The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-25
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.

Happenings of Interest from Diff
ferent Sections.
Miss Mildred Martin of Middlebury
has gone to Wendell, Idaho, where she
will be teacher of sewing, history and
Latin in the schools.
BY very light vote, the citizens OF
Burlington last week turned down the
proposition to bond the city for $4,000
for the next five years for permanent
road improvement
Z. N. Lewis barn in Brandon was
burned to the ground Aug. l6, with all
its contents, including an automobile.
There was no insurance. Two men We're
working on the car, drawing off the gas
oline, when there was an explosion and
the gasoline caught fire.
A call has been extended by the vestry
of Trinity Episcopal church, Rutland, to
REV Morgan Ashley of Bordentown, n,
j., to become rector of the Rutland
church, which has been without pastor
since the resignation of Rev, Joseph
Reynolds, now of Burlington.
Henry Francis of Middlebury who was
injured in Charlotte Aug. 6, when he cut
dynamite cap with an axe, had one eye
removed at the Mary Fletcher hospital
IN Burlington last week. The cap ex
ploded, when struck with the axe, and
piece of copper entered Francis eye.
By the explosion of pump filled with
a spray which was TO be used in a field
of potatoes, r. l.. Kingsland of Yer
gennes was badly injured about the face
a few days ago. A deep three-cornered
cash was cut between his eyes, and his
left eye was also injured.
Rev. T. Buttrick of Wellington, Eng
land, who with his wife has been visit
ing his son, Rev George A. Buttrick, pas
tor Of the Congregational church in Rut-
land, while on a II months leave of alb
sence from his own church in England,
is so well pleased with this country that
he is considering remaining here instead
of returning overseas.
Thirtysix young men and women
from Columbia university, with Prof.
Lehnerts, professor of photography in
that college, have been making a trip
through Vermont on their way to the
White mountains and through southern
New England The expedition is one of
the summer school projects of Columbia
university, and the party is studying the
geological and Photographed features
of New England. The trip is being made
in touring truck.
Lightning struck twice in Sheldon on
i Thursday night, once at the Congrega
tiona parsonage, which is occupied by
Edison Lamphere. and again at the barn
Of Douglass Dash At the former place,
considerable damage was done to the
walls and floor of the room where the
lightning entered, but the building was
not set on fire. At the Dash place, the
barn was burned, with one COW, but
three other cows and horse were saved.
A Ford automobile truck, containing
Mr. and Mrs. w. B. Reed and Mrs. Stock
we'll of East Clarendon, while on their
way home from Rutland Friday evening,
struck block of marble in the road at
North Clarendon, which threw the truck
so that it collided with a gasoline pump,
breaking ii off and causing it TO fall in
such manner that it overturned the
machine. The occupants were pinned be-
meath the car. Mrs. Stockwell was Sc
verely bruised about the limbs, and Mrs.
Reed was cut about the head The ma
chine was badly smashed.
James L. Richmond, son OF Mr. and
Mrs. Charles II. Richmond of Middle
bury, a member of the intelligence de-
partment in France the last year of the
!. war, with his bride, Miss Imogene Hart
of Chicago, is spending his honeymoon
with his parents. Mr.. Richmond and Miss
Hart met at Y M G. A. canteen at
Rennes, France railroad center through
which the troop trains passed, and were
married in Brest by an army chaplain
who was a friend of the bride. When
America entered the war, Mrs Richmond
enlisted for service with the Y. NJ. C. A.
and was stationed at Rennes.
Charles NJ Remele of Middebury, who
was badly burned RECENTLY while open
ing can of chloride of lime, has not vet
recovered his eyesight and an investiga-
ton is being made of the brand of lime
which exploded to see if any explanation
of the occurrence can be found. A won
an in Springfield, Mass, has written Mr.
Remele that she was victim of the
same kind of an explosion, and lawyer
in Boston has written him that he has a
client now suing to recover damages
from manufacturer as a result OF a
similar accident.
The bureau Of nursing Of the New
England division of the Red Cross an.
nounces the appointment of Miss Eliza
beth P. Van Patten of Burlington as
the first field supervisor of Red Cross
public health service in the state Miss
Patten has been engaged in public health
work in Vermont for the past three
years. For two years she did school
nursing in Bellows Falls and recently
she has been working under the Vermont
state board of education, giving health
instruction to the teachers in the normal
schools. The majority Of these teachers
Miss Patten said, will 60 out into the
rural districts, where public health
knowledge is especially needed.
ICE CREAM co. TAKES RIAME