The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-09

Fuel is still very scarce in Hyde Parl;
dry wood commanding S2.75 per cord am
coal $40 per ton, Green wood sells a
$3.50 per cord.
Mrs. A. B. Wheeler broke two ribs, in
iured her spine and one hip and badly
bruised one arm recently when she fel
down the attic stairs at her home in st
Adams.
Forest Rowe of Sherburne. aged AZ
years, serving a sentence in the house Of
correction for from six to IL months fol
furnishing liquor, died there Friday night
of heart failure,
Fair Haven has several business mer
noted for their long service. i. II Shep'
ard has been connected with the grocery
business there for 81 years, X. c. Reed
has been in the coal business for AZ
years and f. O. Vaughan has worked 80
years for the Delaware 4 Hudson COM
pany.
The board of trustees of the st. Johns
bury academy has voted TO accept the
resignation of the principal, Martin G.
Benedict. A petition signed by more
than 200 students of the academy had
been presented the trustees, asking them
not to accept the resignation of Prin-
cipal Benedict.
The sawnnll buildings at North Troy,
known as the Steven mills, were de-
stroyed by fire April 4, entailing loss
of from $4,000 to. $4,000. The origin of
the fire is unknown. Lather NJ. Baker,
manager of the mills, was absent on
business at the time of the fire.
Five thousand people were out in Rut-
land to see Co. A leave for Fort
Ethan Allen. The Howe Scale company
shut down and 400 of the employees, head
ed by ex-Gov. John A. Mead, marched to
the armory, each carrying q flag. They
then fell in line with the guardsmen and
marched about the business streets.
When the train pulled out, every factory
whistle in Rutland footed and every
bell rang.
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ton, observed the Tooth anniversary of
her birth at the Broadway house, Sara
toga Springs, n. Y, where her son, George
s. Hine, is proprietor, Mar. 81. Mrs. Hine
is in good health, her mind is clear and
her faculties well preserved. The family
was a long-li one. One sister lived
to be 90, another 90 and brother
reached the age of 81.
Thomas Francis Culley, aged SO years,
and for "a years in the employ Of the
Central Vermont railway, died April 5
at his home in st. Adams. He was i'll
four weeks with infammatory rheu-
matism, which was followed by pneu-
monia. At the time OF Mr.. Culley's |
he was one of the most popular con-
ductors on the run between White River
Junction and Montreal.
Otto Larrow, an employee of the Middle
bury Marble company, was badly in
jured while at work April 5, when a
chain which had been around huge /
block of marble slipped, and piece OF
the marble broke off and flew, striking |
Larrow in the mouth. Several teeth
we're loosened, cash was cut in his
face from the nose to the point OF his
chin and he was cut about the neck.
His family lives in Ripton.
The annual log drive of the Interna
tonal Paper company has begun and
it will be one of the largest yet made
down the White river, there being about
0,000000 feet or $4,000 cords of four
loot pulp wood. One hundred and fifty
men are engaged in putting the logs into
he river The first of the drive is sched-
lled to reach the mouth of the White
liver at White River Junction in about
hree weeks.
Carton, seven year-old son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles v Needham of Brandon,
ook stroll along the streets OF that
place Thursday morning at ! O'Clock
While in his sleep. The boy is sick with
he measles and was clad only in his
light clothes. being barefooted and bare
leaded, but in spite of his early trip
Gems none the worse for it. He had {
zone some distance before he woke up !
nd stopped at a house, whose occupants
Iotified his parents. He had been gone
,ut few minutes when he was missed.