The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-12-20

Windsor, which will be soon.
Ferns and evergreens bought by Mrs,
A. b. Stark OF Jamaica for fern COM
panies between Sept 20 and Dec
amounted to over 81 ,000 Cash was paid
to the various pickers of Jamaica
A fishing party from Rutland at Lake
Bomoseen one night last week caught 10
pounds OF white fish, which averaged
about IA inches and were the largest
white fish ever caught in the lake,
George Green, 81 years old, is in Sc
rious condition at his home in st, Johns
bury following the breaking of his hip
Sunday night when he fell in his room.
His extreme age makes the knitting of
the broken bone very doubtful.
Sir Max Aitken, a Canadian member
of Parliament and Canada's war histori-
an, win be elevated to the peerage on
New Years day in recognition of his war
services. He is 81 years old and broth
er of Miss Annie A. Aitken, superntend-
ent of the Rutland hospital.
James L. Miller former resident OF
South Newfane, died recently in Cleve-
land, o, Mr.. Miller, although cripple,
had lived alone, pushing himself about
in wheel chair while attending to his
business of buying and selling poultry.
George W. Brownell was badly injured
recently in the st. Adams foundry when
an emery wheel over which he was work.
ing exploded. His glasses were broken
by piece of the emery wheel and his
right eye was injured to an extent which
has not been determined yet.
The home of Robert G. Williams in
North Poultney was burned to the
ground Saturday evening while Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams were away from home and
no one was in the house The fire prob
ably started from an over-heated stove
pipe. Nothing was saved and only a
small amount of insurance was carried
The young son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ma
dasto Mazzilli of Mountain Mills was
badly injured Saturday when he fell
from the piazza, a distance OF three feet.
The round of chair, which he had been
carrying in his mouth, punctured the
roof of his mouth and large hole was
torn. The child's condition is serious.
The water in Otter creek is said to be
lower now than it has been at this sea-
son of the year in the last dozen or 10
years The same state exists in regard
to the Lemon Fair, East Middlebury riv-
er. and New Haven river. The people
of the towns affected by these streams
are not now in serious need of water as
the rains of a couple of weeks ago and
the recent SHOWS have given them water
enough for the winter.
At the annual meeting of the Parker
Young company, held in Lisbon, n. H.,
recently, Martin A. Brown of Boston
was chosen president to succeed Harry
+. Parker of Bradford, who has sold his
interest in the company to his nephews,
Edwin X. and Charles Woodworth. Mr..
Parker, who has been president for the
past ten years, is attorney for his moth
er's interest in the company and remains
on the board of directors.
II. A. McSweeney of st. Adams is suf-
fering from a broken rib which he re-
ceived Saturday evening when he was
run into by sleigh from the American
house. As Mr.. and Mrs. insolvency
started to cross the street, the driver
of the hotel outfit was arranging blan
ket on the seat, and when he spied the
couple and pulled the reins up sharply,
they were evidently crossed, for the
horse headed straight for Mr.. McSwee-
ney and knocked him down.
Mrs. Eames r. Hopkins of Rutland,
formerly of st. Adams, has refused $50
for full blooded Angora cat, which is
said to be the largest feline animal in
Vermont. She secured it five years ago
when few weeks old from the family
of Attorney c. w. Writers of st. AL
bans. The cat is 80 inches in length
from the tip of its tail to the end of its
nose and weighs 2lh pounds. Its blue
gray fur is five inches in length.
When a farmer entered a Burlington
hotel and set down what looked to John
Fay of Winooski like full dinner pail,
the latter appropriated the pail when no
one was looking and retired to near
by shed to ease the pangs of hunger. The
receptacle was full of what Fay thought
was fish chowder and he took good
mouthful. The chowder turned out to be
horse radish and the one mouthful was
sufficient. While he was coughing, weep |
ing and suffering from the taste, police
man whom the farmer had notified of
his loss located Fay and in court he was
fined So and costs of Sl505, making |
s2O.O5 for one mouthful of horse radish.
Fav had only five cents with him but a
woman friend paid the additional $50 and
the man was freed.