The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-21

tiful this year and q. &. Everett OF New
Haven has been selling $50 worth day
for two weeks.
Elliott, l3-year-old son of w Dean
ellison of Springfield, has been having an
attack of bloodpoisoning, caused by
sticking a pitchfork under his knee.
William H. Forbes of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who for 20 consecutive summers was
guest at Lake Side farms, West Haven,
died recently at Sound Beach, Conn.
At a recent bee for cleaning the church
parlors in Newfane, the combined ages
z Of the six persons who responded was
s420, ar an average age of 70 years each,
Rev. w. H. Clark, D. D., for several
wears superintendent of the Burlington
district, has been elected bishop in the
Free Methodist church He will make his
home in Rome, N. Y.
Aviator John j. Lynch Rutland's avia
tor, made six flights with his Curtiss
nirplane Friday afternoon, carrying pas
sengers. Among them was Miss Marie
Chandler, the first Rutland woman to
take an air spin.
Mrs. Fred L. Ransom Of Springfield
Taught her foot at the top of the stairs
lat her home few days ago and fell the
whole fight, striking against a post at
The foot and breaking one rib two inches
from the backbone,
The new fish hatchery at Bennington
Is doing thriving business and the sup
ply of water there is unusually good
A million or more trout tngerlings will
be raised there annually. The grounds
are being beautifed this summer
The members of the French mission,
Monsieur Pierre Nugue of Chalonsur-
Savne, an engineer; Monsieur Rene Bon
homme of Paris, contractor, and Mon
sieur Victor Perreaud of Paris, prom
inent French engineer, visited the quar-
ries at West Rutland and Proctor on
Wednesday,
I Charles Sawyer of Vernon an employee
of the Power Construction company at
the Vernon dam, received a fractured
shoulder and torn muscles of his right
arm one day last week. Sawyer was
injured when part of the derrick hit an
iron rail, which tore it loose from its
fastening and it fell 40 feet, striking
him on the shoulder.
Harris Fl Metcaf of Wiliston has
been engaged as principal Of the Ben
nington junior high school for the com
ing year Mr.. Metcalf has been principal
Il - Al
The present principal of the Bennington
school, David NJ Coburn, declined a re-
election, as he has been offered a more
lucrative position with manufacturing
concern.
William Knights, who was two years
In the United States service. one of them
overseas and who came to his home in
Bennington honoraby discharged with
out so much as a scratch, while on a
fishing and hunting trip few days ago,
accidentally shot himself in the knee.
The bullet entered in such way that
1T passed down the leg, and an operation
was necessary, which was performed at
The Putnam Memorial hospital
crew of men hired by the Green
Mountain club have just erected another
Shelter, l3 feet square with open front,
: on Mount Killington 1t has hunks for
hight persons, also a stable and benches
rhe men report that Saturday 81 young
tnen from Springfield arrived on the
mountain and spent a couple of days
there. Sunday, July ID, there were "a
visitors from Rutland on the peak,
Only small proportion of the potato
fields in Windham county are free from
disease, according to experts who have
been inspecting them with a view TO
issuing certificates to the owners of
fields which are free from it. County
agent Frost says the disease is spread
tng from year to year, because diseased
seed is planted. There is a great de-
pnand for seed that is free from the
disease in the city markets.
Walter Farnsworth has been taken to
khe states prison at Windsor to serve
AS3 days for the larceny of watch
chain, gold charm and a gold ring from
George Granger of Grafton. Farnsworth
has been in trouble of this nature for
pnany years. Although only about 35
years old, he escaped in September, 1912,
from the Newfane jail, where he was
held for the larnceny of bicycle and on
being rearrested and brought back, dur
ing conversation about burglary, told the
officers that it was he who burglarized
the house of Constance Hartley of Bel
lows Falls in 1910, with which he had
not been at all connected by the au-
thorities. This resulted in two and one
half years Imprisonment for him end
now he Is in again for the new sentence
on his latest larceny charge.
ANY naval reserve man who is not
more than As years Of age and who is on
active or inactive duty, can be trans.
ferred to the regular navy to serve I'M
expired portion of his enlistment or en-
rollment upon making request for same.
and who has had active duty during the
war, and who will not have less than one
year to serve in the regular navy after
such transfer. Reserves so transferred
will receive the same privileges, rights.
allowances and pay in all respects as now
provided by existing law for men regn-
larly discharged and re-enlisted within
four months upon expiration of full four
year enlistment. This includes one
months leave and extra pay for re-en-
listment, also extra pay for citizenship
and four months gratuity pay This is
only few of the many privileges that
the navy is offering to-day All informa
ton will be cheerfully given at Navy Re.
cruiting Station, Montpelier.