The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-09
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
About $50 autos crossed the toll bridg,
at Waterford Sunday.
Contributions 60 st, Albans' play
ground fund total 5000
David A. Thomas, for many years sta
ton agent at Pownal, died Saturday
Swanton has a new ferry running from
the Burton farms on the Swanton side
TO Alburg.
John Allen OF Westford, IS, was found
dead in the yard at his home Tuesday.
Death was due 10 heart failure.
Rutland will increase the seating ca
Pacity OF its high school assembly hall
by the addition Of 100 new seats.
o. D. Wiley Of South Ryegate picked
from his garden, July 81, ripe tomato
that measured IL inches in circumference.
Several startling free street shows will
be feature of the carnival week at
Rutland, six acts already being booked
BY the management.
Thomas King of Newport, 81, was
locked up Monday night by the Rutland
police for safe keeping and the Newport
authorities were notified.
A skunk killed 10 pullets belonging
to Roy Barron OF Barton on a single
morning recently, but the same skunk
will never kill another hen.
The state committee of the Y. NJ c. A.
will dedicate the new camp site and equip
ment of Camp Abnaki at North Hero,
Friday, Aug. IL, with formal exercises.
Brattleboro's new station will be
thrown open to traffic at 7:l5 Saturday
morning. All the necessary track
changes will have been made by that
time
Miss Lizzie Stone of Winooski was
badly lacerated about the face Tuesday
when a motor car in which she was a
passenger, collided with another near
Burlington.
Bennington postofiice receipts for July
were S3l797 in excess of those for the
same month last year. Each other month !
this year has also showed an increase /
by comparison
The Straw family of Stowe held their
annual reunion last Wednesday upon the |
l0sth anniversary of their fathers birth,
25 being present Two have died since
the last meeting.
The operating income of the Rutland
railroad for the six months ending June
80, was $4s7 ,470.0S, which was an in
crease of Sl57, 90l.90 in comparison with
the period in 1915.
Charles Stone, for II years superin.
tendant of the Evarts farms at Evarts
and for 80 years in the hardware bus
mess at Windsor, died there Aug. 2. He
was a soldier in the Civil war.
The new floral hall on the Franklin !
county fair grounds has been completed. a
1t is a modern wooden structure and
will be ready for exhibitors at the fifty p
first annual fair which opens September
Sydney Baker, the Burlington man I
who endeavored to shoot his father in .
law, Peter Jarvis, Saturday evening at 4,
their home, was sentenced to the house ,
Of correction for not less than two and !
not more than three years. a
Senator Carroll S. Page, who stopped :
in Bennington Monday night on his way
north, confded to friends there that he h
was going to get more votes this fall a
than Fletcher and Gates put together. g,
THE voters want Page" he said.
The Hartland library has been pre- q
,endant of the Evarts farms at Evarts
we're once the property of Philip Spauld
ng, Revolutionary soldier, who fought g,
lnder Gen. Stark with the Green Noun (,
ain boys at the battle of Bennington,
Aug. l6, l777. W
Helen St. Cyr was fined at the iuve- a,
lille session of the Brattleboro munich
oal court for running an automobile n,
without a license. Her case was brought w
o the attention of the authorities when n
he collided with another machine run
" DIR. H. L. Waterman. in
fc
Nunzio Massaro, arrested in Boston,
where he went from Rutland, when he 6,
umped his bail two days before his trial 81
n the alleged charge of robbery from "a
Dominica Rogosto on March 4, will be III
ried in Rutland on Aug. IA. He was ar
ested in Boston on the charge of carry =
ng concealed weapons. CIV
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