The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-09

in his left wrist broken when a large
automobile tire burst
Fifteen dealers in st. Adams paid an
internal revenue collector IS each be.
cause they failed to affix revenue stamps
to boxes Of cough drops they sold
Frank Someryille, proprietor of ei.
gar store in Bennington, was held up by
two highwaymen on his way home Sat
urday night and relieved of nearly 1915.
Work will be begun within ten days
TO change the course of the Hoosick riv-
er between Pownal and Williamstown,
Mass, so as to eliminate two bridges
on the Boston & Maine railroad.
While fishing in the Battenkill river
recently, d. r. Galusha of South Shafts
bury caught two trout at once, one
weighing one pound and quarter and
the other one pound.
G. G. Farr, who had the honor of
owning the first automobile in Monkton,
outdid his townspeople again at the
Fourth of July celebration in Burling
ton, when he had a ride in an airplane.
Five French youths have been brought
from France to study the life and Gus
toms of New England. They were tax
en- from both the business life and no.
bility of France, and are now in Middle
bury.
Miss Anna Mary Waterman, 63, died
Of complications at the Home for the
Aged in Brattleboro Sunday where she
had been since 1910. She was born in
South Royalton Feb. Ia, 1851, a daugh-
ter of ozro and Jane tTownshendl Wa
terman,
ormal Pierce, fve-- year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. W. Pierce of Bennington, was
severely burned on the Fourth by the ex :
plosion of a giant tirecracker. He threw
the lighted frecracker to the sidewalk
and in some manner IL few into the air,
striking him in the mouth.
A load of hay belonging to H. c. Park
or burned in the street in johnson few
days ago, the wagon being saved except
for one wheel IL was found that the
rack was broken, letting two irons into
a wheel tire, and it is supposed that the
friction heat resulted, igniting the hay,
George Carey, owner of the big ranch
and Sugar plant on StaRnard mountain,
has ordered electric lights strung from
the road to his place, distance of over
four and half miles. Farmers who live
on this road will get the benefit Of this
big improvement. Mr.. Carey is assum-
ing all the expense of the work.
The f. f. Bradford Co.. manufacturers
of knit goods in Bennington, started
their factory again Monday morning, fol-
lowing a strike of their employees. A
new schedule was adopted which calls for
a working week Of 10 hours a day five
days, the employees voting TO have every
Saturday as holiday, but working the
full so hours week.
The quick action OF James B. Greene,
employed by the Champlain Transports
ton company in Burlington, saved the
lives of soldier and sailor, whose
names are unknown, after their canoe
had tipped over in the waters of Lake
Champlain last Saturday. Both were
nearly exhausted WNen rescued
Rev J, w. Crippen is to be the pastor
of the Community church Of Putney, a
combination recently effected by the
Methodist, Baptist and Congregational
churches. Mr.. Crippen was a " NJ. G.
a. secretary in France in 1918 and after
his return served in the same way at
Camp Upton, n Y. He was recently mar
Iried TO Miss Lillian Robbins of Sand
Lake, N. Y.
Scion Prince of Bristol pleaded guilty
in Addison county municipal court at
Middleburv Saturday to forgery and
was sentenced to serve not less than two
years nor more than three years at hard
labor at the state prison in Windsor.
Prince cashed check for $50 about a
year ago, using the name of Harold
Russell of New Haven. and obtained the
money from w. R. Trudo Of Bristol, then
skipping the country. He returned few
DAYS ago and was then arrested.
Three Of the teachers Of st. Johnsbury
academy, which includes all the men on