The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-07


named Italo and America
Over $500 people attended the Fourth
of July picnic in Rutland under the aus
pieces of the Church of the Holy limo.
cents.
Entry fees to the tournament at the
Waubanaukee Golf club at Burlington
amounting TO $3.50, were turned over to
the Red Cross fund.
Joseph Burgess died at his home in
Lowell recently OF blood poisoning, re-
sulting from cut on finger by saw.
He was SO years of age.
Flowers and gold pieces were present.
ed George L. Fairman recently at a gath
ering in Vernon in recognition OF his so
years service as singer in the choir.
Three mixers who assembled Mt. Ellen,
the northern peak OF Lincoln mountain,
July 4, found snow bank near the sum-
init. The elevation of Mt. Ellen is 4,lo0
feet.
Children in the family of Mr.. Mano OF
Rutland, while playing with matches
Thursday, set fire to a bed and the fire
department was called to put out the
blaze.
+. Z. Doe, head of the woodworking
plant soon to be established in st. Johns.
bury, was for Ia years the superintend
ent of the Z. L. Chandler company mills
at Orleans.
Mrs. Frank L. Scofeld of st. Adams,
while fishing July in the vicinity of
Hathaway's point, caught pike 26
inches long and weighing six and half
pounds, the largest pike that has been
caught in that vicinity in many years.
The following appointments for com
missioned officers of the First Vermont |
volunteer militia are announced: Louis
J. Robertson of Bellows Falls, to be first
lieutenant and battalion adjutant; Her
bert T. Kelley of Bellows Falls to be
second lieutenant, Co. NJ.
About 800 persons attended the pie
mic at Groton pond July 4, to which the
residents of st. Johnsbury were invited
by Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Dunnett The
speakers were Judge Frank L. Fish of
Vergennes, Rev. George A. Martin of st.
Johnsbury and President John NJ Thorn
as of Middlebury college.
John M. Keney, who spends his sum
mers in Plymouth Union, went berrying
July in Shrewsbury. On his return
home he found he had left his vest in
the field and went back for it. As he did /
not return a second time to his home, :
search was made and he was found dead,
the cause being heart failure.
A metal shelter house was erected on 3
Mount Killington in Rutland the Fourth, G
and so long as the building is used as a
it should be, it will be left unlocked and
free to everybody. A stove has been
placed inside and the building itself is J
quite large, so that number could be
provided with sleeping accommodations.
Miss Luthera Hamilton of Windham
and Joseph Stark of Westminster were
married at the former place recently
Only the immediate families of the bride !
and groom attended the wedding, but in
asmuch as the bride was one of family
of nine and the bridegroom of ten, NOR
than 80 people were present. They took
their wedding trip by motorcycle.
Harold P. Radigan of Rutland, EN-
ployed at Chatham, N. Y, as a civil en-
gineer for the Rutland railroad, suffered
krnG ;r,h ND ntb ,,;,
day when a small motor propelled car,
used by the engineers on the road,
jumped the track. 1t is supposed that
Mr.. Radigan was pinned beneath the
ar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Durham OBJ f.
served the 50th anniversary of their
marriage at their home in Athens June c.
30. The health of both is good. Mrs. =,
Durham made one of the wedding cakes "
ior the event, and Mr.. Durham, al n
hough 81 years of age, hoed five rows
If corn the morning of the anniversary. 81
A joy ride participated in by six people
anne to disastrous end in Rutland a Sc
ew nights ago, in which Miss Mae Nor |
IN of West Rutland received injuries VI
hat required attention at the Proctor G,
hospital, while Wallace Fish. who was II
unning the car, received hard blow in CT
he chest, besides bad cuts. The other
our persons were occupants of the rear II
eat and were thrown onto the ground n,
5hen the car crashed into a tree Miss ii'
foran and Mr.. Fish were sent through st
he wind shield by the impact. The ac n
ident was said to have been caused by L
'ish trying to light cigarette while
irving the car at rapid speed. The
Machine swerved to one side and to avoid -
IS overturning Miss Moran grabbed the
teering wheel and gave it so sudden a U
urn that it sent the car into tree on
he opposite side of the road