The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-05
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Vermont meteorologists report fou
clser days in June.
Mrs. Matilda f. ovitt OF Enosbur
Falls is dead at the age OF 50 years,
John O'Donnell has been sppointe
! postmaster at Pittsford in place Of "
+. Denison.
Game Warden f. w. Hayward Of Rut
land caught two fishermen last week wit
~ short trout between them.
The Vermont Copper company has re
sumed operations at its mines in Straf
ford and the works will run on a 24.hou
shift.
Seven hundred and seventeen womei
from out of town registered at the st
Adams rest room during the month o
June.
Five fishermen paid total Of $3.50 il
Rutland city court Monday for fishing
two hours after shutdown and for hay
ing short trout.
Col. George A. Dodd. formerly sta
toned at Fort Ethan Allen, has been rec
commended by President Wilson to be
brigadier. general.
Stanley L. Robinson of Buffalo has re-
signed as manager of athletics at the
University of Vermont after holding the
office for year.
The Vermont public service commits
sion has given authority to the Arlington
Light & Power Co. of Arlington to issue
$4,000 of capital stock.
The opening session of the 18th annual
school of instruction for health officers
will open Wednesday evening at the high
school hall in Burlington.
The Baptist society OF Rutland will ex
pend $4,000 in the construction of an
addition to their church and in redecora-
tions in the old auditorium.
Short trout recently cost Windsor
county poachers to the number OF FIVE
SIS and costs apiece. Game Warden Hig
gins rescued the fish from a frying pan.
While busy fixing an automobile in the
yard of Rutland garage. Leslie Beldon
was struck and badly bruised about the
face when another car drove into the
yard and hit him.
Miss Maude Deveraux OF Ludlow. q
student at the Skidmore School of Art
Saratoga \. Y, broke the worlds record
for women by jumping 10 feet, 912 inches
at an athletic meet recently.
Fred Garvey, charged with burglary
and grand larceny at Bridport last De,
cember. was found guilty in Addison
county court Saturday and sentenced to
two years at the state prison in Windsor. |
A large mill and adjoining storehousc
in Troy village owned by c. c. Davis of |
Newport and the estate of DIR. F. s. GRAY, !
were burned late Sunday night. with |
total loss OF $500. Incendiarism is sus-
pected
"Old Vergennes" was depicted in spec
tacular pageants at the Vergennes opera
house Monday night in conjunction with
the l50th anniversary of the settlement |
pf the city. Over 100 Vergennes people
took part.
A man named Bordeaux and resident
pf Rutland slipped as he was boarding
p train in Bennington Sunday night and
had one foot crushed so that it was neces-
sary to amputate it, He was a new fire.
man on the Rutland railroad
The worst electrical storm in years
visited Rutland and vicinity on Sunday
and tied up traffic and the lighting tee-
phone and telegraph systems for several
hours in the evening. Hundreds of people
were stranded at Lake Bomoseen where
they had gone to spend the day.
L. n, Pendleton of Lancaster has in
stituted suit in Rutland county court
In which he seeks to recover $4,000 he
rlaims to have put into the Clarendon
Power company and of which he says
pnly ST $50 was actually spent in the de-
kelopment.
Seven small diaries in Windham coun- {
ay have failed to pass the inspection by
Boston and federal dairy inspectors and
their supply has been lost to the Bos- {
Non market until they improve condi
lions. {
Recruits for the Vermont National
Guard are coming in slowly at the state
ramp ground in Colchester particularly
Nor the cavalry. There ia plenty oil i,
Equipment for both branches of the sery-
Ice except horses for the cavalry. .
The Mcintosh memorial celebration T
rommemorating the l50th anniversary of i
the settlement of Nergennes, opened Sun d
day. In the morning Vermont Sunday
was observed in the churches Monday g
the chief feature of the celebration took Il
place when a pageant with cast of over b
100 was presented. F