The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-18

ABOUT THE STATE |
HAPPENINGS or INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The Stowe Red Cross branch is I,
serve maple sugar on real snow mex
Monday afternoon and evening
George Bedell OF Greensboro Bend had
the misfortune to have three fingers cut
of while saving shingles recently
An automobile belonging TO Mr., Baker
of Newport skidded and went over a
bank in Coventry few days ago, tax
ing fire and burning up.
Mr.. Kibllng and Mr. Walker have
opened another mine on the johnson
farm in Norwich and the ore taken out
fwis said to contain large per cent of
sulphur.
Dairy butter in Springfield markets
has been retailing at 80 cents pound
this week, but milk is only nine cents
quart there and was raised to that
price Aug. l.
The large horse and COW barn of Il. s.
Garfield in Londonderry, together with 20
or more tons of hay and a lot Of farm
ing tools, was destroyed by fire Wednes.
day when struck by lightning
A farm garden in Newport worth going
far to see is that of Albert Roeder, who
has as acres in beans, 10 acres of pota-
toes and three acres of onions, besides
large patches of beets, carrots and cab
bage.
The wheat crop in the vicinity of Yer
gennes is reported as being injured by
the weevi One farmer who had three
acres of fine looking wheat expected a
yield of at least % bushels to the acre.
but found on threshing it that he had
only three bushels to the acre.
Someone cut all the Western Union
telegraph wires between Bellows Falls
and Saxtons River Monday evening, cut
ting off all service on the railroad lines
between Bellows Falls and New York
No trace of the man who did the deed
has been found.
Rae Tobins got a cash an inch and a
half long over one eye when the head of
a croquet mallet flew across the croquet
ground and struck her in he face. She
was at the home of Mrs. Leroy in Grand
Isle when the accident happened. Several
stitches had to be taken to close the
wound.
w. H barrow, superintendent of the
Warren Waitsfield Waterbury school un-
ion, with headquarters at the latter
place, has resigned his position and
leaves Monday for Washington, d. c., |
having received a call to assist in the
office of the board of markets and dis
tribution, which originated with the
adoption of the new food bill
The house of Mr. and Mrs. A. Z.
French of Westmore bears this sign on
red, white and blue placard: "a man
from this house is fighting in France
with the United States marines" Their
son, Wayne, is fighting with the Perish
ing force on the French front. The sign
is furnished by the government, and as
far as known, is the only one in that
part of Orleans county.
Lightning in shower Wednesday
evening struck and killed COW belong
ing to M. G.. Graham, Mddlebury ex-
pressman, and struck the barn of T. p.
ID. Matthews. The bolt hit the ridge
pole, ran down the roof, taking oil a
strip of slate, glanced to a corner post
and displaced it and then went into the
ground. -Four yearling calves belonging :,
were also killed. =
Mrs. Michael Calvin of East Middle /
bury was badly injured at her home |
" tahcpioy NFciAhS uhiitiS a SSNtis clSN-
trical storm. She opened a door leading
to the cellar and sat in the dark during
the shower After it was over, she be-
came confused in the darkness and fell i,
to the bottom of the stairs, hurting
her right arm and one wrist and cutting
her head so that several stitches were
required
Secretary and Mrs. Joseph Patrick Tu- :
multy of Washington, ID. c., with their
chauffeur, motored through Burlington !,
and Waterbury Monday on their way to
the White mountains for vacation. Mr..
rumulty, who is private secretary to .
President Wilson, had been ordered on II
he trip by the White House physician, II
DR.. Grayson, as he had been suffering
with severe cold. The party was de-
lighted with the scenery. o
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Loren r. Howard, called from his home
n Maine to Middlebury by the death of =
his mother, received a telegram Friday a:
morning from his wife, who had returned y
o Maine to bring the children to Mid -