The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-21
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The Caledonia County Jersey club
to conduct a calf-growing contest.
Fall Mountain grange of Bellows Fall
celebrated its 18th anniversary Tuesda.
evening.
Simeon Adams, veteran of the Civil
war, died Saturday at his home in Marl
boro at the age of 70 years.
John Carroll, sr., fell through an open
ing in the barn floor at John Schillham
er's in Jericho recently and broke thre'
ribs.
For the third year, st. Adams, Rich
ford and Swanton high schools are tc
participate in triangular speaking con
test in st. Adams, May IL.
Charles Wilson, formerly employed in
McIndoes, has left for England as a
member of the gath battalion, c.. +. f
He has been training in Montreal.
The wind from the north was so strong
that it was impossible to heat the Bel
lows Falls high school building Monday
and school had to be dismissed.
Bennington is the home of Galen Mill
er, who played the part Of the Russian
spy in the "Katinka" musical comedy
company, which showed in Vermont in
Burlington, st. Johnsbury and Barre.
Miss Evelyn Halsall, agradute of
the Proctor hospital, has beer engaged
as district nurse for Rutland She had
experience in that line in Liverpool,
England before coming to this country.
Paul R. Doolin, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Doolin of st. Adams, has been
awarded a Harvard scholarship OF 1925.
This prize is given the student who leads
his class at the end of the first semes-
ter.
The Essex Junction parish house has
shipped to Bellows Falls three tons of
newspapers and three tons of baled
wastepaper. This paper was collected
during the winter by one Sunday school
class.
Burt J. Cobb of Jamaica, merchant,
has filed petition in bankruptcy with
Clerk +. S. Platt of the United States
court. His liabilities are 1850 and he
has assets of 1896, with 1925 claimed
exempt.
Albert Taylor of sutton lost a span
of horses in a peculiar manner Friday.
As be was coming down steep pitch
with large load of hardwood logs, in
some way the load crowded upon the ami
mails, killing them instantly. They were
worth $780,
The Snowshoe club of st. Johnsbury
is drawing to close one of the most
successful seasons in its history, the
prolonged winter having been very ia
vorsble for the sport. The club will
close the season with a hall March q
at the new armory.
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Springfield toward $4,000 hospital for
that place. The present hospital does not |
meet the demand, owing to a shortage |
of room. All winter all the rooms have
been full and patients are booked ahead |
Rev. DR.. +. P. Stevens, former pastor |
of the Rutland Methodist church and |
who, since leaving that city, has been at |
n. Y, is to retire from the |
ministry, after 40 years service He
will probably give up his duties at the
end of the present conference year in
April.
The faculty of Middlebury college has
recommended unanimously that the board
Of trustees apply to the war department
FOR the formation of a unit of the federal
officers reserve training corps at the col
ege. The students already have formed
q military company and have requested
that it be made the basis of the proposed
unit.
After Judge Barber in Brattleboro mu-
nicipal court had sentenced Arthur Ad-
shad to the Waterbury asylum for six
months for treatment for inebriety, Ad-
shad came before the court again and
promised to leave town, secure work and
support his family if the court would
emit his sentence. This was done and
lie leaves Brattleboro at once.
Dan Gray, former Glover boy, was
BADLY injured recently while at work
m building in Rochester, n. Y. He {
ell with staging soiEc II feet and
truck on an iron ro5 with one foot.
The rod went through his rubber boot
ind through his foot, rarrymg a piece
# the rubber with it, The wound was a |
erious one, but he is recovering in ]
Rochester hospital
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