The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-10

oning set in and he is at the hospital TO
treatment.
The completion of mile of new stat
road between Rutland and Brandon las
week makes a continuous strip of II
miles between the two places.
Two hundred varieties of flowers have
been brought to the Vergennes library
this summer, the children being very
enthusiastic in their collection
Two Burlington dentists extracted
teeth for nearly 100 children at ST, Jo'
seph's orphanage Friday. One OF the
children had to have nine removed
Vergennes home guard, Co. d, Yer.
mont militia, made up of 43 men, took
its first hike and outing Labor day, going
about two and one -half miles and having
a picnic dinner.
State Senator Martin S. Villas has APP
pointed Robert Gordon Arkley of Es-
sex junction and Joseph H. Fountain of
Burlington to state scholarships in Nor
witch university.
Rutland people have responded well
to the call for literature and books to
be sent to the army cantonments and
hospitals. Twenty.six books of fiction
have already been received.
When the handle of hand car on
which nine men were riding in Rutland
broke, Gordon A. Grover was badly
bruised, the car passing over him, The
other section hands were considerably
shaken up.
The Rutland high school is feeling the
high cost of living, inasmueh as about
40 Iupils who expected to enter the
school this fall have not reported for
their duties. Most of them are earning
from $3.50 to 81 a day.
The Greater Vermont association,
which was to have held a meeting in
Rutland in the early spring, which was
postponed because of prohibition of pub
lie meetings by the boardA of health, will
gather there Sept, ~ and rs.
Perry Aldrieh, principal of the junior
high school at Waterbury, has been APP
pointed on President Benton's nomina- |
ton for observer in the signal corps. He |
passed the examination and has gone to
Fort Sill, Okla, for training.
One of the mileage books stolen from |
the home of Mrs. +. w. Gary of Rutland |
two weeks ago was found recently by |
the police in the toe of shoe belonging
to Clarence Kline, now held at the house |
of correction for Rutland county court.
DR.. Rollin d. Worden of Montgomery
Center, recently commissioned as first
lieutenant in the medical reserve, has re-
ceiyed orders to report at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Ind Mrs. Worden will reside
with her mother in Rutland while her
husband is serving in the army.
Fifteen farmers of Addison county met
recently at MiddIebury and formed the
National Farm Loan asso-
citation. The whole of Addison county
is included except the towns of Gran
vile and Hancock and the purpose of
the association is to enable the members
to secure loans on farm property under
the federal loan act. :
William German, brother of Mrs. Fe-
ix Cole of Middlebury, has died in a
hospital in England as a result Of nine
y,,nshot wounds received while fighting
with Canadian regiment on the French
front. Harold Lindsey of Winnipeg,
whose grandmother, Mrs,
Abigail Clapp, lives in Montgomery, has
also been killed with the Canadian forces
n France.
Fl. w. Kimball, John Seth and the !
alters daughter, Mrs. Elsie Gosselin, !
Ill riding on city bound electric car in :
Burlington, Thursday, were considerably !
INJURED when an auto truck from the
1ickok lumber yard collided with the !
ar Mr.. Kimbalfs face was cut by
,roken glass. Mr.. Seith's foot was hurt a
md Mrs, Gosselin suffered from the O
hook. I
Herbert W. Sargent, cabinet maker, at l
nearly lost his left eye in
n mexplainable accident i'm his shop.
circular saw was running and Mr.. Sar-
ent was at work on the saw bench. He Il
cached up to turn on the electric light, !,
,hen something struck his eye glasses, |,
MASKING the left lens and bending the :
i'm, cutting the eyelid and filling the 4
We with fine glass. The glass was re- 2
loved from the eye and the sight is not 1
impaired. There is nothing to indicate =
hat struck his glasses, but 1t is sup q
osed to have been thrown by the saw. \
81
During recitation period in Miss A
ora B. Anthony's room in the Dana
,hool building in Rutland Wednesday
sharp-shinned hawk few through an
pen window and fell dead on the floor,
aving killed itself by a blow on the ei
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