The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-26
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Middlebury reports 1870 good sleigh
ing days this winter.
Ernest Beers of Jericho Center, Will
sliding, ran into barbed-wire fence
cutting his face badly. A physician tool
two stitches TO close the wound.
Three Dummerston men claim 20 hav,
seen airplanes there about o o'clock oil
Thursday night. They say there was I
whirring sound and red lights were dis
tinguishable.
The annual sale and supper of tn,
Holy Innocents church in Rutland net
ted the building fund $46T25, From thu
supper $202.25 accrued and from othel
attractions $685.
The first publication of the Burlington
Bulletin, the official organ of the Bur
lington Merchants association and cham
Der of commerce, was issued at the as
ISOLATION dinner at the Hotel Vermont
Burlington, Thursday evening.
Ex.Gov. G. II. Prouty has presented a
flag to the First Congregational church
of Newport and a special service was
given Sunday evening, the occasion of its
unfurling. Veterans of the Civil war and
the Spanish. American war took part in
the exercises.
James Knox shot big Canadian lynx
near his home about two miles north OF
Hinesburg recently. 1t measured "a
inches from the tips of its forepaws to
che claws of its hind ones and was bigger
than good-sized bobcat. The animal
was a dirty white.
Miss Marion Ramage was seriously
hurt in sliding accident at East st.
Johnsbury Friday night, when the sled,
on which were seven persons, collided
with wagon at the foot of the hill. A
deep cash was cut on her head, six stitches
being necessary to close the wound. The
others were somewhat shaken up, but
otherwise uninjured.
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author of the gospel hymn, "The Day of
Salvation" written in 1914, has just
added thereto chorus and its first sing
ing in public was last Sunday in the
Lebanon, n. H., Methodist Episcopal
church by choir of rs voices under the
leadership of E. H. Thompson.
Hiram r. Jackson of Westford, who
was taken i'll while serving as juror at
Chittenden county court Thursday, died
Friday at the Mary Fletcher hospital.
An autopsy showed uraemia to be the
cause of death. He had suffered from
chronic Bright's disease. Mr.. jackson
served one year in the Civil war in Co.
NJ, lst Vermont regiment.
The trout fry in the fish hatchery at
Bennington are growing so rapidly that
it will soon be problem how to ac-
commodate them. With no one in Fish
and Game Commission Titcomb's place,
there is no one to give any orders for
their removal. 1t was the original plan
to send part of them to Vernon, but Mr..
Titcomb's resignation has removed the
only one with authority to give orders.
Deer are beginning to come out of the
woods to get at the bare ground and in
the vicinity of Rutland many are seen
almost daily. In Healdville buck deer,
hard pressed by dogs, ran into the barn
of j. f. Pingree, where it was kept sew
eral days, until was properly fed and
rested 1t has now been taken to Dan
by, where it was placed in an enclosure
with other deer.
Lyman E. Holden of Brattleboro has
offered to furnish free 100 gardens of
1000 square feet each to boys of Brat
tleboro under the age of IL who will cul-
tivate them, and, besides, he offers four
prizes for those who raise the greatest
amount of produce in value. He promises
further that if the demand is in excess
of the 100 gardens. he will provide as
many more as are necessary.
The growing popularity of the Rutland
county farm bureau is shown by the
fact that within the past month the or
ganization has had an increase of go
members. The total enrolment for the
year so far was 100. At meeting of the
executive committee recently it was de-
cided to make membership campaign
during the next month, and to try and
increase the organization to 500.
Mrs. Sarah Chandler of Westminster
West, aged s4 years, met with serious
accident few days ago. As she was
walking from her kitchen through hall
to the shed, she fell through the floor,
landing under the cellar stairs. 1t took
her about two and one-half hours to
crawl into the house, where she was
found later by caller. No bones We're
broken, but the muscles were pulled off
the hip bones.
f. n. Miller, Brandon undertaken,
brought suit against the town of Bran
don TO recover SIG which he claimed as
the balance of the expense of a funeral
in family not able to pay the whole
amount, Poormaster c. H. Churchill
agreeing to pay the balance. Mr.. Church
i'll paid Mr. Miller an amount which he
claimed he understood settled his obi