The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-22
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
From less than three acres Of land in
Ludlow, W. r. Waite obtained IA two
horse loads OF hay.
olufa Jones OF Burlington fell from a
swing Thursday and fractured both
bones in her left forearm.
G. NJ, Winslow of Brandon was elect.
ed president OF the Vermont Ayrshire
club at its annual meeting in Brandon
Thursday.
A tennis tournament at which the
state tennis championship will be de.
cided will be held on Brattleboro Country
club courts Aug. 10.
Willis Whitney lost between 90 and
10 young turkeys in one day last week
at his farm on Braintree hill A fox
got among the flock.
Manchester is having the best summer
business in its history, the hotels running
to good capacity with many other out
of-town people in cottages.
Miss Marion Carey of Hyde Park,
Mass, and Miss Minnie Fontain of Bel
lows Falls recently caught fifty pout III
half an hour in Williams river
Mrs Ethel Costello, soprano singer,
who gives her residence at Brattleboro
has filed a petition for divorce from La
mar Costello, who is in the government
commissary service in Texas.
The average license and registration
fee for automobiles in Vermont is SSH
as compared with an average for the
country of s7.46. Automobile fees last
year betrayed nearly seven per cent OF
the cost of roadbuilding.
An entertainment will be given at the
Brandon inn Monday evening by the
Lake Dunmore chapter of d, A. r. for
the purpose of raising funds for markers
for the graves of revolutionary soldiers
in that place.
Due to the unusual high water at this
time of the year, more motor craft are
in commission in Swanton than ever be-
fore. The high water allows the boats
10 clear the sand bars. Government in
spectors were on the job this week.
Vermont postmasters have received
governmental instructions to the effect
that the decision made year ago pro-
hibiting the use Of automobiles by rural
carriers has been reversed The rule as
it now stands allows their use at the
carriers convenience.
Hoodlums visited the schoolhouse in
Guilford Saturday night and broke up
the desk and chairs and pulled down the
black boards besides doing other mischiefs.
Their trail was marked by beer bottles.
A garden party held on the Towns OF
Miss Caroline H. Arms and the Hetty
Green estate in Bellows Falls Tuesday
afternoon and evening, netted something
over $500 for the Rockingham hospital.
A. T. Stevens of Richmond lost horse
asst week through its breaking its necl,
while trying to scratch an ear with its
hind foot. The halter rope slipped over
he foot and held it, breaking the ami
nails neck.
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According to DIR. c. F. Dalton, secre
AIRY of the state board of health, there ,
S not case of infantile paralysis in ,
Vermont, the suspected case at Under ,
ill having been found to be something
Use and the one at Burlington proving ..
% be spinal meningitis.
1t is estimated that $4,000 will be
leeded to repair the damage done TO
ridges in Shrewsbury by the heavy
aims this summer. Ten or IL have been !.
aiken out, most of them cement and +
ron bridges, recently built, and the :
Dads have been washed beyond repair d
n some places r
Examination at the experiment sta /
ion of the University of Vermont OF Y
he stomach OF one of three cows be- a
onging to n G. Delano of Vergennes,
which died recently, revealed the pres
nee of paris green. As the cows had
OF been out of the pasture it is sup. q
osed Che poison was fed them. -Four :,
theirs which were affected did not die. '
bolt of lightning in a recent electri u.
al storm would undoubtedly have killed
harles Webster of Strafford had he not 0
cen holding a glass tobacco jar against q
is waist, which acted as an insulator n
nd detected the bolt, which tore his d
noes from his feet and badly burnel j
lem Mr.. Webster's four year old colt,
-hich was standing in the barn was
lied and another horse was thrown to
le floor. Il
Senator Page and Rural Credits. te
The senatorial bureau of former Gov q
rnor Fletcher this week get after Sen n
tor Page for voting against the rural &c
-edits bill which had the support of Of
enator Dillingham; and other senators
-om rural states. 1t is charged that
enator paos in opnnsipp tba hill was in