The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-01
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Middlebury had its first band concert
of the season the evening Of Memorial
day.
Dean ]. L. Hills of the college of agri-
culture estimates that the state spends
$750,o00 yearly for fertilizer
The steamer Vermont OF the Cham
plain Transportation company began its
regular schedule Memorial day.
Mrs. Sarah Dixie celebrated her l05th
birthday anniversary at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. NJ Sturtevant, in
Pittsford, May 20.
Harold Langlois was badly burned at
the wooden mills in Winooski May 20 by
hot water and steam as he was working
about the washers.
Capt" Omar Smith, veteran Rut-
land printer, died May 20 of an@mia.
He had lived in that city for 81 years
and was II years old.
The Highgate Center public library has
received framed photograph with auto
graph letter of the poet John G. SAKE
from John w. SAKE OF Boston.
Mai. W. o. Cooley OF Brattleboro has
been ordered to. Fort Sill, Okla, where
he will attend the school of musketry.
He is member of the V. N. G.
Howard W. Plant, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Plant of Burlington, went as third
class radio operator on the destroyer
fleet that recently sailed for France.
Arthur Delisle of Montgomery was
sentenced in st. Adams city court May
rs to serve 80 days in jail and to pay
costs of $3.50 for breaking quarantine.
I. Fl. Davenport is soon to build in
Bennington a modern, concrete bakery,
with the latest machinery, capable of
turning out 1000 leaves Of bread in ten
hours.
The town of Hartford held a special
meeting recently, when it was voted to
levy tax of 20 cents on the dollar to
pay the special state tax incident to war
expenditures.
By the will of the late Judge Arba N. !
Waterman of Chicago, the johnson Nor
NAL school is named as beneficiary |
among 80 legatees. The estate is valued |
at quarter of million.
Forty-five veterans were present at the |
pre- Memorial service at the Rutland |
Baptist church Sunday. An impressive
feature of the service was the presen.
tation to the church of silk flag.
A Jersey COW, owned by J. d. Gibbs of
Mendon, valued at $75, was struck and
killed by a Ford automobile, belonging
to George Trombley of Rutland, few
days ago. The COW was in the highway
when struck.
The first brick house in Burlington, or
one so labeled, stands at 1853 South Bat
terry street. 1t was built by DIR. John
Pomeroy in 1898. In 1909 it was the
medical school.
The demand for pulp wood is becoming
20 insistent that some of the lumber
companies in the south
ern part of the state are selling their
logs for pulp instead of cutting them
into lumber.
Miss Ethel Butson, a st. Johnsbury
nurse, died May % at Brightlook hospital
in that place of mastoid assesses. She
was "a years old and a native of Barnet
She was soon to have married Alvi p
Calderwood of St. Johnsbury.
The 10000 900 foot log drive of the
American Realty company has passed
,ut of the White river and into the Con-
1ecticut river at White River Junction
The first of the logs are near their des-
tination at Bellows Falls. II
About 30 per cent of the students of ,
he University of Vermont, or Is2 out ]
If total of 6l2, have left college on c
account of the war, to work in various a
capacities. Forty-two of the students
ave gone to the Plattsburg camp and II |
more are scheduled to go.
Napoleon 1anni and another man. both /
riding bicycles collided in Rutland May !,
-, an automobile hiding each from the
'ther. Ianni received slight conclusion $
# the brain, as the impact threw both {
men high in the air. He is a senior in G
he Rutland high school. I
W. d. Bell, whose garden is one of the /
,est in Westfeld, is having hard time
With crows, which until this season have Q
lever bothered anything but corn and I
rain. Sunday they uprooted most of l
is cucumber and squash vines, radishes d
nd some other early produce. r
George Snow, the Sharon station agent, Q
n some way fell down the chute where a | /
ang of men were unloading coal from l
airs, and as he fell the scoop dumped a +
Dad of coal upon him. He was made un- .
onscious and is badly bruised about the
cad and face, but no bones were broken. n
Mrs. z. A. Wsldron, aged 81 years, n
zoe % "a aLrad hu nm 49,. l. I