The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-25
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Camp Abnaki will close August 81
There are about l25 boys there at pres
emit,
Bennington will close its playground
on Sept. 4 with a big picnic for all tn
children.
There will be over 1000 extra electri
light bulbs strung along Rutland's street
during carnival week
Lack OF boarding and rooming facii
ties will keep several new students from
attending Orleans high school this fall.
Charles Rollins of Waterford received
fracture of the right leg between tn,
knee and ankle last week while working
in the woods,
Only one contest was filed in the Ben
nington primaries, Edmond Lairanchist
and Dexter NJ. Gleason both wishing tC
be side judge in the south shire.
Campmeetng week closed at Riverside
Sheldon, when DR.. NJ. b. Pratt of Troy
n. y, addressed the gathering Tuesday
evening after successful mission.
The shrapnel she'll contracts of the F.
r. Patch company of Rutland have been
nearly completed. the plant having been
running with day and night shifts for
months.
Last Thursday nearly 200 former
teachers, pupils and their friends gath.
cred at the Old Red Schoolhouse in South
Wheelock and held their seventh annual
reunion.
Charles Wood, the Brattleboro traffic
officer, has been presented a big umbrel-
la, which he has rugged up to shed the
sunbeams from himself while on duty in
the street.
The last of the sewers entering into
Lake Chsmplain near Queen City park
has been closed up. Septic tanks will
take their places and two are to be put
in at once.
James +. Sennett OF Poultney is the
only Rutland county Democrat who is
an aspirant for county Office. He seeks
election as probate judge in the Fair
Haven district.
ton who bit Russell Bruso severely about
the neck in recent tussle, has been
bound over to Rutland county court I'M
der bail of 81 900.
Capt. Harry n Eastman of Rutland,
who is with the first Vermont regiment
at Eagle Pass, Texas, was kicked in the
knee by mule used by the outfit and
SO badly injured that he is in the milf
tary hospital.
The sewing committee of the recently
organized branch of the state Red Cross |
at Arlington have completed Is T band
ages; "a head bandages; ID abdominal |
bandages; 10 knitted wipes; SO rolled |
bandages; fracture pillows and II pill
low cases.
Forty citizens and members OF the Ar
lington board of trade met in the town
hall Tuesday evening and decided to put
out subscription list of the stock of an
bank to be located in the
town of Arlington. A committee is to be
appointed to study plans for an early
Officer P. j. Henry of Burlington, who
has been putting in some profitable time
at st. Adams, complains of the manner
in which the automobiles speed through
the streets, and says that it must be
stopped. Mr.. Henry has found the aver
age number of autoists without licenses
upon their persons.
A carrier pigeon while flying through
Milton Aug. 10 became exhausted and
anded at 6 o'clock p. m. on the clothes
bars at the home of H. A. Brush. Mr.. {
Brush caught it and gave it food and wa.
band marked %. B. 1895" The bird !
s still with Mr.. Brush.
Murray wheeler, son OF Mrs. j. b. !
Wheeler of Rutland, was one of the :
winning crew at the national regetta at |
Dartmouth on August II and IL, and got '
Is prize white jersey with blue ,
ID" thereon. The Duluth boys won
heir events both days and were coached T
" Ten Eyck, the noted oarsman. "
p. w. johnson of Boston had an I'M 8
'leasant experience at South Walling-
ord when the Ford car he was driving |
lit an obstruction and turned over with a
i'm beneath it. AIr. johnson, who is a il
raveling salesman, was severely bruised v
nd was confined to his room at the Ho-
ell Berwick in Rutland for two days. g
Sanford Percy, native of North Ben Il
ington, was severely injured Tuesday &
fternoon while at work in a bayfield, in q
Ioosick Falls n. Y. He was precipitated d
rom a moving machine and received a
fracture to one arm and one II
e was so badly lacerated that Is to 20 Il
titches were required to close the Il
'ound.
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Seyentv-six children attended the OMEN tl