The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-21

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the big rains. The work usually take
three or four days.
Il. F. Houran lost So in cash and hs
500 cash register wrecked whe
thieves entered his store on Mill street il
Bennington on Monday night
While Rufus Hubbard was digging tn
cellar of his new house in North Dan
vile, he found half dollar, dated 1897
as bright as the day it was issued.
A brown trout weighing four and one
quarter pounds was caught in the Bat
tenkiu river at Bennington Monday by
Shirley Williams on a light fly rod,
Rutherford III. Fintell of mill village
near Rutland, milk dealer, was finec
$50 and costs of 1926 in Rutland city
court, for selling watered milk. He pac
the fine.
Several sheep were killed on the s
Everett Harwood place in Bennington
Sunday afternoon when a bolt OF light
ming split tree and felled limb on
the animals.
The Hon. John g. SAKE of New York
City, grandson of John G. SAKE the poet
will deliver an address at the Middlebury
college commencement exercises in COM
memoration of the poets birthday, June
II, 1915.
A tramp thief visited the home of G..
NJ. Hawkes. on South Main street in
Bennington Monday night and cleaned
out refrigerator standing on the back
porch and then stole a nightgown that
was hanging on the clothesline.
Michael Billow of Granville. n. Y,
will spend 80 days in Jail because he be-
came intoxicated in Rutland and while
drunk stole meat from cart and at
tempted to sell it on the street. The
ntoxication charge was not pressed
Evidences of the white pine blight are
plainly visible in the white pine growth
in the vicinity of Woodstock An ex-
tensive grove of young growth of this
variety OF pine on the farm of Mrs. John
French, formerly part of the Billings
estate, has been cut down recently.
A Vergennes farmer reports that four
times he has prepared II acres of land
for barley and just as he was about to
seed it rain came. The piece is still I'M
sown. Another farmer says he has %
acres that he has not yet been able to
work.
Articles of slverware stolen last Feb
ruary from the house of William Cush- |
man in Brattleboro were found by his |
children Tuesday morning tucked under |
the piazza. Part of the stolen silver /
ware was returned to the Cushmans by |
parcel post a week after the robbery.
Some of the largest single insurance (
policies paid in Vermont during 1915,
were, according to the Insurance Press,
those to the following: S. A. w, Brad
ley, Brattleboro, $3s,4s7; Judge James
L. Martin, Brattleboro, S26,s07; G. H.
Grimm, Rutland, S24500; George Hitch
cock, Pittsford, $4,000; Herman W.
Allen, Burlington, $4,000.
Although it has always been claimed
that wet weather kept down a grass
hopper pest, they are rapidly increasing
in number in the vicinity of Townshend h
where the Park Holland farm is al
-eady practically devastated, the crops (,
being rapidly destroyed. A demonstra-
ion has been given there by the county
agent to lessen the number by using
bran.
Mrs. George Gibbons of St Johnsbury =
las received word of the serious injury !
If her son, Norman Gibbons, while fight :
ne with the allies in France. A tee- :
yram from the Canadian government at
ottawa said he was wounded in the fight :
n Flanders and was in a hospital in =
France. Young Gibbons enlisted in March !
asst year from Edmonton, Alberta in the ;
Canadian battalion, and has a
,een at the front since last fall. .
Severe electrical storms passed over /
Iichford and vicinity Sunday. lightning =
triking in two places in Richford, the r
ouse of Mrs. Joseph Cook, where small :
amage was done. and the barn on the h
Ohm Hancock farm, which was burned =
o the ground. In Bakersfield. the dwell :
ng house of B. F. Naramore was struck :
nd the interior of the building was bad. !,
y damaged. though there was no fire. hi
| corner cupboard was torn out, dishes L
we're smashed and many boards were r
plintered. r
The Atlantic feet had a new com h
isnderin-chief yesterday, when Admir- c
Frank +. Fletcher, in command of the n
eet since the early summer of 1914. b
auled down his four-starred pennant g,
nd transferred the command 10 Vice I,
.dmiral Henry T. Mayo of Burlington. 81
he transfer took place at the New York il
svy yard, where the feet flagship wy f,
ming is now being overhauled. and was b.
simple naval ceremony with salute ID
, the retiring and another TO the new m
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