The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-24
ABOUT THE STATE
Happenings of Interest from Dill
ferent Sections.

! Happenings of Interest from Diff
u ferent Sections.
The 265.acre farm belonging to the g.
NJ Montgomery estate in Manchester
has been sold to c. j. Reed of New Mex
leo
One of the largest and best creamer.
les in Vermont is being erected in Mil
TON by the farmers of that village, and
il is expected it will be in operation be-
fore winter.
The Central Oil Stove company of
Gardner Mass. has closed deal for a
large lot of timber land in Weston, some
1000 acres, $4,000 deal. 1t will cut
about 100000 feet this season,
George Tierney, son of Peter Tierney
Iof Middebury, sustained a painful ac-
cident Sunday when in cranking a car,
III back fired and his arm was broken
between the elbow and the wrist
Citizens of Springfield. at a special
injecting last week, voted an appropr-
alton of 81 900 to be used on rural roads
in that town, which are in bad shape
and hardly passable after rain in some
places.
At a special town meeting held Satur-
day afternoon the voters of the village
Iof St. Johnsbury and also of the town
voted unanimously to exempt from tax
ation the new Cary maple sugar plant
for a period of ten years
Charles r. Bessey, who died at his
home in Burlington Monday of heart
failure, was one of the best photograph
ers in Vermont, a member of Shermans
band and active in the work of the Bur
lington chamber of commerce.
Swinyer brothers have hold their farm
of over 400 acres in Huntington, togeth-
Ter with the stock, tools and crops, TO
Mr., and Mrs. Dawson McGregor of Mid.
dlebury The farm is said to be one of
THE best stock farms in the state and
contains an extra large up-to-date barn
land plenty of timber The new owners
will take possession about March l.
Springfield milliners have held a meet
ing and drawn up an agreement, signed
by five of them, which is designed TO put
a stop to the practice of taking out hats
on trial. A. deposit Of 10 per cent Of
the price of the hat must be laid aside
and two days shall be the limit for keep.
ing out hats. The milliners also voted
ITO have uniform price for trimming
and other incidentals.
A general conference Of the Montreal
branch of the Y. NJ. G. A. the first since
ll9l4, was held at the Franklin house,
Highgate Springs, Sept 20 and 2l.
About IS men from Montreal came there
for the purpose of considering the pro.
gram of work for the Y NJ. c. A. in that
city the coming spring. This gathering
marked the resuming of series of
meetings held in l9l2.l4 and Ia, and
then discontinued for the period of the
war.
Fearing that the strike situation in
Bennington could not be handled by the
village police, six men have been Sc.
cured from an Albany, N. Y, detective
agency and they have been sworn in as
special police. Pickets have been main.
tanned at the Black Cat Textile mills for
several days and it is known that some
of them are carrying concealed weapons.
Noisy demonstrations are made when
the young women employees Of the con
Germ go back and forth to work
Mr.. and Mrs. ARENAS H. Wheeler
observed their 50th wedding anniversary
at their home in Perkinsvile. Sunday.
Sept IA, with a family reunion. The
party, numbering about 20, attended the
church service Sunday morning, finding
the auditorium decorated in yellow and
white in their honor and the ends of
the Wheeler pew adorned At the close
of the service, the women of the church
presented Mrs Wheeler bouquet of so
yellow rosebuds. Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler
were married in the Baptist parsonage
and a few years ago Mr. Wheeler bought
the parsonage for a residence, so their
golden wedding anniversary was held in
the same house where they were mar.
ried
Roy Hamilton. l2-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Mitchell HamIin of Burlington,
was injured while at play Sept. Is. cere.
fbral conclusion resulting. The boy was
playing with two other BOYS when he
was pushed forcibly against the knee of
Orln Bushee during a wrestling match.
He continued playing and it was not un.
tll he reached home that the effects of
the bump began to appear. Ii the night
he suffered so severe headache that a
physician was called, who found that