The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-02
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Dit
ferent Sections.

The Bellows Falls fire department is
TO have an auto fire truck.
Plans were submitted this afternoon
to the trustees of the st. Adams hospi-
tai for sun parlor, which will cost
about 81 300.
In Middlebury and vicinity there have
been SO many rainy days this season
that haymakers have been ineonve-
nienced considerably in getting in their
hay.
By the will of the late Austin w.
Fuller of Cambridge, Mass, formerly of
this city, the st. Adams hospital and
the Warner home in that city viii each
receive bequest of $1,000.
Only six arrests were made in Rutland
during the month of July, One was
charged with breach Of the peace, one
with violation of the traffic laws, two
with failure to license a dog, and two
for intoxication.
Dogs chased a four year-old buck deer
from Appletree point, near Burlington,
so that it swan across the lake, dis
lance of four miles, to Crescent beach,
and then died of exhaustion several hun
dred feet from shore.
Some months will eapse before Elmer
Subway of West Newbury will have
the use of his left arm, the side of his
shoulder having been cracked and a
piece broken from the top when he fell
from load of hay and struck a ledge.
George Nation of Burlington, EN-
ployed in the picker room of the wooden
mill at Winooslli, Thursday, lost four of
the fingers on his lett hand, while oper-
ating machine He accidentally got his
hand under knife that cut the fingers
off.
The March term of Rutland county
court cost $7,266.97. This was much more
than that of the average term, because
of the long trial of the Eastman per-
jury case and because the state recent
ly raised the fee for jurors from 81 to SD
day.
Internal injuries are feared in the
case of Mrs. William Dashaw of Winoo-
ski who was thrown over backward to
the ground from wagon when the horse
ran away. The wagon seat was not fas-
tened in and as the woman fell, she was
badly hurt on the back,
An Abbott Detroit roadster, bearing a
Massachusetts, number, 760l3, went off
the road near West Danville Thursday
and dropped 20 feet, and 20 feet farther
on was a spot which showed where the
driver had landed but no one saw the ac-
cident. The car was still where it fell on
Friday and the driver had disappeared,
Farmers in Ira have commenced dig
ging their potatoes, although not fully
grown, because of the big demand for
the spuds The price is high, So or So
cents per peck The crop seems to be
excellent in that locality. Charlie Camp
bell, who has one Of the largest potato
fields thereabouts, has sold $50 bushels
at $3.50 bushel
Nelson Cadarett Of Richmond, in his
Scrip Booth car, had barely time to get
out when it caught fire from the explo-
sion of the gasoline tank, The body of
the car was entirely consumed.
Guy Allbee and Bert SWEET of East
Hardwick have purchased 63 head Of
cattle for France. All were tested and
only one condemned.
Rev Harry R. Rubin of Rutland left
to-day for San Francisco and from there
will sail for China as a missionary. A
g. ta,IaraA hin, =
which time he was presented $50 in gold
Rev Mr.. Rubin, who is graduate of
Yale college, is to teach in Yale-in- China,
missionary school in Changsha, sup
ported by Yale university.
Miss Mary Haynes, the new Guperin-
tendent of the Mary Fletcher hospital in
Burlington, assumed her duties yester
day Miss Haynes was superintendent
of the Randolph sanatorium for year
and for five years following held the
same position at the Nathan Littauer
hospital at Gloversville, n. Y For three
years she has been head of the public
health department in the schools of st.
Adams.
Miss Myrtle C. Wallace Of Cambridge
is the composer of many musical num-
beers, many of which have been played
by famous bands and orchestras through
out the country, among them "The Yam
kee Division March" which was played
at the parade OF the 26th division in
Boston. For her composition, "The En-
press Of Ireland" she received pass to
England from the Canadian officials and
Sousa has commended her work.
John A. Stafford is confined to his bed
in his home in Brattleboro as result
of being run into late Wednesday night
by an automobile owned by Richard G.
Ayerill and driven by Gilbert Fl. Kent,
both of Brattleboro. He was riding home
with a neighbor in the latter's car and
sanother car was following. When he
3alighted, the horn on car coming from
the opposite direction, driven by Mr..
Kent, was sounded, but Mr.. Stafford
thought the signal came from the car
behind him and did not see the Averill
car. Mr.. Kent did his best to avoid strik-
sing Mr.. Stafford, but the latter was
sthrown violently to the ground.
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