The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-31
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

DIFFERENT SECTIONS
In two hours on July o. S,75 inches o
rain fell in Bistol
The Automobile Club Of Vermont vii
hold its annual meeting in Randolph oil
August 3.
There were rs visitors at the JOSEPH
Smith memorial cottage in Sharon on q
recent Sunday
c. Z. Marsh OF Sharon up TO recent
date had collected 1000 pounds of honey
from his apiary.
The Slab Hollow road in Dummerstor
has been closed on account of damage due
10 the recent hard rains.
Ezra Gegg of Stowe, pioneer mil
road man on the Northern Pacific rail.
road, is dead at the age OF SO years.
Frank L. Slack of Rutland was ad
Judged insane Saturday by DIR. A. II,
Bellerose and has been taken TO the re-
treat at Brsttleboro.
L. J. Archambault of Enosburg Falls,
who died last week at 81, had been a
blacksmith for 40 years, 43 of them being
spent in Enosburg Falls.
The Deerfeld Pulp company has let
the job of erecting 90 houses for their
employees and their families at VIII
mington, They will be two-story single
family houses.
Two Rutland men, Edward W Curtis
and Earl Whitney, started Sunday on
weeks tour OF the entire state to ad.
vertise the Rutland carnival that con es
September AS.
Miss Sarah T. Palmer OF North Ston-
nington, Conn, has been selected by the
state board of education as instructor of
the teacher-training course of the South
Royalton high school.
A duck owned by B. S. Merrill OF Wal
than laid two eggs daily for two days
last week The one laid in the morning
was hard shelled and the one in the aft
ernoon was soft shelled.
Three recruits were enlisted in Ben
ington on the first day the recruiting
station. was opened in an attempt to |
fill the ranks of the LIST Vermont in
fantry at Eagle Pass.
Lake Champlain steamers are doing a |
big automobile transportation business
this summer, as many as seven cars
coming across to Burlington from Platts-
burg on one boat last week.
An eight. year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sullivan of Chester Depot stepped
in front of moving machine Saturday i
and had his foot taken off. He was tax.
en- to hospital for treatment.
On Sunday, July %, the nine children
of Mr. and Mrs. A. NJ. Snow of Water !.
bury were home together for the first
time in ten years. The reunion was the
occasion of big family picnic.
Humane Officer John Fuller of Bur :
lington has disposed of so felines, nine
dogs and two horses during the past i
month. The record for one day was the G
chloroforming of II cats on the 2sth. G
George LaBricque, an employee of the 9
Ludington Woodenware company in Will (
mington, stepped on a circular say a q
few days ago, splitting the foot from
toe to heel and well up into the ankle.
Physicians hope to save the foot.
Aso Kinney of Lakewood, n. j., for {
mer cashier of the Royalton bank, now /
in his Doth year, recently came to YER
mont from New Jersey unaccompanied
He is stopping at the South Royalton
house.
Michael Billo, who claims he is ma. b
tive of Pennsylvania, was arraigned in
Bennington municipal court Friday and
waived examination on the charge of sell
ing l6 brass couplings from local q
plumbing shop In default of $1,000 bail D
he was put in jail q
Richard Avery, the eight year-o boy, .,
who was found asleep on the tracks of a,
the Boston and Maine railroad last week,
Just below Brattleboro, has been recciv- =
ing good care at the hands of the police E
and some of the townspeople have given
him gifts of money He will be sent back
to his home in Massachusetts.
John R. Ryder, for nine years assist X
ant treasurer of the Brattleboro Trust n
company, was elected Saturday as cash n
Ter of the Peoples National bank, to sue n
,eed the late MILFORD H. Bracket. Hen "
~ p Wellman was elncted yice nresiGent ~
Of the Peoples bank, to succeed the late -
Mr.. Bracket, and William A. Shumway ~
was elected director in Mr. Brackets =,
place. 81
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