The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-22
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
There were only eight marriages i
Stowe during 1916, also so births and 2
deaths.
Mrs. Olive Beckwith fractured a hi
when she fell down the cellar stairs a
her home in Rutland Friday evening
BeIknap and Son of Cavendish hav,
just shipped 80 bushels of apple seed
to different nursery companies in TIL
West.
There are now 2ll boys and SO girl,
inmates at the state industrial school il
Vergennes, the largest attendance in thu
history of the institution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick j. Dexter. who
made their home in st. Johnsbury i'm.
mediately after their marriage, OBJ.
served their golden wedding anniversary
Jan. IA at their home in Hinsdale, n II
While in st. Johnsbury Mr.. Dexter was
employed at the Fairbanks scale works
Dexter Gould of North Goshen, whose
funeral was held last Wednesday after
noon, was 10 years old if the record of
his birth made in the old family Bible
was correct. 1t is recorded there that he
was born in 1907 1t is said that Mr..
Gould had sister who lived to be 100
years old.
Henry S. burlington, aged so, and
one of the Oldest residents of
Pownal fell on the ice there Thurs
day and broke his right hip. There
is doubt whether he will ever be able to
walk again. For 40 years Mr. Burning
ton has been justice of the peace in Pow.
nal.
DIR. H. ID. Holton, for many years a
member of the state board of health is
very i'll at his home in Brattleboro. He
has been suffering for two weeks with
a hard cold complicated with hiccoughs
of which he has suffered for years at
each time he has been in poor health.
DR.. Holton is rs years of age.
Wilmington is facing a water famine
within short time so the water board
of that place announces. 1t is supposed
that the sudden change from full res
ervoir to one with only about 4S hours
supply was brought about by household.
ers leaving the water running nights to
prevent freezing faucets
Miss Isabel Hicks of Readsboro, who
teaches school at Readsboro Falls. hurt
one foot badly recently while snowshoe-
ing from her school to her home. She
stepped on rusty nail, which protruded
from board, and has since been in Sc.
we're pain.
The pupils of the village school in
Nottingham were sent home last Mon
day because there was no wood for J
fire. The Friday before the larger boys
of the school drew enough on sleds to
finish that week, but when the teacher
found none on Monday she closed the
school
Miss Florence L. Clark was surprised /
on recent morning when she saw
red fox at the steps leading to the back
door of her home in Brattleboro. The
animal had been shot and was wound
ed in the neck and body evidently com
ing to the house for refuge A neighbor
put the animal out of its misery with a
gun.
A valuable young horse belonging to
Henry w. Fairman of Vernon was fatal il
ly injured Jan. 10 when it went over an
with the sleigh to which
it was attached and Mr.. Fairman The
road was icy and there was no guard
rail, so that when the sleigh began to
slew there was nothingtog stop it. The an
mal died of internal injuries after being
brought back to the highway.
Fl. l.. Robinson, an employee of the Yer
mont Farm Machine Co. of Bellows Falls,
has invented an incinerator for use in I
The United States army in burning waste !
matter and boiling of waste water which {
s customary in all army camps. The
ncinerator has received the approval of J
he war department and il is probable / t
hat the work of making the incinerators
will be done at the Bellows Falls plant. S
Charles Church, So, formerly of West
Minister, died recently in the home of =
lis son, Edward Church in Mortified,
lass. Mr.. Church lived in Westmin- :
ter III years, where he carried on a
arm and raised fancy sheep and cat
lie. He and Mrs. Church went TO North
ield IL years ago to live with their son,
Who is express agent at South Vernon.
'wo of Mr.. Church's sisters, Mary and
iartha Church, are over IS years old.
Calvin Williams, the negro lumberjack,
Who has been confined to the Benning- =
on county Jail since Nov. T. has been
emoyed to the state prison at Windsor. !.
lie was indicted for assault. Friday /
lorning, during the absence of Sheriff
lodfrey in Windsor, the man for sec
nd time set fire to his property in the
FL. The smoke awakened Mrs. Godfrey,
tho by use of a garden hose subdued
he flames and also Williams. A short
.