The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-23
ABOUT THE STATE
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DR.. Karl Smith of New York lost his
garage and new Buick car by fire at
Willoughby last Sunday.
Clifford Colby of Lyndon caught six
and one-quarter pound trout in the Pas
sumpsic river few days ago that meas
ured 26 inches.
The Congregational church of Swan
ton has purchased a parsonage and the
salary of the pastor, Rev. f. Wilson Day,
has also been raised $500,
Earl and Elroy Kelley. Ia and seven
years of age, of Middletown Springs, re-
Gently caught fish in a brook there that
measured TO- IA and Is inches in length.
White River junction is considering
the building of new fire department
house, at an estimated cost of $4,000,
exclusive of the cost of the land, which
will be $4,000 more.
Cornelius Lincoln, one of the oldest
residents of Ira, died May 81 after a
lingering illness. He was born in Ira i'll
1926 and had spent his entire life there.
He represented the town in 1898.
Among other damages caused to the
house of Alexander Charland of Lyndon
vile when a freight car bumped into it
and knocked it two feet off the founda-
ton, was the breaking Of nearly 100
cans of fruit.
George Christopher is laid up at his
home in Lyndonville with badly brok-
en- leg, which he received when his car
struck soft place where a road was be-
ing repaired, slowed and tipped over,
pinning him beneath it.
Miss Frances Muzzy of Lyndon was
QUITE badly injured while at Lyndon
vile recently. She was riding her pony,
which stumbled and fell, throwing her
over its head She was quite severely
hurt about her head and face.
f. A. Hunt, employed in The Monitor
Office at Barton, caught his right hand
in one of the job presses one day this
Wtbh. Lie udiiu was 50 Uduly tIuSlitd
that the two middle fingers and a por-
ton of the foreinger were amputated at
the hospital.
May IL was the 50th anniversary of
the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. D. X. Hop
kins Of East Charleston. Their entire
family spent the day with them and aft
err dinner, with four wedding cakes,
there was musical program and an au-
tomobile ride.
Newport is to have hospital asso-
citation, r. O. Williams having been
chosen chairman, and an attempt will be
made to locate a hospital there. Some
thing over 81 800 is in sight SO far for
the project, which will probably require
about $4,000.
"A. S. Bartlett of st. Johnsbury is to
be located this summer at the base of
Mt Washington in charge Of the en-
gines on that railroad. The trains up
Mt. Washington have not been run for
two years owing to the war restrictions
on coal, but will be in operation this
season.
Attorney John NJ Kelley, the owner of
large stock farms in Williston and Shell
burne, has a junior three year old Hol-
stein heifer who smashes all Vermont
records for all breeds over all ages. She
is the new Vermont state champion oyer
all ages and breeds and makes the aston
ishing record Of 1902 pounds Of butter
and 569.7 pounds of milk in seven days
at the age of SO months with second
calf.
About 500 Knights Of Columbus and
their wives are expected in Burlington
next week Wednesday, which will be
the banner day of the state Knights of
Columbus convention. One of the prin-
cipal features of the occasion will be a
pageant of American history presented
at the Cathedral high school auditorium
in which 300 children will take part. A
delegate from the supreme council will
be in Burlington during the convention.
The chief business will be the election
of state deputy.
Mrs Margaret Dewey of Plattsburg,
N. Y, who has been confined to the
nUust Vi tOIIbCJiuH at INuJldnu SluCb lhsC
November on the charge of abandon
ment of an infant in the field near Men
don, has received pardon and left on
Wednesday for Boston. 1t was Mrs.
Dewey and her daughter, Mary Dewey,
the latter the mother of the baby, who
came from across the lake, hired team
from livery stable and then abandoned
the baby in an open field behind stone,
driving back without the child. They
were arrested just as they were about
to take the train out of Rutland. Mary
Dewey was released on probation and
her mother was sentenced to the house
of correction.
Great preparations are being made at
Wlloughby lake for the opening of a
girls camp. The entire estate of Mrs.
A. L. Peene of Yonkers, N. Y, and the
Peene farms in connection, with the fine
summer residence Of Mrs. Peene and
the farm buildings, has been taken over
by New York corporation formed of
New York and Pennsylvania men, and
already over 200 girls have been booked
for the camp this season. Forty -four
camps, sleeping quarters for four girls
each are being erected w f. Hanson