The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-06-29

hand badly lacerated recently at his
home in Cambridge, when they became
caught in the cogs of the speedometer
of his auto.
Municipal ownership Of water privileges
has worked to an advantage IN MOT
risville this year, where the water rate
and meter rate have each been reduced
81 per year.
SYDNEY Fairbanks, a Harvard man and
grandson of Rev. Henry Fairbanks OF ST.
Johnsbury, has been decorated for brav-
ery in France, receiving the war cross.
He is son Of Robert Fairbanks of
London.
st. Johnsbury is to celebrate the
Fourth of July at the summer home OF
Alex. Dunnett, Groton pond. He has in
vited the whole town to spend the day at
the pond, where they will enjoy a basket
lunch and addresses.
Putrid diphtheria has broken out in a
family in East Haven, and already a
Mrs. Hart and her three year-old child
and her sister, Miss Delina Hicks, have
died with the disease. There is strict
quarantine and the school in that dis
trict has been closed.
Rutland man in trying to fix TAU
Get in the laundry found that bull
head two and one-half inches long, which
was Just under the valve, was the rea-
son no water would come through the
faucet. The fish had evidently followed
the pipe all the way from the reservoir.
Frank Horton, veteran OF the Civil
war, died June Is at the home of his
daughter in Readsboro, at the age OF
SO years. Mr.. Horton saw active service
in the battles of Cedar Creek, Fishers
hill and Winchester and was honorably |
discharged June 2s, 1865.
An Injunction has been served on the |
Penhryn Slate company OF Hydeville re- |
straining it from dumping sand into the
outlet of Lake Bomoseen, on which their |
mill is located The Minogue brothers,
another slate concern, were the petition
ers, and they allege that the sand caused |
the clogging of machinery at their plant.
The chief of police in Plymouth, n. H.,
has arrested Albany Belanger, aged 26
years, of Beverly Mass, and Peter Sew.
esuqe, aged 26, of Bangor, Me, on charg-
es OF attempting to avoid registration.
They claimed to have been in the woods
in Vermont near st. Johnsbury and Lyn
donvlle and that they could not get out
to register They were locked up in
the Concord, n. H., Jail.
Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro, who has
been at the Plattsburg training camp
since its opening, has been transferred
to first battery, field artillery, New Eng
land division. John j. Garrity, also of
Brattleboro, who was corporal in Co.
during service on the Mexican border,
was later discharged and re-enlisted at
the last call to the colors as private
in Co. l. has been transferred to Com
pany G and promoted to be sergeant.
Miss Dorothea Cummings and Miss Lu-
cile Clark reached the home of the form
er's parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. w. Cum !
mings, in Stowe, June 20, having COM !
pleted walking tour of 200 miles from {
Portland, Me- They left that city June c
l3 and reached the home of Miss Cum q
mings' grandmother in Middlesex a week I
later, having rested day and half on c
the way. They averaged from % to 30 |
miles a day.
Walter Locke and Lon Perry of Wat ]
erville were arrested recently, charged a
with stealing and killing cattle, 100 ]
pounds of beef being found in Perry's ii
,ellar, it is alleged, and large amount
IF beef and the hide of COW at Locks t
house The COW is said to have belonged t
70 w. P. Smile of Waterville and it's
read was found in the pasture where it G
had been kept. They waived examina- Fl
ion and were placed under 81 900 bail in p
lefault of which they were taken to B
all.
One rural route from the Morrisvile
,ostoffice is to be discontinued and con-
olidated with other routes from there
md Stowe, removing E. S. Robinson, who
las been a carrier for Is years. Patrons
II the route have placed complaint N
With the postoffice department at Wash
ngton, alleging that the consolidation of
he route with the Others will make them
90 long for a carrier to cover in the fl
ime allotted. The original order is to pl
axe effect June 80, unless the complaint q
eads to change in plans.
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A fve.passenger automobile owned by ~
w. Colburn of Rutland and driven by l.,
i'm left the road on the highway be- H.
ween Center Rutland and West Rut -
and recently and, after turning over :,
everal times, landed on the electric car 80
rack, with the occupants under it. Mr.. .
olburn has a sprained wrist and bruises .,
bout the ribs. Henry Noyes of Rutland =,
as a bruised nose. The occupants of an :
ectric car pulled Mr.. Colburn and Mr.
owes out from under the car and helped =
ct the machine back into the road again.
he top of the auto was demolished.
Major Charles c. Jameson, a member
the engineering firm of Goethals, Jam
son, Houston & Jay, Inc, in New York,
which Maj .-Gen. Geo. w. GOethals is
FAD. is a native of Glover and spent
IS boyhood days in Stannard, where he
ceived his early school training. Be
re his appointment TO West Point, he
ught school in West Burke. Major ia
ieson has returned 10 active service in