The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-13

hip by fall, died recently as a result.
Rev. and Mrs. George Perry of Ches
ter celebrated their 50th wedding ami
versary at their camp at South Hero
July Z.
Rev. FIR. Wilfred Gelineau, aged 30
years, died at the Fanny Allen hospital
in Winooski July 10. His home was in
Swanton.
w D. Woolson of Springfield has pre-
sented his saddle horse to Norwich uni
versity, which is in need of animals suit
able for cavalry purposes.
The war and the weather have cut the
passenger and freight traffic on Lake
Champlain about one-half this season.
Two steamers are doing the work that
three usually do.
Miss Stella Durham, who had been in
the general hospital at Claremont, n. H.,
since Memorial day, when she lost an
arm in an automobile accident, returned
last week to her home in Windsor.
The graduating class of the Wood.
stock high school went Monday on
sight seeing automobile trip to the
White mountains, then to Portland, Me-,
and Boston and home, the trip taking
three days.
Harold Hawley caught in Arlington
recently a brown trout which weighed
~ pounds. Leon Bugbee of Chelsea,
while driving home from South Royal
ton recently, stopped to fish in South
Tunbridge and caught trout that meas
ured Is inches and weighed l1s pounds.
Wendell, Io-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. B. Boyce of Stowe, was injured
this week when he jumped from load
of hay The load was entering the barn
when the pole broke, letting the hay
slide off. The boy, in jumping, struck on
something that injured his face badly,
He was taken to hospital.
Two Winooski boys, limerick Seymour,
aged II, and Nelson Gotta, aged IA, have
been found responsible for series Of
burglares which have extended from
Fort Ethan Allen to Queen City park
Seymour was out of the industrial school
on parole and has now been sent back
He was the instigator of the burglaries
and paid Gotta to keep watch.
DIR. Vera G. Congdon of Bellows Falls
has applied for acceptance as member
of the aviation corps Of the British army.
Miss Congdon has been a dentist in Bel
lows Falls and attempted to Join the
army dental corps, but the authorities
would not consider her application, Then
she applied for admission to the ayia.
ton corps.
Vermont is exceptionally free from
contagious diseases, according to the re.
port Of the state board of health at a
recent meeting. During June the follow.
ing cases were reported Typhoid, 6;
tetanus, /; scarlet fever, 90; diphtheria,
Q; whooping cough, ll9; German measles,
1853; chickenpox, 81 ghonorrhea, 3S, of
which Is were in Burlington and 2 in
Winooski tuberculosis, l6; syphilis, "a,
Chittenden county having IL cases.
Ransom s. Morgan of Rochester was
so seriously injured in an automobile
dctlufub a 1GN hd1 aEV NlhE hC hlNA
that night Mr.. Morgan had trouble
with the car as he was going up hill
and in trying to turn around he lost con-
troll Of it and went down 20-foot en-
bankment, the car turning turtle and
pinning him beneath it. A neighbor who
was moving saw the accident and with
help Mr.. Morgan was taken home, but
his heart was weak and the shock and
injuries together proved fatal. He was
20 years and eight months old, and the
last Of his family.
Lieut.. Warren I. Hobbs of Worees-
ter, Mass, volunteer flyer of the La
fayette escadrille of the American avia-
ton corps, who was killed by German
anti.aircraft fire June 20, was a brother
Of Miss Katherine Hobbs, teacher Of do
nestle science in Springfield for the past
two years He left with the first Dart
mouth ambulance unit for work overseas
He was at that time honorary captain of
Dartmouth's athletic team. When the
ambulance corps was taken over by the
American forces, he joined the Lafayette
escadrille, and only recently completed
his course in aviation. He was having
engine trouble on the day Of his death
and was forced to fly low, making him
self a mark for the German guns.
Arthur Williams, a l4.year-old Poult-
ney boy, narrowly escaped death last
week when he was attacked by a bull
as he went to drive the cows down from
the pasture at night. Time and again
the bull threw him into the air and then
stamped on him, pushing him along the
ground and over the rocks until not a
shred of clothing remained on him ex-
cept a small part of one leg Of his trous.
ers. As the animal pushed him onto a
steep rock the boy grasped the branches
of tree which overhung it and man
aged to swing himself into it, although
his right arm was broken and his left
wrist was sprained. Death would have
resulted soon had not the boy climbed
the tree, for his body was covered with
cuts and bruises, requiring many stitches,
After the bull left the vicinity, the boy
walked home, a distance Of one-third of
a mile
Walter I. Main Fashion Plate Shows.
Representatives Of the Walter l.. Main
Fashion Plate shows have completed all
arrangements for the appearance of that
world-famous enterprise in Barre.
For more than a decade the Walter L.
Main shows have maintained promi-
nent place in the front ranks of Ameri-
can shows, because of its unusual char.
acteristics as circus; its essential DUAL.