The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-30
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Orwell will hold farmers field dag
Sept. Il.
swanton has four Republican candi
dates for representatives.
The L. V. NJ. football eleven will start
practice on Sept Is at an s0'acre farm
on Grand Isle.
At Barton fair this year there were
over 1900 entries in the fancy work and
art departments.
The second edition of the annual au.
tomoble book has been issued and gives
registration up TO $4,000.
c. NJ. Anderson, formerly OF St. Johns.
bury but now OF Dallas, Tex, is dead.
The body will be brought TO Vermont for
burial
r. c. Griffin of Sudbury suffered a
broken collar bone when he fell from a
load of hay while on the way to his
barn.
Burlington will have no especial OBJ
sereation of Labor day this year, due
to inaction on the part of the local labor
unions.
The opening of the annual meeting of
the SALISBURY Association of Baptist
churches, was held Monday afternoon at
Brandon.
Camp Abnaki on Lake Champlan will
now be kept open two weeks longer than
was at first planned because the schools
are not to open until September 10 or
after
A jury has been drawn in the case of
State VS.. William R. French of Rutland,
charging him with killing a dog belong
ing to A. Newman and the trial has been
set for September ID.
There was a hearing in Rutland Mon
day before Chancellor Frank L. Fish in
the case relative to the adjustment OF
the toll bridge on the Peru turnpike
owned by J. c. Flynn of Dorset.
large plate glass window in the store
of Charles Z. Ray of Brandon was brok
en- Saturday afternoon when pebble,
thrown up by an automobile starting !
from the curb near by, struck it.
Ellen Swedka, aged two, died Monday |
of burns received when her dress caught I
in door at her home in Bellows Falls [
last Friday. causing her to fall into
pail of boiling water in which I've had
been mixed.
w. J. Parker of South Burlington fell
through the scatfolding in his barn Sat
urday and broke his shoulder the bone
protruding through the skin. He is in
serious condition at the Mary Fletch.
er hospital.
Because muskrats persist in digging
into their mill, w. L. Ware & Sons of
Chester have found it necessary to con-
struct solid cement wall 60 feet long
and six feet high along the edge of the
mill pond.
John Valley of Lyndon, a lsborer, filed
a petition in bankruptcy with the clerk
of the United States court, F. S, Platt,
Monday. He has liabilities of Sls4.50
and assets of $ll7, of which 500 is
claimed exempt.
Francis H, McCale has been awarded
the Burlington city garbage contract by
the city board of health for three years
at $1,000 per year. This is 1928 more
than was paid the last incumbent. The :
contract goes into effect September Is. :
William Thayer and family of Warren \
mad narrow escape from serious injury
Monday when the automobile in which
hey were coasting down a hill became
and ran up bank and
turned over. The top saved the occu-
pants. -.
Mrs. Betsey Nichols, lifel long resi-
lent of Orleans, is dead at the age OF
H. Aanother veteran Vermont woman to
,ass away last week was Mrs. Minerva
Sheltus) Spear, who died Saturday at
Ter long home in Highgate Center :
t the advanced age of 90. E
James Lines of Burlington, who runs
restaurant, suffered a painful accident u
asst Wednesday when pepper from one o.
I the tables in the restaurant was
lown into his eyes by the force of an -
lectric fan. For time it was thought
hat he would lose the eye.
Oscar n. Stanley of East Franklin,
administrator of the Sanford Armstrong II
state in Richford, has decided what has Dl
ing been known as the William Corliss m
arm to Guy Kittell of Berkshire. The O.
urchase includes stock, tools and ma 10
hinery and involves a consideration of
ii 900.
Sunday, on the birthday of o. Fl. Cool
lge and H. o. Coolidge of Rutland, who
re twin brothers, a family reunion was
ED in Andover at the birthplace of the
vo. 1t was also the birthplace of Pro-
ate Judge A. C. Coolidge of Rutland and
his twin, Belle, who is now deceased.
wenty -one persons participated in the
union.