The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-25
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Richmond has new playhouse.
The Burlington police force is arraye'
in new uniforms.
1 The girls OF the Bennington play
grounds are to enjoy a watermelon eat
John 4. Green, formerly of Vergennes
died July 10 at his home in Cleveland al
the age of 10.
st. Adams has an increase OF S5l9.Zt
in her unpaid taxes. The total this
year is s3,s53l0.
Leroy Pelky of Fair Haven, aged 10
was drowned in swollen brook Sunday
while searching for COW.
The five year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Pervee of Waterbury, while riding on a
load OF hay, fell off and broke one leg
The rural free delivery carriers of Yer
mont will hold their annual convention
!. in Vergennes Wednesday and Thurs
day,
Calvin c. Chaffee aged 20, leading
New Haven farmer, committed suicide
Friday by shooting himself through the
heart.
Melbourne White, by plunging into the
lake at Newort after seeing Albert Ham,
ell, aged 10 years, sinking for the third
time, saved the young mans life
The case of forgery charged against
Frank L. Slack, who was recently arrest
ed in Winchendon, Mass, and brought
back to Rutland has been nolle pressed.
A Cadillas touring car ran into the
side of j. Z. Bushnell's grocery store in
Brattleboro Saturday night and was bad
ly smashed. The occupants were well
4 shaken up but otherwise unframed.
For a distance of one mile on the road
from Richmond to Huntington, travel
is impossible as the result of a land
slide caused by terrific electrical storm
Saturday afternoon. The damage is put
at $1,000.
Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro won
three cups at the Hoosic Valley tennis
championship matches in Hoosick, n. T.,
last week He captured the club singles
cup, the challenge cup prize and the dou.
bles cup.
Caddies at the Country club in Rut
land, dissatisfied with ten cents an hour, |
Jumped their jobs Friday afternoon and
are now negotiating with the greens com
mittee of the club for an increase of 10
cents an hour,
Mrs. Jennie Lawrence of Townsend I
was severely cut and bruised when an
automobile in which she was riding Sat
urday afternoon overturned on the Ber
nardston road. None of the other occu-
pants were injured
Richard Piedmore of Middlebury is IN
the hospital at Schenectady, n. Y, fatal
~ injured as the result of an automobile
in which he was riding, crashing into Il
bridge abutment while travelling at a
rate of 80 miles an hour.
Charles Compton, West Brattleboro
youth, while hanging by his feet from an
iron beam in garage, lost his hold and
fell headfrst to the cement floor. He
was rendered unconscious but received no
cut or conclusion and is again out doors.
As Charles Towle and a number of
other men were working at the Fair
banks stables in st. Johnsbury Friday,
hammer flew out of the hand of a
fellow workman and struck Mr. Towle
over the eye, making him unconscious
for several hours.
Mrs. Julia (Covell) Casavant, native
of Plainheld, died Saturday in Gardner,
Mass, after long illness. Mrs. Casa.
want, who was the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Covell, had reached the age of
as years. She leaves IL sons and two
daughters.
Robert Gregory, the soldier arraigned
in Burlington city court on the charge
of bigamy, waived examinati and has
been bound over to county court in the
sum of $500. Unable to furnish the
sum, he will remain in Jail until the Sep
TENDER term.
Arthur White, IA, son of Thomas
White of West Dummerston, broke into ,
the house of Mrs. Minnie Betterley OF
that place on Sunday afternoon and was
sentenced in Brattleboro municipal court
Monday to three years at the industrial i,
school at Vergennes. -.
Fred Green who says he is 43 years
old and claims residence in Chicago, was
arrested at Green River, n Y, Sunday
and is being held in the Bennington
county jail, charged with stealing two I
horses from E. B. Baldwin of Arlington. Il
Green is a cripple, having no feet, but t
only stubs with leather cushions upon g
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