The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-10

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
There are over 1000 phone connection
made daily in the Brattleboro exchang,
over 5000 trout fngerlings were place
in Lake Wapanacki, Hardwick, las
week
There has been one death from smal
pox in sutton but no more cases are re
ported.
There are now ll3 campers al Cam
Abnaki and 20 more are expected during
the week
Concord has organized missionar!
society under the leadership OF Mrs. Bar
Der OF Boston.
Concord will have junior high sehoo
as the result OF conference between
Supt Hillegas and local authorities.
Miss Alice 4. Alahoney and George w
Donahue, both clerks in the RUTLAND
postoiiice, were married Wednesday.
Hardwick will probably have som,
form of street traffic regulations in the
tation.
Charles H Lee the Lyndonville horse
trainer and driver has filed bankrupt
cy petition He has liabilities of 1924
and assets of $4,000
Friday afternoon, Aug IL, Mortified
is TO have a baby show, with a parade
and prizes. 1t will include children UNI
der II years of age.
The biggest catch of the season so far
at Malletts Bay was made Tuesday by
Eugene Lavalley of Willmansett Mass.
-pickerel weighing IS pounds.
Superintendent b +. Merriman. for
several years superintendent of schools
at Railway, n. j., has been engaged for
the coming year at Bellows Falls.
In Middlebury Tuesday Officer Pat
rick Henry of Burlington found four
automobile drivers who did not have
license and Is who did not have them
with them.
F. L. Cuddeback arrived in Newport in
a Franklin car Monday after touring
across the continent from Los Angeles,
his home and covering over 5000 miles.
He started east about June |.
Government milk inspectors have rent
ed a basement room in a st. Johnsbury
block and will convert it into tempo
rary laboratory during their stay of from
four to six weeks in that section.
The Twin State Gas and Electric Co.,
complying with the order of the public
service commission has purchased
closed car for use on its line from Brat
tleboro to points across the river.
When the horses started unexpectedly
as c. A. Roy was moving with ma
chine in Roxbury few days ago, he
happened to be in front of the machine
with the result that the cord in one an
kle was severed.
The engine drawing the White Noun
tain Express, southbound, broke brake
beam as it approached Brattleboro Tues
day and had to be uncouped. A freight |
engine completed the haul into Green
field.
Warren Drown of West Burke, while |
touring through the White mountains
last Sunday, met another car that
stripped off one door, sprung the axle |
of one wheel and broke the windshield |
on his machine.
The Alvin White place in Newfane, |
owned by Curtis Smith, burned to the
ground Tuesday morning while Mr. /
Smith was away delivering hay Six /
small children and three women were in
the building when the fire was discoy-
cred and all escaped unframed
DR.. E. Z. Dickerman of West Burke,
while working on his automobile Mon
day afternoon, was overcome by gas
fumes and made unconscious for some
time. A few weeks ago, Dr. Dickerman
WAS tHTOWH out OF MS wagon ana mas not
been in his usual good health since
George Jennings, Barton sheriff, went
recently to Sutton to arrest one lie Foe.
He found his man and then permitted
him to go to his room to change his
clothes. Meanwhile lie Foe planned his
means of escape and when he came back
to the door sprinted desperately away
and escaped.
One of the eight big generators at the ,
Vermont power plant of the Connecticut ,
River Power Co., was put out of com Il,
mission in heavy electrical storm in the .
vicinity of Brattleboro Tuesday evening. I
Lightning struck one house, knocked a
man down and put $50 telephones and
several trunk lines out of commission.
-Four generations gathered in Roxbury I
the first of fhe uaaLy Of the borao oft