The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-28
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
G. H. Ross is in charge OF new
weather station at Rutland.
On Wednesday the attendance al the
Barton fair was between 1900 and S.
900.
Brigham academy at Bakersfield will
introduce a teachers training course this
fall
Windsor county's population in ls4e
was 40,456 as compared with $4,000 to-
day.
Melrose hospital at Brattleboro has
been sold 10 A. l.. Trip, who will con.
tinue it as a hospital.
Arrangements are under way for a
tour of the LIST Vermont regiment band,
which is still stationed at Fort Ethan
Allen.
The Charlestown board Of health has
issued decree whereby all children must
be vaccinated before returning TO school
this fall.
The Highgate schools will open this
year minus the teachers training course
which has been replaced by a junior high
high school.
Caspian lake calls 1000 visitors to its
shores each summer. Many of these are
people who have been coming there for
many years.
The Strananhan Guards of St Adams
raised $44.60 last week for the public
Fairgrounds by personal house TO
house canvas.
George B. Young of Vermont was
Thursday elected secretary of the COM
mission of uniform state laws at meet.
ing held in Chicago.
A cattle judging demonstration by
Prof. George p +. Storey OF the Univer-
sity of Vermont will be feature of
Bratteboro's guest day.
Owing to the fact that the Vermont |
National Guard is mostly in Texas, all
plans have been abandoned for holding |
of the annual muster this year.
Rev Theodore j. POLICEMAN of Boston
has accepted a call from the Congrega
tional church at Putney and will take
over his new pastorate September /.
Chaplain Thomas resignation as chap
lain of the lst Vermont infantry, sta
toned at Eagle Pass, Tex, has been &C
cepted and he on his way to Vermont.
Everett Chandler, aged l3, was taken
to Brightlook hospital in Waterford
Thursday with broken arm which he
received while climbing over a stone
wall.
John Worrell, Poander, was the first
one to be caught in Springfeld's attempt
to rid her sidewalks of the bicycle NUS
ance. He paid fine of 81 and costs in
court.
Fl. R. Lawrence of Brattleboro sus-
tanned painful injuries when boy on
a wheel, after lodging some automobiles,
collided with him, The bicycle was I
smashed
Mrs David Van Gaasbeek of New York
died Thursday at the Rutland hospital
and her husband, whom she brought to
Rutland suffering from paralysis, is in :
critical condition
The West Wardsboro Baptist church u
has received official notification of leg ,
acy of $4,000 bequeathed to it by the n
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Gardner Mass, a former resident OF the II
town.
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The Swanton Courier thus reminds us e
of the past. Black berries, seven cents
a quart. Potatoes, sixty cents a bushel,
At the state Greenback convention held q
in st. Adams, Fletcher Tarbell was palced r.
on the ticket as treasurer" a.
Under the supervision of the village II
trustees, Frank B. Phelps has commenced o.
the collection of garbage in the town of p'
Bellows Falls within the village limits IL
There had been some dissatisfaction with U
the system formerly in vogue. !,
Frank Gallup, aged ST. of Wilmington, IN
accompanied by his daughter, his grand nj
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stack mountain recently, leading the Ia
party both ways. This was his first time OF
up the mountain in 81 years. ca
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Fred Clarke Of Pownal was seriously u
injured when he fell from bridge in er
North Adams recently. His right leg bl
was fractured just below the knee and sll
he suffered from several bruises. The w
cause of the accident is not as yet clear. gl
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Farmers in the towns of Bethel, Stock. ST
bridge and Rochester will attempt to va
form cow-testing association by Octo- al
Der |. At least 266 herds are necessary pli
to make the venture success. At pres
ent there are over forty such associa- dl'
tions in Vermont. OF
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