The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-15

ABOUT THE STATE |
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS
The Davis soapstone quarry in Chester
has been re.opened after lying idle sew
eral years.
Rev. w. c. Platt, pastor Of the Con
gregational church at Barnet, has re
signed, to take effect the first of Janu
ary.
B. w. Estey has force of men getting
out stove wood ON his mountain lot in
Bristol and expects to have 1000 cords
on the market this winter.
Miss Helen Clark and three class
mates from Middlebury college walked
from that place to Vergennes Sunday
and returned home by train
John Campine and Frank Gould of
Wardsboro shot 400-pound bear in
Newfane recently, which measured six
feet and 10 inches from tip to tip.
W. T. Rider of Bristol has Bible
dated 1893, printed in Edinburg, in the
old style of S and c, also two Others, one
printed in 1914 and the other in 1921.
R. S. Young, while cleaning the auto
of Mr.. Wells of Orwell, recently, had
the end of the forefnger on his left
hand cut off when it was caught between
the chain and sprocket wheel.
The Cone Automatic Machine company
has begun large addition to its plant
in Windsor, the business having
grown rapidly since it was started few
years ago.
The Morgan horses of Fl. R. Watson
of Brandon won ID first premiums, nine
second and two third premiums at the
eastern states exposition horse show held
at Springfield, Mass, in October.
The large new barn of f. A. Russell in
Ehsl was utobiogtu ~ NV
Nov. 10. which started from the back
firing of gasoline engine. Practically
everything in the barn was destroyed,
crops, tools and hay
Mrs. Joseph Longe of Mount Holly,
aged % years, died at the home of her
daughter in Chester Nov. IL, old age be-
ing the cause. Mr.. Longe is 90 years
old and very feeble Of IA children born
to them, nine are living
A warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of Freeman harrington, a former
resident of Bennington, who is alleged !
to have kidnapped his seven year old
daughter, Doris, and to have taken her
to Albany, n. Y, Nov. IL. The child |
and her mother, with whom Mr.. Harring |
ton had not been living for the past year,
reside in Bennington.
AT a recent meeting of the Dog River
Valley Fair association, held in North
field, it was decided to hold the fair next
year. w. w Holden was elected pres
ident of the board of directors; George
w. Lynde, ice,president; H. c. Cadv,
treasurer; A. f. Smith, secretary, +. G.
Fisher was elected general superintend-
ent.
To-day exercises are taking place
which dedicated the new free bridge
across the Connecticut river between
Woodsville and Wells River, which takes
the place of the old toll bridge For ll2
years toll has been paid at this point
The first toll bridge having been built in
1905.
Paul F. Farnsworth of Camp Devens,
Aver. Mass, who arrived in Castleton I
Saturday to spend 24-hour leave of alb.
sence with his parents, was taken seri-
ously i'll Sunday morning. His physician
pronounced it an apoplectic spell He
was unconscious IL hours but hopes to
De able to return to his duties at camp
where he has recently been promoted. {
This season there have been shown on
he flower tables in the museum at st. ,
Johnsbury III different species of flow
ring plants, 81 of ferns and fern al
les and "a of mosses and lichens, making
, total of 7S6 species OF this number
,nly 81 species came from beyond the
ocal range, which is within a radius of
i've miles from the museum Forty-six
pecies have been added to the local fora.
everal of which are rare in the state. I
Two rare ferns were found growing in
Il. Johnsbury, one of them, the Moon
wort, having been listed but once before
n the state.
A Ford auto which figured in two ac-
idents at the same place in Marlboro =
,ov. II was that belonging to Guy Prem
ISIS of that town His son, Robert, aged
3. who was driving alone, went over a
0-foot embankment when the steering
pparatus went wrong. Residents along Z
he road helped him get the car back
nto the road, and although he was in
ured he drove the car home. His father ,
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