The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-15
HARDWICK
Fred Williams Nearly Buried Under a
Pile of Wood.

Fred Williams Nearly Buried Under
Pile of Wood.
Fred Williams narrowly escaped Sc
rious injury Friday morning while pilin
some green wood for {, I, Pierce nj III
latter's barn on Maple street. The WOO
was being piled in shed built onto th
side OF the barn next 20 Shipman's AM
the floor was only held up by some NV,
by tours nailed onto the side OF the barn
and the heavy weight of about four cord
Of wood caused the floor ON the side mex
the barn TO 20 down and Fred went will
il, but luckily he was not buried under
meath the wood He had il all piled ex
cept three or four sticks when the acct
dent occurred. Help was summoned but
be had worked himself out from undel
the wood that did fall ON him and exam
ined himself TO see ii he was all there
One leg and one shoulder were somewhat
bruised, but otherwise he was all right
John A. Kennedy has gone to Bellows
Falls, where he has secured employment
Edward Gifiin and wife of Oklahoma
are guests at the home OF Z. w. Hunt.
ington and wife.
The grade and high school teachers
have all scattered to their respective
homes throughout New England and
other states. Not many of the old teach.
ers will return another season.
Carl NJ. Currier of Boston is a guest OF
his father, j. H. Clrrier Carl is an EN-.
ploye in the Boston postoffiee and is tax.
ing his annual vacation.
Your correspondent is in a position to
report very substantial progress in the
development of the new rotary pump of
which one of Hardwick's young men,
Frank Marion, is the inventor, and the
enterprise has passed the experimental
stage and has excellent prospects of sue
cess. Tests of the model pumps recently
made have shown results beyond the ex.
pectations of those interested in its de.
velopment and manufacture. One of the
pumps has been placed in the plant of
the Texas Oil Co. at Montpelier and
word has just been received within
day or two from Washington that the
government authorities will take imme-
date steps to have the pump tested
with view to its adoption. 1t is now a
question of manufacture, and the vital
shall the pumps be manufactured in
Hardwickl With the excellent facilities
for doing the business here only one
question remains to be settled, and that
is, will the business men and property
owners or anyone else interested get be.
hind the project and help give it suffi
cient boost to keep the business in town
or not ? A demonstration of the working
qualities of the pump can be witnessed
at any time at the machine shop at the
gymnasium building just off Marble
street.
The alumni ball, the closing social
event of the present Hardwick academy |
exercises, was held on |
Thursday evening at the gymnasium and |
was one of the very pleasant events of
his nature ever given by the alumni as
ISOLATION. The decorations were of |
very patriotic nature, flags of all sizes
being in evidence all around the hall,
With the large 2lstar service flag in the
enter. Music was furnished by Chat
ield's orchestra of Barre and the young
people and spectators enjoyed pleasant
'vening.
Miss Mary Bailey of Stowe was in
own the latter part of the week visiting
I'D schoolmates,
Ralph Thomas was home from his
work in Springfield the latter part of the
week
Harold Lawrence is home from his
work in Springfield for a vacation Of two
weeks
Miss Vera Thomas, student at Lyn-
on institute, is visiting friends and
elatives in town this week.
Franklyn Thomas and Thomas Thomp-
on, jr., of Bristol Conn, we're in town
his week taking in Hardwick academy
exercises.
Joe Wright left Thursday night for
lew London, Conn, where he has en-
loyment.
The local branch of the Red Cross has
aceived its allotment of yarn from coun-
Y chapter headquarters at ST. Johnsbury
nd also the amount of articles they are
expected to turn out In the next month.
he quota calls for IS pairs of socks, 10
ranch president hopes the ladies will
'spond to the appeal for knitters in :
rder that the branch may go over the {
~ III tilis WOIh lOi lBls HOilLU. l..
Axel Sommer left Friday morning for Z
t. Johnsbury, where he was ordered to
port at o'clock, going from there to
amp Devens Saturday, being called in
lie draft and being one of 10 to go from
lis county to take the places of those
jected in the draft of few weeks ago. n
Il. p. Ainsworth has gone to Hartford, \
,nn., where he has employment. L
Mrs John Berry is spending few n
eeks with relatives in Thomaston, Me- n
At the regular scout meeting Thurs p
" evening Craig Traynor was elected
cretary TO take the place of Karl Rich
dson, who has gone away for the sum
er. A committee consisting of the
Hubbard Weeks and Hunt n
IS Clark was elected to meet with n
mmittee from the campfire girls rela- !,
re to making plans and arrangements n
r combination field day later in the II,
sson. 1t was also voted to hold the
xt meeting, weather permitting, around
rousing campfire in the woods, where
e regular business of the meeting
'uld be transacted and a good time
ioyed.