The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-17

pair of spectacles that are over 200 years
old
About 1000 fresh air" children from
New York City are to be entertained in
Vermont during August.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Stone of Panton
had large new potatoes and green peas
from their own garden July e.
Harry W. Shaw of Newport has re.
ceived an appointment as stenographer
and typewriter in the navy department
at Washington,
Over 800 students have already been
enrolled at the summer school at the
University of Vermont and more are ex-
pected this week.
The 6.year.old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Julius Adams of Tinmouth died
Saturday of typhoid fever and two other
members of the family are i'll with it.
Roy and Ralph Knight two Bellows
Falls dentists, have been appointed as
first lieutenants in the United States
dental reserve corps for field service in
France.
Mrs. William Nickerson of Orwell has
hen which in the past few weeks has |
laid two dozen eggs each with double |
yolk, the weight of the two dozen being |
six pounds.
st. Johnsbury automobile owners are
protesting against peculiar kind of tire |
puncture which is said to have resulted |
from photograph needles, which some
unthinking person has thrown into the
street.
The Vermont Marble company's store
in Proctor was awarded the only prize in
the state in recent window decorating
contest held in New England by the
Loose-Wies Biscuit company. James
Moore was the decorator.
John McGuirk an aged Rutland man,
was struck by the steps of an electric
car in that city Saturday and thrown to
the ground breaking one leg. He is
somewhat deaf and did not hear the
whistle, The car was in charge of Mr..
McGuirk's nephew, Martin Mcmahon.
Eleanor and Maude Smith picked in
the back yard of their home in Gassetts
on one afternoon recently PA four leaf
clovers and 35-fveleaf clovers From
June to June IL, Miss Mae Smith OF
st. Adams Town had found in one bunch i,
of clover SIS four-leaf clovers and 3s
fve-leaf.
Charles, the 5-year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles F. Coffin of Woodstock, was
injured in peculiar manner, when play.
ing in barn with some neighboring
boys, tall cupboard placed there for :,
storage topping over onto him, the top
part striking him across the legs. The y
that a plaster east could not be applied :
to hold the fracture in place. He was :,
taken to Hanover, n. H., hospital.
A large gray draft horse belonging to
b. H. McHugh of Rutland was instantly
killed Saturday when il ran away and
crashed into the side of a building One
shaft of the wagon and part of the har
ness penetrated the elapboards and inside Il
finish of the wall so that pieces OF har q
ness were picked up inside of the struc. II
ture. One of the animals shoulders was u
crowded far out of place
Although the skull of Miss Bessie Wa.
tiers of st. Johnsbury, who was thrown u
from the motorcycle on which she was q
riding with her fsnce last week, was a.
found not to be fractured, as was feared, SC
she was badly bruised and her marriage
TO Harley Holbrook, which was to have
taken place the night after the accident,
has had to be indefinitely postponed. M
John p West of Rutland has passed
he examination for admission to the !,
aviation corps of the army and will at. -
end an aviation school in Toronto, On. "
,ario. He has been attending the officers y
raining camp at Plattsburg. Arthur Ell. ,,
Key, also of Rutland, who enlisted some -
line ago in the cavalry branch of the =
lrmy, has been transferred to the avia. ~
ion corps, stationed at San Antonio, =.
Tex.
to
Charles Cleveland, aged 65 years, an Il.
innate at the house of correction. where "
e was serving a sentence for intoxica- -
ion, died there suddenly Friday evening. -
Heart trouble was the cause of his de- =, -
Mise. Mr.. Cleveland had lived in Rut- 70
and many years and was for some time ~
mployed as railroad conductor. %
TO SUCCEED S. c. WILSON. 'u