The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-06
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
smuggler's Notch camp closed Tuesda
night for the season,
Chittenden county Pomona grange
to hold a field day Sept 10.
A number OF arrests for automobil
speeding have taken place in 81. Johns
bury recently.
Mrs. Ruth Dunton, wife OF q forlnc
station agent in st. Adams, died Satur
day in Potsdam, y. Y.
Alvah \. Learned, one of Chester
leading farmers and veteran of IN
Civil war, is dead at the age Of II year;
b. G. Rooney, aged II years, for man,
years a successful farmer OF Hyde PARK
died Saturday. He was a native of Fair
field.
Brsttleboro milk dealers are endeavor
ing to have their customers co-operat.
with them in matters OF sanitary mill
conditions.
According to DR.. c. f. Dalton, secre
tsry of the state board of health, ther,
are at present nine cases OF infantil,
paralysis in Vermont
Claude NJ. Brooks, formerly of New
port, has been promoted TO the position
OF cashier for the American EXPIRES.
company at St Johnsbury.
Congressman George Edmund Foss oil
Chicago is visiting his mother, Mrs. G.. L
Foss of Jamaica Plains, Mass, at the
home OF her sister in st. Adams.
The opening of the state normal school
at Castleton has been postponed until
Tuesday, Sept. 10, Students are expect
ed to reach Castleton Monday the 18th.
Negotiations are being conducted by
which it is hoped that new manufac-
turing industry may be located soon in
Brandon in the old wrapper factory at
the depot.
The body of Carroll Hastings of Ches
ter, who was drowned in Stoddard lake,
Stoddard, n H., last Friday, was taken
from the water by graphing hooks sun
day in 80 feet of water.
Mrs Amanda Young, aged 81 years.
died at the Rockingham hospital, Bel
lows Falls Monday night, having sur
vived her husband by four days, he hav-
ing died at Brattleboro Friday
A thief or thieves entered barber
shop in Rutland Monday evening and Sc
cured nine razors, about SO in change
and several cigars and cigarettes. They
entered by way of the front door.
Kitty Parshall Lewis. wife OF Rev.
DR.. George B. Lawson of Ssxtons River.
and eldest daughter of the late John J.
Lewis, Ii. d., professor Of literature in
Colgate university died Sunday in Sax
tons River. Interment was in Hamilton,
n. Y.
One hundred people braved the rainy
holiday weather and enjoyed the annual
outing of the st. Adams Business and
Professional Mems association at Snug
gler's Notch Monday. They We're con
veyed to and from st. Adams by auto
mobile.
George z. Morse of Rutland is the only
Vermonter to play at the national anna
teur golf tournament being held on the
course of the Merton Cricket club, Phila- |
delphia. His card for the qualifying round |
was 80, 94-ls4 This placed him in the
sixth sixteen.
Napoleon Murray and Louis Gardner,
IT,, who recently were found guilty of I
the larceny of hides from the Central |
Vermont Railway company in ST. Adams,
have been sentenced to serve not less
than four nor more than six months in
the house of correction.
Frank Wallet of Rutland while brak
ing on a train near New Haven june
ton, Mass, received a slight concussion
of the brain and was badly bruised about
the forehead when he was struck by the
lower part of bridge beneath which
the train was passing.
c. c. Tower fell the length of a flight
of stairs Sunday evening at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Ralph Mosher, in
breaking his neck and dying
As he started to descend, hs
became dizzy and lost his balance. he
was sc years old.
A large barn in Castleton belonging
to Edward Mccain was burned Sunday 1
with a horse, farm tools and 100 tons OF
hay. The cause of the fire is unknown I
and the loss is only partially covered
by insurance. Heat from the hay may
have started the blaze.
Labor day was celebrated in Rutland
for the first time in several
years by union interests. There was a
parade of 500 men, made up of a dozen
trades, with the Rutland and Whitehall
bands. Field day exercises and baseball
games were part of the entertainment.
The five-year old son of Mr. and Mrs.