The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-28
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.

A Clara Barton league has been or
gained by young ladies of the Bellows
Falls Universalist church for Red Cross
work.
Louis D. Scofeld, 6S, who died at his
home in St. Adams Jan. %, had worked
for the Central Vermont Railway com
Pany over 20 years.
Wallace " Camp for several years en-
played by the Bellows Falls Trust com
pany, has been elected assistant cashier
Of the Springfield National bank at
Springfield, Mass.
Rev Allan Conant Ferrin last Sunday
resigned as pastor of the Congregational
church in st. Adams. He came to St.
Adams from Boston the last Sunday in
May, 1918. His resignation is to take
effect April /.
While Alfred Dagg was shoeing a horse
in his blacksmith shop in Hydeyille last
week, he was thrown to the floor which
frightened the horse next to the one he
was working on and he was trampled
upon, one jaw and one rib being broken.
Miss Maude Hawrican, AZ, committed
suicide by shooting at her home in North
Hero last week. Miss Hawrican, who had
been school teacher most Of her life
and was considered well to do, lived
alone in the house. Why abe ended her
life is unknown.
About 400 persons enjoyed the fine
skating on the Brattleb0ro retreat mead
ows Sunday. The recent overlooking of
a part of the meadows has created the
best skating place ever afforded the peo-
pie of the town. The use of motorcycles
on the Tee will not be permitted on ac-
count of the danger of accidents. Two
nurses recently were badly hurt by be-
ing run into by motorcycle on the ice
Mrs. Lois Parker, widow Of Bishop F.
w Parker, for many years engaged in
missionary work in India, expects to sail
soon for San Francisco, and reach st.
Johnsbury some time next summer. She
is now living in Hardoi, India. Mrs.
Parker is nearly So years old, and her
husband was a brother of the late Mrs.
Caleb H. Marshall of st. Johnsbury.
Two suits in which damages to the
extent of $1,000 are claimed have been
entered in Rutland county court by
Bradley Gilmore of Ira against Harold
White of Middletown Springs and Pat
rick Trayers of the same town. The
plaintiff alleges that because of negli-
gence in driving team, he was thrown
to the ground and suffered serious in
juries to his shoulder and body.
Through carelessness in handling a re-
volver Paul Corey a Bennington young
man, died in the hospital at that place
Saturday. Corey, with two other young
men, was out hunting when in some way
the revolver became discharged and a
bullet entered Corey's abdomen. An oper-
alton was performed, which showed that
the iutestincs were perforated in 10
places. ...
Pouring turpentine down a dogs
throat was the form of sport enjoyed
last week by some boys in Vergennes
The boys coaxed the dog into the lobby
of the postofiice and poured spirits of
turpentine down its throat, the animal
suffering untold agony. As it was val
uable hunting dog, its owner wished to
save it if possible, or would otherwise
have put it out of its misery. As it is,
it probably will recover. The boys are
said to have killed a cat by the same
method AS result of the Indignation
when the act Of cruelty became known,
the boys are threatened with prosecu-
ton.