The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-14

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+. II, Donahue. Rutland painter, and
native OF St Adams, is dead az the
age OF 81
At the Shelburne town meeting OF last
Tuesday night three year high school
was voted
Field day at Fair Haven will be held
August 10 and will include the county
tennis tourney.
Joseph Gravel, vergenues black.
smith, died last week at the age OF 90,
OF heart disease.
The Vermont Bee Keepers association
will hold its convention at the Addison
house in Middlebury to-day,
Brandon will observe the celebration
of the anniversary OF the battle OF
Bennington by closing its stores We'd
nesday.
Flora Minnie Stone, Laconia, y. H.,
woman. died at the home OF her cousin,
Mrs. Wayne Bailey, of Rutland, on Fri
day afternoon.
The decision on rates by the interstate
commerce commission will bring higher
rates in the Boston markets for Yer.
mont milk producers.
The Rutland carnival committee has
decided to have Patriotic and Historic
Pageant of New England" on the even
ing OF Sept and B.
During the season of wild strawber-
ries, Mrs. Benjamin Pixley of STAFFORD
picked and hulled SIS quarts of berries,
measured after hulling
Miss Bertha E. McLennon of Jersey
City, n. j., rode horseback one day re-
Gently from Rutland to Castleton and re-
turn, distance of % miles.
Mrs. Nellie Russell of Morrisville lost !
a heifer valued at SIS Thursday night |
when some one drove up in team and |
carried it off in the night.
Nicholas Young, New York autoist,
was fined $40 and costs of S66.05 in
municipal court at Rutland Saturday for
speeding on West street in that city.
The state league of equal suffrage will
hold convention in st. Adams, for the
purpose OF naming representatives to
the national convention, August 30 and
81.
Chester VI. Stanley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. +. H. Stanley of Essex Junction,
has been chosen to be president of the
newly formed Worcester (Mass.,) Buick
Mrs. Hattie Clark of Castleton used ,
the new clothesline of Mrs. William {
Clark in an attempt to hang herself [
Friday, but was discovered before dead /
and cut down by relatives. J
NJ B. Cummings, secretary of the Yer. f
mont Horticultural society, has issued
statement saying that there will be a
good crop of fruit this fall, the quality
being as good as the quantity. 7
DR.. Arthur J. Ellis, formerly of Rut- h
land, has been appointed federal medi t
,al inspector in New York, during the
paralysis epidemic. He schooed I
1T Rutland high and at the state uni /
versity. q
A call for a copy of prescription No 8
). written in 1859, was made at Mid
llebury drugstore few days ago, and
was found. Through several changes in
ownership of the store, the file of old
Prescriptions has been kept intact. h
For the first summer in a long spell
The manufacturing concern on the river
u Swanton has not had to resort to
auxiliary steam power. A new wing dam P
md replaced fumes have remedied the h
rouble. q
The bridge at Weaver street in Wi .
looski over the Central Vermont tracks q
las been pronounced unsafe after in X
pection by Burlington civil engineer II
md has been closed for several days N
ending further investigation. az
Mrs. Roy Miner, wife of Lieut.. Miner 81
# Co. /, V. n. G., when the company
eIU vermont, anu NOW lieutenant Oh
%. I, 33th U. S. infantry at Eagle Pass, g
will leave shortly to join her husband W
n the border ca
Gasoline being used in the cleaning y !,
hop of Goshen and Charland on High u
treet, Brattleboro, caught fire about ~ :,
clock Saturday night and spread to a =. al
an of gasoline, causing an explosion, u
he resulting fire caused loss of $4,000.
The driver on a Bennington grocery Tn
cam paid fines and costs of SOL as the I,
esult of not needing the warning in re- oH
pect TO traffic regulations. He failed -
o make the turn at North and Main 4
treets in the proper manner once TOO
ften.
Attorney Robert W. McCuen, repre- 4
enting several creditors of the Graustein
Iilk company, has attached the proper a
= OF the milk company at the Vergennes :
tation and the reception OF milk has :
cen refused for the present. The mat -
ar was taken up in municipal court
oday.
Two soldiers at Fort Ethan Allen stole
mile of copper wire last week and it
as recovered Friday by Deputy United
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