The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-03

his nome III barnet ana uled tHe mex
day. He was only 80 years old.
Joe Randall of Lyndonvlle was badly
poisoned recently by mosquito bite
which caused the arm to swell and neces
STATED bandaging.
The heat has been so severe this week
that the Black Cat Textile company and
the + 2 Waist company in Bennington
shut down afternoons.
Morrisville coal dealers, who received
several carloads of coal last week, soon
disposed of the entire stock at price of
about $3.50 per gross ton.
George Il. Fowler has installed a pair
of stuffed cats among the pea vines at
his home in johnson to brighten birds,
which have been helping themselves TO
the peas.
During the severe storm of Monday
evening, Mrs. George House of Beebe,
while on her way home from the postof-
flee, was struck by falling limb from
a tree, killing her instantly.
While John Arthur was moving with
a scythe on a steep bank in West GLOW.
er, he stumbled and fell onto the scythe,
cutting one finger entirely off and the
bone of another, besides sustaining some
bruises.
Joseph Garreau, proprietor of "The
Pines" at Bennington, was badly hurt
when an auto in which he and a young
man in his employ were riding collided
with a tree Tuesday. Garreau's head
was cut open in several places, there
were cuts on one arm and the other was
black with bruises.
Following the extremely hot weather
of Monday, Lyndonville was treated to
a severe wind and rain storm, which
broke off branches of trees and stripped
from the rope the big flag owned by
Lyndonville Republicans, which hung
across the street. AT last reports the
flag had not been found.
Tiscarum rust has been discovered in
the ground in Burlington and vicinity, |
where large acreages of field beans have
been planted, which will mean a loss of |
hundreds of dollars to farmers. So far
no method has been found for its pre- |
vention or cure The rust eats up the |
roots of the plants, but sometimes new
roots sprout out over the destroyed ones
Stanley G. Fits of Brattleboro who is |
transporting ammunition by automobile
for the allies in France, has written to
his mother that he will go Aug. 10 to
French officers training school, which
will give him the rank of lieutenant in
the French army. He says college work
for him will have to be postponed or
given up, for he shall not return to col
lege while million other Americans are
in Europe fighting.
w. L. Harrigan, driver for the Amer
lean Express company in st. Johnsbury, ,
suffered severe internal injuries Tuesday !
afternoon when front wheel came off
the wagon, throwing him out, and the :
hind wheel of the heavily loaded wagon I
passed over him after he had been !
dragged some distance by the running !
horse. d
The old Smith homestead in Stowe has
been in the family for so years. 1t was :
the property of Captain Ma Z
han Robinson, for many years a promi- t
lent resident of Stowe. Mr. Robinson's
ather, Nathan Robinson, purchased the b
,lace in 1903, paying for it 81 900 in sill L
yer, which he brought TO Stowe in bar. n
el of beans. Mr.. Robinson kept hotel {
or many years in the house, which was h
# logs, one story high, with two rooms o
IN the ground floor. Later frame house I
vas built ON the same site. The house 6
low contains many rare books, pieces of fl
arved mahogany and other art treasures.
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