The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-19

TOT IHTee US2 IloHLH-oiu pigSJ "hiSi
dressed at 664 pounds, William Whitney
of Salisbury received $ll9.52.
Work will be commenced on parish
house for the Episcopal church of Brat
tleboro as soon as weather conditions
are favorable
Arthur Chaffee, aged 10. has been TAX
en- from Enosburg Falls to the industri-
al school for opening postollice box
and rifing the mail.
A flock of over twenty evening gros-
beaks on a lawn in North Bennington
Thursday, made very pretty sight to
the eyes Of bird lovers.
Ten thousand land-locked salmon eggs
have been received at the Vernon fish
hatchery from the government hatchery
At Grand Lake Stream, Me.
Since the outbreak of an epidemic of
septic sore throat in st. Adams, 295
cases have been reported and it is known
many Others were unreported.
Ernest Douglass, who lived with his
aunt, Mrs. Darius Perkins, in Cuttings
vile and who had been missing since
March g. was found dead in the high
way the 18th inst.
While telling tree near his home in
Townshend recently, w. L. Moore was
thrown against barbed wire fence, seri-
ously tearing the flesh on his hands and
arms.
Charles Breese caught bay lynx in
one of his traps in Pittsford Friday. The
are climbing to unprecedented heights, the
measured two feet and weighed ten
pounds.
w. P. Eames, Newfane grocer, has
been selling potatoes for Sl.50 per BUSH
ell all winter, as he said that was all
potatoes ought to be worth and he would
charge no more.
In the vicinity of Middlebury cattle
owners see one hopeful condition in the
fact that hay is S. ton cheaper now |
than last year at this time. Then it |
was $40 and now it is $l4.
Alfred Archer, while cutting wood on |
the bank of a river in Chester, missed |
his footing and fell onto the broken ice
of the river, bruising himself so badly
that he was confined to the house for
several days.
1t is said that in Middlebury the
STEADY thaws of last week" took off
large part of the snow and that although
some of the roads are still buried in
three or four feet OF snow, other roads
are entirely bare.
Mrs. Alice Wiley of Chester received
in her face the full force of an explo-
sion white occurred few days ago when
she attempted to kindle a fire with kerr
osene and used gasoline instead. Her
arm and face were severely burned.
The inn at Saxtons River has been
leased for term of years to A. n. w.
Smith of West Brookfeld, Mass. Mr..
Smith was at one time manager of the {
Van Ness house in Burlington and went {
from there to Gardner, Mass, where for {
a number of years he was manager of
he Windsor house.
William King, who died recently at
his home in Berkshire at the age of 9S {
years, was the father of IL children and I
s survived by ten, all of whom attend. q
ID the funeral. There are also so grand !
children and 80 great-grandchildre Mr.. G
md Mrs. King had been married rs !
years the third of last November
"That's How the Fairies Came to Ire
and" one OF the songs which the Fiske
pHara company is singing during its
our of Vermont, was written by BARLEY
costello, of Philadelphia, native and for
ner resident of Rutland. He has written
everal other songs for Mr.. 0'Hara and .
'hauncey Olcott.
The machinery in the bottling works
# Frank Dorm in Burlington has been
Installed and it is expected that the
oncern will begin business within a
week or two. The plant will be one of
he biggest soft drink concerns in the
ountry and has refrigerator capacity
t five carloads.
I
DR.. Fl. r. Jones of Benson recently sold
he timber, mostly pine, on $50 acres,
'hich he bought few years ago for
300, for the sum of $3.50. He holds
he land and tops. He sells for nine times 81
r more than he paid and retains the u
md u
III. E. Doyle, well known in hotel cir al
es in Vermont, having been proprietor pI
the Lyndon house, and the Avenue v
ouse in st. Johnshury, has taken the ed
sse of the Newport house from Fred an
/. Sisco and has taken possession. This
the third time Mr.. Doyle has been in
ossession of the Newport house, the
st time being about 10 years ago. The OF
iscos leave because of i'll health and in
ave purchased a house in Orleans. ty
til
Mrs. Erwin Spsulding aged "a years, br
nd her granddaughter, Addie aged nine no
ears, bagged a good sized fox at their .,
'me in Twenty Mile Stream recently. ia
lille spaniel dog and the fox were
yhting. Mrs. Spaulding took the fox by
e tail and drew it into the house. where
was put into a bag for safe keeping
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