The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-17


Rev. n. w Wilder, former pastor OF
the Derby Methodist church, died recent
ly in Waterbury, Conn.
Four Democrats and five Republicans
in Rutland county are fighting for the
four seats the county has in the upper
House.
Edward Griswold. sales manager for
the Vermont Marble company in New
York City, died there Tuesday. His home
was in Brandon.
Frank b. Chase of st. Adams, who died
Tuesday at the age of SO years, was n
shop clerk for the Central Vermont rail
way for over 80 years.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Strong of Burlington spent
all one forenoon last week making and
frying doughnuts, which she sent to the
troops at Eagle Pass, Tex,
board falling off a root where men
were shingling struck little Floy Tin
ker of Barton who was playing nearby,
on the head, INJECTING a bad scalp wound.
c. G. Durett of Burlington has invent
ed player point for any circular disc
machine. Patent applications are now
pending in the office at Washington,
D. c.
The farm bureau and grange field day
under the direction of the Franklin coun.
ty farm bureau will be observed at Enos
burg Falls Aug. 81
During the funeral of c. A. Parkhurst,
the veteran Rutland merchant, on Tues
day afternoon, the stores paid him trib
ute by closing during the hour of serv-
ice.
A bull which a farmer was leading
along the road on the way from Or
leans to Barton Monday afternoon, |
charged the auto of Rev. l. A. Ranney,
breaking fender and lamp.
Professor Appelmann of the Universe
ty of Vermont in an interview published /
in the Burlington News, states that the
translat ton of his letters published in the
New York Times is incorrect, at least in
part.
The Equal Franchise league of Yer
mont is to commence an intelligent
study of civics under the direction of
Mrs. George w. Nye, chairman of the
education committee, beginning with the
September session.
Rutland business men went in II au
tomobiles and 60 strong to Wallingford
to-day to attend the business mems
luncheon to be given in that village un
der the auspices of the Business Mems
association of Rutland !,
James G. McLane was quite badly in
jured at Lyndonville Tuesday when he
fell from the top of a box car in the
Boston & Maine freight yard. He lost .
his balance when the car started. In .
ternal injuries are apt to develop. /.
A second man this week, Bert ODER,
has paid a fine and costs in the Brattle-
boro municipal court for operating an
automobile with the muffler cutout open. Z
The crusade against the use of the cutout =
on village streets seems well under way.
Miss Bessie King, aged l6 years, was
badly cut a few days ago at the home !,
of her uncle in Benson, where she lived, :
when she got in front of the cutter bar Y
of a reaper. Both legs were lacerated =
and cut to the bone. She will probably !.
be lame for life.
DR.. Byron H. Hermann, who has been 9
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Benia-
min Hermann of ST. Adams, sails this
month from New York with an Amerf- II
an unit for Germany, where he will act 2
Is surgeon in the base hospital at Naum- u
burg on the Saale, Saxony. II
Yesterday, on the anniversary of the
3attle of Bennington, Rutland dedicated
bronze statue called the Green Noun
ain Boy. The statue is the work of II
Raymond Averill Porter and is a likeness
n heroic size of Ethan Allen, one of Yer. :
nont's Revolutionary heroes.
A. j. Crowley, a graduate of Potsdam
Normal school at Potsdam, n. Y, will T,
lave charge of special agriculture h,
curse that is being introduced into the ~,
It. Adams high school this fall, and will "a
llso take over the science courses taught r.
until last year by Miss Leantha B. How
rd.
News has been received by Russell Fl.
Briggs of West Brattleboro that his son,
frank w. Briggs of New Haven, Conn,
ad been taken to hospital there Tues
ay with one side paralyzed and that he
led that same night. 1t is assumed that
Ir. Briggs death was caused by infantile
analysis
Harry H. Tillman, deserter from the
econd cavalry, was arrested in Burling-
on Tuesday, where he was living with
is wife, whom he had married since his 10
esertion, and was turned over TO the co
roper authorities. Tillman enlisted no
Iarch IL, 1915, and deserted in Platts-
urg, june 20, 1915.
About 80 o'clock Wednesday after -
Don, Mrs B. f. Leitzinger Of Brattle -
orc was startled TO hear a bullet come IL
rashing into the bedroom, where she n
as standing, at her home on the corner u
f Cedar and Myrtle streets. A moment A
ter she heard the rifle report and SAYS n
came from the direction of Crowell T.
ark.