The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-21
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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
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HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Frank Potwine shot deer which wa
feasting on his plums in Brookline las
week.
Paintings that win cost 81 800 are I,
be placed on the walls and ceilings OF st
Stanislaus Polish church in Rutland
John lombard, injured in a sawmil
in Manchester, Tuesday, died in the Rpt
land hospital Thursday. He was 81 years
old.
Earl Boyce, son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
G. Boyce of st. Adams, is with Pershing's
forces in France. He enlisted in the
marine corps in Detroit last March.
Mrs. Caroline p. Randall, a real daugh-
ter of the American Revolution, with the
assistance of the Dutton boys, has raised
flag over Mount Ephraim, the highest
peak in Springfield.
During severe electrical shower which
passed over Enosburg Falls Wednesday
the barn of Gardner Frazier was Struck,
but did not burn. Mr.. Frazier and a
daughter were dazed and COW was
knocked down.
Only nine voters were present July
IA at a special town meeting in Spring
field but the nine voted to appropriate
$1,000 to finish grading the grounds
around the new high school building and
to make other improvements.
Rev. Frederick Fl. Bidwell died in the
Rutland hospital Tuesday after several
weeks stay there, following a number
of operations. He had seemed to be
gaining and was: to have returned to
his home in East Middlebury in few
days.
Raymond Maynard of Fair Haven,
aged l6 years, who enlisted in the navy
about six months ago, and who served on
one of the warships which conveyed the
American troop ships to France, has re-
turned to this country, according to
word received by his family.
Lightning struck in bedroom in the
home of Carl Wilson in Stannard last
Saturday, splitting one of the bedposts
from top to bottom, Earring the bed down
and throwing one caster to the ceiling.
No one was in the bed and no damage |
was done in any other part of the house.
Gilbert A. Davis, Vermont's octogena- |
rian lawyer, is critically i'll at his home |
in Windsor. While at Woodstock last |
week, practicing in Windsor county |
court, he was taken i'll suddenly while |
on the street and fell. 1t is thought
that he had stroke of apoplexy. After
he was moved to his home pneumonia
developed.
Ernest p Gilbert, native of Crafts
bury, aged "a years, was almost instant
ly killed in West Harwich, Mass, July |
IA, when the motor cycle he was riding
collided with an auto. He was terribly
injured in all parts of tha- body and
lived only two and one half hours. He
had lived in Harwich eight years and
leaves a wife and small son.
A stone ink-stand at least 100 years
old is the latest curio to be added to the
Memorial building at Hardwick. 1t is
about two inches square and two inches ;
deep. The boring of the stone appears to
have all been done by hand. The ink
stand was found few days ago in an ;
excellent state of preservation by j. A.
Woodbury. ON his fathers farm.
Maurice, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel !
Cross of Hardwick, met with an accident !
recently as he was coasting down one of h
the towns steep hills on his new BIZ I
cycle, the rim of the front wheel crum- h
ping up, the spokes swapping off and n
young Cross being precipitated into the
road. No bones were broken, but fhe o
was badly bruised. q
Rev. Charles Frank Crathern, whose a
last pastorate was the Park Congrega- t
tional church of Worcester, Mass, has n
accepted call to the Old First Congre- r.
yational church of Old Bennington. Mr., n
Crathern is known in the state through o
MS lecture on "The Mission of the Mas g
ter" story of the painting, 'The Mas II
err by Darius Cobb of Boston. q
DIR. Roy A. Young, now practicing in Il
n. H., but until recently A
Chester physician, has been granted a tc
,atent on an invention of what he terms in
lirigible headlights for automobiles. The
invention can be attached to any auto
Mobile and will cause the lamps to be
urned in the direction of the front
vheels For instance. if a car is being