The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-16
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The enrolment az the Burlington higl
school may reach 700 this fall, as nearly
$50 enrolment cards have already beer
received.
Mrs. Mary Hapgood, underhill's old
est resident, died Sunday at the age OF
% years, death being due 10 a general
breaking down.
Silas Hicks OF Readsboro dropped
box weighing between 400 and 500 pounds
on his foot recently, crushing the big
toe OF his. left foot.
John Brooks, arrested on a statutory
charge in Brattleboro last week, wa
Thursday sentenced TO not less than one
and one.half nor more than two years
In state prison.
When S. s. Washer OF Brattleboro lost
control OF his Ford car Thursday, IL raf
into hank and was badly damaged. Mr.
Washer was thrown out and received q
bad cut on his head
Burlington citizens are trying 20 dis
cover why they must pay 81 more tor
for coal than Rutland. Burlington prices
also vary with the different dealers, while
Rutland prices are uniform.
The 22d annual reunion of the Bump
family was held in Salisbury Wednesday
with SIS persons present. The oldest was
DR.. orlo NJ. Bump, aged 81 years, and
the youngest was ten months old.
Miss Helen Mckee and Miss Eliza
beth Gremley, both graduate nurses OF
the Rutland hospital, are going to Eng
land as war nurses. Miss Mckee's home
Is in Richmond r. O.. and Miss Grem'
ley's in Newcastle, \. B.
The longest stretch OF state road ever
built in one year in Pittsford has Just
been completed and is one mile and ~
feet long and 81 feet wide. II is made
of three layers OF crushed stone. Over
800 loads of stone and 500 loads OF dirt
were used.
J. A. Fowler of Ludlow died very sud
denly Tuesday evening at the home OF
his son. Lueius c. Fowler, in Underhili
where he and his wife had been visiting
since Saturday. Mr.. Fowler was resi-
dent of Randolph for many years before
moving to Ludlow.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Houston, in truck
returning from Woodbury. to Hardwick
with piano, were run into by Wood,
bury auto, throwing them from the wag-
on seat and breaking Mrs. Houston S
nose. besides otherwise bruising her and
shaking her up.
+. z. Barber of Woodstock is suffer.
ing from broken shoulder as the re-
suit OF a fall from a wagon. He was
sitting on the rear end of a lumber
wagon when the team started without
warning and fell backward, striking his
head and shoulder on the ground.
F. C. Henderson of Brookline, Mass,
while visiting in Colchester caught near
Sand Bar bridge pickerel measuring
about 40 inches in length. When the
head of this pickerel was cut off, the
tail of another fish which the pickerel
had swallowed was seen, and the second
fish measured IS inches.
Harlan Barnes met with very serious
accident recently. He had closed his
house in Westminster and with his fam
lily gone to Walpole, \. H., where he
had taken haying job. He was un-
loading hay in the barn, when a rope
broke and hay fork fell, striking him
on the head. He did not fully regain
consciousness for two days.
Ora n. Drew was seriously injured at
his home in North Danville Thursday
when the head came off the sledge ham,
mer which his son was using to drive
fence posts and struck the older man
over the forehead. He was knocked
down, made unconscious and a large cash
was cut He suffers much pain.
Any student from New England states
except Vermont or Maine, and from New
York or New Jersey, who are to enter
the University of Vermont this fall, will
be required to produce physicians Ger
tifcate showing that they have been in
no infected premises since the outbreak
Of infantile paralysis. About 20 per
cent of the students will be affected.
The marriage in Brattleboro of Eliza
beth Moffett, Christian Syrian of
Springfield. Mass, and Allie Sofan, a
Mohammedan Syrian of the same city,
has caused sort of religious war in the
Syrian colony at Brattleboro, and the ex-
element is so great that for Hassan
Mss, in some way connected with the
marriage, a special guard has been APP
pointed to escort him when on the street.
Thomas Ysbeck is under 81 900 bonds for
a disturbance of the peace.