The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-02


\. y, has accepted a call TO the pastor
ate OF St. Matthews church at Enosburg
Falls and will begin his duties Nov. |,
Miss Isabella Brown observed the Goth
anniversary of her birth Thursday at
her home in Rutland. She was employed
in the town clerks Office for about 80
years.
During an electrical storm last week,
lightning struck and killed two yearlings
belonging TO l.. w. Potter of East Fair
field and one COW for S. II. Mitchell of
the same place.
Velma Irene, new arrival at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Carr in East
Concord, is literally blessed with ances.
tors. The baby has four great grand.
mothers, two erandfathers, and two
grsndmothers.
As Mrs. Elster Moulton was about to
retire one evening last week at her home
in Middlesex, she was stung by yellow
wasp, and the poison spread so rapidly
that she tainted five times before doc
tor could reach her.
Charles Henry Dole. Danville's post
master for the past two years, who died
September "a after brief illness of
pneumonia, was ~ years old. He was
prominently connected with the business
and fraternal life of Danville.
The Hotel Berwick at Rutland has fol-
lowed the example of the Hotel Vermont
and Van Ness in Burlington in raising
the commercial rates to So day min
imum from $3.50. The new rate also
applies at White River Junction.
Col. C. w. Hayes of Fremont. Ohio,
son of ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes,
has been visiting in Dummerston, calling
on John NJ. Knight, for it was in that
house that Mr. Hayes grandfather Ruth
erford Hayes, lived and carried on bust
ness in a store adjoining.
South Vernon residents believe they
were treated to a shower of ants one |
day recently, as, preceding thunder
shower, they came down so thickly that |
it sounded like rain upon the trees, the
air overhead was full of them and the /
road covered with them.
Henry Bond of Brattleboro has offered I
to give 81 600 to pay the expenses of ev-
cry Baptist minister in Vermont to at
tend in Boston conferences which are
to be held during Billy Sundays cam
pagn and also to attend the Sunday
meetings while they are there.
bankruptcy case has been filed in
the Office of Clerk +. S. Platt of the
United States court by Attorney Arthur
G. Therault of Montpelier for Charles II.
Wilkinson, a plumber of that city He
has liabilities of 81 ,067.5S and assets OF
$l054.45 with $3.50 claimed exempt.
Capt Edward A. Hawley, formerly OF
Stove, who belonged to a regiment do
ing service at Empire City, Panama Ca
nal zone was drowned September 81. His
body was so badly decomposed that bur
ial there was necessary. He was an
adopted son of NJ |. Burns of Stowe.
Fred l.. Sargent of Windsor. paroled
July p by Gov Gates, after having been
confined in states prison two years on
the charge of bigamy, was arrested in
Claremont, n. H., recently for violation
OF the terms of his pardon and must now
serve the remainder of the original time
of commitment.
Clement F. Smith has sold his farm
on the Wolcott road, in Morristown, to
George c. Young of Lenoxville, Que. The
consideration was $4,000. Forty head
Co. III L..
farming tools were included in the sale.
In the deal Mr. Smith took farm in
Hardwick and his son-in-l law, Roy Ma
comber, will probably move there.
George LaBar OF Delaware Water Gap.
Md, is due to arrive soon in Barton with
Il crew of 30 ment to gather Christmas
trees, The LaBars are the largest COM
pany in the country which handles
Christmas trees and last year from the
vicinity of Barton they shipped to the
cities over $50 cars. Mr. Labsr's father
is managing a crew at Colebrook, n.
H, for the same purpose, while broth
er is operating in the vicinity of White
River Junction.
Alfred Leavens of Madison, \. H, en- J
pioycd by the National Acme company
at Windsor, rode on freight train from
Claremont Junction to Windsor a few
nights ago and as the train neared the 4
latter place he stepped of, but, it being !:
dark, he miscalculated the loca tion of
railroad bridge and fell some distance,
landing in bushes. He broke two ribs !
and sprained his back.
The dismembered body Of a man found
near the railroad track in Greenfield, =
Mass. Wednesday evening, is thought
10 have been that of James Ware Of
l'itchburg, Mass. Mr.. Ware had been
It j. AIurray's in Bellows Falls week
ma left Wednesday for Greenfield A
lip OF paper with Mr. Murray's address
vas the only clue the authorities had as
% his Identification. Mr.. Murray went
10 Greenfield to see the body and thinks
{ Mr.. Ware.
George A. Whipple of Lyndonville, re-
emily lost six good cows from poisoning.
After spraying trees last summer he
tored the remainder of the poison in
,arrel in his sugar house. On going there
le discovered that his sugar house had
,een riddled with shots, also the barrel
inside, and the poison had leaked out and
lown into the pasture where the cows