The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-11
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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The Burlington city clerk has issued
900 dog licenses.
The Parent Teacher association of
! Springfield is to conduct public play
Iground next summer.
Burlington ice dealers announce re-
duction in the price OF ice from 40 To
80 cents for domestic use. Commercial
users will pay the same price as last
year.
Mrs. Sarah Sanderson of Milton died
at her home on Main street on Saturday
morning at the age of ~ years. She is
survived by two sons and several grand
children,
Brattleboro was visited by fall of
eleven and one-half inches of snow on
Saturday and Sunday. The trolley sery-
ice was out of order but telephone lines
were not affected.
Saturday was the s0th birthday of Col.
kittredge Haskins, ex-congressman, ex-
postmaster and a prominent Mason, OF
Brattleboro. He had served as speaker
of the Vermont house OF representatives.
There were 1872 names on the list post
ed Monday of persons to whom Burling
ton dealers are prohibited from selling
liquor, the greater number being habitual
.Irs., h.. = all
year.
As Mrs F. J..Levee was cleaning house
at her home in Jericho the stepadder |
on which she was standing collapsed, let |
ting her fall to the floor Although no
bones were broken, one knee was badly !
Mr., and Mrs. Samuel Ashby of Brat. |
tleboro were on the steamship Tenadoes
when it collided with the incoming /
steamship Murillo in New York harbor
on Saturday. The Tenadoes put back
to her pier but sailed on Sunday.
A shipment of 40 carloads of automo-
oiles attracted much attention when it
passed through Rutland on Monday for
points east. Because of the shortage
II freight cars at present. the machines
we're loaded on lowsided coal cars.
Frederick l. Mann, formerly a right
ielder with the National league, died FRI
lay in a hospital in Springfield, Mass,
f cancer. Mann was a native of Wind
or and graduated from the high school
here in 1876 He was 81 years old. He
listed Windsor in 1912 for the last
ime.
Henry Davis OF Richmond, returning
ome from the Condensed milk factory
With the team of G. b. Andrews recently,
vas thrown from his wagon and severe
V hurt about the head and his shoulders
nd arms, when the wagon dropped into
hole in the road :
While Charles Kease, aged 10, was
laying in the schoolhouse yard at Fer :
sburg Center Thursday, he saw a musk
1T ana chased it, the rat taking refuge
large iron pipe. When boy and rat
let, combat ensued in which the boy h
in killing the rat, but not till , \
e rad been bitten severely on his head +
nd both hands. f
Beckley, in his History of Vermont, :
ublished in 1916, says that "the winter
1928 was remarkable throughout I
le country for the quantity of snow :
i'd the continuance of the cold. The
low was four feet deep at Brattleboro a
lie first week Of April, and in the noun n
in towns from five to seven The W
eighing continued about six months b
arch was unprecedently cold, the mer h
Try in the thermometer often going h,
'wn several degrees below zero"
A summary court has been esta blished
Co. |. V. n. g.. of Bratleboro, under an
t of Congress, allowing the establish y
ent of such courts for the purpose Of J,
the cases of members of the II
ganization charged with offenses br
ainst discipline Lieut. w. R. Spauld bs
Z has been appointed the presiding Off W
: of the court /.
Dan Gallant Of Bellows Falls is in the w
ckingham hospital as the result OF an on
,ident in the j. I. Moore & Son paper W
II on Saturday. His right arm was he
lshed to a point above the wrist and mi
zee fingers on his left hand were in M
ed. His arm was amputated. Gallant ia
been working in the mill but two Sc,
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