The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-29
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT ELECTIONS

The town of Fletcher will save S2O'
year by transporting the children IRON
f3inghamville TO Fletcher Center school.
Mrs. Hameon Prior died at her HON,
in Jericho a few days ago at the age OF
OF years.
O. A. Hagan, deputy collector of Gus
toms at Richford for the past 20 years
has resigned his position and gone To
Gaysvile to pass the winter with friends
Miss Mary r. Stakeholder, librarian at
the Brattleboro Free library, was married
in Bennington Friday to Franklin 5,
Pratt of Brattleboro, an expert account
ant
Charles r. Crosby of Brattleboro, in
memory of his father, Edward Crosby,
late of that place, has painted and re-
paired the Marlboro church. Edward
Crosby was one of the earlier members
of the church.
Early in the summer, while on tramp
to Newfane hill, w. ii. Newton of that
town lost his watch. After three months,
Mrs. Newton found the watch in their
garden, and when her husband wound it
up it ran as well as ever
A rather unusual occurrence took place
Wednesday at the Burlington navy re-
cruiting station when twin brothers en-
listed in this arm of the country defense.
The young men are from Brattleboro,
Lincoln d. and Leon M. Adams.
George Bixby of Essex Junction be-
came confused while walking beside the
electric car track one night recently, and
when a car bell sounded stepped nearer
the track instead Of further away. He
was struck and thrown to the ground,
his scalp being torn.
From three.scre field in West Wards
boro, j. A. Streeter and son harvested
900 bushels of potatoes. The field was
recently passed by the inspectors and
Mr.. Streeter has certificate from the
state inspector guaranteeing the pota-
toes TO be free from disease.
Lucius Boyes of Hyde Park, in his
s7th year, is certainly "hale and hearty"
He arises at 4 a. M and milks two COWS
and does other chores, and then gives
some attention to household duties, be-
fore doing big days work about the
farm He bids fair to round out a cen
fury.
A large elm tree injured in the FIRE
that destroyed the Goodnow house in
Newfane recently was cut down
a few days ago and contained two cords
of wood. The trunk to the tree, esti-
mated to weigh about 1000 pounds, was
drawn to fill in deep ravine by the
roadside. 50
Somerset has set the pace for Wind
ham county, Vermont, and the nation
in the food pledge campaign. Miss
Blanche johnson, who was in charge of |.
the campaign in that town, reported to
county headquarters that every family
In Somerset, ten in all, had enrolled in
Mr.. Hoover's army. =
Through Grand Isle county, where APP
pie growing is particularly business,
scarcity of help, bad weather and car
shortage have combined to make it diff
,ult for the apples to be cared for that
nave matured. Hundreds of barrels of
inc fruit win 60 to waste because there
S no one to pick them. II. N. Rowley of
Shelburne, an extensive apple buyer, es-
imates his shipments to New York this
all at 10000 barrels.
The canning season has practically a
losed now and the factory at Essex q,
Junction came out ahead of expecta. {,
ions in the number of cans put out No
ess than 100000 cans of corn win be
eady to send out to help the worlds :.
God supply. This is more than an aver q
4ge season, the greatest number of cans -
yer filed at the factory being l,0O0,- E,
100. -
The wind storm of last Wednesday, q,
which was particularly severe in Ben.
ington and vicinity, broke an apple
rom a tree back of the Morrisey store
nd hurled it with such force across the ~
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