The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-26
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Dill
ferent Sections.

The name of Private George A. Porter
of Walden appears among the wounded
slightly in the American casualty list.
st. Johnsbury has raised $4,000 for a
Fourth of July celebration. Congress
man Porter II. Dale will see to 1t that
an airplane is on hand as feature OF
the event, and Island Pond, also, is
planning on similar attraction
Rev. Alvah H. Morrill,, d. d., for 10
years pastor of the Christian church in
Woodstock, has accepted a call to the
church at Newton, N. Fl. He will be
succeeded by Rev. w. Il. Baker, who
comes from Swansea, Mass. The Wood
stock church is the largest Christian
church in Vermont.
The Lake company, Inc, of Rutland,
with a capital stock of $4,000 has filed
articles of association in the office of the
secretary of state for the purpose of con-
Quoting camp on the shores of lake
near Rutland. The signers of the papers
are Riford R. Tuttle, j. A. Wildwood
and Leonard F. Wing, all of Rutland.
Joseph j. Zawada of West Rutland,
who deserted his bride of four days, was
taken into custody at Detroit, Mich,
and brought back to Rutland on the
charge of non.support. He was sentenced
there to two years in the house OF cor
rection, but this sentence was suspend
ed during his good behavior and the
payment of fine of $500 in weekly in
stallments of So to his wife. Zawada,
who packed his suit case and left his
bride without notifying her of his inten-
tions, claimed that he intended later to
summon her to Detroit.
The body of Rev Joshua M Frost was
found Friday in Richardson lake, near
Portland, Me-, where he was drowned
last December. The guide, with his wife
and child, and Mr.. Frost were in canoe
and it is supposed the canoe upset, as
the only evidences of the tragedy was
the finding of the child's body and the
empty canoe soon after the accident.
Mr.. Frost was the district superintend-
emit for the Methodist denomination and
lived at Portland. A dozen years ago he
was pastor of Grace Methodist church in
st. Johnsbury and one of Vermonts
leading pastors.
John Bonfglio, a barber residing in
Burlington, narrowly escaped being
crushed to death when he fell from the
front steps of a moving electric car re-
Gently striking on his head, catching
between the steps and the fender Of the
car and being dragged several feet before
the car could be brought to a stop. The
mans escape from death was little short
of miraculous, as he pitched head for
ward when he was Jared from his posi-.
ton on the steps and would have been
crushed if the car had gone few feet
further Besides sustaining scalp
wound, he was somewhat bruised and
greatly weakened from loss of blood
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An automobile truck is now operating
regularly up and down Mount Mansfield,
run by w M. Adams of Stowe. 1t oper-
ates twice daily between the summit of
the mountain and the village of Stowe,
carrying both passengers and freight.
9The first trip to the top was made in so
minutes. This mountain is 4,457 feet
above sea level and is accessible by a
winding road which has grades as heavy
as 40 per cent, sometimes a half mile in
length, rising 5000 feet in five miles.
On the truck for its first trip there were
six bales of hay, weighing 925 pounds,
and eight people, making total load Of
1880 pounds There was no part of the
grade that could be successfully operated
in other than low gear, and portions of
it were so steep that the passengers were
obliged to cling to the truck or lose their
equilibrium. The light horse-drawn We
hicles have gone forever on this particu-
lar trip. 1t used to require two and a
half hours to negotiate this grade with
a pair of horses attached to light wag-
on, carrying only four passengers, which
made the trip very tedious, Now, how
ever, person may alight from the troll
sleys at Stowe and be on top of Mount
Mansfield in one hour and 30 minutes,
distance, including the mountain climb,
of Is miles through the picturesque
Stowe valley