te
a Central Vermont train from Brattle
boro. He boarded it at South Vernon. D
When searched package of stamps h,
worth $25 was found and he has been
held under $1,000 until September 2. tc
c. A. Lyford, who has been assistant w
professor in geology at Middlebury coli al
lege for five years, has resigned and ac- fl
cepted a position as assistant professor BE-
Of chemistry at st. Lawrence university, ee
Canton, N. Y. Professor Lyford had ne
charge of household chemistry in Mid tn
1lebury college for the college year of th
l9l4-l9l5. vi
Sergeant Harvey Sunderland, sta ar
toned at Windmill ranch, Eagle Pass,
Tex, and son of Mr.. and Mrs, O. F. Sun
lerland of Georgia, had narrow escape
rom drowning recently while in SWIM -
ming with two comrades. He became - -
exhausted when beyond his depth aud ~
,nly prompt response to his cry for help gu
prevented a tragedy. 90
Prof f. j. Winslow of Auburndale, ny
Mass, who has been in Mortified in -, ,o
earch of ferns, has found on Paine noun 10
ain a specie of fern which has been We
ound in only three or four places east We
# the Mississippi river. Two other rare 81. ete
pecies he has found growing in North 1h'
eld in greater abundance than in any MI
= har known nlapa pa