The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-02

ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Two woodchucks were seen in one Q
the meadows of Castleton Monday.
A collection taken recently in tn
grades and high school OF Newport TO
the Belgian relief fund amounted to SAL
William Martin of Peacham sold /
hogs alive Monday which weighd 800
pounds. He received IL cents per poun
and the lot brought $500.
Frederick R. Crossman representa-
tive from Bennington in 1908 and Sc
lectman at the time of his death, dice
Feb 10 of relapse from grip.
In a campaign conducted by st
Louis Catholic church in Highgate, thu
church realized 81 300, which will be APP
piled on the parish debt, leaving only
$500 still due on all church properties.
OF So marriage licenses issued in Bel
lows Falls in February, IS were of out.
of-town couples. During January and
February lSs marriages were performed
From recent tests made at the expert.
ment station it was learned that the
soil of Addison county needs about one
and one-half tons of the best grade of
lime to the acre.
Mrs. Mary F. Lampman, who has been
town clerk for Pownal for half CEN
fury, has decided not to continue in that
office and her successor will be appoint
ed next Tuesday.
In the Milton school building one day
last week the furnace pipe fell down and
the lower rooms were so filled with gas
that one pupil Albert. Walston, was
nearly overcome with the fumes
When shingle saw at which Frank
Pierce of Georgia Plain was working
started up before he was ready for it
recently, two fingers on one hand were
cut completely off and third had to
be amputated.
The ban on business in Rutland placed
there because of the scarlet fever cpl
demic was raised Thursday and schools
opened, after being closed since Feb. 20,
There are now 1874 cases of scarlet fever
in quarantine there in so houses.
Thomas Depaio of Hartford, laborer,
has filed petition in bankruptcy with
Clerk F, S. Platt of the United States
court. His liabilities are $l.76S.65 and
he has assets OF $35, with $40 claimed
exempt.
Rev. Rodney W. Roundy, a native of
Rockingham, who has for several years
been pastor of the Court Street Congre-
cation church in keene, n. H., has re.
signed to accept the position of asso
ciate secretary of the American Mission
airy association.
When the cowbarn in Georgia Plain, |
owned by o. B. Wood of Williamstown,
was destroyed by fire few days ago, |
in the house burned out and it |
is supposed spark from there set the
barn on fire.
George Johnson, Cuttingsville man,
shot fox some weeks ago and sold the
skin for $25, believing he had received
a high price. The pelt was sold in Clar-
endon by the purchaser few days later
for 500, as he knew it to be the skin
Of silver gray fox and from Clarendon
The pelt went to New York City, where
1t brought 1925. The fox skin was a
beautiful specimen and the
Cuttingsville man failed to realize its
value.
Coal has been disappearing mysteri
ously in Middlebury at the Murkland
block and following an investigation the
snitor was discharged and new one
nut on the job, but the coal continued to
disappear as mysteriously as ever. Last {
Tuesday load of 1900 pounds was put '
nto the bin and the next morning it
lad practically disappeared. Then it
vas discovered that there was a hole in
he bottom of the bin directly over the
luiceway which supplies water to the |
,enstock which run the electric light 3
liant and a carpenter shop, and that for a
10 one knows how long the coal has been /
ropping in there. About two tons of
oal has been taken from there is has i
cts since the discovery and there is no p
moving how much there is at the bot f
ON of the sluiceway. A man with rub t
er boots on and lifeline about his t
'aist had to crawl along narrow shelf a
{ ice, fill his basket and pass it back n
, another man, who had to carry it up "
trough one of the arches of the Battell f,
ridge and then about 200 feet to the 81
lock. Fl
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