The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-18
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.

The Woman's club of st. Johnsbury is
forming chorus
The date of the annual dinner for the
mountain folk round about Rutland has
been set for Feb. /.
Flu" signs were placed on ID resi-
dences in Rutland Wednesday and the
haspital has 81 patients.
Rev. Arthur Sargent of Pembroke,
Mass, has accepted the call to the pas.
torate of the church at West Fairlee
Center
Mrs. Cassie Perkins of Castleton Cor
ners has made this fall and winter nine
crocheted rugs, ranging in length from
six to eight feet and three feet vide
David r. Warren of Norwich univer-
sity sailed to-day from New York for
Constantinople with the Armenian com
mittee for Syrian and Armenian relief.
William Newton, about So died sud.
denly Wednesday night in the barn of
Charles Parker at Chittenden, where he
had lain down to sleep, death being due
to heart disease.
Perley w. Chapman, for many years
a resident of Bradford but for the past
few years living in Manchester, N. H.,
was found dead in bed there recently, on
his nth birthday.
Lieut.. Clarence c. Frink of Charlotte,
lately discharged from the army, is now
manager of the Farmers Exchange as
ISOLATION of the Windsor county farm
bureau, and is located in White River
Junction.
The village of Middlebury has voted
10 cooperate with the college in the pur-
chase of spraying machine to kill
worms that are destroying elm trees in
the village. The sum Of $500 was appro-
priated.
The barge Kathleen, launched at the
Charlestown navy yard this week, was
christened by ll-year-old Kathleen Viii
son, daughter of Captain A. Wilson of
the corps attached to the yard For the
christening, Miss Wilson used a bottle
of Vermont cider.
The 0ttauquechee Wooden company
lost a valuable pair of horses last
Wednesday at Evarts The teamster,
thinking the ice safe, drove onto the riv-
err near the bridge. The horses i'm
mediately broke through, taking the for
ward sled with them in such manner
that it held them under the water until
they drowned,
The food preservation census in Wind
ham county, which lacks reports from a
few communities, shows that the women
in 2,04O families, or about so per cent of
the housewives of the county, put up
more than l47 900 quarts of food prod
ucts the past season besides 25957 jars
of jelies. They also put down l2,7SS
dozens of eggs There were left over
from the previous year 1891 quarts of
canned foods.
f. H. Durkee of Sharon has purchased
of Nathaniel P. Wheeler of White Riv-
err Junction the so.called John Dutton
farm on the White river trunk road
about a mile above Hartford village. The
house has gained fame because for many
years it was the home of John button
and in Colonial days the house was a
tavern, being refuge for escaping fam
lilies at the time Of the Royalton raid
and massacre Mr.. Durkee buys for a
permanent home. He has been mer-
chant in Sharon.
Evelyn Nichols, a l2-year-old West
Guilford girl, sustained compound
fracture of her left ankle this week while
coasting She collided with a sled in
front and her foot was caught, twist
ing il, breaking two small bones of the
ankle and large bone above the ankle
Another child on the traverse received
sprained ankle A Readsboro boy,
Clinton Beaton, was also hurt quite bad
~ while sliding in that town, his sled
eolliding with a telephone poe. Six
stitches had to be taken in his back.
Joseph c. Wayne, formerly of Nash
ma, N. H., who was caught while ran
sacking the Office of DR.. w. S. Hammond
IN Rutland for the purpose of obtaining
opium this week, has been sentenced to
from four to six months in the house of
correction at Rutland. It is also thought
that Wayne was the burglar who had
broken into various places in Rutland
recently, as on his person when arrested
were found jimmy and several articles
that were stolen from a certain Rutland
store 10 days ago, In fact, he admitted
TO the police that he was responsible
for the breaks. Drugstores and doctors
offices were his victims, in all of which
his search was for drugs. He admitted
that he had been taking from four to
Is grains of morphine day since he was