The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-05
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Five young women teachers have mar
ried Westminster young men during the
past year
Rutland is to have public meeting
July IL to decide the question of having
or not having a war chest.
The minstrel show recently put on in
Burlington Melted 1896 for the Red
Cross. The total receipts were $5,222.3l.
John Frazier, 90, died at his home in
st. Adams July 2. He had been EN-
ployed by the Central Vermont railroad
for 40 years.
A brooder and incubator belonging to
Oscar Colburn of East st. Johnsbury
caught fire one night last week and l40
chickens were destroyed.
The Vermont Evaporation company of
North Clarendon Is to move to Rutland,
having leased what is known as the Yer
mont School Seat company property.
DR., Marbury B. 0gle, Phi. d., profess
sor of Latin at the University of Yer
mont, is to teach the same language at
the summer session of Columbia uniVer-
sity.
Frank Cassidy, who left Burlington
only last Friday with others in the
draft, died at Camp Devens July from
blood poisoning resulting from an in
fected boil on the side of his face He
was "a years old and unmarried.
A dead deer was found lying beside
the road in Stowe last week, where it
food, as it had an old bullet wound and
q leg broken some time ago, which prob
ably hindered its getting enough to eat.
Rolfo Metcalf lost COW last week in
a peculiar manner. The animal was in
his pasture in Westminster when some
thing frightened her and she attempted
to jump over high iron fence, on which
she hung and had to be killed to end her
suffering.
Crows are very troublesome this sum
mer in the vicinity of Townshend, where
they alight on the houses and in the
yards and in one instance were seen in
the trees at DR.. +. L. Osgood's in the
act of picking young birds out of the
nest and eating them. A gun put stop
to that feast.
Elisha NJ. Culver, a former student
at the Kurn Hattin Home in Westmin-
ster, and Miss Alice Hatch, one of the
instructors there at that time, were
married in Ludlow, Mass, June 20. Mr.
Culver is in the government service and
is stationed at Newport, r, l.
Miss Mildred Smith of Stowe has re-
ceived a letter from her brother, Capt
Dwight r. Smith of the marine corps
that he was wounded in action June 8,
but that, while the wound was painful, 1t
was not serious and he would be back
in action soon.
AS Mrs Charles Hunsinger and A. S.
oberg were painting a house in West
Rutland hook which held the swing
ladder gave way and precipitated both
of them to the ground. They were badly
shapen up and it may develop that a
small bone in Mrs. Hunsinger's foot is
broken.
Anthony Carr, aged 81, died at the
Soldiers home in Bennington July g.
He was born in Farnham, P O., and
fought IN the Civil war for four years
After the war, he entered Middlebury
college and graduated in 1860, taking up
his life work Of civil engineering. His
only near relative is sister, living in
Montreal.
Trouble which began about two weeks
ago between the night spinners at the
plant of the American Wooden com
pany in Winoosh and the night super
intendent has terminated in strike, and
the plant was shut down Wednesday
afternoon. The strike affects hundreds
of men, both the day and night shift
The plant was engaged on government
work and it is possible that federal
agents may endeavor to effect com
promise.