The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-02

poets to have 24-hour electric service.
Miss Maggie Smith, for several years
cook at the Hotel Melendy IN Jelier-
sonville, was found dead in bed Sunday,
death being due to heart trouble.
Edgar Williams broke his shoulder
bone, one rib and injured his head IN
Weston recently when II board on which
he was walking broke and let him fall.
CAPTAIN William Belcher Boyden, who
was a native of Guilford, died recently
in San Francisco at the age of SO years.
He was active in the work of the Saliva
tion Army.
Charles Parker, former Burlington
photographer and native of Waterbury,
died last week in Amherst, Mass. He was
taken i'll on street car and died soon
after. His age was II years.
Earl Richardson was accidentally shot
in the calf of his leg in Weston by his
brother. Clifton, while hunting deer dur
ing the open season. The bone was some
what splintered and Mr.. Richardson was
taken to the Rutland hospital for treat
ment.
The Perfection Overgaiter company
has announced that beginning Monday,
Dec. 4, temper cent increase in wages
will be granted at its plant in Burning
ton. The concern employs 80 or more
hands, the majority OF whom are women
and girls.
John johnson, employed by the Deer
field Pulp Co. at Mountain Mills, sus-
tanned compound fracture OF one leg
Saturday while unloading logs. One OF
the heavy logs rolled across his leg,
breaking both bones.
Gilbert A. Davis of Windsor is to pre-
sent the Chester Congregational church
a clock, to take the place OF the one now
in the tower. This will be gift IN
memory of Mr.. Davis father and moth
er. who were active members 81 the Ches-
ter church for over 80 years.
The portrait of the late ex-Gov. L. A.
Woodbury. of Burlington which was
painted by Harold C. Dunbar of Boston,
is at present on exhibition in Boston
dealers art gallary The portrait is to
be presented the state by Mrs. Wood
bury and will hang in the capitol at
Montpelier.
A.E. Hitchcock has a clock in his home
in Rutland which his grandfather pur-
chased in 1920 for $40 at second hand
sale. 1t was manufactured by Henry
Hart of Goshen, Conn, in 1893. 1t keeps
perfect time and requires only an occa'
sional new cord and cleaning. A great
grandson of the original owner keeps it
in repair.
BIB. Stickney, a Rutland lawyer, has
brought suit against the estate OF his
mother-in law. Mrs. Josephine B. Holmes,
for SlOOS6 25,, alleged to be due him tor
services given in assisting Mrs. Holmes
TO settle the estate of her brother, The
odore w. Barnhydt, who left a fortune.
Tn probate court his claim was disal-
lowed by the commissioners of the es-
tate, and the case will now be taken to
county court.
Livingtonston Cushing, Boston at
torhey, formerly president Of the SOM
erset Land company, which held large
tracts of land in Somerset and other
towns in Windham and Bennington coun-
ties, dropped dead on the street in New
Haven, Conn, last Saturday, after he
had gone there to attend the Yale Har.
ward football game. He was captain OF
the Harvard eleven of 1878 and 1879. At
the time of his death, Mr.. Cushing was
q stakeholder in the Deerfeld Lumber
corporation, to which the Somerset Land
urr rolI its hnldinrS.