The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-16
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Eight head of cattle belonging to Pau
Field Of Salisbury were killed by trail
Saturday night.
Mrs. IMyia Fay, who had reached tn,
age of % years died recently at he
home in Sharon.
The Vermont State Smith Colleg,
Alumni association is to meet this veal
in Rutland in December
Mr.. and Mrs J. o. Raymond observed
their 50th wedding anniversary Nov
u at their home in Orwell.
BOYS last Halloween night painted five
hogs belonging to Fletcher Blodgett OF
Hyde Park red, white and blue.
Hermon Darlington and w W. Clapper
of HYDE Park Center have already cut
$50 cords of four-foot wood this fall.
Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, formerly of
Rutland, whose home is in Washington,
d. c., has written Hymn to America. "
Mrs Harry Blodgett of Hyde Park is
completing her tenth sweater for the Red
Cross and Mrs. G. D. Bruce of Stowe has
just handed in her 18th pair of socks.
Some first class dry hardwood, birch
and maple BODY wood, was delivered in
Morrisville last week for SO per cord and
some second-growth green wood for $3.50
William McEnnany of Fairfield got his
glove caught in a planer at the +. T.
Holmes shop in Sheldon Nov 10 and his
hand was drawn in, taking off three fin
gers.
p. c. Brooks formerly manager of the
Toronto office of the Fairbanks Scale
company, has been transferred to the
managership of the company at st.
Johnsbury.
Mark McClusky, travelling salesman,
was fined $40 and costs of $3.50 in Rut
land city court Tuesday on the charge
of peddling without state license. He
is alleged to have been selling furs.
William Jefferson Churchill, aged 81,
and one of the oldest residents of FL
more, died there Nov. IL. He had held
nearly all the offices of the town and
represented it in the legislature of 1874. |
r. NJ. Houghton died in Bennington |
Nov. IL, was 70 years old, lifelong Dem
ocrat and veteran of the Civil war. He |
had represented Bennington in the leg |
islature and was town overseer for many
years.
Beginning Nov. Is, the fares on trolley
cars of the Rutland Railway Light &
Power company were increased from five
cents to six cents, the public service COM
mission granting the petition of the com
pany for the raise.
Walter Patch of East johnson while
working in w. Fl. Stearns rake factory
in Johnson Nov. s, received broken leg
when stick was thrown from a wheel,
both bones of the leg above the
ankle and badly splintering them.
The farm barns of Leon Shufelt in
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A with all the hay, five head of cattle,
even Swine, farming tools, wagons, {
1eighs, etc, The cause is unknown and r
he loss was only partly covered by in c
urance
In Cambridge the winter sports COM !
nittee is already busy making plans
or a skating rink, tobogganing, coasting
md hnaiun Thara iu
membership fee of % cents, emitting the ,
members to all the sports and programs +,
+ the club.
Two successful Fayston hunters were !
William Griffin and Barney Maginis. who I
eport for the first days hunt of the =
eason big bear weighing $50 pounds, |
,hich was shot on the Neil place near n
heir camp. Fifty-two people visited the h
amp during the day all anxious to view T
he huge old mountaineer, $
Ellery A. Harvey of Brattleboro re. 0
orts bagging seven coons Saturday night o
! the neighborhood of the Herrick place o
, Chesterfield This made total of o
5 which he brought in last week, six
tuesday, night, three Thursday night and q
|'th -aibOSttiti MI harvey II
as taken 80 of the animals this fall. la
Thirteen candidates, II men and one
oman took the first examination ever 4
ED in Vermont for the position of post Of
aster for postofiice of the presidential Il
ass, which took place at the govern
ent building in st Adams this week.
he Office, which is at Milton, pays ST. D
No year;
Frank Meehan, proprietor of Meehans \
irk at Lake Dunmore, pleaded guilty in
iddlebury municipal court Nov. Is to
lie charge of operating a slot machine
the park. He was fined $50 and costs.
hich he could not pay at the time and
as taken to county Jail to await the
curing of the amount.
Dewey T. Hanley state purchasing
hoe n