The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-03

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The registration at the summer scho,
At the L. '. NJ. totals 35i.
There was an attendance OF 240 at th
johnson summer school, which close
Friday.
4 Marshall Gardner, aged "a years, an
veteran OF the Civil war, died in Ben
nington OF apopleXy last week.
Hen thieves have been busy in th
North avenue district OF Burlington late
~, ten hens having been stolen.
Bennington mills are so far behind il
their orders that they are forced to can
Gel new ones that are constantly comm.
in.
Pittsford Masons are TO have temple
the DIR. I. j. Ketchum property in that
town having been purchased for that
purpose.
Calvin w. Richardson was badl,
bruised and shaken up a few days age
when he fell from load OF hay at his
4 home in Worcester,
There was Sl0l 900 worth of money or
der business done at the Springfield post
office the past year as compared with
$4,000 the year previous.
For the convenience of the italian
speaking people in Rutland list OF Ital,
ian books in the public library has been
made and posted in conspicuous place.
Rev L. A. Edwards of Newport is
spending his vacation from holding even
services in his own church in preaching
in the smaller churches in that county
@. C. Lord, for a number OF years edi-
tor of the Groton Times and later EN-
ployed on the ST. Johnsbury Republican,
is now in charge OF the Island Pond Her
aid.
At the meeting OF the village trustees
in Bennington it was voted to expend
SIS in the purchase of signs to establish
the limits of parking place near the
curb for automobiles
The Bennington Y. NJ c. A. is being
besieged with calls for rooms by tran
sents and has had to appeal to the peo
pie of the town to keep it notified of
any spare rooms they may have to rent.
When an emery wheel in the plant OF
the Patch Manufacturing company in
Rutland broke Tuesday, the flying pieces
broke a rib of L. A. Willard and also
gave him severe bruises on his face and
side.
The automobile delivery car of the
Standard Steam Laundry company OF
Burlington, while standing in front OF a
house, started of its own accord and ran
into telephone pole, smashing the wind
shield and damaging the pole.
Henry j. Beck, former resident of |
ST.. Johnsbury, was seriously injured .
in an automobile accident at Baldwin
vile, Mass, Sunday, when he suffered
a conclusion of the brain, his right ear
was severed and his left hand crushed.
During Monday mornings thunder
shower A. j. Brooks, who lay on couch
in front of window at his home in
Morrisville, watching the play of cleo
tricity received shock from it which
rendered him unconscious for nearly
two hours.
Nelson johnson of Pittsfeld who fell
through the floor in sawmill last May
and received serious injuries has sued his
employer, Charles Doublehead of Shell
burne, for $1,000 He alleges that the +;
floor on which he was alleged to stand I
while oiling machinery was rotten. I
During the electric storm i'll johnson
Monday morning lightning struck Frank /
Sargent's building, killing a horse, 1t q
also struck the Pearl factory, tearing off /
portion of the steel roof. On some t
farms in East Georgia the grain crop !
was entirely destroyed by the storm. '
People in the region of Belmont ave- l
nue. in Brattleboro were somewhat scared v
Tuesday night when four distinct shots t
were fred from somewhere in the neigh Il
borhood and the bullets could be heard 5
flying by. The reason for the indiscrim
mate shooting could not be learned.
Harry Boyd, driver of the automobile
from which Mrs. w. NJ. Randall was
thrown into the West river bridge near
Brattleboro, after colliding with car l
rage and the bridge abutment, was SEN
fenced Wednesday to a four to six
months Imprisonment and a $500 fine.
The case will go to the supreme court. .
c. G. Pierce, prolific writer on land
scape gardening and civic Improvement
work, and until recently correspondent
in Latin American countries for the New o
York Post and Press, is visiting in Ben a
nington, and while there will criticize o
Bennington from an outsiders point OF Il
view. His articles will appear in the a
Bennington paper this week. a
The judges OF the Windham county =,
court have appointed B. L. Stafford of i