The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-18

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ton island have had to come on skis fire
quently in order TO reach there at all.
The Rutland fair will be held Sept
TO q. No unusual or extra expens,
is to be put into preparations this year
Sunday and Monday, Feb, 10 and II
the Tooth anniversary of the Congrega.
tional church at North Troy was OBJ
served.
A new steel case containing so add.
tional card index drawers has been
placed in the vault in the town clerks
office at Bellows Falls.
Since the annual meeting of the Gale.
donna County Farm Bureau association
last week, nearly 800 have sent in their
application for membership.
Ludlow firemen have service flag dis
played with six stars thereon, showing
that that number of their men have an.
swered the call to the colors.
H. A. Bailey, a Winooski ice dealer.
had one leg broken Thursday when a
700-pound cake of ice fell and pinned
him against another ice cake.
M. j. Austin Of Weston lost some 80
shoats during the recent cold weather
They got cold from too much crowdine
in the pigsty and the extreme cold.
A new junior high school building in
Burlington is recommended in the annual
report OF the school department in that
city by Supt. Merritt d. Chittenden.
A family in Poutney who sent away
and purchased barrel of sugar recent
~ have been notified by the govern
ment that they must sell it in five pound
lots.
four tenement house is TO be built
at Highgate Springs for the Missisquoi
Lime company and the Remington com.
pany in Swanton has just completed
large restaurant.
Robert Tracey was seriously injured in
the mill of the Vermont Marble company
at Proctor Feb. 10 when a large block OF
marble toppled over and struck him,
breaking both his legs.
Two Burlington and one Winooski cob |
bier have been given the contract for re- |
pairing $500 pairs of government shoes /
The shoes in most cases have good up |
pers, but the soles are worn out
The tax rate of the town of Benning- /
ton will be materially raised this wear,
the auditors recommending 81 % on the |
dollar, not including the state tax of 20
cents. Last year the tax was 80 cents.
Among the deaths from natural causes
reported by General Pershing of the
American expeditionary forces Saturday
was that of Private Nelson G. Maynard
of Mortified, who died of dilatation OF
the heart.
Foxes are very plenty in the vicinity
of Bennington, Charles Clark of that
place recently shooting two Good fox
skins have been selling for Sis and for
good specimens as high as
$50 has been paid.
Charity lodge, No. 43, T. & A. NJ, of
Bradford celebrated the Goth anniversary
of its chartering Friday. The event was
celebrated by the raising of five local
business men to the sublime degree of a
Master Mason.
Percy S. Carpenter of Burlington, for
more than Is years member of the
staff at the state laboratory there, has
been appointed first lieutenant in the
sanitary corps, national army He will
report at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Treffley Jarvis of Readsboro suffered
the fracture of three ribs and decorations
on one car when, as he was unloading
logs for the box company, the stakes
gave way and let several logs roll on to
him before he could get out OF the way
When someone threw gasolene on
flames used to heat the foundry building
at Springfield, John Mahoney, hod car
rier, was badly burned. He was stand ;
ing nearby and when the flames leaped ,
up he was severely burned on the face
and hands.
Carl f. King, prominent Benson man,
aged 80, died at his home there Feb. b.
He was the fifth generation of the fam r
ily who had lived on the old homestead
He was an officer of the Benson Cow 2
Testing association and was a member :
Of the executive committee of the Rut- o
land County Farm bureau. e
Ralph w. Jasmin, aged 10 years, died :
Feb. IA at the home of his father, Harry
3. Jasmin of Rutland, of injuries which 5
he received that day when he fell down !,
he cellar stairs of his fathers store.
Falling backward, he struck his head on
he cement floor and fractured the skull. :
His mother died Is years ago. $
Mayor John f. Maun of st. Adams u
las announced that he is not candidate I
or the office this year. He completes u
his fourth year in that position at the :
lose of this term. Herbert w. Ballard,
Who has served the city as alderman,
superintendent of streets and lister, has =
his candidacy. \
David NJ. Barr, native of Stockbridge
md for many years a resident of Ches-
er. died Feb. IL of a complication Of
roubles. He was a veteran Of the Civil .,
var, having been confined in Libby, :,
Belle Isle and Andersonville prisons His ;,
reat grandfather fought in King II
Georges army at Concord and Lexing :
on.
The officers Of the Valley Fair associa- m
ion are TO hold meeting Feb p 10 de- h,