The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-17

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Over $1,000 was deposited Jan. at th
opening OF the new bank in Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alverton s. Bingham
observe their 50th wedding anniversar
Tuesday at their home in Cornwall.
Lyndons new grange hall, the gift o
Theodore n. Vail, was dedicated Thurs
day. The hall was built at a cost o
$4,000 and is the finest grange propert!
in Vermont.
Donald. Young son OF Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Cronan OF Rutland, fractured ont
arm while coasting Wednesday Hi
traverse collided with another at thu
junction of two streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew j. Dunton OBJ
served their 50th wedding anniversary
Thursday at their home in Rutland. Mr.
Dunton is veteran of the Civil war and
for many years was engaged in the mar
BILE business.
Rev Thomas r. Mccarthy of Rutland
who was recently ordained to the priest
hood in Burlington, has been assigned
as an assistant to Rev. p. j. Long, pas
tor of st. Augustine's church in Mont
pelier.
The nomination Of Frank II, Tyler to
be postmaster at South Londonderry has
been sent to the Senate and the noml-
nation of John III. Donnelly to be post.
master at Vergennes has been confirmed.
DR.. George B. Drake, graduate from
the Bristol high school, Middlebury col
lege and the University of Pennsylva-
MIA medical department, has been APP
pointed one of the surgeons in the city
hospital at Wilkes Barre, Pa.
The receipts from the Bristol village
water system for the six months ending
December |, were S2000.67, total OF
over $4,000 for the year ending next
June, This pays the interest on the
bonds and leaves over $4,000 to pay run
ming expenses of the system.
C. L. Witherell, proprietor of the Bel
mont farm orchards in Cornwall, with
his brother, Harry w Witherell of the
same place, has purchased an orchard
site from the Witherel farm in Shore
ham. on which will be set $500 apple
trees, one-half to be set the coming
spring.
Alexander Salvioli, l6-year old Rut-
land boy. has made large pencil draw
ing of section of the finishing shop of
the Vermont Marble company mill at
Center Rutland, showing the men at
work, and the drawing is so accurate
that the workmen can be easily recog- |
nized from it.
Charles. the three year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. J. w. Smith Of Rutland, broke
one of his knees recently while playing
with a eat, which ran under couch. In
chasing it the boy came in contact with
the couch with sufficient force to break
his knee. Mrs. Smith has been ill for
three weeks.
As she was coming down the noun
tain in Bennington ON a load of wood
with her brother, Miss Elma Deforge,
aged Is years, was thrown from the sled
when the horse became unmanageable
and struck her head in such manner |
as to cut cash to the bone almost the
entire width of her forehead.
Dr. Josiah Sweet, aged go years, one
of the leading physicians of Litchfeld
county, Connecticut, died of pneumonia
Thursday at his home in New Hartford
Dr. Sweet was born in Bethel, son of
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Sweet, mis- ia
Their being an Episcopal rector. He mar
RED Bertha Huddleston at Granville in !
1851. He was graduate of the Uni :
versity of Vermont. .
The Cole family have left their farm i
in Morristown to the care of neighbors
and are all in the far west. Mr. Cole t
IS school superintendent in South Da- d
<ota; Mary teaches in rural school @
there; Lillian is engaged in the same o
state as a trained nurse; Archibald is d
teaching in New Jersey and William in y
Oklahoma, while Mrs. Cole was offered !
the position of chief matron of the a
state training school, but refused, pre- b
'erring to occupy the cottage on their n
homestead on the Cheyenne river.
Captain and Mrs. Preston Chamberlain
observed the Goth anniversary of their
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