The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-10

land Community club.
A flock Of 10 sea gulls were seen on
Barnet pond near Wells river Sunday
This is an unusual sight, as it is rarely
that the birds fly so far inland.
Oliver LaFrance, employed at a garage
in Forestdale, was badly hurt Monday,
when d car driven hastily into the gar
age crushed him against work bench.
lie has since been confined to the bed
Loren D. Barnard of Bristol, SO, walked
during the month of January, 1876 miles,
in going to and from his work and
worked q days of 10 hours each during
the month.
William Pease of Rutland is back at
his home there, with croix de guerre
and French bride, who speaks but
few words of English. Mr., Pease mar
ried her in Paris.
Rutland officials are on the trail of
loafers, who stand about the store win
dows and expectorate on the sidewalks.
A number of complaints have been filed
with the police department.
4 Ed. McDuffee, who escaped from the
insane asylum at Waterbury May 5, is
still at large. It is thought likely he
may try to visit his former home in
Bradford, and officers have been watch
ing for him there,
Abbott G. Moore, for many years
paper manufacturer in Bellows Falls,
died there May at the age of SO years.
Mr. Moore retired from business about
10 years ago.
D. D. Pratt found on the steps of his
home in West Halifax one morning this
week set of springs for heavy wag-
on, being the ones which were stolen
from him last winter
Fred H. Parker, well known through
out New England as salesman for the
Brown & Durell company Of Boston,
died at his home in Rutland Thursday
of pleurisy and complications. Mr..
Parker had resided in Rutland for l6
years. He was AZ years old.
George Smalley, 55, died at his home
in Forestdale recently from injuries re-
ceived about two weeks ago when the
reach Of his wagon broke and he was
thrown out, the wagon box and heavy
watering trough which was in it striking
on his shoulders and back.
A young woman by the name Of Mrs.
Eva Blase Stone was taken from
street car in Rutland this week by the
pice as insane. She will probably be
taken to the retreat at Brattleboro with
in q few days following hearing in
probate court She was confined in a
New York state institution a few years
ago.
The Bellows Falls school board has en-
gagged for school nurse, Miss Rowena
+, Goodwin, graduate Of the Mary
Fletcher hospital at Burlington who has
done postgraduate work in the chidren's
floating hospital of Boston. She has
also had five years experience in private
nursing. The town has been without
school nurse during the past year.
II. A. Bickford was knocked down and |
run over by an automobile said to have
been driven by Arthur Cote of Swanton |
in St Adams the first of the week. Mr.. |
Bickford was badly shaken up and one
shoulder was dislocated A boy on mo-
tor cycle chased the car three miles be-
fore he secured the number Of the license.
Gotta was arrested on the charge of in
toxication.
The report Of the director Of state in
stitutiens to the board of control for
the farm production at the industrial |
school at Vergennes for April shows that
22,04Sh pounds of milk was produced |
in the month; 4l5h pounds of butter
made; TAI pounds of beef slaughtered, |
and 2,047 eggs received from the poultry |
yards.
The $4,000 damage case, which Frank |
C. French Of Fair Haven brought against
the Norton Hardware company of that
place for the alleged selling of poison
without label, has been settled out Of
court. Mr. French and several members
of his household narrowly escaped death
from using the poison in place OF some.
thing else for cooking, and Mr.. French il
now only just getting about, although
the incident happened months ago
Inc seiectmen OF ut. JohnsDury nave
purchased a % horse power tractor for
use ON the highways of the town to haul
the road machine. This will save the
expense Of six horses and the tractor
will do the work more economically and
with greater speed. The selectmen re-
Gently witnessed demonstration Of road
making on a hilly clay road in Lunen
burg and were convinced that such
machine would be a good thing for st.
Johnsbury.
Gov. Henry c. Ide, who has spent the
winter in New York, expects to return
to st. Johnsbury May l5 where he will
spend the summer On the same day Mr.
and Mrs. Shane Leslie and two children
will sail from Boston on the Cunard liner
Baltic to spend the summer in their
country estate in Ireland. Mrs leslie
Is daughter of Governor Ide and with
her husband has spent much of her sum
mers in st. Johnsbury since Governor
1de returned from Madrid as minister to
Spain under President Taft
An Old Friend.
All of us are well acquainted with the
insect called "dady lonplegs" but not