The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-28
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings Of Interest from Diff.
ferent Sections.

Influenza has started up again in
South Londonderry and all public gath
erings have been called off.
NJ L. Hubbell of West Enosburg, who
( had his herd of cattle tested for tuber-
culosis recently, had all, with the excep-
tion Of two yearlings condemned.
fillmore NJ. Paddock Of Bennington,
a merchant, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy. He owes So ,309.72 and has assets
of $3,057.42, with $3.50 claimed exempt.
Christmas was observed at the house
OF correction by the serving of an oyster
dinner instead OF the usual prison fare.
Candy and bananas were served for des-
sert.
Philip Cosgrove, Brattleboro black
smith, caught in the Connecticut river
overflow this week a northern pike that
weighed 1914 pounds and measured three
feet long,
Mrs. j. b. Crochier was badly burned
at her home in Enosburg Falls recently
when she tipped kettle of boiling water
onto herself, burning one foot and low
or limb Her husband and father are
both ILL
Frederick H. Dexter, II, who had rep
resented the town of Brattleboro in the
legislature one term and had held many
offices, died at the Memorial hospital
Wednesday evening, following the ampu-
tation of his right leg as a result of
diabetis.
Nearly fifty members of the Beck
family were guests at a Christmas din
ner in st. Johnsbury at the home Of Mrs.
John Beck on Mt Vernon, constituting
probably the largest family gathering
in that town and following a custom
which has been established in the family
for over twenty years. All the family
are residents of st. Johnsbury.
As George WOODBURY. and his father
were splitting the same stick of four
foot wood at their home in Westmin-
ster few days ago, the younger man
got in the way of his fathers axe, which
came down on top of his head and cut a
cash several inches long. The axe went
into the bone, so that the skull bone had
TO be scraped and several stitches were
taken in the flesh wound.
The Estey Organ company Of Brattle-
boro is building what will be the largest
organ in the world, which will be erected
in New York theatre. The console
will have four manuals and although be-
ing fundamentally an organ, having sew
en- diapasons of various scales, it will
also be an orchestra, including / sets
Of strings and repete with flutes, oboes
clarinets, etc.
An accident which happened to Mar
a youngest child Of Mr.. and Mrs,
~ illiam Rowley Of Westminster APP
feared like serious one for time The
child few days ago fell from a buggy
onto ice, going over backwards and land
ing with full force on her head At times
her vision was impaired and ii was at
first thought she could not recover, but
she seems to be recovering as well as
could be expected
Frederick W. Heyer, a designer of pipe
organ cases at the factory Of the Estey
organ company III DraUtleDoro, dleu on
Thursday at the age of % years. Mr.
Heyer was born in Hamburg, Germany
but had lived in this country for Il
years, nine years of the time in Brattle-
boro. Since October, 1917, he had been
unable to work and spent some time in
the tuberculosis sanatorium at Hayden.
Vile, Mass. Influenza, followed by pneu-
monia, was the cause of his death