The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-23
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
There We're but five FIRE alarms in Rut.
land during July,
Mrs. Eunee Kingsbury is dead at
West Brattleboro at the age of 90.
Rutland is to have a new shirt factory
which will start with so hands working.
The government thermometer at Enos.
burg Falls registered 90 degrees during
Sunday.
Between 30 and 40 people attended the
reunion of the Ross families at Lake ST.
Catherine, near Poultney, on Sunday.
There are this year more than 100
demonstrations of soy beans throughout
tried.
The annual session OF the Universalst
convention of Vermont and the Province
of Quebec will be held at st. Johnsbury
Aug. 2s.3h
Harold Alexander Holder OF Brattle
boro was found dead in his bed Sunday
morning by his wife, death being due TO
heart trouble.
The Rutland board Of health has asked
the city council to adopt an emergency
ordinance to protect the city from infan-
tile paralysis.
Among the campers at Caspian lake,
Greensboro, there are IL members OF the
Princeton university faculty and their
families now in camp
Rutland has given over the city park |
on Main street to the children as a rec.
reation field until a more suitable loca
ton can be obtained.
On Sunday last Mrs, Goldie Swasey of
West Danville kept track of the vehicles
that passed in front of her house and
counted $50 automobiles, Is motorcycles
and 80 teams.
Frank Plath of Albany, n. Y, a sum
mer visitor in Shrewsbury, paid $40 fine
and costs in Rutland municipal court
Monday morning for having caught a
single short trout.
The absence of two members of the
Rutland police force on the Mexican Dor
der has delayed the vacations OF those at
home. No specials can be obtained to
fill in, because the city pays but So
day.
Misses Ray Elliot Levi and Anna Kutt- {
ner of New York, who have been stop s
ping at the Walloomsac inn in Old Ben
nington, are making four days tramp
over the Bennington section of the Long
Trail alone.
Travelling passenger and freight agents
of various railroads came to Bratleboro t
Monday night to inspect the new station S
and to enjoy banquet. They were tax h
en- in hand and shown about the town in J
automobiles. 0
A. L. James, formerly of ST. Adams, b
has been appointed principal of the boys
high school of Brooklyn, n. Y, school
of over 5000 pupils. Of the eight high h
schools in Brooklyn, two of them have a
Vermont principals. o
William c. Mason has resigned as -
manager of the Wallingford plant of the a
American Fork & Hoe Co. after 80 years ;,
continual service with them. Mr.. Mason :,
is still director and a second vice presi- =
dent of the corporation. !,
The annual encampment of the lst
regiment of Vermont, Uniform Rank, X.
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grand lodge of the Knights Of Pythias of W
the domain of Vermont will be held at ri
Bellows Falls Aug. $3.50. m
Warwick S. Carpenter Of Bennington al
publicity writer for George D. Pratt, the es
New York conservation commissioner is "
in a hospital at Saratoga recovering co
from severe bruises received in an auto ST.
mobile mishap Sunday. NJ
The Rutland Business college has m
placed 20 of its students in offices since -
last September and Prin. L. J. Egelston
states that in the past IL months he has
had l24 calls for office help. Forty per
cent of these calls are from out of town.
Nelson, the two-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Barnes of st. Adams,
swallowed a quantity of paregoric Sat
urday but is recovering fast because his
was discovered promptly and
he was given an emetc by his mother.
A. M. Sheldon of North Adams. Mass,
was taken from Jacksonville to Brattle-
boro Saturday afternoon and arraigned an
there on the charge of fishing without a m!
license in Roberts pond. The case was to
continued to Friday, with bail fixed at Nc
$50. ,s
William French of Rutland is being of
held under bonds of $500 for shooting loy
and killing poodle belonging to A. p,,
Newman, a horse dealer. Several chill ine
iren were playing with the animal when
The shots were fired, and the police were
notified.
KIN
William Decassi colored man who abe
has been bootblacking in Brattleboro this acr
was sentenced in Brattleboro ar
court Saturday to serve from 10
our to eight months at the house of cor ~