The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-27
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Mrs. Calista Dodge, in her 0gth year
is in poor health at her home in Bis
tol.
Pine street, Burlington, is TO have a
sewer to accommodate the Brush factory
located there.
The st. Adams library will close Sat
urday night FOR two weeks yacatnon,
an exchange tells us
The registration OF Middlebury college
for the coming year is already better
than IL was year ago at this time.
Rutland unions will parade on Labor
day with the feature event tug of war
between the iron moulders and the ear
penters.
As Mrs. Bodette of Addison was lead
ing a large Percheron horse, the animal
stepped on one of her feet and took of
two toes.
L. J. Archambault, a blacksmith m
! Enosburg Falls for 80 years. lacking
few months, died Monday at the age OF
6S years.
A folk dancing entertainment is to be
given on the village green in Pttsford,
August to raise money for beautifymg
the streets.
Mrs. Francis Lane, so, stepmother of
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the in
terror, is dead at Santa Barbara, Cal
She was born in Vermont
The Addison County Agricultural so
ciety has under way preparations for the
fair, its I'D, which will be held August
20, 80 and 81, and September /.
The caddies' strike at the Rutland
Country club links has come to an erd.
The boys are to get a raise and with a
few exceptions all will be rehired.
Members of the St. Adams Humane SO.
ciety insisted upon the removal by a
hand organ man of the flannel uniform
worn on his monkey few days ago.
Mrs. Julia Burdiek, widow of Rev. |
Chester Burdick, for many years pastor
of the NJ. i. church in Shel6urne, died |
recently in Wichita, Kan, of typhoid .
fever.
st. Adams is endeavorng to raise
funds to enable the continuance OF its
Fairgrounds This year the attendance
has doubled and more equipment is bad
ly needed $50.
The body of Patrick Mccarthy, who
drowned in Brattleboro Monday night,
was recovered Tuesday noon within 80
feet of where he fell in. His home was
in Lawrence, Mass.
A barn on the Rylie Baker farm in
South Wallingford was struck by light
ming Tuesday and burned to the ground
with horse, wagon, two calves and a
large amount of hay.
Rev. Ben amin Lomax OF Martinsville {
Me, has accepted call to the pastorate
of the West Rutland Baptist church, and {
will begin his duties there about Sept. /. !
Rev. George S. Wheeler, a minister of
Brockton, Mass, died at the Homeopath-
ic hospital in Albany n. Y, Monday,
while on his way to visit a son in Ben
son, Vt. He was born in Woodsville, n
II.
The adjourned meeting in the alumni
inquiry into the Appelmann case at the
state university will be held on Saturday Y
at the summer camp at Brattleboro OF G
Merton c. Robbins, of New York City, {
a member of the committee. 8
Heat so affected workmen employed 1
in the construction of the new Catholic '
high school in Burlington that several :
of them had to quit work Monday and )
Tuesday. The work is being pushed. q
The Congregational church at Man
chester, Mass, recently celebrated its
200th anniversary. Rev. G. A. Hatch,
formerly of st. Adams, and whose par
ents live there now, has been pastor OF t
the church since 1913. T
Ex-Gov. John A. Mead, president of s.
the Howe Scale works in Rutland, We'd II
nesday denied the rumor that the Du- =
pont Powder company is seeking to gain n
control of the scale works. He told that =
they had not even made overtures. :,
William G. McCarter, a veteran of the :,
Civil war, died Sunday in Vergennes in y :,
the same house he was born and where Y
nearly his whole life was spent. He was
born May 6, 1888. A printer by trade, he g
worked in the old Vermonter Office In
Vergennes.
STATE FORESTRY MEETING. "a
Will Be Held at Lyndonville on Wednes- .,