The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-08
ABOUT THE STATE
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM
DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Sergt Paul Mcleod, "a, formerly of
st. JohnsbuTy, but more lately Of Lewis
ton, Me-, was killed in action in France
recently.
Mrs, Effie Solomon, principal Of the
graded school in LyndonviIle, died re-
Gently in that place. Typhoid fever com.
plications, with influenza, were the
cause.
Deer are still annoying farmers in the
southern part of the state. 81 having
been killed while feeding on crops since
the last open season.
Mrs. Stearns' 0. Parker, who was
found dead in Montpelier one day last
week, was the stepmother Of Dr. Harriet
b. Parker of Putney, a medical mission
airy in Madura, South India
Leonard F. Cobb pleaded guilty in mu-
nicipal court in Springfield last week to
stealing milk cans from the milk house
In the railroad yards and peddling the
contents about town, the purchasers sup.
posing him to be selling for some farm
err. He was fined $50 and costs with six
months sentence in the house of correc-
ton, but on his paying his fine and costs.
also S75 for the milk he had stolen, the
workhouse sentence was suspended.
Walter Fisk of Randolph has been en-.
gagged as an assistant to L. q. Novels,
superintendent Of the water department
an Springfield.
Rev. s. Kay Darling, who preached in
Cornwall from April, 1916, to March,
1917, died recently in Providence, R. l.,
following an operation.
The board of trustees of the Univer-
eity of Vermont have given DR.. Guy
Potter Benton leave of absence for
a year and he viii return to France the
first of December to resume war work
with the army and navy Y. NJ. C. A. or
as chaplain in regiment OF engineers.
The fve-passenger automobile of
Charles Bradley of Enosburg Falls was
destroyed by fire one evening last week
while the family was on a visit outside
the village.
A two-inch surgeons needle was re-
Gently removed from the spine of Mu-
clan Ca1uni ]. M Benoit, who is at Bit.
more, N. c., and since then he seems to
be recovering from severe attack of
meningitis.
Pvt Raymond j. Crouch, son of Mr.. |
and Mrs Wayland Crouch Of Brattle- |
boro, is in hospital in France recover.
ing from severe burns caused by mus
tard gas. There are burns about his legs
and blisters on his arms.
Townshend had three accidents on Fri I
day, the most serious being one in which /
w. G. Adams severely injured his back /
when he was thrown from wagon He /
hit the horse with the reins and the ami. |
NAL caught one rein under its tail. In |
trying to release the rein, the wagon
was tipped over and the horse ran away.
A five gallon oil can Of gasoline tipped /
over as Mr.. Keyser was about to move it /
and caught fire and the man was quite
badly burned in trying to extinguish the
flames The third accident was the
spraining OF the ankle Of c. G. Robinson
as he went for the cows.
~ Leslie HIUneTeil OF CORNWALL shipped
$50 barrels of apples from his Belmont
farm orchard on Wednesday and accom-
pished the task in record time BY the
employment of an auto truck of 40lbar.
rel capacity, he moved all of the 1870
barrels of apples from his orchard to the
station in Middlebury, about three miles
away, making five trips in all, in total
of five and one-haf hours By the horse
and wagon method, which Mr. Witherell
had previously employed, it took three
days to accomplish similar shipment.
An extra large yield of squashes is
reported by Frederick A. Fish and son
OF Clarendon Springs. Early in June
Messrs. Fish planted the seeds Of one
red rainbow squash, on a plot Of ground
"a by 2S feet in dimensions with the re.
suit that they repaid by ITO squashes
weighing 762 pounds by exact weight.
There were squashes of red, yellow,
black, pink, blue and gray hues, a