The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-27

ported TO tine 81, JOhnsDury nealtn ON
Ger during the past winter
A. j. Daniels has resigned his position
at the coal shed in Greensboro Bend
where he has been employed for the past
20 years.
G. s. Perry last Friday completed his
10th year of connection with the Ben
nngton Banner newspaper and job print
ing office.
Two yearlings belonging to N. i.
Young of Weybridge got into hole in
the ice on the creek and went under, be-
ing drowned.
Ronald Clark, who had been employed
in Brattleboro for about a year, sailed
March for France as one of the host
lers in charge of 1900 horses for the
French army
Ernest Aver found number of live
grasshoppers while working in his ia
theirs sugar bush in Brandon Saturday.
There were all sizes, from little ones to
those full grown.
The Rochester, n H., Fair association
has joined the Green Mountain trotting
circuit and the Rochester fair will be
held the week following the state fair at
White River Junction.
The inventor of the first steel pillow
was Charles III. Deere, who was born in
Rutland Feb. Z, 1904. In the year 1896
he went to Grand Detour, ILL.,, and there
Invented the pillow. He died in 1886.
Gerald Morrison of Saxtons River is in
the hospital at Bellows Falls in serious
condition with several fractured ribs and
other serious injuries, as result of
which it was necessary to remove his
spleen. Morrison, who is Is years old,
lost control of his sled while coasting
near his home recently, and slid into a
tree.
Wlitcomb B. Fairchild, son of Charles
7. Fairchild, editor and publisher of the |
Rutland News, and who for a year has |
been business manager of that paper, has
accepted a position as manager of one of |
the plants of the Alter Light company of |
Chicago, and will begin his new duties
April J.
]. Van Den Berg of acknowledgements,
Holland, was at the seed house of Fl. c.
Hawkins in Felchyille recently, taking
orders, to be delivered next winter, Mr..
Hawkins ordered 5000 bulbs Mr.. Van Der
Berg represents a large bulb company in
Holland and comes to the United States
about Jan. of each year for orders, re-
turning to Holland around May /.
DeImar and Franklin Rowe. sons Of
Frank Rowe of Newfane, narrowly es-
capped death on the trestle at that place
a few days ago, when a passenger train
came upon them suddenly The older
boy jumped from the trestle and the
younger one ran in time to escape, but :
load of wood on handsled, which they
were drawing from the woods, was de-
molished by the engine.
Levi Drew, l2-year- old Newport boy,
was awarded damages of $40 and costs in
Orleans county court, for dog bite al
legged to have been received when Emma
Harvey, the defendant in the case, set !
the dog onto a party of boys who were
in her mothers orchard after apples in
August, 1915. The rest of the boys got
away, but Drew fell down and made the :
alleged attack by the dog easy.
Fourteen pupils of the Brandon high c,
school are taking a course in telegraphy,
.nyJr,nta nd kxy L. .:x,I. |
,rator at the railroad station. Wire
construction has been taken up by the
Students and at present all members of
he class and large number of the r
ownspeople are on local telegraph line
which the pupils have constructed them
elves. A telegraph club has been formed
With officers. n,
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A sugar making scene representing in &c
sugar house and maple or .
hard, with men and oxen gathering sap, az
3 a window decoration in Brattleboro te
tore window. In the foreground is o'
rove made of maple tips, with buckets III
n position, and behind the trees stands =
he sugarhouse. At one side is an OK
cam, with men gathering sap from the
rees. The oxen, men and other articles
4 the display were whitfield from wood
y Alfred r. Stebbins, clerk in the y
colt store.
The Vermont Farm Machine company
Bellows Falls is said to have made r
ew contracts, not of the war order. Z
hich will keep that plant very busy for
Ime time to come, as soon as new ma n
linery has been installed. For IS Y
onths the company was busy making u
for the use by the Russian
rmy and when the contract expired
any of the employees we're discharged.
he new contracts are said to have been
Tarded in different branches of manu-
cture.
Mrs. Cairia Wrisley was struck by the -
'rthbound mail train yesterday fore
BON near her home in Middlesex and
rs instantly killed. Mrs. Wrisley was
alking on the track, where she had been -
cking up sticks and coal, and when hit -
r back was toward the engine, which
ruck her with such force that She was
rown some distance. The body was
Il mangled or disigured Mrs. Wrisley
said to have had several narrow es-
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