The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-03
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Mrs. Lucy A. Grow, aged 95 year
next August, and the Oldest resden
Of johnson, died there June ~.
Harris W. Alexander of st. Alban
has enlisted as chemist in the medi
cal corps OF the LIST Vermont regiment
In Rutland, beginning July l. the price
of milk increased to nine cents quart
five cents pinti crease, loo small
bottle.
Last week six recruits enlisted from
the little town OF Searsburg, with a
population OF l42 and where the vote
= last year was 81,
Zachare Guillmette had two fingers
on his right hand severed Friday while
at work in a brush factory in Burling-
ton.
The hay crop in the vicinity OF Mid
dlebury is the largest for years, although
in some places The grass is badly lodged
and has even begun to rot.
The Congregational ministers of the
state are to have a retreat at Middle.
bury Sept. 4 to 7. There are about
ITO ministers OF that denomination in
Vermont.
Lawrence Walker, a year-old
Plainfeld boy, recently found one clover
plant containing seven four and eight
fiveleaved clovers, and another small
plant had one seven, one six and three
four leaves.
: Capt. Stuart A. Howard, U. s. A., for
the past two years professor of military
science and tactics, and commandsnt at
the University of Vermont, has gone
to Gettysburg national park, there to
join the 6lss infantry.
Brattleboro BARRIERS raised their prices
beginning with July ], when shsves be-
gan to cost l5c, instead OF Toe; hair
cuts, 35c, instead of csc; trimming Van
Dyke beard, Csc, instead of loo; sham
poo, l5c, instead of Zoe.
Earl Graves, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Clar.
ence Graves, fell into Mill brook in Rut
land recently, where the water was five
feet deep, and narrowly escaped drown
ing He could not get out alone, but
hung to rock until help came
Paul Harrington Bigwood, son of Will
liam E. Bigwood of Winooski, has been
killed in action Somewhere in France"
He was lieutenant in the Royal flying |
corps and enlisted from Canada last |
year.
Mrs. A. F. johnson became lost as
she was hunting for horse in the |
woods in their pasture in Bradford |
few days ago and it was nearly seven |
hours before she was found by search
ing party. She was much exhausted
but otherwise uninjured.
Madam Marcella Sembrich, for many
years one of the greatest stars in the
Metropolitan Opera company of New
York, who has been motoring to her
summer home in Lake Placid, N. y,
stopped Friday night at the Hotel Yer
mont in Burlington. Madam Sembrich
Is an Austrian by birth.
At a special meeting held in Hyde
Park Friday, Walter Locke and Lon Per
ry, both of Waterville, pleaded guilty
to killing COW in the pasture of w.
p. Smile of Waterville and confiscating
the hide and meat. Locke was sen
fenced to state prison for one year and
Perry for two years.
A freight train and switching en-
CINE collided in the Rutland railroad
yard Saturday, which considerably dam
aged one of the locomotives and blocked
the track for a time. No one was in
jured, but the engineer and fireman
jumped from the cab of the switching
engine when they saw the freight bear
ing down on them.
o. F, Prentiss. Burlington opticisn,
has in his possession a Bible belonging
to Alonzo B. Stearns of Charlotte, which
was printed in 100. The printing is
perfectly legible. Other heirlooms of
the Stearns family in the possession of
Mr.. Prentiss are two pairs of glasses,
worn as far back as in 1896, one pair
having silver frames and the other brass.
The lenses are oblong.