The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-28
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

The state horticultural field meeting
Is being held at Middlebury to-day.
The Vermont Retail Shoe Dealers as
ISOLATION is holding its annual meeting
at Brandon to-day.
The Middlebury checklist is 200 small
er than it was two years ago, there
being but 7l2 names on it.
The steamer Vermont will be with
drawn from service on Lake Champlain
for the season on Sept 7.
George Nichols mill and town bridge,
nearby, at East Enosburg were destroyed
by fire early Monday morning, the fire
starting from the engine room and max
ing rapid progress.
Chicken thieves are thriving in West
Rutland. One man lost dozen fowls
and enough burlap bags in which to
carry away the booty, the bags having
been stolen from nearby garage build
ing
George M, Hogan of st. Adams has
been appointed to the board of commits.
sioners for the promotion OF uniform
legislation in the United States, taking
the place of H. B. Shaw of Burlington,
resigned.
George OImstead of Morrsville was
rendered blind when he suffered shock
while he was at work in H. L. Stevens
store in Morrisville last Friday. He
was taken to the Fanny Allen hospital
in Winooski.
While descending hill in Richford
Center ON motorcycle, Noah Lomge
of Montgomery was thrown from his
machine and was rendered unconscious
He did not regain consciousness fully
for two days. He also was badly cut
about the face and head.
Alfred Rousseau and his two sons, Al
dea, aged 10, and Herbe, aged Ia, who
were detained at Franklin last Friday
evening on the ground that they were
aliens umlawfully in this country, es-
capped from the detention house in St
Adams The three had been selling
court pldsLGl anu HfNuiHS III vic LpMua
in the northern part of the state.
Lyman Powers and his son, Raymond
Powers, both of Marlboro were fined
800 each, in Brattleboro municipal
court Monday, they having pleaded gull
ty to the charge Of having yenison out
Of season. Seventy-fve dollars of the
elder mans fine was RENTED because it
was shown that he did not kill the deer
but only received half the meat from the
son.
Paul Dean, motorman at Bellows Falls
got a severe electrical shock while OPP
Grating his car Saturday. He was taken
to the hospital where it was found that
the muscles in his right arm were bad.
ly contracted. During the same storm
st. Peters church at North Walpole
Just across the river from Bellows Falls
was struck by lightning and the altar
rail and cloth were scorched. Rain fell
in sheets.
Claphas Either, aged IL, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Isidore Either of Winooski wa;
drowned in the Winoosk river Monday
while bathing with several boy com
spanions The other boys were diving
and young Either, who did not know
how to dive, thought that he could d.
as The rest and plunged into the water
He never came up. There is bad place
Just about where the boys were diving
and the young man may have struck hi,
head against a rock. When he did not
appear they sent for help. A young
man by the name of Edward Trudel
Of Burlington, plunged into the hole
and brought up the body. The mother
of the boy is employed at the cottor
mill and saw that everyone was looking
out of the windows and asking what
was the trouble was told that her sor
had been drowned.