The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The state has an exhibit al the Fai
Haven fair this year for the first tint
Mrs, Flaro Bigelow Bloggett, forme
resident OF Stowe, is dead at San Diego
Cal.
The season for brook trout lake trou
and longe ends Sept |, in streams an
ponds alike.
A full grown skunk was killed by al
automobile on North Main street in Rut
land Thursday.
Harold Arthur Scagel, aged IL, is th
first applicant 20 be sworn in at the nava
recruiting station AZ Burlington.
Each Of the first nine graduates of tn,
teachers training course at Leland anC
Gray have secured positions teaching.
Mrs. John Kelley Of Burlington re
ccived a serious hurt TO one hip wher
she fell while in the cellar of her home
Howard f. Woodfn of Pleasant street
Rutland recently caught at lake Dun
more a lake trout that weighed ~
pounds.
A fine quality of white marble has
been found by the United Marble com
pany near the old Kelley quarry in South
Wallingford.
Mildred Marcille, girl visitor in st.
Johnsbury, fell from a swing on Wednes.
above the wrist
Charles n. Chamberlain, for many
years ianitor OF the Rutland county
court and a civil war veteran, is dead
at the age OF go years.
Gates H. Barnard, the Oldest member
of the Mount Zion lodge, f. and A. NJ,
is dead at Troy, n. Y. Mr.. Barnard was
born 81 years ago in Vermont.
The Vermont association of Life I'm
derwriters will hold their annual outing
and business meeting on the steamer
Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, August
20.
Because the engine backfred as he was
attempting to crank his car, James Mea-
CHER of North Bennington suffered a
fractured right wrist, both bones being
broken.
The l36th annual meeting of the
SALISBURY Association OF Baptist
churches will be held with the Brandon
church next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerhardt Tonseth mar.
ried in Brattleboro Wednesday, will
spend part of the honeymoon on fish
ing and camping trip. Mrs. Tomsetn
is an ardent campfire girl.
The fourth annual session of the STRAIT. !
ton Reunion association was held last
Wednesday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. !
Samuel Lyons in Bennington and some
80 people enjoyed the festivities.
F. c. Cutler, successful poultry deal |
er in Townshend is said to have pulet .
of the Buff Wyandotte breed that was
Matched on April | and laid its first egg
August ID. Since then it has laid eight
Others.
Five hundred and eighty pupils have
already registered for Burlington high
school with the busiest week still to
come. The high school building is built
to accommodate 600 but at pinch can
take care of 675.
A demonstration of seven different
ways to utilize windfall apples was in
progress this week in charge of Rutland
county agent, Morton F. Downing, at
the Fair Haven fair Mrs Downing pre-
pared the seven recipes.
As further precaution against the
possibility of an infantile paralysis cpl
demic in Vermont the state board of
health decided at meeting held in Bur
lington that the schools of the state
should not open before Sept. Is.
Citizens of Lunenburg rendered Colonel
and Mrs. Frank D. Dale public recep-
ton Wednesday. Col. Dale is to leave
for his post as consul at understood,
England, on Saturday, and the reception
was in the nature of farewell.
A landslide on the Bennington side of
Bunville notch during Wednesday, closed
up half a mile of the new road being
there and caused the cessa-
sation of all traffic. The dirt fills the
road to a depth of nine feet in spots.
A panel will be selected next Monday
evening in the case of William French
of Rutland, who is charged with breach
Of the peace in having killed a poodle
belonging to A. Newman few days ago.
There is to a jury trial at the plaintiffs
request.
DR.. Charles +, Clark, the well known
who has been spending some
time in North Bennington, will go to