The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-22

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books in 1913.
The new hospital at Orleans is fast
nearing completion and viii soon be
ready for occupancy.
Mrs. Hubbell b. Smith observed her
Doth birthday anniversary Feb. 8 at her
home in Underhill Center.
A hen owned by Mrs. Mary Brown
of Castleton Corners recently laid an egg
that measured eight by six and one
fourth inches.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Society of Sons of the American Revo-
luton will be held at the State House in
Montpelier Feb, 20, at p. m.
DIR. Harold Hazeltine, who married
Miss Hope Graves of Bennington, has
been made Downing professor of the
laws of England at Cambridge.
laundry building is to be erected
at the school for the feeble minded at
Brandon to be located on state property
Bids are being received for the con-
tracts.
Miss Alice NJ. Easton, daughter of
Robert Easton of Middlebury, has sailed
for France to act as Y. NJ. G. A. secre-
tary. She has lately been chemist at
Syracuse, N. Y.
Fred Farnham, son of Mrs. Theresa
Farnham of Poultney, who served year
with the Canadian forces in France, has
returned to Poultney. One leg was am
putated in a Canadian hospital
w. W. Miller sewers his connection
with the Bordons Condensed Milk COM
pany of Richmond April / and goes to
( Woodstock, where he has a position as
assistant manager of the Woodstock inn.
The warning for the Bennington town
meeting contains an article asking if the
voters will appoint committee TO in
yestigate the cost of new town hall
and report at the next town meeting
in 1920.
Robert Arnold, the young man who ad.
mitted making a break at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Miller in Rutland,
and then denied the story, has been sent
to the industrial school at Vergennes for
the remainder of his minority.
G. Harper Savage, lister in the town
of Hartford for nearly 30 consecutive
years, resigned Feb, Is. He gives up the
Office because of recent severe illness
Articles in the warrant also seek ac-
ton on proposition to build two more
schoolhouses in the town.
G. Balaster Of Jericho, while starting a
fire Monday morning at the granite shop,
met with a very painful accident when
he put some gasoline from q gallon can
on the fire. An explosion followed, set.
ting his coat on fire. He succeeded in
taking it off, but received two very badly
burned hands.
Alexander Dominiu, a Burlington
newsboy, was knocked down and run
over Wednesday by the automobile of
Mrs Fred Wells. No blame is attached
to the chauffeur, however, as the boy
darted in front of the car and then
slipped on the ice of the street. It is
thought no bones were broken, but he
was taken to the Mary Fletcher hospital.
Frank R. Stone, for many years
porter at the Addison house in Ben.
nington, has recently acquired an oil
was ridden by the late General and aft
erwards Congressman John Hammond of
Crown Point, N. Y, during all his serv-
ice in the Civil war and for several years
after the close Of the war The paint
ing was done by George B. Wood, jr, in
1878
James McInnis, a lumberman en-
ployed by the American Realty company
in Jamaica, was badly injured in the
woods Thursday, when as he was rolling
logs, his can't hook slipped and threw
him to the ground. Several logs rolled
over him, fracturing his nose, injuring
his back, spraining one ankle and cutting
a cash in his scalp. His face was badly
bruised by knots on the logs and it is
thought strange that he was not killed.
Mrs. Z. r. White of Rutland has re-
ceived word from the war department
that her husband Lieut.. Z. Russell
White, was wounded in his left foot Oct.
Is and is at base hospital. He is 20
years old Lieut.. White attended one of
the officers training schools at Platts-
burg, N. Y, and went overseas as a
first lieutenant in the 3Sth infantry, Sd
division. He had written his wife that
he was wounded in the left foot last
July, but had recovered, and also had
had appendicitis and recovered from
that.
While fishing party consisting of F,
S. Nicholson j. w. Wildwood, G. L.
Morse, r. R. futile and G. p. Strobell of
Rutland were riding in an automobile on
Lake Bomoseen the ice gave way beneath
them and the car was temporarily con-
verted into a boat. Luckily the accident
happened only 10 feet from shore, where
the water was only four feet deep and
wet feet was about the only inconven-
fence to the fishermen. 1t was neces-
sary to make trip to the lake the next
day with a second machine to pull the
other one out of the water. Ice in the
lake is about eight inches thick
The Early Bird Pays
Poultry raisers throughout the coun-
try should not lose sight of the fact
that it pays better to raise standard
bred poultry than the common barn