The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-07

the sanatorium at Randolph.
The house of George Jackson in Ben
son was destroyed by fire on Thanks
giving day, even while the turkey was
cooking It was only lightly insured
Chester l.. Fogg, aged "a, st. Adams
carpenter, has become an expert steeple-
Jack, and although his work places him
in many precarious positions, he finds
no trouble in working high up in the
air
hester Salonen Finlander, commit
ted suicile in Proctor Dec. 4 by cutting
his throat with razor. He was 80 years
old and for five years had been en-
poyed as carpenter in the marble mills.
Rev. Charles D. Fairman of Philadel-
phia has accepted a call to the passionate
of st. Mary's Episcopal church in North
field and it is expected he will commence
his duties Dec. 10. The church has been
closed since the retirement of Rev. Mr..
Ockford.
Burlington finances are in exception
ally good condition for the end of the
year. tHeTe sui DttHB III AHe
treasury of SS3,972 to carry the several
departments through the fiscal year. Ev |
cry department is well within its APP
preparation.
Harold Fl. Chadwick, who enlisted
from st. Adams last June as a private |
in the quartermaster reserve corps. has
received notice that he will be ordered
to active service within ten days. Mr.. |
Chadwick is news editor of the ST. AL
bans Messenger.
Dr. ID. j. Sheehan of Lyndonville. who
enlisted some time ago in the medical
corps, has been ordered to Fort Ogle-
thorpe Ga, and commissioned as first
lieutenant in the reserve medical corps.
Mrs. Sheehan has taken position as
teacher in the school at Burke.
For the first time in many years Bel
lows Falls is without public hack, Fred
A. Strong, who has been running sum
mer and winter and seven days in the
week for nearly 20 years, recently put
up his auto for the entire winter and is
now employed by the Vermont Farm
Machine company. Meanwhile the public
is hiring autos from garages. I
The four year old daughter of Mr.. and {
Mrs. Willard F. Cary of Richmond has i
been taken to hospital for treatment OF Q
burns which she received Nov. 26 when I
she backed into and sat down in a pail of
hot water which her mother had pre-
pared for hopping. Her body was badly
burned from the shoulder blades to the
knees and skin grating will probably
have to be resorted to.
The new Boston and Maine locomotive
round house on the New Hampshire side
of the Connecticut at Bellows Falls is
structure accommodating the biggest en-
gine. One ell contains a heating plant
and second wing the office of locomotive
foreman, W. w. Green. In the second
story over the Office is lunch room for
engineers and firemen fitted with closets
and tables. The entire cost of the struc-
ture is about $4,000.
c. 0. Wood of Rutland, aged 90, lost
two fingers on his right hand in the O
railroad yard at Burlington Tuesday. g
while shovelling coal into the firepot of n
a locomotive. Mr.. Wood, the fireman, y
had one foot on the platform of the en-
glne and the other on the tender, when p
the ender broke away from the engine y y
and let him fall between. As he held &c
to the engine to keep from dropping, the fc
tender came back and caught his hand,
which was badly bruised aside from the 81
injury to the fingers. r,