The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-25
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The town Of Colchester has purchased
complete portable rock crushing plant
with traction engine, which may be run
by either oil or gasoline.
The poor farm ut Milto' has been sold
at auction TO Mr. Brittun Of iartland
for S5,450, Mr.. Brittou bought the farm
for the timber having mill near by.
Quartermaster Sergeant John +, Me-
curmiek, detachment No, |, son ot Mar
tin q. Mccormick of Rutland, died at the
base hospital in Camp Devens from lobar
pneumonia Saturday.
r. IL. Rabbit vice,president of the
Greater Vermont association and man.
ager of the Robertson Paper company in
Bellows Falls, is at Mount Clemens,
Mich, receiving treatment for rheuna.
tism.
Fifteen of Burlington's leading profess.
sional men gathered at the Red Cross
rooms there few nights ago and made
400 small congresses during the evening.
The men plan TO keep up the work one
night a week
Mrs. Mary McNall, aged 10, broke her
hip few days ago when jumping from a
sleigh while on the way To the home of
her daughter in Morrisville. The thills
fell down, Fighting the horse, and Mrs.
McNall jumped.
In Stowe within the past week flock
of 80 or more robins was seen and with
them red winged blackbird and many
bluebirds. A goldlinch was also seen
there about the same time, and two deer
were seen near the road.
o. |. Pond of Castleton. who lives on
the shores of Lake Bomoseen, was fined
So and costs of Sl2.05 in Rutland city
court March p. Pond was charged with
leaving lacks" used in fishing out over
night, which is against the law.
W. j. Priddy of Quebec, who shot and
killed Traffic Officer p. j. Monogue and
wounded immigration Officer d. j, Me
Dermott at Newport, has been found not
guilty of murder, by reason of insanity.
Priddy will be returned to Waterbury,
Rev, A. v Fisher completes his work
as pastor of the Congregational church |
at East St. Johnsbury May |. He re
signed in December, but at the request !
of his parishioners agreed to remain I'M /
til June |, Now he asks TO be released /
May |.
At the largest individual sale of Hol
stein cows ever held in the vicinity of
Bellows Falls, 70 Holsteins sold for 80,
500. After selling the - cows, W. i.
Pierce, the owner, had 50 head left. The
farm has sold about 500 quarts of milk
a day in Bellows Falls.
Mrs Clara Wiley has in bloom at her
home in Sharon a rare plant, lily of
the ehaleedonian variety, which is com
monty called scarlet Turks cap. The
clusters of the plant have a dozen bios
SONS each, with a white stripe through
each petal Each flower has diameter
of nearly six inches.
Fred Brown of Amherst. Nova Scotia,
is in Woodstock Jail for Is days on a
charge of intoxication, and after that
sentence is over he will be tried on
charge OF robbery, it being alleged that
he went through the pockets of Angus
Mcdonald, proprietor OF the Maple Tree
inn at White River Junction, one night
last week.
The large brick house on the Giddings
farm in Pittsford was burned to the
ground Friday morning, the origin of
the blaze being unknown. The entire
contents of the house and much grain
were lost. There was some insurance
The house was a landmark, having been
built in 1880.
As result of an accident on the Ad
olson branch of the Rutland railroad
from Leicester to Ticonderoga, freight
car loaded with pulpwood is at the bot
tom of Lake Champlain. Two cars went
off the track and one of them slipped and
went over and through the ice.
w. S. Strong of Benson, who was
visiting his son in poultnev, was badly
injured last week when he was thrown i
from, delivery wagon in which he was o
'iding, sitting on a box in the rear of +
he wagon A boy threw SNOWFALL at
he horse, which frightened it and caused y
t to jump. Mr. Strong's head was cut :,
md several ribs were broken. !,
Ray Bragg, an employee of the Town :
END garage in Wallingford, was the vic y
i'm of an accident March % which may u
ost him his eyesight. He was repairing
IN automobile battery when there was
N explosion and a quantity of sulphuric
ed struck him in the face, some of it =
,oing into both his eyes. He was taken
o the Rutland hospital. =
Frederick Patrick King, son of Mr. and
irs. Pater B. King of Rutland, was men
toned in the list of casualties sent from
rance and later his parents received =
ford from the war department that the
on was slightly wounded while in ac-
ion with a machine gun battalion on
Iarch 8. He was p years old the 18th
f this month and enlisted in Co. A, Yer
lont infantry two days after war was
ecared by the United States.
Ernest Palmer, jr., has been sent from c,
arlington to the house of correction for :
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