The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-31
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Milk is selling in Brandon for IA cent
aquart.
For the first time in nearly 10 years
the physicians of Mddlebury have de
cided that a raise in rates is necessary
and the new schedule will go into eifect
Nov. |.
Fred Jordan is confined to his home ii
Vergennes as a result of blow on the
head from an axe, which became caught
in clothesline as he was chopping re-
Gently.
Major Ira L. Reeves, former president
of Norwich university, who has been
stationed in Washington in the bureau
of militia, has been promoted to the
rank of lieutenant colonel
A sleeveless sweater made for the Red
Cross is on exhibition in a st. Adams
store window because it was made by
Ruth Midget, aged only IL years. 1t
is said to be beautifully done.
Homer A. Lyons of Bennington trapped
This makes 81 bears that he has cap
tured. The larger of the two caught this
week weighed $50 pounds.
Walter J. Fuller, aged 20 years and
son of Mr.. and Mrs. p. A. Fuller of East
Putney, died at Camp Bartlett, Westfield,
Mass, Saturday of bronchial pneumonia,
following measles. He enlisted July IL.
The railroad station at Beldens, on the
Rutland railroad, is to be closed Nov.
and after that it will be only flag
station. There has been so little bust
ness at Beldens since the fire, that the
change hardly will be noticed.
Ellsworth c. Woodward, for many
years a travelling salesman in Vermont,
died at his home in Danville Friday
night, aged 81 years. He was for 20
years in the employ of the Essex Fer
tilizer company of Boston as travelling
salesman.
Joseph G. Estey son of Col. and Mrs. |
]. Gray Estey of Brattleboro, landed in
New York Sunday from Europe, where
he had been in the field ambulance serv
fee. He will later enter the American
aviation service.
Rev. John Benjamin Magee, pastor of
the Methodist church in st. Adams has
received call to one of the strong pas
torates of the southwest but has de-
cIined and will remain in st. Adams to
carry through the work of church re-
pairs begun recently.
While returning from his work in West
Stewartstown, n. H., and crossing q
railroad bridge to Canaan, VT, Philip
Baker of Newport made misstep and
fell into the Connecticut river, a dis
lance of 20 feet, and was drowned He !
was So years old.
Wilbur Adshade, formerly of Brattle- !,
boro, who was tried at Keene, n H., q
last week on the charge OF attempting :
to kill Fred Hall, was found guilty and !
sentenced TO state prison at Concord !
for not less than two and one half years, :
and to pay costs of prosecution. :
Mrs. ]. A. Neser may lose all the fn ;.
gers of her left hand as a result of an ac q
cident which happened to her in the !
laundry of her home in Burlington a
few days ago. Her hand became caught !,
in the mange and was badly crushed and .
burned before her husband heard her
cries and shut off the power.
Allen Gray, an lSyear-old English .
aviator, is reported as missing. He was
flying across the German line when he 4
disappeared, either killed or taken pris- \
oner. Mr.. Gray is the son of Rev. and .
Mrs. John Gray of Pretoria, South Afri- f
ca, and his mother was Miss Nellie Tyler J
of st. Johnsbury He is a nephew of
Mrs. NJ. H. Buckham of Burlington :,
Barney S. Michelman of Brattleboro, a .
merchant, against whom an involuntary Ii
petition in bankruptcy was filed recently :
in the United States district court of
Vermont, has filed a schedule 1t shows
liabilities of $l4,77204 and assets of
SIS, 969l7, with $3.50 claimed exempt u
The people of Manchester were treat to
ed to glimpse of something out of the B