The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-16

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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
There are four cases of scarlet fever
in Hinesburg.
st. Johnsbury has decided to have a
quiet Fourth this year.
Henry Superneau, Orwell's oldest per-
son, aged 90 years, died recently.
A COW belonging to Nicholas Blow of
Grand Isle fell into cistern and was
drowned recently.
Thayer JENNIE of Richford has gone to
Boston to sail with the New England
lumber unit for England.
A house to- house canvass in Rutland
by boy scouts secured a total of $4,000
for the Liberty loan bonds.
The proprietor of the Bomoseen berry
farm at Castleton Corners has set out
5000 strawberry plants this spring.
H. L. Brayton recently found in AL
burg an old English coin, minted in
IT'S. 1t bears likeness of King George
III.
Sergeant Edward Buley of Montpelier,
who has been guarding a bridge in the
vicinity of st. Johnsbury, has entered
the hospital in that place for an oper-
alton for appendicitis.
Earl Franklin and Kenneth Flint of
ST. Johnsbury sail for France this week
as members of the lumber corps, and
Wendell Drew of the same place is on
his way to France to act as an archi
tect.
THE Rutland Railway Light & Power
company will begin next week a lumber
ing job of considerable size. 1t owns
about 100000 feet of Pine, hemlock and
poplar timber, which win be cut and
shipped to Reading, Pa.
DIR. NJ. G. Benedict, the retiring head
of st. Johnsbury academy, was present
ed set of 25 volumes of Mark Twain's
works, bound in leather, by the faculty
and student body at the chapel exercises
June -. DIR. Benedict has been for
eight years principal of the school.
Miss Valera Steward, who has been |
employed as a stenographer in the gener
al passenger department of the Rutland |
railroad, and located at Rutland for the |
past nine years, has resigned and be-
come stenographer in the adjutant gen
erals office of the war department in
Washington, D. G,
David Wilkie, president of the New
England Fat Mems club, has announced
the summer outing, which is to be per-
sonally conducted trip TO Montreal and
the Saguenay river June 1929. The
party is to meet at White River juno
tion, from which point the trip will
start.
Fordyce Wissell, son of Charles Wis
sell of Orwell, nearly lost his eyesight
recently while engaged in testing milk
at Wellesley Farms, Mass. In some
way the acid used in the operation was
spilled, portion on his face, burning him ..
so severely that for a few days it was
thought the loss of sight in one eye !
was certain.
Thomas Hanley of Manchester received =
L. -,
one in North Dorset last week, which .
nearly cost him his life. He is still in I
critical condition at the hospital in Z
Troy, n. Y, There is much mystery z
about the case and no arrests have yet .
been made, although the matter is under !
investigation. Hanley's body is covered . .
with bruises and he apparently received .
a blow on the head. .
Mrs. z. S. Williams of Moscow has tax !,
en- much pleasure this spring in watching !,
a sparrow flirting with its own reflection r
in window pane. The little bird lights %
on the window edge and pecks at its re- a
Fiction in the pane. When the window o
was raised a little the bird came inside n
and looked about and not seeing any i
ether bird went back and stretched up -
enough TO see itself again, when it again "
began to peck at its reflection. 1t comes =,
to the window every day. v
While the band played the "Star -
Spangled Banner" at recent concert in n
they stood and the militia
men on duty there stood at attention
throughout the selection, while the audi
ence sat and visited as usual. Undoubt-
eddy this might be said of most of the
concert audiences of the state, but the
fact that the country is at war would :
seem to make it good form to stand
when the national anthem is played.
Lightning struck the Clancy house in
st. Adams Thursday, ripping clapboards !
If the gable and throwing them across
IN alley, breaking the windows of
house seven or eight feet away. The
electricity passed so close to one of the l.
roung daughters of Fred Guyette, who
stood in the doorway of the Clancy
rouse, that it.burned her forehead and
stunned her for several minutes. The
torn was very severe in st. Adams, at
rater ran in the streets to depth that OF
anne to the hubs of automobiles and al
torres and business places suffered from m