Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-04-14
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saries of life.
Dexter M. Taylor has given to the
Montpelier Historical Society a diary
of accidents and uncommon weather
record dating from 1926 to 1850. The
diary shows that snow fell April 20,
1928, the temperature was severe and
the snow was three feet deep March 10,
the same year there was a freshet and
good deal of snow on the ground.
May 10, 1884, very snowy and buster
ing and the snow one foot deep. May
Is, 1884, there was an earthquake at
$50 O'Clock in the morning. Septem-
Der 5, 1928, there was a freshet, he
writes, with water higher than known
for AZ years. While there is still five
feet of snow in drifts on some high
ways, these records show that similar
conditions in years past were not un
usual
Hearing scratching at her door
few days ago Mrs. Frank Albee, of
South Nottingham, openrd it and
found a large skunk, evidently looking
for something to eat, as Mrs. Albee
had few minutes before thrown out
some crumbs for the birds. She was
not slow in closing the door, and the
animal withdrew to nearby pasture.
C. A. Bemis, a well-known Barre
farmer, is at hospital in Montreal
recovering from an operation for the
removal of a steel fragment from his
eye. Three operations were required
before a piece of nail which entered
the eye while Mr.. Bems was razing a
barn could be removed.
A large bobcat went to the back door
at the home of F. G. Cline, of South
Newbury, after big snow storm. 1t
appeared more starved than frightened
and as Mr.. Cline spoke to it from the
window, turned and slowly walked as
if exhausted, through the garden. An
investigation later by armed men,
failed to reveal the animal, but plenty
of tracks were found.
A mile of white marble sidewalk that
has been laid between two villages in
Manchester township, Bennington
county, has attracted such wide and
favorable attention that pictures of it
are being printed in Texas newspapers
April l Fairbanks, Morse & Co. of
Chicago, exchanged new stock for the
shares of E. and T. Fairbanks & Co. of
st. Johnsbury. This transfer will not
remove the Fairbanks scale works
st. Johnsbury, but will result in new
management. 1t is said that the Howe
scale works of Rutland, of which ex-
Gov John A. Mead is the president, is
now the second largest scale manufac,
tory in the world, being surpassed only
by the Fairbanks company.
Listening to the stories of youthful
crimes, Magistrate H. W. Scott of
Barre city court declared Saturday that
the movies were worse than the saloon.
Two nine-year. old boy ascribed their
transgressions, in part, to the influence
of the film shows. Petty larceny eX-
tending over wide area in the city and
including the theft of milk bottles, UNI
brellas, door mats and rubbers were
uncovered by the police last week with
the result that the two boys were hauled
into court. Both confessed to visiting
verandas and selling their loot to junk
dealer.
The Hon. Riley E. Wright, of Balti.
more, Md, has presented the town OF
Coventry 760 volumes of books with
which to start a free public library
The board of library trustees has held
two meetings and are planning to gel
the library in running order as soon as
possible. The name given to it by the
trustees will be "The Riley E. Wright
Free Public Library.
, The poem, There's Where Vermont
Comes H." by Charles H. Darling Of
Burlington has been set to music at tbs
request of the chairman of the music
department of the Federation of Wo
mems Clubs, by Mrs. Florence WOOD
Russell, for use at the May meeting OF
Federated clubs in the Hippodrome
New York city. All the states were in
/ vited to send songs, and Mr.. Darling
, verses have been published by c. w.
t Thompson & Co. of Boston. The music
is written in the medium voice so as tC
be available for general use. Mrs. Rus.
sell has dedicated her new song Ito the
| memory of Prof. j. E. Goodrich in rec
ignition of his life. long work for Yer
mont.
Joseph Cadman, aged 78 years, who
resided on small farm in Shady Rill
, seven miles from Montpelier. was burn
ed to death early Sunday morning
March 26, when his house caught fire
from some unknown cause. He liveC
alone and it was nearly half an houl