The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-26
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The earthquake shock the morning o.
May p was distinctly felt in Morris
vile.
Clayton Swiggett is on his way to
Vermont from San Juan, Porto Rico, t.
enlist in the First Vermont infantry.
Enosburg Falls is to have no Memorial
day exercises this year, although the
graves of soldiers will be decorated az
usual.
Eleven young women took the civil
service examination in Rutland Thurs
day for junior typewriter in the govern
ment service.
Burlington and Winooski are furnish
ing the smallest number OF recruits in
proportion to their population Of any
towns in the state.
Miss Grace Mower of Sheldon picked
from one bunch of clover. about six
inches in diameter, 81 fye-leaf and 43
four leaf clovers.
Sergeant Fountain Howard, 10th cav.
airy, retired, died recently at his home
in Winooski after a three months i'll
ness following shock,
In coming down a flight of stairs at
his home in Newport Thursday night,
Cyrus Rhoades made a misstep and fell
to the bottom, breaking his hip badly.
Mrs Susan Blake of East Barnet, who
is 81 years old, has knit pair of stock
ings for the Red Cross in less than two
weeks, besides doing the family mending.
Paul and Peter Keegan have been tax
en- from Georgia to the state prison, hav
ing been convicted of breaking into
schoolhouse in that place and stealing
several articles belonging to the pupils.
Arthur Salmon gathered his sap buck
cts in Glover May 10 and might have
sugared week longer, as the sap has
been running well and the buds had not
started on the maple trees enough to
be noticeable until the last of the week.
G. +. Greene, street superintendent in
West Derby, following out the recon-
mendation of the state road commission
er that highway work cease for time
between May | and May 81 ploughed so
gardens in that village besides keeping
a single team busy cleaning up.
Charles Bailey, who has been out on
parole from the state prison at Windsor,
and Harold Reynolds, paroled from the
house of correction, nave been returned
to their respective places of detention,
having broken the terms of parole. Each |
had been sentenced in Addison equity |
court for larceny.
A big trout at the creamery bridge in |
Lyndonville that for years has resisted |
all attempts to land him, was caught |
this week by Francis Cusson, nine
year-old boy, Fearing the pole would |
break, young Cusson drew in the line by 1
hand. The trout measured 1874 inches
and weighed two pounds and five ounces.
May "a was gala day in st. Adams.
Many young men of Canadian birth are
in the railroad offices of that
city and for that reason the queens
birthday was observed by a display of
the English national colors, even private
homes flying them beside the stars and
stripes. There were also 700 Canadian
excursionists in the city that day.
Joseph Pierce, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. w. Pierce of Bennington, may lose
all the fingers on his right hand as
result of an accident which occurred re-
Gently. Young Pierce's hand became
taught in an automatic lawn mower
,harpener and was so badly mangled
hat the little finger was amputated at
once and the rest are in such bad shape
here is little hope of saving them.
The Champlain Telephone company,
With headquarters at Brandon, the Pas
iumpsic Telephoe company, headquar
ers at Newport, and the Vermont Tele-
,hone company, headquarters at Mont
)elier, are to be consolidated with the
New England Telephone g. Telegraph Co. :
IN June | and the offices are TO be moved I
o the general office in Rutland. The
'hamplain company has six exchanges,
he Passumpsic 10 and the Vermont COM
,any three, the three concerns serving
bout $4,000 patrons.
Winooski is having some trouble with
oldiers trying to force their attentions
n young girls on the streets. Wednes- =
lay night one of a group of three sol
iers stationed on a street corner asked
ermission of a passing girl to see her
ome and when she refused he struck
er across the nose, causing that member
o be badly swollen and also giving her
black eye. She could not give a sufii.
lent description for his apprehension.