The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-29

headquarters at Burlington,
Mrs. Harold Dodge of West Wood
bury has a copper plate quilt which i
Ia years old and in good condition.
Burlington will welcome the photo
play, THE Battle Cry of Peace" Monday
evening by holding n preparedness par
ade through the streets.
The cornerstone of Bennington's new
hospital is to be laid August lG lion
Charles H. Darling will probably be the
speaker at the ceremony.
Burt, l2-year.old son of Ida Fiske oil
Rutland, may lose part of the middle fin
ger of his right hand, the hand having
been caught in lawn mower Thurs
day
c. II. Cambridge, for several years at
the head of the Swanton high school,
has been engaged as principal of the
Shelburne high school for the ensuing
year
T. w Rogers of Brattleboro has the
contract to build new high school edi-
flee in that town, the price being S4l,-
600. His bid was $4,000 lower than the
next above him.
There is danger that the arm of Phil
ip Beck, which was broken in an auto
accident near st. Johnsbury last week,
may have to be amputated, as it does
NOT Seem To he healing RIGHT
A large auto passing at great speed
frightened COW which Peter Lapion was
leading in Hartland recently so that it
ran some distance, dragging Mr.. Lapion
His shoulder was dislocated
Officer P. j Henry OF Burlington, on
duty in Vergennes Thursday, stopped %
automobiles and found IL OF them were
failing to carry their licenses with them
and were thus violating the law.
After losing a number of chickens in a
mysterious way, w W. Adams set a
trap on his premises in Ludlow and
caught the offender, an owl, which
measured four and ne-half feet from tip
to tip of wings.
A law suit has been filed by George
Pixley OF Putney in which he claims
damages amounting to $4,000 from Ed
ward R. Andrews of the same town fer
injuries received when he was struck by
a travelling hay fork while working for
the latter.
Frank Slack is again causing Rutland
people trouble. This time he has been
complained of as not quite sane and
Wednesday he chased a man and at
tempted to do him bodily harm. He has
been arrested on a breach of the peace |
charge
Mrs Gertrude Billadeau of Burlington |
was convicted in city court Thursday |
of having violated her probation and has
been sent to Rutland, where she will |
spend Is months at hard labor in the
house of correction. She was arrested for |
keeping house of i'll fame.
A son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edawrd Danyog
of Vergennes is i'll with double pneumo-
mia, following an attack of the measles, |
which has also afflicted six other children
in the family Recently horse belong
ing to Mr. Danyow got out of the pas
ture onto the railroad track and was
killed by train and a five month old
colt was sick and died
There is man in St. Johnsbury, whose
business these days is to look into The
crooks and crannies of each car making
up trains coming over the Maine Central
tracks from Portland. He is seeking ev-
licences of the brown-tail moth, which
has invaded sections of Maine and New
Hampshire through which the trains
pass. The lights and especially the
headlight, attract these moths in the
night
Richard Avery, eight, Massachusetts
state charge, tired and exhausted from
walking and lack of food, was found
asleep on the Boston & Maine tracks
near Brattleboro Friday and caused not
little bit of excitement A man across
the river first spied him there and tela
phoned to the station. A trackman vent
down the track to save the boy and en- =
gineers on incoming trains were notified. /;
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