The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-12

The Junior high school in Burlington
Is making Undiscovered booklets OF run
nygrams for the United States soldiers
Christmas packages.
Rutlands community concert for the
benefit of the children at Sunnycres'
farm netted $50 Twenty eight persons
took part in the program.
Two messenger girls have begun work
for the Western Union Telegraph com
pany in Rutland, this being in line with
the company's policy in other places In
the state.
Berkley Williamson of Hartford got
one hand on the knives OF buzz planer
Mt the Hartford Wooden mill one day last
week and cut two fingers so badly they
had to be amputated.
Deputy Sheriff Fl. H. Best Of Enosburg
Falls has received from the war depart
ment q check for $50 for the arrest and
delivery of Moses James McTever,
charged with being deserter from the
army.
Floyd Denton, charged with having
wounded Mrs. Frank Wright of Stowe
on Oct. 81 and then turning the gun
on himself, has been discharged from the
Mary Fletcher hospital and taken to the
county jail at Hyde Park.
Mrs. Sumner of West Rutland, while
cleaning house last week, fell from a
- 10. ND
broke her leg. Mrs. Joseph Beauchamp
of the same place has fractured hip,
caused by fall on board walk at her
home.
Pupils in the Enosburg high school
have drawn up pledge reading Il prom
Use not to buy any candy, or make, in my
home, any candy which requires white
sugar for the two months beginning Oct,
81 and ending Dec 81" All the girls
except four have signed the pledge.
W. r. Roberts of Schenectady, n. Y,
a native of West Pawlet and a resident
for many years of Rutland, died at Glens
Falls, N. Y, Friday. He was freight
conductor and was killed when he fell
from his train and was run over by some
Oh the cars. ne WAS " lhiiIOud IuhH
while living in Vermont,
The bursting of water pipe Thurs
day night in an office over the f. j. Fen I
ton store in Brattleboro caused deluge I
which did several hundred dollars worth |
of damage to goods in the store. During
the heavy storm of the week before wat
er which came in round the skylight did /
Low g 40 % h. ato
George L. Sexton, Brattleboro young
man employed as a brakeman on the
Claremont Junction g. Springfield branch
of the Boston & Maine railroad, was
caught between the fender and caboose of
a train he was making up at Claremont
Junction Thursday and sustained a brok-
en- left arm and a compound fracture
Of the left leg.
George, ll-year-old son of Mrs Della
Brown of Burlington, was badly hurt
Thursday afternoon when horse which
he was holding became frightened and
ran away, throwing the boy out of the
wagon in which he was sitting. Both
EGGS were badly bruised and he was hurt
about II hips and back.
Frank A. Briggs, proprietor of Island
Villa at Grand Isle, had a narrow escape
rom death recently when, as he was ,
.hreshing grain and was oiling the gas
,line engine, his coat caught in the shaft /
ng and he was whirled around the en-
zine several times. No bones were brok- I
N, but he was badly bruised 1
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Two men in car at St. Adams were i
upset by dog a few days ago As the '
lnimal darted in front of the auto, the j
lriver applied his brakes with such force b
hat the machine went onto its side and
he occupants were thrown out They I
'icked themselves up, righted the car
nd drove on.
John L. Gocha, Bellows Falls team. r
ter, has a fractured skull and scalp il
Wounds and does not know how he got {
hem. He had gone TO feed the horses !
rhen he thinks someone struck him with
club, after which he lost consciousness. II
nut it is thought perhaps one of the &
orses kicked him instead. II
The z. L. Chandler mill in Orleans has 9
ecided to employ women in its sound 7
ne board department. It is light work. :
ut requires a woman who has a good u
We for sorting the grain and laying up -
he board. Labor is so scarce the move a
; necessary and the women employed :,
ill be paid at the same rate as the men ~ =:
fter they have learned the work II
Everett May, native of Stowe and a =,
ssident for 25 years of Morristown, :!
and Stowe, until he went =
est few weeks ago, was struck by an
automobile as he was crossing a street =,
Kansas City, No, Oct. 2s, and in s
lred so that he died the next day The -
Ddy was brought to Waterbury Center !
,r burial. a.
As the sale of the Pythian building
st. Johnsbury TO Charles H. Whipple 2
West Burke for S20,275 had not been -
,mpleted and the papers passed at the
me of Mr.. Whipple's suicide last Mon tn
~ morning, the sale is off and the prop pa
'ty is still in the hands of the trustees fu
} dispose Of, another sale being adver- dc
sed m
Chauncey Dearborn Sargent. aged 81 on
I'd a native Of STAFFORD died in Brat 10
eboro Tuesday of Bright's disease Mr. tn
! rcpnf q x-atarap ~ tbo Hs,.sT .