The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-16
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.

! Happenings of Interest from Diff
! ferent Sections.
During October there were 70 deaths in
Springfield.
DR.. Charlotte Fairbanks of St. Johns
bury has arrived in Paris.
The first person in Grafton to shoot a
deer this season was Mrs. j. r. Bashaw.
Mrs. Julia Grover OF the same town shot
one also.
Alexander B. Boyce has been promoted
! from the rank Of captain to major. Ma
| jor Boyce was born in st. Adams, the
son of H. c. Boyce, Vermont lawyer.
He was attending the Harvard law
school when he enlisted, going overseas
last May.
Adela NJ. Sharp, two-year-ol daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Sharp of Rut
land, died Thursday as a result of burns
received the day before, probably while
she was playing with matches She was
alone in the yard and set her clothing on
fire, making her way into the house after
all her clothing except her shoes had been
burned off.
DR.. Frederick H. Gebhardt of Rutland
who has been stationed at Newport, r. l.,
since he enlisted in the naval reserve
several months ago, has been promoted
from second lieutenant to first lieutenant,
a rank corresponding to that Of captain
in the army, Lieut. Gebhardt is now a
member of the navy, having transferred
to that organization after leaving Rut-
land.
During the excitement of Monday
evenings celebration in Ludlow, someone
fired gun and the buckshot with which
the gun was loaded went through the hat
o. Miss Bridget Heating who was com
ing up the road, and entered her head.
An artery was severed. The shot was
lremoved and it is not expected any Sc
Irious results viii follow.
Five persons in Brattleboro were
struck by bullets during the peace cele
bration. None was badly hurt except
Jesse 4. Haynes, who was struck in the
neck, the bullet lodging near his first rib
on the right side. His right arm was
made helpless as the result of injury to
the nerve and he has gone to Boston for
treatment by nerve specialist.
The body Of Oliver Blair, an employee
Of the American Wooden company in Wi
nooski, was found at the foot Of a preci-
pice Sunday afternoon by two children
Blair had been missing from his home
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and left a wife and several children. A
fence guards the entire top of the preci-
pice except for one small gap and Blair
must have gone through there.
4 Chaplain Paul Dwight Moody, pastor
Of Congregational church in st. Johns
bury until he entered the service, spoke
there Sunday TO more than 5000 people,
the armory being more than.sflled and a
big overflow meeting being held at
Grace Methodist church. Chaplain
Moody told Of overseas work and the
meetings were made the occasion Of the
beginning Of the drive for the united war
work campaign.
As the result of an automobile accident
in Winooski recently, Homer Fisher, the
driver paid fine Of $40 and costs after
pleading guilty to driving an automobile
in negligent manner and G. S. Duprat,
passenger, was fined for intoxication.
The car was badly damaged, A blowout
caused the car, which was going at a high
rate Of speed, to overturn and 1t slid
along several yards on its top, with the
occupants in il, until it struck a tele-
graph pole.
, Lieut.. Leonard Beeman Fuller, who
was pastor of the Methodist church at
Bloomfield before he entered Wesleyan
college in the fall of 1914, was killed re-
lcently in an aviation accident in France
II Lieut. Fuller was one of the first Wes-
Ieyan undergraduates to offer his serv-
ices enlistng in the marines, but later
being transferred TO the aviation corps.
His parents live at Stepney Depot, Conn,
; He was prepared for college at Mont
pelier seminary.
!, Two North Bennington women, Mrs.
/, Frank Beagle and Mrs. Asa Salmon, were
badly injured In North Hoosick, Mass,
recently when o car driven by Mr., Nc.
D Carthy, also Of North Bennington, be.
came Interchangeable and crashed into an
iron bridge One of Mrs Beagle's feet
was so badly injured as to be helpless
and It was feared one of Mrs. Salmon
hips was broken. She was taken at once
to the hospital in Troy. N. Y Mrs.
Beagles little son received broken nose.
An iron grey mare, valued at $500, and
belonging to VI A, Foster Of Stowe, was
stolen Saturday evening between s and
0 o'clock from the Community church
! sheds in Stowe. Lloyd Cowan, l5.year
, old boy, who was discharged by r. A..
Wells Of the West Branch dairy farms,
is said to be suspected of taking the
horse His bicycle was found standing
against the church opposite the horse
sheds. Cowan, after being discharged,
is known to have tried to secure horse
but failed Mr.. Foster visited Hyde
Park, Barre and Montpelier, looking for
his horse, but failed to find any trace of
. it.
The steering gear of an automobile be-
longing to DR.. Alfred d. Barter of Mid
dlebury went wrong few days ago as
/ he was making a trip to Shoreham and
the car went through fence and stopped
in a pasture about 40 rods from the
road It took five men and pair Of
) horses to get the machine back into the
road and it was then towed to Middle
bury. A like accident occurred in Rut-
land Sunday, when the steering appar-
atus to the car of Everett Stevens Of
2 West Rutland went wrong in Rutland