The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-28
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Philip Sparks of Ripton paid fine of
S25 and costs of $685. for refusing to
show his hunting license to game war
den.
Mrs Leon p. Fuller picked bouquet
of sweet pea blossoms and buds Nov.
IA on vines grown in the open at her
home in Nottingham.
Three fully grown ripe field strawber-
ries, only slightly touched by the frost,
were picked on the Merritt Willard farm
in Dandy Nov. "a.
Merrill, youngest son of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Sumner of Wilmington, fell on
hot stove recently and burned one
side OF his face.
Mrs. Joan Cuneo has over 300 pigeons
at her Applecrest farm in Wilmington,
$50 of which are Plymouth Rock homers
and the rest Belgian Carneaux.
Ethan Nichols OF Vergennes was fined
800 and costs of sos for shooting a
fawn in Waltham, after pleading guilty,
Fifty dollars of the fine was RENTED
on recommendation of the officers who
had the case in hand.
The Green Mountain Lime conpG2y's
plant at Middlebury was sold at auction
Friday to the Rutland Trust company
Middlebury men will, however, continue
-, - Il s,ft ha ,ln 81, al, nil
be operated as usual.
Two memorial windows were dedicated
in the Bellows Falls Congrega tional
church Sunday. The church has been
without pastor since Rev. DR.. A. p. Pratt
went to the Second Congregational
church of Greenfield, Mass, last June.
Pecans which won first prize at the
West Texas state fair at San Angelo |
have been sent to Mrs. l.. A. Webster
of Whiting by the exhibitor, George |
Richardson of San Angelo, Tex. He was |
one of the managers OF the fair and owns /
$4,000 acres of land in that state.
Frank Murray shot a 2O0-pound bear
in the woods of East Wallingford Satur
day and came to Rutland with ii seated /
in the extra seat tonneau Of his motor
cycle. 1t attracted considerable atten
ton.
A suffrage club, the object of whose
is to become familiar with the
history, arguments and results Of suf-
frage, was organized in Newport at
meeting which was addressed by Mrs.
Augusta C. Hughston OF New York City,
national suffrage speaker and organizer
fridays balmy breeze lifted 40xl2
loot piazza roof off the building where
t was located in Burlington and deposit
ID it some distance away. carrying it over
row OF chimneys and above telephone
md telegraph wires. As it tried to pass
two houses, it met its Waterloo,
tut did some damage to both buildings
before it finally settled down to the
arth again.
Much building was done in Rutland
his year, including 50 new houses, which
provided accommoda tions for so families ;
fifteen buildings were also remodeled for ?
welIings. The largest building opera.
ion was the erection OF two huge shops |
or the Howe Scale company. John b.
,tearns is soon to begin the erection Of I
two-story brick building for undertake
ng purposes.
The arrest of George w. Wall of Hay
enville, Mass, at West Townshend re. t
on+1tY h,y ~, nHt 10 N
bought to be noteworthy in that he
Gems to be one of gang of burglars b
Tho have been working successfully L
round Northampton He is held under Il
1000 bail for trial next Friday. Walz
-as at work carpentering when appre n
ended and gave himself up at once. u
Walter S. Shaw, after having one leg L
artially amputated, then grated on, and a
aving two attacks of pneumonia, final ~
: suecumbed at the Rutland hospital n
Mr.. Shaw, who is % years
ID, was struck July II by an automobile H
; he was riding his motorcycle in Low n
l. Mass, which confined him to Low n
/ hospital until October. His home was n
Poultney and he was brought there n
lly to have second attack OF pneumo n
a. which proved fatal.
Mrs. McCullock saw a herd of | deer VI
a meadow near the McCulock house in N
ownshend few days ago and called n
n husband but by the time he had Sc H
red his gun and got near enough to
loot, the two bucks had got too far Y
way to be in range of his rifle and only
e five doe were within shooting dis w
nee. a.
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