The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-26
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

The Brandon inn is TO be thoroughly
remodeled and Is rooms will be added.
In Ludlow there ara 81 Civil war vet.
Grams and 10 widows eligible for pensions
Ernest Sloan of Danbury was fined
$50 and costs for operating a gum gam
bling machine in his store.
To pay for his part in an alteration in
Rutland Friday, John Mcintyre was fined
S. and costs OF over Sl3.
Mr.. and Mrs l.. p. Butts observed their
golden wedding anniversary at their
home in Hyde Park Wednesday.
Roy Mcdonald of st. Adams was fined
$40 and costs of SSH for speeding his
auto on Church street in Burlington.
The enrolment at the Rutland high
school is 46l. and at least 90 more are
expected. The freshman class numbers
between lao and 100.
John Churchill OF Brandon fell a dis
lance of 90 feet from an apple tree on
Thursday, while gathering apples, and
received injuries which confined him to
the bed.
RAYMOND L. Grismer, son of Rev. and
Mrs. C. V. Grismer of Burlington, sails
Thursday for England, where he is to
attend Oxford university as Rhodes
student
Miss Belle barrow of Putney will be
married Wednesday to r. r. Stewart in
Middleburv and Oct. they will sail for
India. Miss barrow has been engaged IN
missionary work in Turkey previously
Myron Stearns has raised on a l3.acre
field in Rutland, Ohio dent corn whose
stalks average from 1919 to Is feet IN
height the ears on which carried Is
rows of corn and averaged II inches IN
length.
f. NJ. Adds, for the past seven years
manager of the Bratteboro electric light
plant, has resigned. his resignation to be.
come effective Oct 5. Nov. he will as,
sumo the duties of manager of the Wal
lingford, Conn, gas company.
When he broke the globe OF a discard
ed electric light globe while playing at
his home in Rutland Friday, the two
year.old son of Mr. and Mrs George R.
Bush nearly lost his eyesight for the
glass flew into his face and into one eye
ball The sight if the eye will probably
be saved
A. 1,,xt,+ pttri linz
ton went out of service Sunday evening
when transformer coil burned out at
the electric light plant. As a new coil
must come from Boston before the re-
pairs can be made, at least go of the
lights must be off for two or three nights
Bristol is trying to put a stop to side
walk bicycle riding. One evening re
Gently bicycle rider knocked down
young woman there and he was promptly
fined SAL, which he paid. Five other
Young men then dared the authorities by
riding on the walks, and each of them
was fined SAL for the privilege.
Henry H. Ross of Rutland at the l04th
annual meeting of the supreme council in
Pittsburg Pa. last week. attained the
33d degree of Scottish Rite Masonry,
the highest degree in the gift of the or
der. There is but one other in Vermont,
who has received that degree Rev. Henry
Ballou of Chester.
One apple tree in the orchard of Amos
J. Eaton in South Royalton will this
year bear 40 bushels of apples. During
the last four seasons it has yielded 500
worth of fruit, and the tree is 10 years
old. Mr.. Eaton asserts that in 1891, the
wear before he moved to it, the entire
farm crops would not have brought 500, |
whereas last year his sales totaled g. |
800.
Elijah Smead Allen, aged 90 years and
a lifelong resident of Jacksonville, died
Friday of the intirmities of old age. For
over 80 years he had lived in the house
where he died. Aside from eight weeks
of school in the winter, conducted in a
neighbor's house. Mr.. Aliens real school
education did not commence until he was
81 years of age, when he attended in
Guilford and taught school winters.
There were 10 children in the family and
at his fathers death he bought the
shares of the other nine in the home
stead and carried on the farm, adding to
It from time to time until now it com
prises 200 acres. He was !. charter mem
Der and first master of Jacksonville |
grange, and was twice elected as town
representative to the legislature.
NATIVE OF BROOKFIELD.