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

Eighteen persons were committed to
The house of correction in Rutland dur
ing February,
John Harvey has rendered his resigna-
ton as mail carrier at Swanton after n
years service.
G. Larose broke leg when he jumped
from beam in his barn in West Bolton
to the floor below.
Mddlehury farmers state that If this
kind of weather keeps up they shall tap
their sugar places the first of next week.
The Swanton public library has been
obliged to close except for two after
Moons and evenings a week for the pres
ent, until fuel becomes more plenty.
Rodney Swift was overcome by gas
from the engine that runs his electric
lights at Pittslield last week being UNI
conscious when found by bis wife. He
recovered without any bad after effects.
Snow falling off shed roof knocked
down and buried little Edna Davis at
her home in Mount Hunger recently. Her
side and ankle were badly hurt and it
was several days before she could get
around alone.
John Edwin Pryor died Wednesday in
Shrewsbury, where he was taken after
being found i'll at his home, Mount Holly.
where for many years he had lived alone.
He was "a years old, veteran of the
Civil war and a mason by trade.
The Vermont National bank of Brat
tleboro has offered to furnish each boy
and girl of Windham county money
enough to buy a pig, taking unsecured
notes for payment of the loans after
the pigs have been sold in the fall
Deaths in Rutland during February
amounted to 81, about double the usual
number for month. There were five
deaths each from pneumonia and ne
phritis and four from diseases of early
infancy, the remainder being in smaller
proportion There were 50 cases of mea-
sles.
An old record book containing the do |
ings of the Rutland Fire society, organ
lied in 1929. has been found in the at
tic of the Rutland court house. and its |
entries are quite interesting. Three men
are named therein who were fined 20
cents each for not attending meeting.
A Spanish school is to be established
in Middlebury at the time of the summer
schools at the college under the direction
of Prof Julian Moreno Lacalle of the
department of modern languages at the
United States naval academy at Annap
oils, Md.
The Vermont chapter of the American
Red Cross has a total membership OF
1868, exclusive of several new branches
which are now being organized in various
parts of the state. Burlington has the
largest membership, 400, Rutland is sec
ond with 232 and Brattleboro third with
l62.
A writ of replevin was recently served
on Joseph Calvi, Middlebury fruit
dealer, in behalf of Mrs Velia Carpenter.
who alleged that Calvi had detained her
yellow cat, valued at S.. bond of $40
had to be filed to assure the costs of |
prosecution. She now has her cat, but
the case will be tried later.
When a horse stepped its hind foot
into hole on Church street in Buring- {
ton, an investigation showed that the !
main sewer, which was laid in 1872,
had broken open and that below about
four inches OF snow was a drop of IL
feet to the sewer. The hole under the :
snow, where the earth had been com
plc;ely washed away, was 10 feet in
diameter and II feet deep Heavy coal
teams had been passing over the street
all day, but it remained for a horse
which was being led to reveal the bad spot.
the horse was thrown, it was
lninjured.
The horticultural department OF the -
house of correction at Rutland is to be
'arred on to a larger extent this sum
ner than ever before. In some years
iver $1,000 profit has accrued from the
ale of vegetables over and above what
vas needed at the institution, but late
Y nearly all of the produce has been
Used by the inmates Eight thousand
adish plants and about the same num-
,er of lettuce plants are up in the green
louse, and nearly every other kind of
rot house vegetable is also started.
Twelve acres of ground are covered by the
,arden, with as much more land under
for fodder corn and one acre
devoted to carly potato raising