The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-12


The playground season in Springfield
closed Saturday. The leader there has
supervised the play Of 9,iOo children this
summer.
IL is now stated that the, supposed
case OF infantile paralysis in the home
OF Edward King in Forestdale proved, to
be typhoid fever instead.
Rev. A. +. Hartwell, pastor of the ia.
maica Congregational church, died sud
denly Monday in Springfield glass,
where he had been spending Sunday.
Henry Noyes of Ascutneyville pro.
PEELED his own wheel chair to Winds 1r
and back last Tuesday He once made
the trip to the Woodstock fair in his
chair in the same way
Rev. Franklin d. Goodrich, who had
filled several Vermont pastorates, died
Friday at his home in Enfield, Mass, at
the age of 70 years. He was a retired
Methodist minister.
Members of the Caledonia county bar,
TO the number of 80, were guests OF
Judge Harland B. Howe OF st. Johnsbury
on trip to the White mountains last
Saturday A banquet at the Mt. Wash I
ington house was the event OF the eyen'l
ing
In Guilford children have been pro.
hibited from attending church while in
fantile paralysis continues prevalent. |
There are no cases in that town but
daughter of Hollis Newcomb OF Guilford /
is i'll with the disease in Bernardston,
Mass, where she was visiting
Mrs. J. D. Barber suffered two broken
ribs Friday when she fell down a fight /
of stairs in the home OF her daughter at /
Brandon. She is over 20 years OF age
and was just recovering from injuries
she received some months ago when a
motor cycle ran into a team in which
she was riding in Pttsford.
William H. Wheeler, who died last
week at his home in Springfield, was the
oldest druggist in the state, having been
continuously in business in that town
for Ga years. Had he lived few days
longer he would have been SO years old.
He was town treasurer from 1872 until
1909, when he withdrew in favor of his
son.
Harry Schurmann, a native of Brattle-
horo and later a resident OF Worcester
Mass, has just signed contract with I
the Deutsche Landes theatre in Prague. {
1t was Nine. Schumann- Heink who was
first attracted by the Young mans voice
and who took him to Germany with her q
some years ago and gave him his start in
a musical education. {
Mrs. George +. Sherman of Brattlc-
boro, who was returning home from Bos 3
ton, where she had been i'll with pto- /
maine poisoning, was badly injured sat c
urday while being brought home by auto,
the car in which she was riding having 4
to turn out to make room for a light
racing car and in so doing striking a hid
den rock. which threw those on the back A
seat high into the air. Mrs. Sherman's
foot caught in the robe rail and she fell
on her back across the door of the ton
neau Her back was badly strained and
she is confined to the bed. Il
Half dollars, quarters and dimes of O.
new design have been put i'll circulation, z
oil of which are considered more artistic ;,
than the old ones. The new 50-cent piece fl
bears on one side the figure of the God y
less of Liberty, holding a bunch of olive II
with a spread eagle on the OPP u
posite side; the new quarter has the fig 4 Z
are of woman coming through gate 81
in wall and on the reverse side an eagle e,
n flight. On one side of the new dime :
S the head of woman and on the other "
, bundle of Roman fasces tied tightly
,ogether and an axe nearby. The new :
lime is of sharper cut than the old =
t is about month since the minis of :
Denver and San Francisco
,egan turning out the new coins.