The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-29
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Jerry Lawlor of Bellows Falls has
81 hens and since March l they have
laid 10 eggs.
The St. Johncbury Snowshoe club
closed its season with a big dance Tues
day evening in the armory.
John B. Provost of st. Johnsbury, a
grocer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy.
He has liabilities OF S7,550.54 and assets
of SS,53J.90, with 5000 claimed exempt.
Congressman and Mrs. +. l.. Greene
left st. Adams Tuesday for Washington,
ID. c., where Mr.. Greene will be ready
for duty on Monday, when the special
session OF Congress convenes.
John Carder of Middletown Springs,
who left the Rutland hospital suddenly
Sunday night, after having been prepared
for surgical operation, was found next
day in Poultney in a serious condition,
and taken back to the hospital.
A. C. Randall employed on the farm
of Leland Morse at Peacham, is in a
serious condition as result of an acct
dent Monday, when he stepped back
ward into a scuttle in the barn, which
was open, and fell ten feet to the floor
below. His back was injured
DIR. Herbert w. Taylor, first assistant
physician for the Brattleboro retreat and
assistant surgeon of the LIST Vermont
regiment, has reported at Montpelier.
He expects that his present duties win
be @ medical inspection of the various
companies recruited.
Miss Mary Richards of Poultney has
sailed from New York for LaPan Boliv-
ia, where she will marry MeKendree
Petty, a graduate from the University of
Vermont in 1916, and the son of Rev.
r. G. Petty of Schenectady, n. Y Mr..
Petty went to LaPan last October and
is teacher in the American institute
i'll that city, where his wife will also
teach.
The First Church of Christ, Scien-
hioiY nus bOuEbb tiat HioptitN vi tHt ElCt |
Baptist church in st. Johnsbury, which |
had been closed since the society feder-
ated with the First Baptist church of
that place The Scientist society in ST. |
dohnsbury is a large one, and as soon as
the church is repaired it will be occupied |
by its new owners.
The Pastime theatre in Swanton was
badly damaged by fire Monday, several
reels of films having been burned, a
trunk full of the personal effects of L.
j. Palmer and the piano, and the build
ing was damaged. Neither the building
nor piano had any insurance. There had
been no heating in the building since
and the origin Of the blaze is
unknown
The directors of the Vermont Sunday
School association have voted to accept
The invitation of the New Hampshire
Sunday School association to unite with
hem in holding a summer school under
he name of 1.-THE Twin State School of
Religious Education" The meetings are
% be held Aug. 6-l2 at Dartmouth col {
ege, Hanover, N. H. Experienced lead !
'rs from all over the country will be s
present. 1
In fire which destroyed a story and a 8
lalf tool house of the Central Vermont !
ailway in White River Junction Mon
lay night, Archie Gibson, tramp from S
who was sleeping there, was q
'adly burned. All his clothing, except I
heavy pair of rubber moccasins, was
burned entirely off. Almost the entire 2
is thought, started from an overhead e
d stove.
Mrs. Dora Ashley of South Royalton
vas seriously burned Sunday night while r
tempting to light a Kerosene lamp and ,
ut for the timely assistance of Mrs. p.
,odewick, tenant in the same house,
he would probably have been burned r.
0 death. Mrs. Ashley in some way .
,osened the burner which holds the wick n
nd the oil flew out onto her clothes, u
emitting and burning them completely y
'om her body She is expected to re- y
over, although she will suffer for some .
me from the burns. II
Richard MacCarthy and Harriet L. fe
enehy, both of Maiden, Mass, were er
arried in the Methodist church at Brat lie
eboro Monday evening by Rev. T. w. NJ
wens, the pastor. There were several pr
teresting features in the service. The tn
rst was that this marriage was the first of
take place in the church since it was W
,dicated in 1881; it was the Doth mar pc
age that the pastor has performed since
, came to Brattleboro five years ago,
Id was witnessed by 35 members of the NJ
'ung peoples society of the church, who Az
ere attending a sugar party in the
stry