The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-17

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The open season for black bass begai
Thursday.
Rutland has issued neat license plates
10 the truckmen for their hacks and 9th
ar vehicles.
The members OF Co. ], V. n. G., Brat
tleboro, have been assured OF a machine
gun, the donor OF which is unnamed
Leon Wheeler of Nottingham broke
one bone in his leg below the knee last
week when he hung to the reins of a
runaway horse.
The parents of Ernest NJ. Hopkins, the
new president-elect of Dartmouth college
reside in Perkinsville, where his father
ia pastor OF the Baptist church.
Leon Cutler is improving at his home
In Springfield from the shock received
when he was struck by lightning recent
ly as he stood in the barn door.
Mrs. Catherine Ripley Kelly wife of
the late Edward Kelly, a Civil war vet
eran, passed away at her home in Ben.
nington on Friday at the age of So,
A marriage license has been granted
In Burlington to Thomas Vincent Far
rell of Pedro Miguel Canal Zone, and
Miss Elodie Florence Jerry of South I'm
ion street, Burlington.
Among those who attended the grad
uating exercises of the Stowe school were
grandmothers of two of the pupils, Mrs.
Harriet Adams, aged So years, and Mrs.
Lydia Shaw, aged So years.
Burlington'x tax valuation for 1916 is
Sl9,3l6,263, which is 1907 900 less than
in 1915. The drop is laid to Act "a,
passed at the 1915 legislature. The act
exernpts book accounts.
Several cases of anthrax have appeared
In Orwell the last few weeks, the last
causing the death of two-year.old Hol-
stein heifer belonging to T. W. Ray,
which was valued at 500.
John Shequin, now residing with his
wife, aged 9s years, and their son, Will
liam, aged so years, at Balaton, Mimi.
49, -, -, II
too young to enlist in the war of 1912
and too old when the Civil war came in
1861.
The family OF 0. w. Follett of Towns
bend enjoyed sugar on snow for dessert |
at their last Sundays dinner The snow
was secured from a deep ravine on
the northern slope of their farm, |
where it had drifted to great depth |
during the winter.
Truman Shiverette of Monkton figured |
in peculiar bycicle accident recently |
when the lamp on his wheel became loose,
caught in the front wheel, and threw him
off, cutting and bruising him about the
head and shoulders and rendering him
for some time.
Those in charge of the preparedness
parade to be held in Rutland on the
Fourth of July will endeavor to make it
a statewide affair. Invitations to that
effect have been sent to the mayors
throughout the state and it is expected
that Governor Gates will be present.
Wayne G. Davis of Mortified who
graduated from the high school in that
place on June Is, has the unusual honor
,f never receiving tardy mark against
his name while nine years in the grades
and four years in the high school. He ,
graduated with third honor, having an
oration at the commencement exercises
and also composing the class poem.
Six Pownal people had a narrow es- {
ape Thursday when the two horses at /
sached to the three seated team in which Y
hey were riding dashed madly into an
ssstbound passenger train. Both horses I
vers killed, but the occupants of the I
cam were saved by the pole of the team
which struck the moving cars in such i
way as TO throw the wagon into a po-
ition parallel to the moving train The +
lriver, Harry Beals, had the narrowest II
Escape, for the dash board in front of
lin was splintered by the contact. The
'arty was returning from funeral.
r. Fl. Lewis of Bank street, St Al
ans, has fve-dollar bill that was is. 8
ued in 1866 by the Fenians in connec- =
ion with their raid on Canada. The
ote bears the inscription, ut is hereby
ertifed that the Irish republic is indebt-
d to bearer five dollars, redeemabe six
months after the acknowledgement of
he independence of the Irish nation at y
he treasury of the Irish republic" The b
ill is signed by John o. Mahoney, agent NJ
I the Irish republic 1t was manufac- =
ured by the Continental Bank Note Co.,