The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-18
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Mrs. Hannah Snow of Randolph viii
be 100 years old next April
Mrs, Lucy N. Petit, aged IS years, dice
Thursday at the home OF her daughter
, in Shelburne. She was native of Bris
toll
/ Miss Mary Roberts, who has spent hei
summers in Peru for many years, died
suddenly last. Saturday in Rutland after
having tooth extracted.
A son, Edwin Franklin, born Nov.
to Mr., and Mrs. Hervey Carleton OF West
Newbury, is the sixth generation in con.
tinuous line to occupy the old Garlic
ton homestead ever since 1889.
George Dupris of st. Johnsbury has
filed petition in bankruptcy with Clerk
+. S. Plott OF the United States court
He has liabilities of S392,57 and assets of
|$3l5 with 1910 claimed exempt.
Wayne c. Bosworth, Mddlebury col
Ilege, II, has returned to Trinity college,
oxford, Eng, after an absence of year.
He is a Rhodes scholar and expects to
secure his degree in June, 1917.
When John Curriers' hand became
caught in the picker at the factory in
Evarts Monday, it was severed at the
wrist. At the Mary Hitchcock hospital
in Hanover, n, H., the arm was ampu-
tated three inches below the elbow.
DIR. r. J. Potter of Bennington has re.
/ turned home from st. Louis, Mo-, where
he has been studying for several weeks
While there. he fell from piazza. as
he was talking with someone at night,
and standing near the edge OF the porch,
and broke one arm.
-Four. year-old Wilbur Allen of Bakers
field Hollow fell through an opening in
the floor of W. A. Woodward's mill We'd
nesday and dropped 20 feet The mill
was not running and men who were
drawing logs to the mill rescued the
little fellow from drowning.
Mrs. Mary r. Burritt, superintendent
of the Howard Relief society at Bur-
lngton, fell late Wednesday afternoon
while leaving the building, suffering Sc
we're injuries to her right ankle. 1t is
proba Bile that a bone is broken. She was
taken to the Mary Fletcher hospital for
treatment.
A fire started Wednesday under the
- H., -,
and before it was extinguished $1,000
damages had been done In a china cab.
met which was moved number of heir
looms about $50 years old were demol |
ished The hotel was well filled with |
guests. The fire caused Mrs Norton to |
have an attack of nervous prostration.
Harry Baldwin. aged 80 years. and a /
graduate of the University OF Vermont, /
attempted to commit suicide at the |
Grand Central terminal in New York /
City few days ago by taking paregor
ic. He said he was now living at the
Hotel Cumberland in Plattsburg, N. Y.
He will recover.
A movie in one act: A Chester citi-
zen goes to the station to leave on the
train; hears noise in the de-
pot. which is locked; goes to the house
Of Sheriff Leland and arouses him; next
to the station agents and gets him. They
decide to wait the arrival of the traQ,
40 as to have plenty of help. The train
comes. the station is surrounded, the
sherif's fiashlght and revolver are in
position, when the station agent sudden
" remembers a calf has been left in
The freight room over night, which
.aused the noise. The train pulls out,
bearing the watchful citizen, and the
sheriff, station agent and calf retire.
The town of Mount Holly and the
own of Cavendish are fighting in Rut-
and county court over bill of Sill
or the board and care of J. w. Brown,
ICED II years, pauper, trial OF the
ase having been begun Wednesday.