The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-20
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Rutland's tax rate is TO be the san
this year as last, 81.
Twenty three deer have been killed
Windham county this season becaus
they were damaging crops.
Miss ID. NJ. Mower of Mohawk, n. j
is TO direct the playground at BELOW
Falls this summer, beginning July !.
The Burlington Cooperative Mil
Products company has pleaded guilty I
the charge OF violating the city ordl
nance in selling dirty milk. The com
pany paid fines and costs assessed.
Arthur II. Shaughnessy, for man,
years a clerk in the Bellows Falls post
office, has been appointed examiner o
the Bellows Falls branch of the U, ;
employment service, department OF la
Dor.
Mrs. Mary Coyer, aged 95 years, fel
from her chair at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Ellen Barrows, in Weybridge
recently and fractured her hip. On &C
count of her advanced age, the bones vii
not be set.
In Windham county it is reported that
the clover crop is the biggest for five
wears. that it is of superior quality and
about two weeks earlier than usual.
Farmers are already cutting it. The hay
crop also is large and much above the
average in quality.
James Julius of Orwell shot himself
through one hand while hunting crows
Sunday The bullet went in at the palm
of the left hand and came out, shatter-
ing the knuckles of the two middle fin
gers on the hand. An effort will be made
to save the fingers.
James Fisk Hooker of Schenectady, n.
Y, formerly of Brattleboro, who has
been a travelling salesman of late. has
filed a petition in bankruptcy with liza
bilities of $l70,430 and no assets. Mr..
Hooker was formerly at the head of the
Hooker, Corser & Mitchell Overall com
pany of Brattleboro.
Albert Grsnier of Highgate probably
will lose the sight of one eye as the re-
suit Of an accident which took place in
the foundry at st. Adams, where he is
employed. Mr.. Grenier was pouring hot
metal, which spattered and some of it
struck the front of his right eyeball,
over the sight, causing bad burn, and
probably destroying the sight.
Dominic Corcoran, who had been i'll for
10 days at his home in Rutland with
tetanus, died June Is. The cause of the
disease is not known. Since he came
from Ireland to the United States in
in 1866 he had lived in Rutland and
been employed in the Rutland railroad
shops, being one Of the oldest workmen
for the corporation.
Charles f. Harwood of Uplands, Cal,
who has been attending the commence
ment exercises at Williams college. Will
Jamestown, Mass, and visiting relatives
in Bennington, has started on his home.
ward journey. Mr.. Harwood, So years |
old, made the trip across the continent |
alone. He graduated from Williams in |
1852 and the only survivor of that class |
also happens to reside in Uplands. He |
is DR.. Jones Lyman.
Frank L. Moves, aged So years, died
1t his home in Bennington June Is, aft
err an illness of more than 20 years. At |
the first, he was able to be about the
house, but for eight years had been col
fined to the bed. His wife was also an
invalid for many years, and a son, AL
bert, with his wife, took entire care of
both. Mrs. Noyes died Aug. |, 1917.
Mr.. Noyes was for many years superin
tendent of the paper mill at Bennington
Falls.
Capt. Frank w. Hulett, who was
killed in action June 5, was a native of
Chester and son of Mr.. and Mrs. Err
nest d. Hulett. He joined the reserve
engineers last summer and sailed for
France in December At the time OF his
Capt. Hulett was civil en-
yineer in Lewiston, Me-, employed by
he Lewiston-Augusta & Waterville
street railway. He leaves his parents, a
wife and son.