The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-23
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Marion and Dorothy Starry of Soutl
Londonderry, aged s and 10 years, earned
dollar to join the Red Cross by sell
ing rhubarb.
Mrs. c. l.. Woodbury., wife of c. L
Woodbury., proprietor of the South Roy
alton house, died June 10 OF meningitis
and complication of diseases.
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The three. year.old son OF Mr.. and Mrs
Elmer Cummings of South Londonderry
was badly burned recently when he fell
into pail of hot water. He will re-
cover.
William Tracy, who was kicked in the
face by horse at his home in Hinesburg
recently, is not recovering and has been
taken home from the hospital in a
critical condition. The wound in his face
il; healing, but brain trouble due to the
shock is wearing him out.
To Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Harlow, whose
buildings in Westminster West were de-
stroyed by fire recently, Maple Grove
grange of that place has presented 5000,
the proceeds of a recent play and dance,
as nucleus of building fund, to erect
q new dwelling and barns.
Mrs. Patrick Calvey attempted to conf
init suicide near her home in Bellows
Falls Tuesday by jumping into the ca
nal. Worry over her son, an employe in
q Washington, ID. c. hospital, it is said,
drove her to the act. She was rescued
by her husband and, although taken
TO the Rockingham hospital and suffer
ing from the exposure, will recover
II is thought in Brattleboro that the
Timothy O'Donnell, in charge of the
crew of Is gunners on the Standard Oil
company's steamer, the John ID. Arch
bold, sunk by German submarine Sat
urday, was Brattleboro boy. The
ODonnell of that place served in the
Spanish American war and was a gun
ner in the navy, and it is supposed that
he had been assigned to the tanker
Stowe, Morrisville and nearby places
suffered much Wednesday from severe
electrical storm. In Morrisville the roads
were washed out and made impossible
in some places. Lightning struck the
barn of Sheriff George Z. Towne, kill
ing horse and tearing out the gable
and much of the boarding. Lightning
also struck the telephone wires leading
to his house FIVE times, putting the in
struments out OF commission. At Lewis
Lstuch's farm in Stowe, hail broke out
IA panes of glass from his henhouse and
three acres of corn must be replanted.
buck deer, which escaped from the |
corral at the Soldiers home three weeks
ago, was captured at the farm Of Allen
Stratton in Bennington June 90. The |
deer put up a stiff fight and the two |
game wardens who took upon themselves
the job of catching the animal were con-
siderably tossed about. The deer had
been doing much damage in gardens
about the Stratton farm and Mr.. STRAIT
ton finally conceived the idea of tying
a string to the barn door and then
catching the animal If it should enter
the barn. The deer did Just that, the
door was drawn together and the buck
was prisoner. 1t was crazy with fright
when the game wardens arrived but
after half an hours work it was thrown.
tied and loaded into an automobile to be
returned to its corral.
The Hortonia Power company of Bran
don has purchased the following prop
critics in Weybridge: Smith, Boise &
Child's sawmill and water power. Ray
mond Sturtevant's wheelwright mill,
shop and waterpower; the Fiske store
and strip Of land; John S. Shaw's inter
est in the grist mill and water power;
Cardie s. Shaw's land, house and land
on Water street; Louis Goulett's house
and lot on Water street. Joseph Bush
nell's house and lot on Water street
the old Harrington place of Is acres on
Water street, from Candace Bowdish and
the Harringtons; and also the fowage
rights from G. NJ. Baker, Wealthy Bak
er, Daniel w. Twitchell, Lura Twitchell, /
A. S. Warner, Arabella j. Sturtevant and ]
L. J. Gorham. This purchase privileges '
the company to raise the dam Is feet !
above the present level, which would |
cause the water to set back nearly to the {
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