The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-16

EllOS n. 5ueLWlH VI UDIHSJll duuuullCes
that he has decided not to become a
candidate for assistant judge this year.
r. j. Staples was injured in an acct
dent at the quarries in Roxbury the first
of the week, when stone loosened and
fell on him, causing compound fracture
of the bone in one leg.
James Paino of St. Johnsbury, fruit
dealer, has filed petition in bankruptcy
with Clerk F. S. Platt of the United
States court. He has liabilities of 49,
6S4.63 and assets of 5000, of which $3.50
is claimed exempt.
Wednesday was guest day in Brattle-
boro, and about $500 persons enjoyed
the days program. The day was given
patriotic touch by the address of Ed
ward S. Van Zile of New York, who has
been war correspondent at the French
front.
Miss Alice Bancroft, who has taught
for five successful years in the primary
department of the Lyndon graded school,
has resigned here position there to accept
a place at Camp Lee, Virginia, as assist
ant to the chief of the commissary de-
partment.
The books of City Health Officer W. B.
Arnold of ST. Adams show total of 10
deaths during the month of July. There
were As communicable diseases during
the month, as follows: Diphtheria, 5
scarlet fever, 2; typhoid fever, 2; whoop.
ing cough, 80.
Wilbur g. Eaton, alias George E.
Granger, was Aug IA taken to Fort
Ethan Allen awaiting trial on a charge
Of being delinquent. Granger or Eaton
has been working about st. Adams in
various capacities for several months.
He was ordered to Fort Ethan Allen by
the local board of exemption.
News has been received in Jefferson
vile from friends at the front that the
death of Corp. c. NJ Buskey of Jefser-
sonyille was caused by piece of she'll
which struck him just below the heart
as he was riding on an ammunition
train, and that he died while on the way
TO the hospital.
During the severe thunder shower of
Aug s, lightning struck the barn of Ed.
Elliott in East Warren and burned it to
the ground with 100 tons of hay, eight
calves and the farming tools The cleo
tricity followed a wire to the house,
breaking windows and dishes, but not
setting the building on fire.
Sergt. Alcide Morency, the first st.
Johnsbury boy to be wounded in action
in France, has been awarded a military
medal for special bravery Sergt Moren-
cy was wounded March 27 and ordered to
a hospital, but requested to be allowed
to remain with his company, made light
of his injuries and stayed on the firing
line.
Spontaneous combustion in the hay at
the barn of Martin A. Brown of viii
mington started fire that would have
destroyed the buildings and contents had
it not been discovered about the time it
started. As it was, 25 tons of hay had
to be pitched out of the barn, the blaze
starting afresh several times during the
process.
On one of the tables at the Fairbanks
museum in st. Johnsbury this week has
been displayed Bennington battle an.
niversary exhibit. The most conspicu.
Gus article is the great fint-lock gun
that Simeon Cobb took from the hands
of the enemy on Aug. 10, l777. Besides
this there were powder horns and shot
bags, bullets and cannon ball picked
up on the battle field, skillet for melt.
ing lead, and moulds for making shot
and bullets. There was also little map
of the battle ground and a print of the
Bennington battle monument.
A feature which is calculated to stimu.
late the sheep industry in the state has
been arranged for the Rutland fair by
Walter X. Farnsworth, secretary of the
fair association. The idea is a novel
one in this section and is done for the
sole reason of promoting the sheep in.
dustry, without profit to anyone except.
ing perhaps to the farmer who buys the
sheep. Mr.. Farnsworth has arranged to
have 1000 ewes on sale at the fair
grounds at cost. The ewes are yearlings
weighing from ITO to 100 pounds, and
are a cross between shropshire and a
merino They will be obtained from the
Interstate Livestock company of Selkirk
N. Y, an organization which has for its
object the increase in mutton and wool